So this is it: the final farewell of the original run. For this occasion, I managed to pull some strings with the head editor (Chris Watson, the guy who was the basis for Phoebe’s date), and he got me a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yet another strip set in Satan’s office. Nothing special: just a bit of academic humour that sprung from my fascination with the fact that students at university seemed to look for any excuse to skip class. The prof was two […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another glimpse into the office of Satan, the university’s president. This is by far the funniest of all these Satan gags. It’s the little things that make it good: the evil pose of satisfaction, the Cheez Wams, the scurvy. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another glimpse into the office of Satan, who also happens to be the University’s president. As you can probably tell from looking at the Vice-o-tron 9000, I have a real thing for dated technology. I like all those dials […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip is #23 in a series dating from my university days. Puck ran for three full years in the Silhouette, McMaster University’s student newspaper. This one is another example of academic humour; many people on campus thought this particular […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a concept that I returned to multiple times over the course of the strip: Satan as president of McNiven University. It was a light-hearted stab at Peter George, president of McMaster University, who in actual fact is a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip marks the first appearance of Phoebe, Puck’s roommate and one of the primary characters in the series. Besides being the daughter of Satan (who controls the university), she’s actually a good-hearted, twitty sort of character. She’s the direct […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first appearance of Daphne’s consistent outfit with the ‘Gosh Kosh’ jeans and the backwards baseball cap. The joke here was lost on some: another play on Puck’s terrible mothering skills. A decade later, I’m not even sure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
