Okay. This one was pretty fun to do.

The original plan for this comic was to show a series of women that Winslow had gone on one date with, before giving him some excuse as to why they couldn’t see him again. I sketched out the comic and added in the script. The women were all essentially torsos without faces at that point. Before I finished them, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be funny to make each of these one-time-only dates actual people?”

It’s officially the Year of the Rabbit (as of yesterday). So, you know. Rabbit-themed comic.

I’ve always wanted to draw a comic where one of the people speaking is speaking so much that it fills the entire panel, with the other person looking around confused. The revelation of Attention Whore’s real name last week, and the apparent guilt Winslow feels about not knowing it in the first place, seemed like the perfect opportunity to finally put this one on paper.

Many of my characters didn’t start out with names. They started out with titles, or no names at all. As Ben & Winslow has evolved, most of these characters have gotten a formal name. Attention Whore was the only hold-out. And I realized last year that if I wanted to keep drawing this character, I had to give her the dignity of a real, actual name. Even if she never actually uses the name much in the strip, I think it’s only fair. She’s had to put up with a lot of crap, bless her blue heart. I feel horrible for not giving her a name sooner.

Some people are raised by foster parents. Or wolves. Annie was raised by snow. At least, that’s what she seems to believe.