Kick in the Head

You should be happy to know the inspiration for this comic was a guy on the street writing up his cardboard sign, and not in fact a real sign I based the punchline on. I did in fact notice that this guy was writing a lot on his sign though. I wonder who are the people who bother to read these signs that look like entire paragraphs explaining everything in their life that led these people up to those moments. It’s like Chris Rock says “If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn’t been homeless that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.”

I’ve hear a number of different approaches and seen a wide variety of cardboard signs since I got to New York. A friend told me they saw a guy with a sign that said something to the effect of “Please help, I’m hungry. Actually I just want to buy booze.” Honesty is underrated sometimes.

I had originally intended this one to be an ongoing series of strips, but I couldn’t think of anymore after this first initial one. This seems to happen whenever I come up with an idea that I think will give me a lot of strips. This one is really true though, if a person addresses you and seems to take a very long time getting to the point they’re asking for money. I don’t even mean that they talk for you a long time, if they say “excuse me” somehow very slowly then just keep on walking. You can usually tell when someone is asking for directions as opposed to people asking for money especially if they start by saying “I’m not asking for money.”