• m_‮f@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Some speculation on this comic. I don’t think the PBF creator has ever officially commented on it, but it seems probable:

    As far as I can tell, Catch Phrase was a meta-commentary on how he saw the role of himself and his comics in the public’s eye. Basically, he was tired of feeling like he “had to” make a funny comic, and he burned out. Now that he’s (apparently) bounced back from burnout, he replaced Catch Phrase with something new, and less pointed and angsty, to signify that he’s not done with comics.

      • m_‮f@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I think he wasn’t looking to make it literally autobiographical, but more to make a comic that used dark humor in the usual PBF style and could be read as expressing his frustrations at the time. He rarely hits you over the head with jokes, so it makes sense that he’d create a fictional character that only bore some similarities to him, even if it’s a commentary on himself.