This week is a practice run of ‘single-strips’ or ‘fillers’. These are just one-off strips without any continuing storyline. They allow readers who haven’t been following the regular storylines to get an easy start into the world of Freelance, and would also work to pad out a week if I ever could not make a story fit into a multiple of 5 (5 working days means that storylines should ideally reach some sort of a conclusion on a Friday, to avoid readers losing track over the weekend).
Today’s strip comes from the story I always hear people tell about how van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime. It’s perfectly true, but the real message of the story is that true genius being recognised after the person’s death is actually quite a rare event.
If it were common place then the van Gogh story would be ordinary, and therefore not worth relating. Nevertheless it is a useful way to shore up our self-doubt: If we continually fail in our lives there is always the hope that everyone will discover we were actually a genius all along and they just hadn’t noticed. It’s a lie I tell myself often.
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