jephjacques

A Marked Improvement In Relations

Iris is such a sweetie pie :)

Reading Rainbow

Nobel Prize in boners

Sounds Like Nonsense To Me

She's just prejudiced against serifs

Teed Up

Okay!!! Finally home and unpacked and de-jetlagged. Hopefully there will be no more shenanigans wrt the comic or the website now.

His Home Is The Sea

when in doubt, jump into ocean

They Answer To The King

Or queen, whichever is around

Welcome Back Everyone

Some time has passed!

Directember: Mr. Face

This strip ended up being one of the key moments in the Hannelore and Sven dynamic (as well as the Faye and Sven dynamic...) in that Hanners is apparently immune to Sven's charms. It's funny that the random comic button served me up this particular strip, since a big chunk of the Dora/Tai wedding arc was about how Hanners and...

Directember: Bedtime

If I'm doing the (admittedly very basic) math right, this is the second to last Directember update? I think??? It's Sunday night, which means the comic for Monday goes live on the site, which means the comic for Patreon is Tuesday? And if regular comics resume on January 2nd, Patreon gets it 24 hours early, which means Januar...

Directember: A Night At The Improv

Finally, another truly ancient comic! Back when Faye didn't use contractions in her speech because I thought it sounded cute (ugh) and I was painstakingly drawing in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet (uuuuggghhhh). I actually don't hate the art in this one, it's kind of charming in a "drawn with a felt tip marker" kind of way. I...

Directember: She's Totally Playing Into It

The whole "it sounds like they were having Sexual Times but actually they were not" gag is as old as time, but I like the little spin I put on it in this strip. Also man, I used to draw Hanners looking a lot more unhinged than she does these days. Combination of her being in a better place now and also my art looking less we...

Directember: The Good Old Days

Lol at 2009 Jeph looking back at earlier comics with a sense of nostalgia

he had no idea

Directember: Octo-Camo

I have started drawing comics again! It feels good to be back on the horse. However I also came down with a head cold, so it's a very snotty horse at the moment.

As I said in yesterday's post, writing trash fires like Liz is super fun! Years ago I was doing an interview with someone and I said sometimes characters "just...

Directember: Practical Advice

I think out of all the characters in my comic, Willow is the one I most wish I had more time and opportunity to focus on. Her personality, attitude, and character design are all just so fun! But as it stands she's kind of peripheral to the periphery of the main cast, if that makes any sense. I expect that to change, or at lea...

Directember Scheduling Goofs

Hey y'all, I accidentally posted tonight's Directember entry...yesterday? Two days ago? What even is time when you're traveling. ANYWAY just writing this to say that the next regular post will be TOMORROW night.

I have begun writing comics again. They are very silly so far. :)

Directember: Olfactory Reset

Making Roko not be a cop anymore is definitely one of the better choices I've made. It opened up a lot more possibilities for her as a character, and also meant I didn't have to do comics about how Some Cops Are Good Actually (even "good cops" are part of a system of oppression that harms all of us, but disadvantaged people a...

Directember: I-Ikari-san?!

I think this might have been the first instance of Dale doing the Gendo Ikari pose from Neon Genesis Evangelion. If you had told me in 2010 that people would still be playing WoW in 2024 I'd probably be like "...huh. Yeah, seems plausible." And remember those thicc-ass old-style computer displays? Man. It's like seeing a CRT ...

Directember: Baking Lessons

Aww, Clinton and Elliot being cute and bi at each other! And also Cosmo is there! That bear looks like more of a woodchuck or perhaps some kind of terrier though. Clinton and Elliot are a cute couple, it was a lot of fun writing them slowly spiraling into the makeout zone. It has, shockingly, been quite some time since we've ...

Directember: Pass The Salt

Wow it really is Characters We Haven't Seen In Forever Week huh? I had really high hopes for Brun after how bonkers her introduction storyline with Clinton was, but then the ideas sort of dried up. Sometimes a character just doesn't have the juice, so to speak. I could see coming back to her someday maybe, but to be honest it...

Directember: They See Him Rollin'

I wonder what that roomba is up to these days. Raising its offspring in Cubetown, perhaps? Sorry for not much commentary on this one, I was just on planes and trains for 14 hours and my brain is fried.

Sucker Punch-Drunk

Wil and Penelope! Been a long time since we've seen Wil. Sometimes a character will just sort of fall by the wayside and I don't pick them up for a while, and my focus shifts elsewhere and suddenly it's been 5 years and I haven't drawn a comic about them and oh my god where did the time go. Maybe we'll see Wil again in the fu...

Directember: Emergency Summons

Clinton's enthusiasm for AI nonsense has led to some fun moments so far, like this one. With Claire moving to Cubetown I suspect there will be a lot more in the future.

Break has been nice so far! I've been doing a little doodling here and there, playing lots of guitar and video games, walking the dog...pretty much exac...

Directember: Of Course She Uses Celsius

AI lore AND a cute Bubbles face? This is a perfect comic. I forgot about Faye’s old sleeveless hoodie, I should bring back that look now that it’s fall/winter in QC again. One of the many weird aspects of the comic’s pacing is how long it takes for seasons to change. The girls in particular went through multiple real-wo...

Directember: Ring My Bell

The start of what would turn out to be the single biggest change in all of QC (thus far). God it does NOT feel like this strip is from 2 years ago already. Weren't they JUST meeting the Cubetown folks?!

I’ve said elsewhere that I originally imagined Marten and Claire moving up to Cubetown as a way to gently write them...

Directember: Savory Husks

Exceptionally cute Hanners in this one. Good job, past me. One of the funny parts of making over 5000 comics is how I don’t actually remember a lot of them, but somehow I can keep the continuity (mostly) straight in my head. I do frequently have to comb through my own archive (and occasionally the QC fan wiki,...

Directember: Penalization

I have no insightful comments about this one, I just think Pintsize throwing his own head at Marten is a very funny gag. I always imagined his “skin” feeling like those shitty rubber-coated ballpoint pens you use at banks or car dealerships or the like. And I guess all his processing stuff was in his old body? But sometim...

Directember: Nice

You know, I never did return to the “Faye is building Pintsize a big metal dick and balls” plot point. I should probably address that eventually. Or let it sit on the back burner for another 8 years, only for it to become a critically important plot device in 2032-era QC. Will QC still be going in 2032? Will civilizat...