But was he ever really gone? —

What I’d do with a billion-dollar lottery win — I must admit that a billion-dollar lottery got my attention. We’re not talking about vacation money with first-class passage and conversations about how a million isn’t what it used to be. We’re talking filthy, stinking, unimaginably rich. It refreshes the question I’ve always loved asking myself of what I would…

You can’t deal with what you don’t feel — This comic started with a drawing from this comic essay on the way feelings can directly transport me through time. I’ve already got a second one in this series and would have no trouble drawing more. They are just scenes from my life. I am actively moving toward my feelings…

It’s paying attention to what I’m actually doing — I’ve started noticing the astonishing extent to which I’m busy worrying about how well I am doing instead of focusing on the task at hand. Not to brag, but I can distract myself with angst-ridden self-evaluation while doing almost anything, including but not limited to, writing cartoons, playing guitar, doing…

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Right in the nick of time — After years of studying the matter, both on and off the couch, I have a pretty clear thesis on why I struggle emotionally. Developmental injuries left me feeling periodically worthless and unlovable, which I have been ineffectually trying to remedy by frantically scrambling to somehow make myself more lovable and…

Oneness

A cautionary tale told too late — When I was in 4th grade, our principal Mr. Price always forced us to tuck in our shirts. I didn’t think too much about it at the time, but I clearly should have.

An open letter from a friend to what could be the most wonderful human ever — Dear Jeffy, Even though we’ve never met, may I call you Jeffy? I’d like this letter to feel like it’s from a friend since, in an imaginative sort of way, it is. I’m a big fan of what you created with Amazon and I’m constitutionally inclined to friendliness. So…