Mr. William Schwenck Gilbert, the lyrics-writing half of Gilbert and Sullivan, was indeed a minor official before making it big as a playwright. For four years he was an assistant clerk in the Education Department of the Privy Council. Summing up the experience, he wrote later, “I was one of the worst bargains any government ever made.”
I think the second comic idea I ever drew up back in late 2006 for FtG was a Gilbert one (the first, as I recall, involved an encounter with P.T. Barnum). I should dig that out and post it here for purely historical purposes…
For those wondering, the departmental motto in the back there reads “Bland Efficacy in All Things of Import”…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
For those that are wondering, the comic hasn’t made a permanent shift into black and white. I’ve just been a little too crazy busy to get the coloring done. After the holidays I should be less crazy busy and be able to work on updating on these black and white episodes with glorious color.
I also hadn’t noticed that the RSS feeds were broken. I guess that needs looking into.
–Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/12/09/index.php
Ethan Allen has made off with the Chronicle of Time! That is probably, we are guessing, not a good thing. So, the group needs to get it back, but there is just a SLIGHT snag to that plan… the Frederickverse is about to fly apart, and you, dear readers, have a front row seat to the drawing and quartering. It all starts in Episode 179: The Chronicle of Tempora!
– The Count and Geoff
Doesn’t Allen have a Chronicle of his own? Can’t the hat tell Frederick everything the book can? Who the heck was that guy in the last panel again?
Fine questions all.
And now on to other things… I just realized that, on the Contact page, I have had, for two years, entirely the wrong address for myself. So, if you have emailed vonluckner@ftg-comic.com anytime in the past two years and received no answer, I was not being a dick, but merely incompetent, as that address in fact points nowhere. It is now corrected to the useful and correct address of TheCount@ftg-comic.com. This is also the e-mail that the Twitter account is connected to.
Also also, one reader was cool enough to write to us that our RSS feed has gone all janky. If anybody else has experienced that as of late, please let us know so that we can throw pieces of flint and limestone at the internet until things work again!
– Count Dolby von Luckner