Lunch Box Aid, Page 1

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Banner reads Lunch Box Aid Comic-Thon decorated with hearts

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Tuna the black cat stands at a podium as host.

TUNA: Hello, and welcome to the Lunch Box Aid Comic-Thon! Im your host, Tuna P. Katz.

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Tuna continues introducing.

TUNA: You may remember me from such comics as I Am Horny, Fun With Stickers, and Political Cartoons.

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Shows Rachel working at her desk with various comics and a Vote Me For Prez For Life poster visible.

TUNA (narrating): Over the years, Rachel Nabors has brought you these comics and many others.

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Shows Rachels old laptop Lunch Box dead on a desk, with an angel version floating above it.

TUNA (narrating): Recently, her faithful laptop Lunch Box died.

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Shows Rachel with her new computer Bruiser.

TUNA (narrating): Without a computer, Rachel couldnt make any comics, so... ...she had to buy a new one: Bruiser

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Tuna looks sad, holding what appears to be a cassette tape.

TUNA: Now she is impoverished. With this lack of funding, she might not be able to print her next graphic novel.

TUNA: Reduced to buying cassette tapes at Goodwill. Next Ill be sleeping in the alley.

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Tuna appeals directly to the reader with a fundraising thermometer showing a goal of 1,150 dollars with 179 dollars raised.

TUNA: But, there is still time for you to help!

TUNA: Help us reach our goal of 1,150!

Wow. I had completely forgotten that I did this comic when my first laptop died.

Tuna’s doing a really good impression of an NPR fund drive leader.

The part about the cassette tapes makes me giggle. At this time you could buy cassette tapes for a quarter a piece at the Goodwill in Christiansburg. I has a stereo that could play them, and it was all I could really afford, so I ended up with a Vanilla Ice tape. I listened to it just once before my head exploded from the self-aggrandizement going on in that album (this from the girl who calls herself “the Great”). Just look at this doodle I found stashed in the same folder as this comic: