I don’t want to complicate the Kickstarter any more than that, no big ones, no little ones. About 13 inches tall and hefty enough to hug if you need that. What will it be like? Can people get the burning house as well? You’ve begun a Kickstarter campaign for a plush-toy version of the dog. It’s just nice to draw that old friend and see him become something people could look to for a good joke or whatever they needed. Weird nose and overlapping Garfield eyes. He was based on an old cartoon character I would draw in junior high. He was also the first official Gunshow comic - and he saw us out, too, when I ended the strip in 2014. If anything, Question Hound became sort of a surrogate for myself whenever I would draw him in comics. How about the dog - does he follow current events? Have you come up with a complex backstory and set of motivations for Question Hound? But it’s tiring and I am afraid for friends who can be and those who were and are. It feels pointless and dumb for me to say that, because I am not personally effected by a lot of the strange and awful events, shootings, and the like. And yeah, 2016 has seemed like a tough year, following a lot of shit in 2015 even. I want to see and know what the heck is happening, but it’s a lot at once sometimes. There’s a part of me that keeps thinking that I don’t want to NOT know this stuff. Sometimes that feed is just dour news and angry rants that psychically hurt me. I mostly get news from a stream on my twitter feed, following several people who follow it more closely than I do. Not super close, but I am aware of what’s happening and how ass-backwards it seems now. So I wrote it, thinking it would get angrier, but mostly was just exasperation at how insane things feel and a total overwhelming sense of dread that it ends with.ĭo you follow politics closely? Does the presidential election seem to be the craziest and most extreme ever?
There’s a breaking point in our society that seems to be tested on a near-constant basis.
It was definitely a response to how weird and bad 2016 has made me feel and most definitely a lot of others.
The other day, his message changed to “This is not fine.” What motivated it? So it just goes from that point and most people who know the meme don’t really know the whole comic. I remember first seeing someone on Instagram post those two images and talking about “finals got me like” or something.
#IM FINE MEME DOG SKIN#
Yes, it’s easier on the eyes than watching his skin melt off! I also think that’s just how it started as a meme. Maybe people prefer the optimistic version? Or is it mock-optimistic? It’s also interesting that the first two panels, which are weirdly reassuring, are the two most people know: Rarely do we see the dog melting into oblivion. I feel like it’s more the relatable thing that keeps it going, rather than the other. I see a lot of people use it oppositely, thinking “ha ha this person must be feeling this way now due to the news of their problems leaking” or whatever. Why it’s loved, I assume and hope it’s that people see themselves in the dog, tryin’ his best to ignore his problems and continue on.
#IM FINE MEME DOG PLUS#
Plus I have a good fan base of people pointing others in the right direction on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and anywhere else it’s seen. And I think since this is more recent, it was easier for people to trace it back to me. Why do you think your “This is fine” dog has become so widely known and loved? You’ve done numerous cartoons over the years. Green corresponded with us from his Massachusetts office the interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Salon tracked down the comics artist to get at the meaning of his new cartoon, and to discuss the announcement that he’s Kickstarting a plush-toy version of Question Hound, which at press time had already raised almost $200,000 more than its initial $35,000 goal, with 28 days left to go. Had the chaos of 2016, and the shouting behind the political race, finally gotten to Green and his famously chilled-out dog? So when the site The Nib ran a new version of the cartoon with “THIS IS NOT FINE!!”, it seemed like something had shifted in the fabric of reality.
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