March 1, 2023
page 3-58 of this
I changed “gitchmerd” to “gidjmerg” because it was brought to my attention that “gitch” can refer to underwear. as “merd” will, with the simple addition of an E that goes unpronounced and thus may be imagined as present even when it is not, be a french word for excrement that is considered more obscene than the ordinary french word for excrement, I considered the combination of the two undesirable to have people think I might have intended unless I did, which I did not. It is enough that the drawings are crude without the names also being so!
I will ideally have amended the previous instances of the name before you see this but unfortunately was not able to before I saw this.
imp fact I think it was only said one other time, on page 3-52 and that was simple to correct, although I thought the letters there suddenly seemed too skinny to be legible, and that I would need to later redo the other word spaces also to make them match the one I just did, but NOW they do look more read-ready than the comparatively bloated and irregular alphabits I just added. I also noticed that the telephone/meep’s column did not match between the two pages. I suppose there is no great necessity to keep those consistent, which is good because I would also need to check every other page it appears on and see which was more prevalent and likewise fix the rest. Lack of fixing is not the majorest problem with this production!
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Paint'n time sez:
I see why you might not find the original name desirable but it gave me quite the laugh when I originally heard it.
Btw the newest page looks particularly pretty.
Frimpinheap sez:
thank you! some parts gave me rather a hard time about getting drawn so they least they could do is be pleasant in appearance.
if mad magazine wants to revive itself and make a parody version of this comic strip with the name gitchmerd in it, I will be profoundly surprised.
Mad TV sez:
Eyyy, what about me? I can do parodies, too! Why, they used to call me par-o-Dee-Dee-Ramone back at the academy!
heapin frimp sez:
I had to look up who Dee Dee Ramone is! The Mad TV I know dealt exclusively in song parodies of NEW songs I hadn’t heard! And potentially wouldn’t know if I had due to the Fox network not even wanting to pay Weird Al Yankovic levels of music royalties.