the science project #15

this episode, titled "A Christmas Story", was done on christmas eve eve 2007. obviously, i ripped off the title from one of my favorite movies of all time (i triple dog dare you to challenge me in a trivia contest), but it fit too well. the cool thing about this episode is that most of you don't know the back story to this one. every year, my uncle writes a poem summing up the year's activities. it's always well received because of its creativity and humor. my dad came up with the idea to make something special for him because he always took the time to write the poem for us. so, the main character in this episode is a caricature of my uncle (who admits that i gave the cartoon version of him more hair than he actually has - you're welcome, uncle bill). the scenes in the cartoon are not exactly realistic to our family get together, but i used creative license to make it more interesting. the last panel, however, is pretty accurate visually because he reads the poem after christmas eve dinner, since some of us don't get the poem mailed to us.

i do like this episode, not only because we were doing something nice for a man who does nice things for us every year, but because it's just cute. this is probably the first comic that i had done that was personal to me. that will change in future episodes.