August
14th, 2006
At long
last, this is the comic that would have run April 10th,
but for the caprice of Adobe Illustrator.
It took four months of my nagging before Jamie could bring himself
to recreate it from scratch. I think you can appreciate why
he'd been putting it off and why he refused to even consider
my feedback (I think the woman should be tapping her watch.
And am I the only one who finds the 11:45 panel disturbingly
sexual?).
In any event,
this comic is clearly cursed.
It killed Jamie's Illustrator in April and now it's hexed my
Outlook. Sincere apologies to everyone on the mailing list for
your empty inboxes. I hope to have the problem solved by next
week.
As to the
subject matter: if you ever want to piss Jamie off, just tell
him that anyone who works late must have lousy time
management skills. Better yet, tap your watch and frown
as we leave 30 minutes early after working 32 hours straight.
It's been three years since we heard the "half-days"
line and it still sets him off.
Jamie and
I work a fair number of late nights and, over midnight pizza
in an empty agency, we've often wondered if we're doing our
careers any favours by killing ourselves when nobody's watching
only to stagger around slack-jawed and witless the next day.
Is
it more important to work hard or to be perceived as
a hard worker? That's the subject of this week's
Words vs. Pictures. I think I already know the answer and I
don't like it.
-Graham
