Ashually: A Sad Sam Comic Strip

I am in all seriousness heartbroken by the recent loss of my wife.  She was always a sweetheart who was fine  with my morbid sense of humor and definitely had her own. She was a celiac who always raised an eyebrow when I would eat pounds of the stuff every day.  I’ve tried to cut down but as you can see, gluten can rear its ugly head at any time.  Sorry hun.  

This is the first comic strip that I’ve made since she passed. I would like to dedicate it to her.

Also I would like to offer an equally serious, stark warning.  When my wife passed, she had been prescribed baclofen, and the practitioner never ever asked in two years if she had diabetes. I cannot comment more but if you have a loved one who has at least one serious condition or disease, do NOT let your pharmacist do all the counseling on possible interactions.  Any illness not entered in medical records can have fatal results if a pharmacy doesn’t see it. 

Do an online search and see for yourself if all their diseases, not just medications for those diseases, can cause interactions with a new prescription.

And DRAG YOUR CUP ACROSS THE BARS if you have to tell your doctor or loved one what you found.

Just DON’T BLINDLY TRUST ANY PRESCRIPTION to do its job without lethal side effects.  

YOUR LOVED ONE’S LIFE MAY BE DEPENDING ON JUST A FEW QUICK SECONDS OF ONLINE RESEARCH.  

I made the mistake of trusting both the practitioner and the pharmacy.  Now I have lost the love of my life and I’m devastated.  Don’t do the same.

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

Well Dang! I haven't been here in years!

Hey all. Life has been very crazy, not all that rewarding, but I am in a good home with best wife a man could hope for. 2020 has been very, very very boring. Considering all that has been going on, I'm very lucky. My life is squandered down a half dozen career and entertainment rabbit holes at this point. Maybe I can recoup some of that lost time by writing about it, but I'd like to get some comics up here. Most of them are of my wife's stuffed toy pug Waffles and I have some dreadful Stick Nodes comics (not the platform's fault). Anyway, will get some comics up shortly, and please let me know about your new year too. Best, Lionel

Waffles the Dog: My New Pad. A Webcomic.

Waffles the Dog in: My New Pad

A Webcomic

Pancakes the Bear and Waffles the Dog are standing together.

Waffles: Pancakes, want to see my swinging new pad?

Pancakes: Waffles, I’d love to! 

Waffles grabs his notepad.

Swing!

Waffles The Dog: A Webcomic

Waffles is a Ganz pug I got for my wife on August 15th, 2015. He is the best $15 I have ever spent. For his review-reading career, see him here.

SPLATREX - a cartoon on medication side effects

Maybe I'm just old, but the meds we bought were never such garbage.  At least they didn't start out telling you you can take back your life and gradually and more guiltily work into nastier, deadlier side effects.  You know the commercials... "may cause mild irritation, headache, sour bum, memory loss, memory loss, collective unhappiness, mental regression, and unemployment.  20% of our test subjects reported dying immediately.  If you're at risk of dying, DO NOT USE...

SPLATREX "

A Word from Lionel Part 1: Hi After 7 Years

Hi everyone. I know my output's been pretty sporadic the last 7 years, to say the least.

I hope 5 years of marriage can explain that to some degree.

As for why I didn't start things back up yesterday, I have to say rest in peace to my Rage Maker comics app, last updated in 2012.

Yup, Apple works in mysterious ways, and for the most part, it's a very stable platform that has respected the work done many years ago by programmers who moved on to other pursuits, married, died, etc.

All the more saddening, and on learning about it, exasperating, when I lost my first draft to a gray screen the app made, and then all the backups and final version I thought I was triumphantly saving. I went through my phone's camera roll.

Nothing but all my usual real-life garbage.

See, I found myself fired Friday as a result of a personality conflict. Actually, more like a personality test that my employer came to believe like a horoscope. That and, I admit, a pretty nasty series of seizures that have done their best to sneakily wipe all the necessary facts I've been accumulating, both day-to-day and long-term. I'm on meds that stop about 99% of the nonsense, but 1% of the time, and only in my sleep, I'm fair game. It really sucks waking up not even knowing where you work. It doesn't hurt, there are no memories of something life-changing hitting you between the eyes, no changes in sensation on waking.

BUT I had a pretty fun strip made up about it, and I hope to redraw it soon. I'm looking for the dreaded J-O-B right now unless I can make my audience hyootch overnight. Today I am still going to get back to the Strip Design app for iPhone, and hope I can download all the meme icons that Rage Maker was handy at holding.

In the meantime, I hope you can subscribe to my blog, and if you have a spare dollar you don't want to go to deadly snacks, other vices, or people you hate, please consider sending a George Washington upstream toward me in a flow of happy electrons.

Also, send your email address to sumosalesman@aol.com, and I'll add it to my comics mailing list. Life has me by the nose right now, but if I can't take 15 minutes a day to chronicle it, somebody is a serious lazy-ass and it ain't you.

Thanks, and please leave a comment.

Lionel

Like the strip? Any donation is sincerely appreciated.