Bowie, Pee-Wee, and Dick Van Dyke Walk Into a Bar

The panels that came out of the deck for this strip are in the least common "legal" configuration:

If you look at the rules or guidelines for "Draw Two Panels," you'll see that it's possible to deal the panels into slots #2 and #3, instead of having them separated by a single panel.

My idea for the legal arrangements is this: the strip will go into more interesting territory if the newly-drawn panels don't merely happen in between the panels that come from the deck, but they will be more constrained by the deck panels if you get no more than one new panel in a row.

If no more than one new panel can appear in a row consecutively, and the dealt cards must appear in the order they're dealt, there are only three ways to fit them into a four-panel strip.

Of course, these are only my principles or guidelines. If you're playing "Draw Two Panels" yourself, you can make your own decisions about your constraints.

Your Nimoy/Proust Pun of the Day

My spring break started this afternoon, and I was able to finish inking the strip I had drawn last night.

The first and third panels of this strip came from the deck. We haven't seen the first one before—it was a random-input panel that I drew a couple of weeks ago.

It's been a good month for cartooning here on the blog, thanks to this new process, and a good month for posts. But this February was really nothing compared to Mike's twenty-eight-day Lone Wolf and Cub read-along series. Those were good times.

More soon.

I Did Evade "Devo Dave's Ovid Video Void."

Here's another of the random strips that have been emerging from my "Draw Two Panels" deck-based process.

The first and third panels are new for this strip, and the first one is mainly aiming to amuse Tom Hart.

Is that weird enough?

Random Breath of Optimism

This one has a single repeated panel, a couple of barely-hidden references to Devo, and a monkey.

As always, I welcome your input.

Something a Little Aleatory

I'm just going to set this here without explaining it for now.

It's part of a new project or process that I'm working on. I'm hoping to bring Mike in on it, and maybe some other cartoonists too, once I've worked out a few kinks.