Further soul searching led to me asking myself the basic question: what actually makes someone so special? Why, of all the people we know, does one single person appear to be standing out? As love has nothing to do with reason, a reasonable answer will never be found, and looking for it is senseless. But whatever it is: you don’t need much of it. It was one of those statements that sounded so profound, it was like I didn’t find it, it found me.

I liked it so much I decided to make it the ‘baseline’ of my site. Ladies and gentlemen, that’s it for the re-runs. Stay tuned for a new season of… Happysad!

Or how to try and make something simple even simpler. Again, this one struck a chord with lots of people. Apparently, the more concise one can summarize our existence, the more powerful it is, and the more it appeals to people.

Which was, in itself, a wise lesson for me.

I actually got in hot water (bada-bing!) for this one. ‘Someone’ felt there was just a tad too much ogling going on here. Meh, it was worth it: personally I still I feel it resulted in one of the nicest HS-drawings I ever made.

Also, as Tatiana pointed out, it contains cupcakes!

Another really old one, which illustrates nicely how different my style of drawing was at the beginning. I think this is an important one because it summarizes the whole premise of Happysad probably better than any other cartoon I’ve made.

There you go: end of story. Or is it?

Some people are getting impatient… To them I say: I’m working on new stuff guys, but you have to wait just a little bit longer. In the meanwhile, to get your appetite (and mine) going, I thought I’d start with a few re-runs. Yes re-runs, don’t we all love them? Look at it this way: it will be more like a re-release of a dvd with added bonuses such as… the director’s commentary. Long story short, I’ve decided to repost five of my personal favourite episodes and raise a corner of the veil by adding some comments.
And we start of with… the very first Happysad cartoon ever.

This is how it all started. One morning, back when I was going through a particularly bad time in my life, I woke up with this one idea for a cartoon. It was something completely different from the cartoons I usually make. Drawn much more simple and basic, to put all the focus on the message itself. I thought it would be just this one-off. It wasn’t. I thought up another one. And another. And… well, you know what happened next.

Happysad just took me by surprise.