Ah, The Perils Of Cartoon Anatomy...

For those who weren't aware, Movember is Moustache (or Mustache) November, which has something to do with prostate cancer awareness.

Originally I was planning on doing this strip much earlier, although I later realized it would work best as an ending to the month, and moved it to today.

The Day the Trash Can Came to Life

The title of this post (and, indeed, this strip itself) came from a story I wrote when I was much younger called "The Garbage Can That Came To Life."

No More Twinkies...

Maybe You Should Have Typed The Report Instead

That Can Be Interpreted In COMPLETELY The Wrong Way...

Oh, wait, that was her intention!

So Get A Drink. So Get A Drink. So Get A Drink. So Get A Drink.

Pizza Time

This strip was originally a "cheese snack," and a mouse grabbed a HUGE hunk of cheese (i.e. bigger than a human), and someone else said Julia's line. I changed it to this because...well, the original idea was actually made by my brother in his own family comic (which can't be found anywhere public, unfortunately).

Julia Finally Dreamt That

The reason I say "finally" in the title is because, in an earlier strip, Julia said that not even her dreams would let her become President of IWMA.

The Final Catch Up

Yes, Charlie has a mustache. It's for Movember (Moustache November), for prostate cancer awareness.

I actually was considering running for President again–then I could repeal that Amendment Moe made that the President can bug me whenever I do something minutely incorrect.

I don't think I drew the podium right in the last panel...

Yay, we're back on track!

Catch Up Part Seven

When I first drew this, I was going to have Irene sticking her head in from the side. But almost immediately after I drew that, I realized that since they're underwater, she COULD be hanging upside down. I almost never get to do that, so I decided to seize that opportunity.

 I've never seen one of my characters appear so calm around an eraser. (I haven't done eraser jokes for a while, either.)

 Yay for the Muppets!

Not quite sure if I was able to digitally capture the transgreen effect...

The Election Week strips will appear sometime tomorrow.

Catch Up Part Six (Almost Done!)

This strip was really easy to draw.

It took me a while to think of the line in this strip, which I originally wanted to start with "Sometimes I wonder...", but I couldn't get that to sound right, so I later changed it to this.

This strip took forever to shade.

Catch Up Part Five

I'm going to try to post the remaining missing strips between now and November 5th, 2012 (I want to be able to get this year's Election Week story up on time!). Then I.W.M.A. will return to a more productive state–this includes strips, polls, Jones Force, Nermia, and Moe's Stories (which I wrote when I was younger, so they do have a few plot holes).

Catch Up Part Four

This is getting out of hand...

I finally discovered a way to speed up the shading process!

The last two strips were originally the same strip, but then I figured that I needed to name the theorem/principle. This meant I had to split the strip into two and focus the first on the principle. I'm still not sure what I'm going to officially call it, though...

Catch Up Part Three

Maybe I should start doing this.

Apparently the Joneses got an iPad recently.

Here I started running out of ideas, so I rummaged through some really old Garfield comics I made back in 2003 (don't ask), found a few pretty good premises or sections of strips, and reworked them into the strip above and the strip below.

This strip was based on a story I started once where Garfield was planning on sleeping for a whole year.

Catch Up Part Two

They're both wearing yellow–maybe I should do that whenever I'm doing a Golden Twinkie strip.

S-Bro suggested this Fill In The Blank strip.

Catch Up Part One

Yeah, yeah, we know what day it is. We'll try to get our strips up on time from now on.

I've had the idea for this joke since April. But it might have been a bit more awesome if it was in its own post...

I've had the idea for this joke for years now. I decided to bring it back and update the dialogue a bit so that it would fit the strip of today.

Every time we see Lily, I try to give her bow a different color.