Freedom March.

The top one is from May 2000 - I can't remember the specific name of the march - it might have been The March on Washington - but it was the largest grouping of politically minded gays in our country yet, and I was excited at the time to have people see us en masse. I really wish we could have gone, but I was knee deep in my thesis defense at the time.

The bottom strip I drew last night - in firing this up again, I decided that Tad, Frank, and company were all getting back together somehow after fifteen years in a way that hopefully was funny. A lot of what Frank says mirrors what happened to us in the meantime since college - recession and all of that - but I am really proud of that line I gave Tad. I don't know how, but it really just knocks any tension right over. I think what I really like about this is that if they were in college there'd be a version of this, right about this time, where Tad would be freaking out about moving up to San Francisco with Frank, and Zen (maybe Vanna) would be the one listening.

I love that line. "There's no coffee left at ALL, is there." Hee hee.

*I'm trying this thing where I don't ink the strips but just scan them in as pencil and let Photoshop ink them - I like the rougher look, but the style is a bit grittier.