This hasn’t been a very good year for me, and it showed in the comic early this year. It’s hard to poke fun at fictional universes and their creators when you’ve suffered the loss of your mother. Then I had a bad reaction to new Crohn’s medicine in September and sleeping issues this month. So there aren’t as many strips to go over and even though I was on time last year I’m two dates late for the anniversary this year. Still, I do like going over my old strips. While I’m no great cartoonist, for a guy with low self-esteem I need to prove to myself that I don’t completely suck, I’m just not where I wish I was in talent levels. But that’s why I do this site.

Once again I delve into the archives and look over every Jake & Leon strip from October 26th of last year (2014) to this year (ending on last Sunday’s strip) and see which ones I’m rather proud of considering where I am in cartooning skills. Sometimes I like the commentary or the parody, sometimes it was a level up for me in terms of skill, and sometimes it was just that fun. For those of you new, Jake & Leon was born out of trying a different art style for fun and seeing a potential comic, something to start the weekly comic reviews off with. When the reviews went daily the comic hosted a wrap-up of interesting articles and when that became as time-consuming as the reviews I just did the strip and some personal updates.

So let’s take a look through a year’s worth of comics, #s 223-265, starring two guys hosting a skit show along with a family, a marketing anti-wizard, and an alien invoking two sci-fi homages.

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