Life IS a Beach.

Friday's strip did not make it up on the site until Sunday morning. Sorry about being so late, but things with client deadlines really are that busy. What's good for my business seems bad for my comics.

This leads me to announce that I will be on vacation next week and Suburban Tribe will have no new strips from June 4 - 8. It was my intention that comics continue uninterrupted next week, but it's just not possible. My wife made arrangements for this vacation and a house sitter several months ago and when she did, I was pretty ambivalent about it. But I have spent the last 6-8 weeks really earning this break and I am looking forward to it.

I will be working on other projects (personal projects, my digital painting portfolio, etc.) while I am away, thanks to the wonders of my MacBook and Wacom tablet. If internet access is available and if the mood strikes, maybe I'll update the blog but no promises.

In the meantime, if anyone out there would like to author a guest strip, email it to me before 9 pm on Friday June 1, and I will run it next week. The only guidelines are: 1) The comic must feature Suburban Tribe characters and 2) The final art can be no wider than 940 pixels.

Back to the salt mines.

5/25 Strip will be up late today / Early Saturday

Beating back client deadlines with a stick. Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime; Sieg Heil, mein Fuhrer.

UPDATE:
Okay, whoa, stop. The point of the article is not Apple vs. Microsoft. The point of the article is that MS put an "Amnesty Bin" in its office, thereby suggesting that MS employees throw away their iPods for all the company to see, and they will be forgiven.

Do you honestly think that if an MS employee walks into the office with an iPod on his person and doesn't throw it in that bin that he won't be a target for management? If you don't, there is a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

Does anyone think that it would be cool for MS to put a PS3 Amnesty bin next to it? How about a box for all employees to trash their TiVos? Or Nintendo Wiis?

I'll bet that every employee who trashes their iPod will get the opportunity to purchase a Zune at a handsome 7% discount.

This isn't an Apple vs. Microsoft thing. It's an extreme example of a corporation forcing its culture on its employees-- in the hopes of it trickling out into the mainstream.

This is about bullying.

At Long Last.

Wizard magazine has a website whose graphic design reflects its corrupt, corporate, nausea-inducing soul. If you click on the link, note that you absolve me of any responsibility if you go blind.