If you’re looking for the strips that the above comic references, you can find them here:
- The dinner scene is about our very first strip
- Personal favorites of Dana’s and mine, The Quad and Brodin’s Chosen, are the next two panels
- The last three panels reference one of our most popular comics
So yeah, it’s been a year* since Dana and I have been making Lead Paint. Cah-razy. For me, making this comic has easily been one of the best and most fulfilling experiences of my life, and I’m sure Dana feels similarly. Thanks again for reading, and I hope you continue to enjoy the strip for years to come.
<3 Mike
SONGS FOR SUNDAY:
* Since we started doing color updates at least. Sometime in 2007, Dana and I made a 12 1/2 week run of black and white comics, which were technically the first of our strips. In the 13th week, we decided to take a hiatus to refocus creatively and sort out some crazy life-dramas we were both having, restarting the comic as the “Lead Paint” you know today in May of 2009.
Well, congratulations, you guys. You’ve been regular for a year! Cue pregnancy scare jokes.
Thanks J!
is it weird that I have a crush on Dana even though I have only ever seen a cartoon analogue of her, I think it’s the implication that she is at least as much of a caustic misanthropic barely contained homicidal maniac as me or Jessica Rabbit screwed me up even more than I thought
well i’m sorry to disappoint, but i’ve never actually kicked an old lady in the crotch or pushed a guy in front of a bus for trying to hold my hand (not that i haven’t had the urge to).
it’s probably more accurate to say that you have a crush on avery, since i’m much more boring in real life.
Well damn, there goes that dream. But mad Avery crushes aside, it’s still my favorite web comic. The less sense it makes the better in my book.
Thanks Connor! We have some weird stuff coming up in a few weeks, so hopefully you’ll be pleased.
yeah I accidentally became a pacifist when I was 11 so I have never gotten to punch a guy on the bus in the back of the head for sucking on a cough drop while wearing headphones and consequently he’s super loud, it’s the dreaming it that makes me feel a kinship with Avery.
Happy one year =D It’s been a good fun ride – here’s to another one.
thanks amanda! glad you’ve enjoyed the comic.
I haven’t been reading for all that long (Maybe a month or so now) but I have to say you guys do a very good job. I’m always looking forward to the new comic! Here’s to another year and more to come. Keep it up!
thanks! these comments are all very nice and mean a lot to us.
Newish reader…You guys have a great comic going here; hopefully you are both partially as crazed as the comic lets on…it means more awesome comics to come to keep my laughing while I am at work.
Well I am off to find the cookie monsters stash…I know its around here somewhere.
Thanks Thorney! Glad to bring a little pleasing madness to your work day!
Congratulations on all the success! You guys have done an amazing job