… although maybe “nightmare” is more appropriate …
A big thank you to everyone who stopped and chatted with me during last weekend’s Memphis Comic Expo (check out these great photos from the con by my table neighbor Brandt Hardin)! If your first taste of Watusi has encouraged you to check out more, welcome! Feel free to browse the archives– a lot has happened since the “Emerald Serpent” storyline!
It’s no wonder the Professor looks so haggard– between staring at a computer monitor all day and contemplating math problems all night, it’s no wonder he’s bleary-eyed!
I’ve talked a bit about my upcoming “Watusi and the Emerald Serpent” tour stops (including the Memphis Comic Expo, Oct. 22-23 and Wichita’s Air Capital Comiccon, Nov. 12-13), and I hope you’ll be able to visit me at one of those events. If you can’t make it, though, the full set of seven issues is now available for purchase from my online store— details here!
If anything is going to be able rectify Watusi’s situation, let’s hope it’s here!
It’s good to see that Professor Harvey’s life has moments of respite from his research into the cause of Watusi’s demise!
A big thank you to everyone who stopped and chatted with me during last Saturday’s Mid-South Book Festival! If your first taste of Watusi has encouraged you to check out more, welcome! Feel free to browse the archives– a lot has happened since the “Emerald Serpent” storyline!
“What have I done?!?” Looks like you’ve put paw in mouth again, Watusi– and to the last dog who could listen to you, too!
If you’re in Midtown Memphis next Saturday (Sept. 10th), stop by my table at the Mid-South Book Festival and say “hi”– I’ll have brand new Watusi issues, as well as some nifty new prints as part of my “Watusi and the Emerald Serpent” promotional tour! Can’t make it next weekend, don’t worry; more dates to come…
Uh oh– looks like there may be some fireworks ahead!
By the way, if you haven’t visited Watusi’s Facebook page or my Twitter feed lately, you can find a recent update on the progress of my “Emerald Serpent” project there.
This week’s seventh anniversary episode is a real milestone for me. It’s probably no surprise by now that I appreciate a well-paced adventure comic, and the more I work on this Watusi adventure strip, the more I am awed by the greats of the early days of the genre and what they accomplished. Gottredson, Segar, Hamlin and others mixed comedy and action in a way that made readers want to read the next strip … and made it look easier than it is to do, too!
This episode is the 365th Watusi strip, which means that if had been a daily adventure strip (which is how I’ve paced it, especially early on) all of the stories to date would have taken place in its first year: the adventure in Isla Esmerelda, the time travel story with W-Tusi25, Mystery Mutt & Teebo, the recent Victorian Watusi diversion, the Motilizing Reclivator, the Ch-ch-chattering skull, Sourpuss, the Dance Party, and (whew!) the Purloined Pocketwatch!
Hope you’ll stick around for the “second” year of adventure! Up next, more reactions to Watusi’s passing …
While I figure out what to do without a title character for this strip, I thought I’d throw a bone to those of you who’ve been reading since the beginning.
Good thing Watusi’s eyes are protected– I bet there are probably some visual spectrum bursts in that barrage, too!
Watusi the Talking Dog 