Tag: Comic

CUPS 95: Baby Time

Went with *snort* as the onomatopoeia for the noise that Norah makes when she’s startled awake. I also strongly considered *snerk*, but that sounded a little to much like the noise someone makes when someone laughs, both suddenly but also completely under control. Snerk also toes a line onto sounding like ‘snigger’, which was always a term I felt pretty uncomfortable with. Any other type of noise being made in this strip seemed, otherwise, to be too confusing and not readable enough and… You know what? From here on out I’m going to leave all of these decisions under the hood, I hope that’s OK with you.

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CUPS 93: IPAs

CUPS started as a cute little comic about a few people playing ping pong. Then it turned into a semi-serious, semi-silly strip about the lives of thirtysomethings. But now it’s turning into a drug romp, apparently? Eventually it will become a very intentional satirical statement on American politics, and eventually it’ll be a handbook on manners and etiquette. By the time the strip wraps up in the late 2040’s it’ll be a fully customizable topographic hologram map of downtown Minneapolis.

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CUPS 92: Section B, Seats 7 & 8

I had this experience a couple of years ago when I went to visit my sister in Richmond and saw the Arctic Monkeys. Truth be told, I was on a college campus, so it’s understandable that I (30 at the time) was a major age outlier in the crowd, but it was really jarring. I remember realizing fairly quickly that I was a solid 10+ years older than everyone, and so from then on it was just a blitz towards drunkenness to forget that fact. I don’t mean to brag, but… Mission accomplished.

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CUPS 91: Raucous

Instead of beer pong or cornhole during tailgating festivities, Blood Pineapple fans like to play ‘stab the dude and then hide him in the woods so that local authorities can’t find him, at least not until the end of the Blood Pineapple concert’. It’s probably not going to catch on with non-Blood Pineapple fans, but they like that sort of thing just fine, thank you very much.

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