# Friday, August 18, 2006
Yeah, this stuff happens inside MS... but we don't have thought bubbles.

Bug Bash started life as an internal MS comic strip by cartoonist and program manager, Hans Bjordahl.  It has a ton of great commentary on the software development process and has also been available outside MS for a while now.  My favorite series of strips is a set of "Meeting Busters - Surefire ways to sink your meeting".  Within that series, there is this beautiful cell: 

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Some more back story: when we lived in Colorado my wife (well... girlfriend at the time) and I loved Hans Bjordahl's comics in the University of Colorado school paper (I wasn't going to college there, Paula was).  When I started work for Microsoft I noticed the "Bug Bash" comic in our internal newspaper had the same character style (which led me to dig up the old clippings I had... and lo!).  When Hans left Microsoft this year I worried we'd loose the regular dose of laughing at the software development industry but Hans has continued to write and publish Bug Bash (this was the only sentence without a parenthetical).

I was reminded of it this morning when I came across a CNet article (from February) on how the Internet is changing the business of cartoonists.  Tag line:

"See you in the funny pages" takes on a new meaning for cartoon artists who are making a home on the Web.

Here are direct links to the Meeting Busters strips:

 


Posted by Reeves  Friday, August 18, 2006 5:04:14 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
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