New Reader's Guide

Good places to start reading:

The Man Who Hates Fun vs. Elvira Ellison: Our Hero, an angry young Stoic working in the college library in a major Texas metropolis, meets a young, self-doubting student, and begins a terrible destiny.

Witches Are Everywhere: Elvira Ellison, facing troubles in her relationship, makes a new and fateful friend at the local occult store. Contains a long plotline highly critical of “indie” rock scenes.

The Girl Who Hates Fun: A long and currently ongoing story, catching the action up in 2009, when Elvira Ellison has a new job as a teacher in New York City, and is followed by not only her own inner doubts, but by a shadowy and familiar figure.

Archive: The complete list of strips by title. Find one that seems beguiling or bizarre and dive in happily.

The Story So Far

Elvira Ellison is a young teacher working in New York City. Her old friend and one-time sexual partner, The Man Who Hates Fun, had been working as the janitor at her school, acting as a confidant to young student Milton Frogman. After the MWHF's apparent death due to hunger, Elvira Ellison was named the executor of his will. Upon looking through the MWHF's apartment, she was "zapped" by his manuscript, a book on modern Stoicism, which perfectly embodies his thoughts and ideas to the point that it is able to resurrect his soul from beyond the veil of death. The MWHF, now possessing Elvira's body in a way that is perhaps irreversible, is attempting to publish his haunted book.

Buy Books.

Man Who Hates Fun
44p, 8.5 x 11
Contains strips 1-84, plus the eight-page "Winter" story and the Anais Nin story.
Currently SOLD OUT, sorry!

Witches Are Everywhere
28p, 7.5 x 10
Contains strips 93-169.
Four dollars, plus one dollar shipping

The Smoldering Hatred of a Peasant
48p, 9.5 x 7
Contains strips 170-211, plus introduction and a bonus strip
Four dollars, plus one dollar shipping

The Girl Who Hates Fun
36p, 9.5 x 7
Contains strips 212-240, plus introduction
Cost: cheap as I can make it (probably four bucks plus one dollar shipping?)

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