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Hey, I’m on time this year! Bless you, Google Calendar!

For those of you who came in late: Back when I was doing weekly new comic reviews before it started taking up too much of one of the only days I had to do household chores, I was running out of interesting ways to introduce the article each week. Intros are harder than they look. It’s how you hook the reader in to checking out what you have to say. So while fooling around with different art styles I tried one I really liked. Then I tried to redraw it and couldn’t. Repeated attempts led to failure so I gave up for the day. The next day I tried again and lacking the frustration of the previous day’s failures I actually did it. So I gave him a friend. The original was called Jake and the new guy Leroy…though when I introduced them on this site I ended up writing “Leon” and liked it better. Turns out that was a benefit to the logo having two names with four letters.

When I decided to change the new comic reviews to one a day to give me time to do other stuff than read comics (as much as taking a day to just read comics is a great way to spend the day) it became a list of article links I found during the week, but that meant some weeks I had to struggle to find enough articles. So I just did what is now the daily quickpost with articles or videos and gave my Sunday post over to Jake & Leon with updates for what’s coming in the next week and linking to this week’s article over at The Clutter Reports.

Every year I try to spend some time to go over my favorite comics of the previous year. Some were really good jokes or commentaries, while others just mark some artistic achievement. This year I missed a few Sundays due to time, illness, not having a good comic idea in time, or just something else occupying my attention. Still, I did more than enough to have some comics I’m really proud of.

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