3 posts tagged “writing”
I've always liked writing New Yorker-esque comic one liners, but can't draw cartoons for the life of me. Stripgenerator means I don't have to. My first attempt (context from a
previous entry).
Another. This one's pretentious while making fun of pretension. I don't like it that much.
Handshake. Argh, Matt Boyd's writing has improved over the years but he still mangles punchlines. This comic in particular would have been better ending at the second panel.
Nonfiction, but may spoil:
At the end of it, Hilibrand was $24 million in debt.Hilibrand was reading the contract, which was hopelessly illegible to all but the lawyers. The margins were jammed with penciled revisions and crossed-out sentences and arrows up and down, as though the contract were a visual representation of the confusion of the last three days. Rickards and a couple of other attorneys were trying to tell Hilibrand what it meant, but he didn't want to listen, he wanted to read it himself, and he could barely see it through the tears that were streaming down his face. He didn't want to sign, he wailed; there was nothing in it for him, better to file for bankruptcy than be someone else's indentured servant with no hope of ever earning his way out. Meriwether took Hilibrand aside and talked to him about the group, and how the others were in it and needed him to be in it, and still, Hilibrand, who had never needed anyone and who had once rebelled at paying for his share of the company cafeteria but now couldn't pay his debts, refused. Then Allison talked to him and said they were trying to restore the public's faith in the system and not to destroy anybody, and J.M. said, "Larry, you better listen to Herb." And Hilibrand signed, and the fund was taken over by fourteen banks.
