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I thought it would be nice to check in with Sam at work again, and these are more real-life questions I’ve gotten at my job (compressed for your humor times). Despite this, I actually love my job a whole lot. Sam’s boss is a bit more cynical than me, though.
I love doing these behind-the-counter comics because I get to draw one-shot people. Which is fun! If I could make it make sense I would draw a comic with new people in it every day. I have been thinking about branching out. Since the zine did so well, I have been trying to think of other zines and mini-comics to write and sell. Whatever I publish next will be smaller and on a pay-what-you-can system. I have also thought about and rejected the idea of doing a diary comic a dozen times, and I’m always toying around with this queer historical horror story based on this one real person who might have been transsexual/a sex worker/a vampire. It would require a bunch of research first because I am THE WORST at history.
Thanks for reading!
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↓ TranscriptPATRON 1: Umm, I’m looking for a book. The cover is blue. I know it was written by a woman. Or maybe it was a bunch of women? I think it’s about Asia, or maybe Europe. Do you have that one?
PATRON 2: I’m looking for photographs. Nudes. Whatever you have, as long as it’s nude. But no paintings. Just the real stuff. And no guys.
PATRON 3: Hi, I have a research paper due on Monday. Could you tell me what would be a good subject for it?
SAM: What is this odd calm that I feel?
SONYA: That’s probably just whatever optimism you had left about college life giving way to disappointment in all things that aren’t you. It’s best to let it happen.
Queer historical horror story?! I think… I think I just peed a little. Um, yes plz?
I’m a librarian and this is all too sadly true.
When I was working in my university’s library, a student came up and asked me for “some statistics.” When I asked if s/he could be a little more specific, s/he leaned over the desk and said in a loud, slow voice, “Sta-tis-tics.” Okie-dokie. Gotcha now.
Things will be different once we locate and reclaim the Blue Book of All Knowledge, which all patrons have seen and used once, but only once, and never bothered to note the call number, title, or author thereof.
Sorry. Rough day. Thanks for the solidarity!
Started reading today (check time, yep, still today) and just caught up. Thank you. Thank you for this comic. I’m so glad someone is telling this story.
For the history/herstory/theirstory comic, you should collaborate with Kate Beaton of Hark, A Vagrant! which is the very best history webcomic I know of, and the only one, but seriously, it’s so so awesome (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php).
That would make me very very very happy 🙂
ps: I have never commented here before, but I LOVE your comic and the representation you provide to many underrepresented groups (esp. the existence of characters who have multiple ‘minority statuses’ going on), and I eagerly anticipate every update.
pps: folks like these notwithstanding, I would love to work in a library some day 🙂
I’m a long time lurky reader and I love Riot Nrrd so hard! Especially today, reading this right before heading in to work at a bookstore. My automatic response to the first panel was to forget I was reading comic and try to figure out the book. *sigh*
P.S. April, I get the feeling they know about Hark, A Vagrant. Did you see the shirt and read the alt text? It got a big cheesy grin out of me.
Hi, do you have any books with photographs of George Washington? Julius Ceasar? Dinosaurs?
These sound *really* familiar. I think I know that first one, for SURE