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.

I wanted to create a strip that gives a “recap” of what’s happened in all the “episodes” so far, without using anything that actually happened in any strips from last year. The result reads like a series of clips from a single, seemingly continuous story that, in actuality, makes very little sense.

The old year is ending, the new year is beginning, and this is how I’ve decided to mark the occasion. A penis joke. Yes, yes, my maturity knows no bounds. Let’s all either 1.) Party or 2.) Lay around the house all night and do absolutely nothing until the stroke of midnight.

Merry Christmas, everyone! (You can ignore that salutation if you don’t celebrate Christmas, or if you are offended by the word “Christmas” and prefer the word “Xmas,” or if you don’t like either word because one is clearly religious while the other is clearly pornographic, or if you just hate holidays in general.)