Brooke McEldowney's Pibgorn begins a brand-new story arc today, entitled "Pibgorn and the Volcano on 77th Street and Park Avenue!"
Of course, this is big news because the previous story, "Lena the Horrible," has been running since Pibgorn first joined GoComics on May 14, 2007 and just wrapped up yesterday.
And perhaps even more exciting than the beginning of a new arc is the confirmation from McEldowney that the larger format you see in today's installment is here to stay! Here's what the creator had to say in the comments section earlier this morning:
At this moment, I think I should say that, for reasons that are good but perhaps ruinous to one’s well being, I decided that I want to enlarge the format vertically. The result you see above.
Heretofore, what I have composed for each day of Pibgorn have been sections of a book page. I began with sections with the proportions of daily strips. In the second Pib story (“The Poltergeist in The Piano”) I changed to drawing in half-page sections, all to be assembled later in book form, two to a page.
That is enough work, when I’m doing them five days per week. However, the urge to draw each installment as one whole page of the book-to-be kept nagging at me. I finally gave in with the story you see evolving before you.
One little problem is that each page now is the equivalent of what, heretofore, were two day’s worth of work. This might get tricky, as far as its propensity to gobble time is concerned. I’ll have to see how it goes. For now, I’ll draw them five times a week. If it gets to be too much, I may move back to thrice weekly. I don’t want to, but it might be necessary.
Pray for me.
Brooke
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