I have this theory that everyone can trace their lives back to a single event which set into motion a chain of events leading to the present state of their lives. I have a corollary to this theory which states that this event usually takes place around the age of 13. In the months before making Liniment for Pop, I became obsessed with this idea that my life could be steered into an arbitrary direction by something as insignificant as a broken pencil. Do I really have control over my life? Or am I a slave to this causal chain which I had unknowingly set into motion at the age of 13? Well the couple in "Liniment For Pop" wonder about the same thing.
This is also the first comic I inked with a brush. It looks pretty wierd."