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The Making Of Wednesday, May 29, 2002 • read strip Viewing 22 comments:

Now y'all pay attention cause he ain't gonna show y'all this twice.

Well, that explains...very little.

The phrasing in panel 3 is genius.

Those cats are shocked.

My favorite is that he has taken these with a digital camera, as at this point he probly doesn't own a scanner yet.

Yeah. I realise why people don't dig this one but for me it's a 5 for "It shocks these cats"

Alt text: "There are hundreds of original doodles for sale."

timing is blocked on paper... nice.

The low rating shows most people didn't go for this, but I like little behind the scenes info like this.

What does he use to draw these comics? AutoCAD?

I've been wondering the same... It looks like it in the early years...

Illustrator, I thought.

Origin of a Species. A Species of Cats.

Clearly, Téodor's posturing in panel two suggests a vital comment on modern society: Posing for something dirty is always important during brainstorming.

It shocks...

THESE CATS.

THESE KNIVES

It FELL through those cats, man!

How is this not above 4 at least?

Cos it's not that good?

Blasphemy!

Accurate blasphemy, but still... Blasphemy!

So it seems that we owe the existence of Ray, Beef and Pat to this single phrase, which has totally ceased to relate to them as characters.

Without that precious genesis, we wouldn't have Roast Beef or Ray.