The Elephant in the Room

Traffic is so slow in these summer months that there's didn't seem any point in my posting anything particularly good today. Yet at the same time, it means that I can post anything I like and nobody will bother reading it. I didn't intend to post this at all but I thought I'd put it out there for a limited time only. Perhaps I'll get feedback which will help me on my next attempt at one of these longer strips. It was an experiment in doing something different and I had originally intended to enter it into a competition. As you'll see, it doesn't work. It's a glorious failure. The comic within the comic doesn't have a strong enough reason to be there. I couldn't find the right words to explain why I fall into fiction, or, if I had the right words, I didn't have enough space to fit them. I suppose the strip began as my figuring out why I'm so cynical towards art and why I choose to write comedy. That explanation was the thing I eventually couldn't fit in the finished strip. However, it's another lesson learned and will help my next strip, which will probably be some kind of dark gothic tale which is currently rattling around in a shapeless form inside my brain. Of course, click to enlarge both images...