Joe the Fly

Joe 31: Excited!

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Joe 30: Sanetary reasons

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Joe 29: Unseen

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Joe 28: Heart of (the) glass

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Joe 27: Ice ice baby

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Joe 26: Postcard

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Joe 25: Sounds like fun!

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I know, I have a dirty sense of humour sometimes, but hey, let the flies have fun!

Joe 24: What's with the face?

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Somehow, one of my favourite jokes in "Joe".

Joe 23: Converted

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Whatever happens to your in life, you need to bounce back!

Joe 22: Never the end

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Joe 21: "Shocking" news

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Joe 20: The end is...not nigh

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Here again, strips 17 to 20 constitute an actual story if they are read one after the other; but what one needs to do with comic strips is to enable the reader to read each strip and understand it even though they might not have read the previous one (which is often the case if the strip is published in a newspaper for instance). To do that, the artist has to resume the previous strip in the first frame of the new strip, or find a way to "re-start" a story from elements of the previous one.

Joe 19: The escape!

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That's what we call "jumping from the frying pan into the fire"!

Joe 18: Dying with a full belly

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Joe 17: Fly trap

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Joe 16: It's hard to make friends!

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Some friendships are not made to last.

Joe 15: Unfaithful

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Even baby flies can resemble...their parents!?

Joe the Fly 14: Contamination

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This is where it gets interesting: one can carry on a story from a strip to another. The key is to resume the preceding strip in one frame, so that if a reader has not seen the previous strip, he / she can understand what is going on right away. This is important for instance when strips are published independently in a newspaper. Whoever reads the paper can appreciate the strip without knowing the characters or the stories that have led to that point.

Joe the Fly: Radio-active!

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I know, I've read too many super heroes comic books.

Joe the Fly 12: Fly TV!

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Here comes Fly TV, with fly news, fly gossips, and fly scoops!

Joe the Fly 11: Farewell

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Possibly one of my favourite strips. It portrays exactly how the flies are thinking.

Joe the Fly 10: Emergencies

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Er... No comment. They are flies after all.

Joe the Fly 9: Eau de toilette

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Another fine example of my sick sense of humour.

Joe the Fly 8: Negotiations

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Joe the Fly 7: Prisoner

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Here are the ants! Stubborn, cold, logical, calculating...

Joe the Fly 6: Narrow escape

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One of the recurrent theme in Joe the Fly is the fact that flies are tough, but never really out of danger! We feel sorry for them in the strip, but yet we just want to squash them in real life.

Why a strip?

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A strip is pretty hard to do because you need to write a story in just 3 or 4 frames. The reader (who probably doesn't know the characters) must understand what is happening, and hopefully even laugh at the end of it. I find this "challenge" very exciting. It also forces you to find hundreds of situations with the same character.

Joe the Fly 4: Death to vitamins!

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Joe the Fly 3: Tasty

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Joe the Fly 2: Saturday night

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Second strip of Joe, introducing his best mate Bob, who has a damaged wing and is quite "skinny". They are always ready to party.

Joe the Fly 1: Introducing Joe

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The first strip of Joe the Fly! Welcome to the world of Joe. I created this strip because I was tired of cats and dogs in strips, and also because I was interested in doing a new kind of humour. So I hope you'll enjoy the ride!