November 23, 2007
Graham Linehan liked something I did
I should have put my e-mail address or URL at the bottom of that "You gonna light that pipe?" cartoon I posted a few months ago, because apparently it's been floating around a lot lately and sometimes they don't credit me and that hurts my frail ego. As I was Googling for the phrase "You gonna light that pipe" because I'm a self-obsessed idiot, I saw that Graham Linehan, co-creator of one of my all-time favorite shows, Black Books, linked to that cartoon on his blog. Well, linked to one of the copies of it that didn't credit me. So that's nice, in an "eBaum's World" kind of way. Also, Linehan loves Michael Kupperman, as should everyone. Looks like Kupperman drew the blog banner, too. Nice.
Linehan's blog doesn't have comments or an e-mail address, but maybe he'll find this post in one of his self-Googling sessions. (We all do it, there's no need to be ashamed.) The last few years' worth of old comics that I put new words on are here, so maybe he'll like some of those too. And then what? And then nothing.
P.S. Even if you're not Graham Linehan, thanks for checking out this sad, neglected webhovel. Every weekday I have been trying hard to be amusing at the Blowing Smoke blog, every once in a while I throw something in at the Daily Gut, and maybe soon there'll be other places you can read my writing if that's how you want to live your life.
P.P.S. I did that cartoon for the Jay Pinkerton Forum, where every once in a while they'll post old comic-book panels and you get to scribble them up. It is enjoyable. And no, I don't know who the artist was, so my apologies for not giving him credit. He's dead anyway, probably.
P.P.P.S. Go here for a bunch of folks at reddit.com debating this cartoon at great length. People will argue about anything.
Posted by Jim Treacher at November 23, 2007 06:29 AM