better than chocolate
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007I’m not really sure there’s anything better than chocolate, but then again i’ve never been gifted with fingers snapped fresh off the hands of a stiff corpse. Oh well, maybe someday.
The poorly drawn headless bee in today’s comic is for my friend Matt Sandbrook. He’s ridiculously talented in animation, film making, webcomics, photomanip and painting. It’s sickening, really. You can check out his webcomic, Chip Shop Adventures and other goodies here.
I have one more piece in this lovely finger painting saga and I’m not making you wait until next week for it. So, be sure to check back on Friday. 
If you’re in love and doing something sappy or sticky today for Valentine’s Day, good for you. If you are loathing love, here’s a poem that might remind you how good it felt to untie the love noose last time around. Embrace your independence. It’s a wonderful thing.
Love Poem by Richard Brautigan
Its so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don’t love them
any more.
Thanks for reading. I’ll see you on Friday. You might want to wear your haiku hats.
<3 calan
February 14th, 2007 at 3:23 am
Gingerdead and pals is the cats whiskers or pajamas, take your pick!
February 14th, 2007 at 3:45 am
omg it’s Smudge! i’ll take the jammies, thanks. it was nice of you to comment. i know typing with those chubby kitten paws is tough.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:10 am
i believe that this is truly your best comic yet. i have to love that resourcefulness.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:13 am
thanks so much, J.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:01 am
My dear Ginger Dead,
A sad, emo V-Day card
that’s made just for you…
(…is located at steamedcarrot.com)
I’m no good at these haikus..but i would like to thank you for being the inspiration for the first of our valentines day card series..your dark twisted anti-love has infested us all.
February 14th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Not only would it have been rude, but perhaps incriminating. Best Valentine’s comic I’ve seen yet!
February 14th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
DAMN YOU
I have many a webcomic I have to scrawl through daily because they are so awesome.
And now I have another one. I hope youre proud of yourself!
I like your work
February 14th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Ian - glad to have inspired such heart warming cards. i really liked the evil villian and the gangsta ones.
Mike - perhaps.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Miss Kae - I’m glad you found me in the vast sea of webcomics out there. Thanks. Oh, btw you were too late. I’m afraid I was damned long ago, but I appreciate the effort nonetheless.
February 14th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Yay Lenoir!! Way to come through! No passive victim are you. (Recovering haiku addict resisting urge to rewrite … must … resist … save for next week…)
February 14th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
haha. you can haiku away whenever you want to. but, if you decide to wait, you only have to wait until Friday. i’m putting up a bonus comic this week.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Lovely. Finger painting rawks!
February 14th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
it’s almost as much fun as body painting!
February 14th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
i can’t stop myself
i’m addicted to haiku
calan’s my pusher
*whew* better stop at just one - I think I can hold out ’til Friday now…
I think I need to join a seventeen-step program for this
February 14th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Hahahahaha… I just got it. “finger painting” You are such a card.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
That is sooo cute!
i just melted!
February 15th, 2007 at 12:22 am
lenoir i adore
bone hands make me swoon
longing for her touch
:D
February 15th, 2007 at 12:35 am
oooh that’s lovely amanda. but GingerDead is a lil jealous now. i’d watch your back O.o
February 15th, 2007 at 12:40 am
justme:
let me help you. i think the first step is to write more haikus. lots of them.
February 15th, 2007 at 2:14 am
“psst - hey, over here
how’d you like to try haiku?
the first one is free”
trusting innocent
unsuspectingly i fall
into calan’s web
cursed forevermore
wandering the lonely night
for a haiku fix
… no, I don’t think it’s working calan
what’s the next step?
February 15th, 2007 at 2:33 am
i think focusing on something else might help. like drawing me fan art or sending me all your money. the latter is said to be extremely effective.
i know what you mean about the addictive quality. one day a friend and i were writing them back and forth via email, communicating only in haiku form and the rest of that night all of my thoughts were in haikus. even the most mundane things inspired them. it was kind of cool until i was trying to sleep and they wouldn’t stop.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:55 am
Snap your fingers for
Valentines Day Lenoir Did
Gingerdead Happy
Loved this comic, can I print it out and put it on my desk?
zOMG Friday HOOOOOOO!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Awwwwwwwww
February 15th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Holy crap! You know Richard Braughtigan?? I have an original printing of Trout Fishing In America … that book rocks.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
That comic made me hungry for peanut butter and jelly.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Poe - of course you can.
Mark - I’m afraid I just came across that poem via stumbleupon.com and liked it It was hand written and hard to read. I thought I spelled it the way it appeared on the page, but you’re spelling his name different. Perhaps, it’s a different author?
Noble - I’m not sure why it made you crave peanut butter and jelly. I can only assume you spread your peanut butter with severed fingers.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
That comic made me hungry, too. o.O
They are too cute
February 17th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
thanks Raindrop.
ps
please don’t eat my friends
February 18th, 2007 at 1:54 am
The end made me smile
the biggest I have in days
Thank you for being
February 18th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Calan - This one is great
and I love finger painting……especially with someone elses fingers… Cheers! Trin
February 18th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Saturday: thank you so much for that haiku. glad i made you smile!
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I’ve been away too long. I’m glad Lenoir is finally getting the love she deserves!
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
welcome back daniel
how’s baeg tobar tricks?
July 30th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Awww….Sweet, Bloody goodness.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:49 am
thats THE sweetest thing i’ve seen all day and i’m eating chocolate with hazelnuts, drinking full sugar coke, listening to love songs and also eating those chocolates that have strawberries on the inside.