scarfman | memefic cartoon

For the drabble meme, daisy_knotwise requested something featuring herself and billroper, on the grounds that they appeared as characters in the webcomics I drew before there was a web. Like many "journal" webcomics, those cartoons were about the people who read them and also about a science fiction club that secretly traveled in space and time (some gags and storylines of which I'm re-using in AKOTAS these days, for Arthur's webcomic-within-the-webcomic). In the 80s my readership/cast was the membership of Chicago's Moebius Theatre, so the secret space program was called Moebius Labs. In the 90s, when I took it into my head that the Labs ought to be wholly my own intellectual property Just In Case, the name was retconned to Infinity Labs. In the 00s Infinity Labs had intermittent appearances in my daily cartoon season of 2003-2004 and in a brief flirtation with Flash animations in 2006, but nothing in the existing, no-longer-updating bodies of work suggests the Labs don't continue on today.