Important question for all readers

Was recommended Giant Days a few times last year. I then saw that there were hardcover volumes coming out, so it felt like the perfect time to get into it. Then I discovered the rest of the Bobbinsverse. My life was never the same.

I found bobbins while reading the archive of Jon Rosenberg's Goats, back in 01/02ish. It was right around the first SGR story, with Tessa and Rachel investigating a spooky gas leak, and I was instantly and massively hooked!

I just racked my brain & I now believe it was Danny Baker on Twitter linking to John's on-the-fly sketches of the acts performing in the Eurovision song contest one year. I then followed John's twitter which led to me reading Scarygoround then going backwards through the archives that were there.

It was right around one of your pivots from Illustrator to hand-drawn, circa ~2005. I definitely arrived via a link from another comic, but can't recall which. Been here for the ride ever since.

I picked up Bobbins right as the run ended, and the period when SGR was behind a paywall I was in John A withdrawal. I was less entranced by By Night (I don't recall if I read all the way through that series) although I recognized that it somewhat echoed that classic early period of early SGR where Amy fell into the wacky monster dimension. I found Bad Machinery to be a bit slow as a daily read but I think the stories are excellent in collected volumes - but I think you've made comments before that you were intentionally writing them that way. Anyway - longtime fan who is enjoying your current period of weird side projects and one-offs, and I'm on board for whatever comes next!

I know I started reading your work in the late 90s as Bobbins, and have obviously been here ever since. I cannot remember how I found my way to your work.

There's a comic strip thread on a long-running web forum that used the GoComics connection as an excuse for all of us to start reading Bad Machinery a few years ago, which was my way in. We're on the tail end of something like our third trip through the series at this point. What can I say, it's a real crowd pleaser.

I heard you as a guest on Make It Then Tell Everybody and checked out Bad Machinery, then subsequently consumed everything else. I am here for whatever you do as long as it has your humor, amazing sense of character, and your illustrations. But personally the comics I go back to again and again, in good times and bad, are those Bad Machinery stories: a cast of characters with distinct voices and relationships, long-form stories with personal growth hung on an interesting framing mystery, and character-driven comedy. (And, though I know it was a hard time for you writing it, Wen-Tack showed that the Bad Machinery characters were not at all a one-off; I would have followed the new Wen-Tack Action Group through any set of adventures just as readily as I did the Bad Machinery kids.)

As many have articulated, I discovered Bad Machinery early in its run through a link from another webcomic, and have been following your work ever since (high school[!]). In this case, I believe it was a post from Hark! A Vagrant, which was linked from Dr. McNinja; it may also have been linked directly from Chris Hastings' site, but drmcninja.com is no longer operative, so I cannot verify.* *After thorough investigation via the Wayback Machine, it appears I first encountered your work through your guest strip in Dr. McGuestravagana 2007, but Bad Machinery is where I entered the Tackleverse.

I believe I started with the Bobbins crossover with Goats.

Like many others, I found Bad Machinery from a link from another webcomic. It was purple. (Does some go ogling) Punch an' Pie! The creators stopped posting for a while, so I checked out their list of other comics. Thank you so much for keeping creating comics so regularly!

I stumbled into the early days of Bad Machinery (either through a link from Topatoco or maybe Achewood?) and haven't looked back.

I started reading around 2007 or 2008 with Scary Go Round and never stopped. I agree with the above commenter who said your work gets better with time. I loved Bad Machinery, I loved Giant Days, but my all time favourite of your series has been Steeple. I've got mixed opinions on some of the side projects: the only things I didn't like enough to actually keep up with them were By Night and Solver, while the wacky Batman Giant Days was IMO one of the greatest things you've ever written. Anyway, I'm here for the long haul now.

I started with SGR, during the Tessa & Rachel story where Kraggagar(?) was first referenced. I can no longer recall the exact trail of webcomics led me to it, though it's always fair to assume that either Cat and Girl or Dinosaur Comics were involved in some way.

SGR is where I started, in those heady days of webcomics. I've opened a browser tab for SGR (or related) basically every week day since whenever that was... so long ago...

I started in the very early days of SGR (more than 20 years ago?!) and I still love it, but I'd say your work has been on a generally upward trajectory (at least to my taste) over the entire time I've been reading your stuff. I love so many of the long-recurring characters (I probably made an unseemly noise when Charlotte showed up in the Conan comic), and I love the weird side-channels that you take them down sometimes (like, well, the current Conan comic). Frankly, I wish I could have more of all of your series (still kinda heartbroken about Steeple) and your side projects. So, my personal request would be that you find a way to make several copies of yourself to turn out all this work for me to read. Do get on it at once.

I think Scary Go Round and from there I backtracked to Bobbins to stick with you like a gu on a shoe from thereon

I started reading you thanks to GoComics. After realizing that "Bad Machinery" was really good, I searched and read everything I could find online. Then I started buying "Giant Days", which had already been out for more than a year, followed by "By night" and "Steeple".

Steeple, Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round.. how are we to choose! (Steeple)

I started reading SGR in 2003, but once I realized the characters had been around for a while, I went back and read Bobbins.

Scary Go Round, I've devoured them all, and bought hard copies when possible. Still think Giant Days with Max was my favorite collection, but really love how the JA Universe keeps branching and expanding.

I'm not sure, but I think that it must have been Scary Go Round, as I remember the transition to Bad Machinery (and your joke about the new character Babs MacHinery!)

A friend gave me the first two Bad Machinery TPBs as a gift. Was completely hooked from there.

Dumbrella

It was early days of SGR, but I can't remember how I found it, it must've been a link from another webcomic or maybe it was mentioned somewhere?

Bad Machinery during my undergrad days, and now I'm gonna go back and re-read because its been a while and I love it very much.

I started reading a lot of webcomics in about 2003 and Scary Go Round was one of the first, I don't remember exactly how I came across it. I would usually go back to the beginning and read the whole thing before adding to my daily rotation but I wasn't aware of Bobbins so I only started from SGR.

Bobbins reader here!

I actually first learned of SGR when I saw a guest strip you'd done for Achewood. Can't remember the year but I can quote the punchline, and in the end that's served me better than any firm grasp of chronology ever did

20+ years ago I was bored at work and devouring webcomics, and I found a big list of them somewhere like Portal of Evil or Dumbrella. One of them said "Bobbins: unapologetically British. Sorry about that." so I gave it a try and was immediately hooked

I was a Questionable Content reader, and at one point Jeph included a character that looked like Daisy from Giant Days. A reader asked if that was Daisy, and Jeph replied that yes, it was, and that he was a great fan of John Allison's work. I looked you up and started reading what was online for Giant Days and pretty soon discovered the rest of your stuff. I like all of your stuff but maybe I like Steeple the best. Maybe because my dad is a minister.

During the Bobbins days, you frequently did guest strip exchanges with other indie creators, and I started reading Bobbins as a result of one of those.

I discovered Scary Go Round First but Bad Machinery will always be my favorite. By Night is something I'd like to see more of too.

In my case it was with Giant Days, more specifically the Spanish version published by Fandogamia.

T. Campbell's mention in "A History of Web Comics" (2006) helped.

Richard Stevens told me to read Bobbins. He hasn't told me to stop yet.

I had a friend that gave me a poster that said "We will do our best, because we are British and British is best." (She did this to mock the way I said yoghurt, which I'd picked up the British pronunciation for somehow.) That was technically my introduction.

Borrowed a Giant Days Vol 1 trade from the library on a whim and was instantly hooked. I told my friend about it and he said “Oh, John Allison from Scary Go Round?” And I said “Scary Go what now???” And he told me about the website and I said, I didn’t know he draws stuff too! Awesome. Binge read all the online stuff (and I’m glad I did when I did, because it’s not all available anymore) and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.

I think I discovered your work twice without realizing it. I started reading the Giant Days collections, thanks to the Eisner/Harvey acclaim. Then, during the pandemic lockdown, I got into Steeple's webcomic and followed your work forward and backward from site to site. At some point (probably due to something Dave Harper mentioned on SKTCHD), I put two and two together and figured out you were responsible for all these entertainments.

i first started reading scary go round when i started participating in song fight in the ol’ dumbrella days. i read a few bad machinery collections thru my public library and am working on my giant days collection collection. I also really enjoyed steeple! I think giant days is one of my favorite series of all time, of all media. I also really love seeing your stuff on patreon. feels like proper internet.

My entry point was the first two Giant Days trade paperbacks I bought back in 2015/16, and then I did an archive dive of Bad Machinery on the older website, though I think I'd known of Bad Machinery prior to that through the occasional panel appearing as an image example on TVtropes ('Hire a JCB, Sonny, I require HEAVY VENGE' for Roaring Rampage of Revenge I think?) and Free Comic Book Day preview of Forked Road, and even before that your guest page in the back of one of the Scott Pilgrims. But Giant Days was my true gateway and I have been in love with your world and characters ever since.

I started with Giant Days #1, and have followed all your new projects since then. If I hadn't discovered you via Giant Days, then Steeple would have hooked me. I like print comics. Your PDFs here are the only digital comics I consistently read.

I think a Beaver and Steve guest strip lured me in to SGR originally. Good times! :)

Found Scary Go Round from the sidebar suggestions on another web-comic I've forgotten. It lead to your SGR archive and I probably binged the whole series several times until it got taken down. It was always interesting to me what made it into the print books I got vs. the online stuff, there were several changes, i have the 5-8 books in print and the 1-4 digital. Did you ever have 1-4 in print? cause I've never found any.

Had been vaguely aware of Bobbins/SGR from other webcomic pages (maybe Scott McCloud's?) but what drew me in was The Captain Beefheart Story. Which I understand makes me the subculture of a subculture.

Discovered during Scary Go Round (via a link or mention from another web comic, probably Questionable Content or Gunnerkrigg Court). After three Bad Machinery stories, I left because I didn't find them interesting, but came back later and found it had much improved.

It's awesome you've had so many people with you for so long. I came in late after Giant Days got lots of notice. But I've gone back and basically everything else.

I enjoy being part of the plurality. There was so much cool stuff to find during the golden age of webcomics, and with all the cross-linking and guest comics it was possible to explore. John, I know you've struggled a lot with the idea of how to attract new readers. At least you can take some comfort in the fact that us blob of hardcore old-heads have, on average, a lot more disposable income now than we did in 2003.

Scary Go Round. I'm still waiting for a reissue of Robotania merch, because my ex stole my "Main export: dismay" t-shirt.

My then gf (now wife) was involved in the small press scene and had some of the small size Scary Go Round comics (Blame The Sky in particular).

Been around since something like the middle of Bad Machinery, turned on to it by a thinkpiece by Aaron Diaz explaining various techniques in comics and using the "heart heart kiss kiss PANDA STICKER" page as one of the examples.

I think someone shared a Bad Machinery panel on Twitter and I thought it was charming so I bought the first book in the series.

Guest Strip you did for Achewood. https://achewood.com/2003/05/26/title.html

this is so hard. do I just give into nostalgia? so many hits

I found out about your work from my adult son, I think it was during Scary Go Round, and I've been enjoying it ever since.

I remember quite clearly that I jumped in with the strips where Shelley and Amy were planning a mafia shakedown of the local McDonald's, probably on a link from Websnark.

I remember binging through Bobbins probably around 2000, falling off during Bad Machinery for a few years for personal reasons, and then picking back up at the end of BadMac into Giant Days. There are few comics writers / artists I have followed for this long at this level of completeness.

Stumbled into Expecting to fly at my old comic shop years ago, randomly stumbled into Bobbins mid-strip, then BM: Case of the forked road. Loved the stories and been an avid reader of all your work ever since.

SGR, probably via blogroll on Hark a Vagrant, XKCD, or The Oatmeal.

The very end of Bobbins/start of SGR for me; can't quite remember which I saw first, but I've voted for the latter. I don't know how I found it originally, but I read basically every webcomic out there for a while (and a lot of them used to link to each other).

I remember getting referred to your work by Questionable Content! .... Maybe 2006-2008 ish?

Giant Days via various twitter/podcast recommendations. I read it on Comixology rather than print but have assumed that still counts for the same row.

Al and Paul bigging up Giant Days on House to Astonish.

I stumbled upon SGR in 2003, during my second year at college and have been reading your comics ever since. My how the years have flown!

Definitely read Bobbins around the turn of the millennium - think I still have a t-shirt somewhere (one of the “I have invented a machine that won’t stop talking” ones, or was that SGR? I forget) - but drifted off webcomics generally somewhere in the mid-late 00s, before coming back for Bad Machinery and everything since.

I was aware of SGR during the early webcomic boom, but I don't think I read much of it. I really fell hard for Bad Machinery, though, and I've been a daily/weekly reader ever since the first arc.

This is ... sort of a hard question. Mostly because I dutifully read Everything That Went Before when I first started... so did I start somewhere in the Bobbins era? Or did I start during SGR and just go back for all of that? Putting down SGR, as somewhere early in that era is the "split the difference" answer...

Comixology recommended your work to me. I think it was already an Amazon property by then, but it still had an independent website. Anyway, I clicked through and never looked back.

Early SGR, back in the heady days of 2002 when going off to uni and having unfettered internet access lead to a daily webcomic read that could take a significant chunk of the morning. As all the others drifted away over the years you’ve stayed a constant for over half my life and a consistent source of joy throughout.

I hopped on the John Allison Express towards the end of SGR. I may have peeked in a couple times and been scared off by the massive archive, but I remember reading the final storyline and being saddened by its ending, only to immediately fall deeply in love with Bad Machinery. From there, I went back and read SGR frim the beginning while also following BM and all the subsequent projects religiously. It would be impossible to pick a favorite, but Bad Machinery holds a special place in my heart, because its run coincided with my own kids growing up, and I have fond memories of reading it aloud to them.

Can’t remember - it was either Bobbins online or Bobbins/something picked up from you at a con sometime around 2000.

Bad Machinery - I think linked from xkcd or qwantz

Oh, and when I did a lecture once (on comics and accessibility) at the University at Copenhagen, I was delighted when the lecturer immediately before me used one of the first Bad Machinery pages as an example of something.

I came in somewhere in the middle of Bobbins and have been into all of it ever since. Am honestly loving your take on the pulp fantasy genre at the moment, if that helps.

Scary Go Round. I think I found it via a link from another webcomic. Maybe Octopus Pie? I loved Scary Go Round and have bought all the pdf collections.

I remember it like it was yesterday, which is likely a sign of senility. Tycho Brahe at Penny Arcade blogged/linked to SGR, talking about the art change to pencils and how nice it looked. I clicked his link, dug in, and been hooked ever since.

TECHNICALLY, the first place I discovered your work was while reading the archive of Jon Rosenberg's late, lamented GOATS, which features a crossover with Bobbins in the strips from, apparently, 1999. (I would have read the archives around 2006 or so, probably.) But I didn't connect that to you until much later, so I'd say I really started reading you right around the start of Bad Machinery.

I went for the Scary Go Round era, but technically I started reading in the gap between SGR and Bad Machinery. I'd kept seeing glowing recommendations from other webcomic artists I followed and when SGR ended I had a free couple of weeks before starting my last year of uni, so I just read through the whole damn thing in about 10 days of constant finger-knackering clicking. Worth it.

IIRC it was via Sacha Mardou at some London minicomics thing around 2003?

I saw Kate Beaton’s Mystery Solving Teens which led me to Bad Machinery. I went backwards (and then forwards) from there. An endless delight.

Thanks for asking! I recall featuring your work in teaching multimedia back in 2001–2008, showcasing your digital process while that was still a thing.

I am still sad about what happened to Friend Bat, and no amount of telling me it was probably a bad egg will soothe me. I don't know if it was the end of Bobbins or the start of SGR I found your work but it was when the Dumbrella Forum was a thing

Voting this made me realize I have been reading Bobbins since high school. edited: I'm pretty committed to reading whatever it is you have a hand in; I put you up there with Posy Simmonds in terms of using cartoons as a medium for serious character study that is always a pleasure to read. I have a slight preference for your own artwork over others'. But I am just happy and grateful that you keep on sharing your work with us instead of pivoting to something more satisfying than comics, lol.

Pretty sure I found you 2005 time. Loved it and still do.

I first discovered SGR somewhere in the middle of its run (2005 maybe), and after catching up on the archive at the time, I followed it and everything since. As to how I found it, I assume I was linked to it from some other comic - maybe Chris Baldwin's Bruno?

My memory is full of holes but I suspect I discovered your work through Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton which would put me solidly in Scary Go Round territory.

I had for sure heard of SGR before I converted I discovered BM as I dove into webcomics around 2010 Been here ever since

Early Bad Machinery. As for what you should do next: I just hope you do the artwork.

Giant Days on Comixology

Bobbins, round about 2000 (which is a disconcertingly large amount of time ago!)- Shelley Winters is still my spirit guide, but I’d be happy to see more of Unit Daisy…

I was reading Bad Machinery, but Giant Days came out just before I graduated from college and it’s actually the reason why I started reading comic books again, to this day.

Giant days was when I discovered. Which immediately became an obsession, devouring everything past, present and future. Other than JA, I just don't really do any web comics, before or after. I like paper, and although I am willing to follow online and via Patreon, I still desire dead tree versions of everything

I was the jackass that emailed you asking if you could go back to the style where you used shapes to make characters after you had successfully returned to pencils because that had been the, er, draw for me. Still sorry about that.

It was SGR but not sure how. Was it a link on another webcomic site? A “weblog”? Carrier pigeon? The world may never know.

Bobbins!

Bad Machinery webcomic, and then went through the entire Scary Go Round and Bobbins back catalogue

I'd definitely heard of SGR and maybe even tried to read some Bad Machinery at some point, but didn't find an "in" to the world until The Case of the Fire Inside was being posted. The (spoilers) selkie aspect of the story grabbed me — something I hadn't seen in pop culture since a Susan Cooper book in primary school, because I still haven't watched Roan Inish. I then enjoyed filling out my understanding of the wider Tackleford mythos and have (clearly) stuck around.

I think Bad Machinery but have read everything I can find in all the places 😀

i was in high school during the first few years of bad machinery's run and i was OBSESSED!!!! i lost touch with (web)comics in college, but was thrilled to find a few months ago that there were a few BM stories that came out in the meantime, plus even more Charlotte adventures :''')

Discovered thru Scary Go Round, but Expecting to Fly and it's trade dress (!) is what made me a fan for life

I first discovered your work in the bonus content of the original B&W edition of Scott Pilgrim Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness. You did a small guest comic featuring Scott and Ramona. Bryan Lee O'Malley mentioned you and Scary-Go Round. I was really into quirky British pop-culture stuff at the time (in part influenced by Chynna Clugston Flores' Blue Monday comic) so I looked up Scary-Go Round and was since then hooked. Along with your previous and subsequent work I discovered many webcomics through Scary-Go Round so that volume of Scott Pilgrim has a pretty big Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-esque influence on my comics consumption. Still though when it comes to webcomics, your whole body of work holds my number one spot (Octopus Pie holds a close second, Hark! A Vagrant coming in at a close 3rd).

Bad Machinery, probably xkcd -> Dinosaur Comics -> Bad Machinery.

Goats crossover with Bobbins! I'm THAT old.

Pretty sure I was aware of the Scary-Go-Round webcomic "back in the day" (at the very least, I remember the announcement making the rounds that SGR was ending and being replaced with Bad Machinery) but I never really read any of them. Then I got Volume 1 of Giant Days in a Humble Bundle in 2019. I didn't end up reading it until almost 2 years later, but it got me (and my son) hooked. Once GD ended, I moved onto Steeple, fell in love all over again, and decided to track down all the digital editions of your comics that I could find, which ultimately led me here to the Patreon.

Early Scary Go Round. I have no idea how I found it!

Steeple came out from Dark Horse just as I was looking for an interesting new comic, and your art style & the subject matter drew me right in!

I had peripheral knowledge of scary go round, but through a series of events I have no memory of, found the Bad Machinery. Perhaps Twitter?

"Bad Machinery" in print. Right after picking up a copy out of curiosity from a local comic shop, I was stuck in bed sick in Seattle during a convention trip. It immediately brightened my day just from how sincere yet bizarre it was, which made me an instant fan.

When I was in college during the mid-aughts my roommate and I were webcomics junkies and he recommended SGR to me

A very long time ago Lore Sjoberg of the Brunching Shuttlecocks recommended Scary go round

In 2002 I was sent a Bobbins strip in an email (but it was only the punchline of the strip). You'd already started SGR and when I expressed interest in the snippet I'd been sent I was told to look up "Scary Go Round" which I did and I've been reading ever since. Thanks for the good times, sir.

I heard you on David Harper's Off Panel podcast several years ago talking about Giant Days and Bad Machinery. He also wrote glowing stuff about those books so I thought I'd check them out. I instantly fell in love with your work (and Max's art, of course) and have been following everything you've done since. (As an aside, I'm gutted that Steeple is over and would love to at least have it complete in print.)

Fell in love with Bad Machinery and have read every scrap of JA I could find since. My sibling, completely independently of me, fell in love with Giant Days (but doesn’t seem as interested in exploring other areas of the JAlliverse).

I stumbled on Dinosaur Comics in 2007, and then started checking out other webcomics Ryan linked and found Scary Go Round. Went back and read the whole thing, then Bobbins, and have been onboard for everything that followed.

Buying the first trade of Giant Day for my wife, who's a fan from the Scary Go Round days. She takes great pride in this being one of the few occasions she's introduced me to a comics creator's work rather than the other way around.

I have selected Giant Days (print), but to be specific it was on Comixology. I had some awareness that the earlier webcomics existed but at the time I didn't find it easy to get into longer form webcomics.

Bobbins! It's been a good run so far, and I look forward to whatever you do in the future.

I found you when webcomics traveled in packs. On each site, a circular library of recommendation links joining one story to another to another. A nobler time.

Followed some link to your comics at some time in last decade or so. 🤷🏻‍♂️

First discovered you via the Steeple webcomic (found through Comic Rocket). Have gone back and read much of the other stuff (that was readily available) but it was online Steeple that introduced me to your work.

I saw SGR recommended on the Questionable Content subReddit by several disgruntled redditors frustrated by QC's glacial pace that were looking for alternatives.

I was aware of Scary Go Round and am pretty sure I carried the keenspot book at the comic shop I used to own. I don't think I started reading your stuff regularly until Giant Days, so I picked that one.

I started following your work with Scary Go Round probably somewhere around 2004-2005. But I've thoroughly enjoyed pretty much everything you've done since and am looking forward to what comes next. I love your classic SGR characters, but would be disappointed if you shifted your focus entirely back to that era. The characters, stories and writing for Steeple, Giant Days, and other newer stuff are as good (or better?!?!) than the work you were doing 20 years ago.

Read an online review somewhere of Giant Days, or saw it on a "Best of" list a few years back, somewhere (here in the states). Read them all, started in on the other stuff:) Still pretty much a print person (vs webcomic person).

I got the first Bad Machinery, from Travelling Man I think. But I might have read your contribution to Nelson not long before. I re-read Nelson recently. What a corker.

I got in right at the start of Bad Machinery as a web comic in its original run back in 2009

Wanted to add to the vote for print Bad Machinery that I ran across it at the library.

I heard Al Kennedy and Paul O'brien heap praise over Giant Days on their housetoastonish podcast. Been a reader since.

Stumbled upon your work the day that page 3 of "The case of the lonely one" came online

Don't really remember. Kind of stumbled across - probably Bad Machinery or Scary Go Round Web, while searching for good web comics some 3 or four years ago, maybe.

If I remember correctly I think I discovered you through r stevens of dieselsweeties. Maybe a guest comic or something?

I first found about you with scary go round. It must have been around 2003 or 2004. Most certainly it was through a recommended link on another webcomic

I really just want more year-end record reviews with Shelly and Lottie.

At least I'm pretty sure it was SGR. I am *greatly* enjoying Conan and his friends.

For what it's worth I know that a friend of mine, who isn't on patreon to answer herself, started with Bobbins, I think fairly early in the run.

I hope you find renewed inspiration, and I will be around for whatever that looks like. Unsolicited wishful thinking: pitch DC Comics on a Tim Drake (Robin III) series that brings your utterly unique voice to a character who has struggled to find a niche for the last decade or so. Detective-y shenanigans with young adult characters sounds like it would fit right in your wheelhouse.

This poll made me feel like a youth. Thank you for this, John.

Living in a flat in Seoul, January of 2005. Discovered through a “recommended” link on the bottom of someone else’s webcomic. Possibly Questionable Content?

I started with Scary Go Round, specifically the one where Shelly and Amy go back in time to Victorian England via teakettle, linked from a post on Eric Burns-White’s Websnark blog. (Probably the comic where one of them is imagining a, what, a WWII fighter plane? That is a detail too far.)

I think I was vaguely aware of the web stuff, but Giant Days was definitely my "I'm down for this guy" moment.

Bad Machinery vol.1, in an Oni Humble Bundle, lo, many moons ago.

I recall back in the early oughts getting into webcomics and being really attracted to the art style of SGR at the time which (as I recall) was sort of like construction paper cutouts. Your style has evolved since then (and I'm still enjoying your work!) but when I think back to John Allison As I First Found Him, that's what comes to mind.

I began with SGR around 2004-05, I think. Possibly after you did a QC guest strip - I still read that back then. I still have a Shelley "I had an idea and it was awful sticker" on my laptop. Look forward to whatever comes next.

Randomly seeing something of yours online...

Very glad to see I'm not the only Old here.