If you wanted to write a biography of yourself in four comic strip panels, what would you say? That's what I faced in this strip.
Okay, Sid Jacobs is not Jan Suter, but I did find myself going back to the source material. Besides describing life as a series of virginities to be lost, Jan loved nothing more than to spend the weekend in bed listening to the Ring Cycle -- which he described as a Wagner orgy. In the end I failed to paint a portrait of Jan Suter. The details are right but the flavor is missing. But that failure is what made up the personality of Sid Jacobs.
Which is okay--this is fiction. The slightly-off flavor you taste is a drizzle of Kurt Erichsen.
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