First Day of the Month

April 1, 2018

What can I say? Norton is an interesting fellow. And this particular comic strip is pretty self-explanatory.

For additional context, I originally wrote this comic strip a couple of years ago and had it sitting on the shelf before I inked it. The original dialogue in the first panel was more specific, identifying “first day of March”, instead of the “first day of the month”. Since I have been regularly posting my strips on the first day of the month for a couple of years now, I figured I would wait to post it on March 1st. But I missed the boat on posting this strip last year on March 1st, 2017. And then I realized I missed March 1st, again this year. What is a cartoonist to do? In a stroke of impromptu brilliance I decided to edit the text a little bit to be less specific on the date, instead focusing on the more general frequency of the event. I think it works better now, more in line with Norton’s explanation for his jubilation in the last panel.