crapic novel


that orange creature should look for a different club

I drew this to amuse myself and acknowledge it may have minimal validity.

usually I write the words first and draw it much later/never, but this one came out like so. It was funny to me because it is so visceral and hateful, and a product of the moment which inspired it, and I had to finish it as soon as possible. Alas, the finished one looks calculated and like it should make more sense than it does!

The “crap”‘s visual representation was fine to have all black, but in color I don’t want to give it anything specific. It is supposed to be a very vague “crap.” So someone might think “is that supposed to be literal excrement? i do not know.” I will not draw literal excrement, but am comfortable vaguely implying it in a non-final version, hoping I will come up with a better solution later. Had I taken more time to think about this I likely would have exorcised the word “crap” as well. Any word I will only type in quotation marks is one that will get neutered out with enough revisions. So plainly there is more to my lack of success than not meeting a “crap” quota, which the followup strip touches on (with gloves). I of course already drew it, like this, but will not show it until I have ruined it with several more hours of refinement.