You should sell prints of that!! I'd buy it!

It is a $$$ maker if you put your mind to it. However, it is yours to do as you please.

I agree with this!!! No doubt every artist regardless of medium has experienced one or more (or ALL *shudder*) of this at one time or another. I say go for it, hon!

I love the title. A dark comic with a ironic title is certainly the funniest thing I've ever seen.

20 years ago? Just think, how many artists who haven't been around that long (some of whom weren't even born yet) who could draw basically the same thing?

Let me rephrase that... How may other artists could draw a comic relating similar experiences with fans, fanboys, haters, etc.?

Every single one of us? Although the idiocy changes from person to person - and the girl artists get all the fun ones. #Jealous

Memories...memories.... :-P

Almost makes me wish I'd saved all the stuff drawn for my high school and college newspapers in the 1970s. Almost.

For kicks, I took a cartooning course in 1989, to see what could be improved upon. The instructor told us to keep our all art for future reference.

So what IS it like being married to Roz Gibson?

I'll tell you, then have to avoid Dwight!

HOT SNU-SNU ACTION!!!

Now do I have to dump a bucket of ice water on both you guys??

Roz, you hawt tart you!!

Paul and I can play Oreo cookie with you!!

Bucket of scorpions.

Given a choice between Circe Lannister and the scorpions, I'd choose the scorpions.

Dammit, I was gonna ask that very same question!

Research, research research!

Wow, there were art whores back then? x.x

So is Panel 12 Taral Wayne or Steve Martin...?

Wait wat?

Steverino is panel 5. BLAT!

Neither, it was another ex-room mate whos here on FA and ran up a massive long distance phone bill while I was in Angouleme and never paid for the charges. He rang up a then a $670 phone bill and I didn't have the money. My phone service was cut off and my job at the time required me to have a phone (I was on call duty) and between the massive long distance charges and reconnection fees it was over $850. I was forced to sell my family Silver to pay the bill. I have never forgiven him for that.


Not counting what he owed towards rent and utilities, roughly another $200.


The person in question only paid me roughly $60 towards what he owed. Once I moved north he announced that what he owed me null and void.

To be confused for other artists is understandable given the state of the fandom and the internet back then (I was about 3 years to getting unrestricted access to the internet when this was done)

I laughed at this quite a lot.
I really enjoyed meeting you at cons and talking :)

Hey if you don't want it dude, let me take an option on it first.

Remember we are always our own worst Critic. I never judge my own work by what I think of it.

You know Ive always loved your art. I have the one you did of Taks character proposing.You were nice enough to let us have it blown up when that poster maker was at MFM that year and so the 18x24 inch version hangs on my bed room wall. Oh and *points to avatar* perfect expression for my fighting of lymphoma.

too small to read on my monitor *sad face*

That is great - it's Martin in panel 12, right?

Martin is in Panel 5.

Good Lord Michael Hirtes, I'd almost forgotten that name. And i still explain your crowbar joke to folks.

BTW I posted the official CF4 (1993) video over at
http://fursuit.timduru.org/view/Fur.....Confurence/CF4
if you want some more nostalgia.
(Be warned not too good a copy)

Heh....and not a single tablet, laptop, or digital item around.

I feel old now...

True , pre-digital, another point of interest. Few cellphones either.
Attendance around 500 which was a big growth for the con.
Plus maybe at the most 10 fursuits at the entire con.

Hey, will you draw me panel #10?

What's the saying? "The more things change, the more they stay the same"?

The various archetypes are all still there. At least no one's mistaken you for George R. R. Martin yet.

He'd have to gain about 300 pounds to be mistaken for George R. R. Martin.

Definitely a good thing then!

(tho stuffing a bunch of pillows under his shirt to sell $30ea autographs sounds like a fine business plan)

"Oh, you should TOTALLY make T-shirts of this! I'd buy one! Wha? You want to be paid now? Uh..well...how about you make them, and I'll buy one at AC....next year, since I won't be there this year? You want to be paid BEFORE you put out the effort? But it's already drawn, man! All you gotta do is slap it on a few T-shirts. That won't cost you anything, right? I mean, you got stacks of blank T-shirts sitting around just for this kind of stuff. Oh, don't tell me you don't. You got T-shirts at every con! I know you got blank ones!"

You should update this one. It needs have a panels of bronies getting scewered

A bit difficult to read at that size, but very funny. :P

Still valid today I'd say. the Roz Gibson panel made me laugh.

You should do a new one of these, kinda like an update.

also known as "with great power comes great responsibility...


After 20 years...people will be asking...

"Who the Fuck is Colin Upton?"

Yes, but 20 years later Hirtles is still an ass hole.

Consistency...

or being in a rut.

And a drain on the US tax payer milking off SSI and welfare and living better than 70% of us with his alledged mental ailment he fakes so well.

He's a great talent, is what he is. As for the rest of him, I dunno.

I was reading the names and became confused because most of those names aren't really topical any more... Then I finally saw the date at the bottom and read the description. I feel old now.

Darn funny!

The worst thing about this piece is...

this is 20 damn years old, and people have only gotten worse.

Ah, memories. This ran in Gallery, IIRC.

I'd still purchase your artwork, Thomas.

I still have the first three 'WCotP' compilations you made. Never had the funds at the time to get the rest of them.

Always enjoyed your work.

XD sounds like problems artists here, on DA, and other sites have

This is very funny to me as I've heard most of those Fan tales. ...Except for the "Ralph the wonder Hamster" one, which I found amusing.