Some weeks, I have a clear idea what I want to make a comic about.
Other weeks, I have to go through my notebook of unused ideas and find one that jumps out at me as something I can write a comic about.
But sometimes, I can’t find any idea that works well enough on its own to carry a comic, and I’m forced to f...
2024-02-26 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems that there are different sizes and types of mouthpiece, and that they are considered to be better for different types of music.
It seems Trombone Champ is not as faithful a simulation of the art form as one would...
2024-02-19 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t know, maybe I’m too literal-minded. I just don’t think you can call them ribs if there are no . . ribs. I mean, if you ordered a drumstick, and were just given the meat from a drumstick, would that be a drumstick? You know how I’d answer. I know there are “boneless wings,” but at least they’re formed int...
2024-02-12 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Knifeketeer returns!
I had some sort of weird writers' block thing going on with all of my heroes for a while there, but that seems to have broken. There are other recurring characters we haven’t seen in a while. Maybe they’ll be back. Angry Client? Athena? Those two guys who I never named? Who knows? Maybe Rodn...
2024-02-05 08:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a slideshow of AI attempts at creating art in my style. I'm not sure what it proves, beyond that even for powerful AI entities, hands are hard to draw.
2024-01-29 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To be honest, it’s a very long list, and the inclusion of my work is probably due to the large amount of it available free of charge in an easily sc...
2024-01-29 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Short commentary today. People sometimes ask how accurate Basic Instructions is to my real life. The answer is that it varies. Sometimes it’s not accurate at all. Other times, as the attached photo demonstrates, a comic will come directly from an actual situation.
Note: I think the fact that the Christmas decoration I...
2024-01-22 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The shocking return of Rocket Hat! It’s been a while. And he’s just as talkative as ever.
The Rocket Hat comics, and most of my comics involving superheroes, are primarily about failure. All of them either have powers that are laughable, self-defeating, or, in the case of Rocket Hat, used solely to repeatedly beat t...
2024-01-15 08:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Before I continue, I want to point out that I don’t want to shame any of these people. I have my own experiences with projects that turned out to be harder, more involved, or less enjoyable than I expected. I’m not making fun, I’m commiserating, and enjoying watching them tilt at their windmills, which are different fro...
2024-01-08 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not saying that McDonalds food is healthy. It is not. But because the ingredients are prepared off site in a regularly-inspected factory, then assembled and heated in plain view, I can reasonably hope that it is relatively clean. For the short-term avoidance of food poisoning, that’s the imp...
2024-01-01 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to be clear that I love our cats, and would never do anything to harm either of them. I will, however, admit that if you had asked me the split second after I discovered that one of them had managed to claw a hole in my best jacket, I might have been tempted to answer differently.
I wonder if part of the reason w...
2023-12-25 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ric did make me the, “custodian of his memory.” Given his treatment in my comic, that seems like bad judgement. Maybe he figured I was already doing the job of destroying his reputation, so he might as well make the job official.
A trailer for DUNE: Part 2 has come out. It gives a brief look at the character Feyd. T...
2023-12-18 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Missy and I had COVID, but are both feeling much better now.
We know where Missy caught it . . . at home, from me. We will never know for sure where I got it, but I strongly suspect a woman I rode near on an escalator. She appeared to be on her way to compete in some sort of wet, hacking cough competition.
“Carl...
2023-12-11 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This isn't an official Basic Instructions comic, and won't go out to non-Patrons. I'm just throwing it out here in hopes you'll enjoy it, and to thank you for your patience. Missy and I are feeling better, and should be back up and running next week.
Thanks,
Scott Meyer
2023-12-04 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody. I accidentally wrote something misleading in a reply to a comment yesterday about the posting schedule for the next few weeks. I'm just going to take a moment to correct my own error (which is a surprising amount of the actual work of being a web cartoonist, at least in my experience).
Because of my recen...
2023-11-21 09:02:52 +0000 UTC View Post
(NOTE: There will be no new comics next week. Covid. It's a mild case. Already feeling better, but it has thrown the schedule off. I think the fact that it hit me right after a comic about my experience traveling should not be taken as a coincidence. Sorry for the gap. I'll be back soon.)
The...
2023-11-20 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I probably will watch ‘The Continental’ eventually. The fact is, hundreds of people are involved in the making of a modern, high-end TV show or movie these days. Statistically, one or more person in every production has to be awful. It’s just off-putting to have that awful person be one of the stars. It’s like having ...
2023-11-13 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
