He Who Smelt It

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Backstory

It’s fitting that this mostly sophomoric web comic should begin on the most of puerile of topics: farts.

On this particular day someone in the team space farted and didn’t own up to it, which naturally led to a discussion on the various ways of identifying the culprit in different countries and cultures, of which there is only and universally one: he who smelt it, dealt it.

Raúl taught us this rather quaint and poetic equivalent from his native Venezuela.

Artist’s Notes

Given that there was no intention or attempt to create a coherent web comic series at this nascent stage (this was probably intended to be a fun one-off), it’s pleasantly surprising how similar it is in style, layout and humour to the rest of the series. (Although one could equally see this as a failure to evolve and improve over the years, of course.)

There’s a stray diacritic, a club foot, and the torso overlapping the head makes it look like the protagonist on the left is wearing a turtle neck sweater. But otherwise there’s a purity of expression here that I would struggle to improve on today.

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