I’ll be at Salt City Steamfest this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (July 26-28). No CheapCaffeine merchandise — because there isn’t any — but I’ll be displaying and selling the art assemblages and creatures in bottles I’ve been featuring on my blog.

O, the frabjous foibles of behind-the-scenes cartooning!

A week ago or more, I was working on strips at home before leaving for my day job. Uncommonly productive, I had finished one and started another, getting as far as this before I had to save and shut down:

I think you can see where this is going. On Saturday, as I was prepping this week’s strips to schedule, I discovered this unfinished strip… and I have no idea where I was going with it.  None.  I do know that the strip idea was a spur-of-the-moment whim, not an idea I had jotted down in my notebook, but beyond that, nothing.  Not even the penumbra of a shadow of a recollection of this gag.

It probably would have been one of my funniest ever, too.

If y’all are in the Utah area over the Memorial Day weekend, you can find me at CONduit in Salt Lake City May 24-26 at my table in the dealers room.  I won’t have any CheapCaffeine.net merchandise (because, you know, there isn’t any), but I will have hardcopies of several books from Cold Fusion Media and several bottled creatures that I’ve been documenting on my blog.  (I’ll also be on several panels, but since the powers that be still haven’t published a schedule, I don’t know what they are or when they’ll be.

World’s most professional webcartoonist! I got all the comics ready for last week, and then neglected to post them. Whoops! So much for my reputed punctuality.  I hope your week has not been otherwise devoid of mirth.

Apologies, folk, for my absence; the server on which my site was hosted (run by Hostivia.com) chose to audition for the leading role in the “dead parrot” sketch, and the Hostivia techs discovered — to their utter surprise, I’m sure — that the backups hadn’t been running. Needless to say, my hosting dollars are now being directed in a new direction, to Hostgator.

If all goes well, I should have all the archived comics reposted today, and be ready to rock your world, ever so slightly, with new content come Monday morning.

If you are looking for a way to express your admiration and appreciation for my diligent attempts to amuse you — not that I’m fishing for recognition, the work is it’s own reward — there are certainly worse ways than using my Amazon.com affiliate link.