Arrival at the Faculty - There are those who arrive at the Faculty without knowing anything about nothing here. In fact, no one knows anything about nothing when he arrives. Have you seen the movie "Clerks"? Well, think about how the enrollment interns feel when you arrive fresh new. Then, multiply it by twenty-two and you will get what they feel with the people who are "supposed" to know what is going on...

Traditional Family - It's been a long time since you are able to open the window from inside a train, and greet or say goodbye to the people on the platform. There is no way to make some spectacular scenes, like in the movies, where someone runs next to the window of the person leaving, until the end of the platform. That running can be run equally, but it's not the same...

Meeting (Part 1) - Nowadays, it is usual to find people from UB (Universitat de Barcelona) in the bar in Campus Nord, more than people from FIB or Telecos. And, all in all, it is good, since we generate "Inner Product" with money from outside. This is how England became rich in the eighteenth century, exporting product to France and the Americas.

Encounters (Part 2) - "Pfff! Everyone knows that the future is not written, and it can be changed. Build a future for us that is yours."

• "Where are you going, Doc? To the future?"

• "The future...? No, I've been there already."

There's a Girl in My Lab (Part 1) - This reminded me of a Guille's sketch, in which it was said that while one's partner never goes to the Lab because he's sick, any girl's partner always goes for the same reason as the previous one.

There's a Girl in My Lab (Part 2) - Labs are a great place to make friends. If you have a girl as a lab partner (while being a boy) or vice versa, and she uses the British imperial system of measurement, don't let her change you. Always respect the International System!

The IC Professor - I forgot to put a comment here... Nye!

Azumanga Daioh - This strip is taken from a sketch in Azumanga Daioh [あずまんが大王]. It's just that since the original strip is in Japanese, I don't know what the characters say, so I adapted it to the context...

Tarantino Alike - I don't know if it's still there, but long time ago the Campus Nord infirmary was run by the live version of Dr. Nick Riviera. Once I went to have my ankle checked after a fall, and he prescribed me a bandage and five days of "not walking much". Hours later, I left Hospital Clínic in a plaster cast and crutches for a month.

Amazing Stories - Very strange things happen in the toilets of the A6 Building. I once had an Extraterrestrial contact. While he was in front of the mirror, a strange creature showed its head from behind the door, and immediately hid again...

Weird Happening - When Ziritrión saw this strip he called me "sick". But later, he is the one who goes through 4chan and 7chan every day, looking for videos like "2girls1cup", etc... It's not fair.

Bunny Encoder - It is usual for compilers and interpreters to treat people in a badly fashion. If you keep your guard down, you get exceptions, segment violations, or errors indicating that there are too many errors. For these kind of situations, it is best not to look at them and stop believing in them until they disappear.... Well, not exactly.

A Good Evening - Sometimes things happen in everyday life that surpass any imagined fantasy. When this happens, take the opportunity, and don't fool around like those who immediately log into fotolog or messenger to explain everything to everyone, instead of living the moment. Don't be such losers.

Teleco-Date - People go to TelecoFarra for two things: To drink all the alcohol surplus from TelecoGresca, or to pick up some girl from Pharmacy/Physics/Biology/Medicine/... Under no circumstances should you proceed to do both at the same time: The result can cause death, or make a fool out of you. Another thing that can happen is that you don't get anything at all, and you become something worse: a sad "calimotxero", half drunk, trying unsuccessfully to score high, and with people like Will or Eki following you to undermine all efforts in case you get the attention of a girl.

Geeks In Love - Nothing to do with the previous strip about the Internet. Simply remember that using Geek resources for flirting can easily backfire. I know a guy who tried, and today he is one of the saddest men in Computer Science. But... he still got a girl, who turned out to be much more geeky than him. So, he had a happy ending? We wish him all the luck in the world.

At You Own Risk - Scenes like this are a trope in cinema, and the story always goes the same way: friend warns protagonist, protagonist does not take that seriously, in the end protagonist discovers the love of his life, and coincides with what the friend had told him.

Note 1: As Will says He who warns is not a traitor, he is a warner

Note 2: Now that I know the future, I can change it! Mwahahahahaha!

Let's Get A Party Going - A long time ago, about 4 years or so, people who studied in this degree didn't have Internet at home (True! I was there!). At that time, at the "PCeras" of the A5 building, we had computer terminals called SunRay where you could connect to the Internet, be able to see your next class, see the spontaneous warnings of the Racó (news board), and see the grades at the time of their publication. Crowds of people made to the terminal to inquirie things at rush hour. It was worthy of admiration how an entire ILO course (Logics 101) concentrated in that corridor, while the people in the terminals read aloud the grades, asking for the ID number beforehand, of course. It was in front of the terminal monitors where, in the middle and end of the semester, victories and defeats were celebrated.

Party Hard - The problem with publishing grades was that grades were published at 11:55 p.m., while exam revision took place the next day at eight in the morning. If you didn't have Internet at home you were doomed. The Racó (news board) allowed many teachers to use this to prevent people from going to exam revision. When grades were posted on some physical bulletin boards, in a cork placed under the canteen, it was still possible to ambush the teacher at the time of grades publication (I also saw it!)

Satisfaction - A common thing is to find couples getting some fresh air in the green we have at Campus Nord. However, this space is open to the entire neighborhood, both in access and vision, and that prevents 'snu-snu' stuff as usual activity. For that, there is a space behind the Nexus building, inbetween it and a concrete wall. You can't see what's going on there unless you go to pick your motorcycle from the parking lot, or if you work inside the building, whose walls are tinted from the outside in (only).

Sleeping in Class - I remember, in an old "l'Oasi", there was an article (one of the best in the history of "l'Oasi") titled "Things I never told you", commenting about facts like "Snoring in class", "Snoring in the front row" and "Snoring in an exam"... I can say that, for honor or disgrace, I fulfilled these three milestones during my career...

For the curious ones, it was in the final exam of Computer Architecture (and I got a 6'5!)

Outside - I once met a guy who had an allergy to that time after the exam where you wait outside. That is, he did not like to compare answers with the excuse of "I'm sure everything went wrong" (and then he passed, especially if those were tests about memorizing things). You will recognize these kind of people because they are nervously hanging around among others during the 5 minutes after the exam, wandering and changing course in a neurotic way every time they approach someone who comments on one of the answers. Catch them by surprise by revealing the results quickly without them having time to get away from you!

Outside (Part 2) - (Another post without a text?! Nooooo!)

Student Committee - It's always good to ask questions at the student committee (delegation). Of course, if you go, make sure that the information you need is not explicitly and obviously placed in the FIB website. Once a guy who had been in the degree for four years came to the delegation and asked us where to look at the subjects he needs to be enroll in. It turns out that he had always made the enrollments by copying from his classmates, and now he had no idea how the studies plan worked at all. We didn't know what to say, except to point him towards the web of the Faculty. He was instantly named the saddest man in Campus.

TelecoFarra - I think I mentioned this on previous occasions, the TelecoFarra is that party (small party) in which the Telecos exhaust the surplus alcohol stock from the TelecoGresca (big party). It is usually in autumn, and it has some other faculty or school invited, usually a mostly girl's one. And drinks are for free. The important thing to know is that the only way to get a drink "frequently" is to become a friend of someone at the bar. As an extra detail, it is usually done at the Velòdrom d'Horta.

Farra Girls - Since the party is usually done along with another faculty like Pharmacy, Business, etc... it is usually full of girls (or so it is indented). The problem is when all the freaks of Campus Nord and other boys' faculties know this, getting all the tickets, leaving almost none for the girls. Of course, in the last one everything was filled with "teenies", and who knows if they were actually old enough to be in college.

Alone - Several people have as objective at TelecoFarra to go back home accompanied. Usual result: Total failure. Being such a mystical event, each one ends the night in a way that they would never have expected. I, for example, ended in the previous one with Ziritrión in a maternity hospital. Things like that happen.

The Day After - This is the day when you explain what happened to you during the party, as well as afterwards. It may happen that the return home is more interesting than the party itself. Of course, there are hard to believe things, like your friend being mistaken by a junkie on the night bus back home, and kicked out halfway by the driver. This happened to a friend the other day, on the way back home from a party. Poor guy... (Note: Nobody was drugged, we only had a mishap with the Bicing (public city bike) on the way, and we ended up not very presentable, before him jumping on the bus.)

"Off Topic": I have been told that TelecoFarra is on October 24th, so it is better to get ready.

Impro-Strip - Well, finally people collaborated and provided details for the improvised Strip. Thus, this fiftieth strip of "Johny, Roy and Steffy" is inaugurated. As you can see, in the end I put up a medley of different proposals, because I thought they were all great, and because that way we have a nonsensical strip (And what memories it brings me of the famous saga "When the Absurdo attaks", of two volumes). So, now, we go for the hundredth strip! (Keep commenting, you rascals!!!)

L'Oasi - "L'Oasi" is the student magazine of the Faculty of Informatics of Barcelona. The magazine is made by the students (and professors) of the FIB, and tends to be satirical and humorous. It is normal to find characters such as Glyn Morrill, Jordi Petit or Dean Sancho doing things related to the current affairs at the Faculty. The magazine costs one euro, but it costs us a euro and a half to produce, so we always have to end up robbing a bank or ask for subsidies at UPC.

Rickenbacker - Directly copied from Wikipedia: "Rickenbacker is the first known maker of electric guitars, having introduced an electric lap steel guitar in 1932, and produces a range of electric guitar and bass guitar models."

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Award for Steffy – Here again, ready to keep drawing things! For over a month now I've been extremely busy with moving, work projects (which gives me money), and finding some stability in life. After an inspiring talk with Maese Koopa (the one who draws in HTZ comics), I'm going to start drawing again, if it can be weekly, and adding things to Tumblr so as not to leave it abandoned.

I want to take advantage of this story arc to test different panel layouts and test whether it is possible to "animate" vignettes in a "static" way (oxymoron and sleight of hand, all in one). Let's see what comes out of this!

Operation Best-Bunny – How's it going, FIBers and Outliers? Have you all received your dose of summer caloret? Campus Coordinator informs us that this August they leave us without air conditioning (and without running water). That we have to save, and that. So we have "forced vacations" in August, and whoever wants to work should do it from home. I will be traveling the world on a work trip, on a tour of Oceania. If any of you are also down-under, tell me something!

The Incredible Miss Bunny (who does everything at FIB) - How are those holidays (those of you who are studying) going? I'm already preparing mine, and I'm also preparing the next JRS story arcs (apart from this one). Taking advantage of the vacation weeks, I'm going to try to advance strips to be able to offer a greater frequency, at least until Christmas.

Award Ceremony - Back again from vacation, and here with the last translated comic from JRS. Officially, the name of the Rat Girl will be Linda Ratowsky (Some day I will tell you the adventures of the Rat Girl from the FIB).

This comic goes to that man on Barcelona in charge to announce the world about “The Simpsons: Marge vs. the Monorail” being aired on TV.

Bunnies wanna have shelter - Here in Catalonia we don’t have “Halloween”, but we have also pagan traditions, like the “Chestnut Party” (yes, that’s a real celebration). On the 31st of October we eat chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and sweets made of almond, sugar and potato we like to call “panellets”. This page has been made while eating all of that.

Valuable Bunny – Finally arrived the day when half of my Computer Sciences students (specifically those who submitted their assignments) are women! I discard all those who didn’t, because they are dead to me! …Actually not, just dramatizing. It goes well for my quick analysis, where we achieved gender parity in CS!

I just wanted to share that fact with you. That’s all! 😉

Bunnynism for Workgroups - This last month I had a huge amount of work at the lab, closing all the experiments before winter holidays, so I couldn’t draw everything I wanted to. I hope I can advance some stuff during these days (while preparing the lessons for next semester, also designing experiments for an incoming conference, … Uf!). So meanwhile, happy holidays everybody!

Keep Bunnying! – Dang it! I wanted to update two weeks ago, but suddenly “Undertale” and its lore, artwork, fan-art, music and own TV-tropes page appeared, and got me trapped until today!

Bunny Closure – Another update of JRS! This one closes the current story arc, and starts the next one, centered in Roy Firefox. Bad jokes belong to old comics from L’Oasi Magazine by Oscar Torres’94, talking about women in our Faculty (back in the 90′s there was also a lack of them).

Regina Fanfic Firefox – How is it going? Here’s a new page for JRS! It had to be released last week, but I got lost in Ireland and couldn’t finish its details. This is a new story arc with Roy as a protagonist.

The ‘Bunny Gym’ Plot – Quick update! Here’s a new page for JRS! This time the story will be published in shorter deliveries, to make it quicker! Also, I‘m returning to the essence of 4 panels.

Forbidden Fluffies – How’s spring going, aside of allergies and rainy days?! Here I’m doing science while drawing another JRS strip in short format!

Hard Times – Aaaaand another JRS strip in short format! This is kinda based on real events…

Calf Cramp – Another JRS strip in short format! This time “Roy used the Fake Calf Cramp Trick. It’s super-effective!”. Roy escaped successfully.

A Hot Shower – Yet another JRS strip in short format! This one has been properly censored thanks to that vapor cloud that conveniently appears in hot showers when intimate parts should remain hidden to protect the young audience.

Bunny Apologizes – Bad bunny! You don’t harass people! Now go to the thinking corner until you realize what you did wrong!

One of the guys – Surprise update! I wanted to post it before, but my ISP let me down and I became Internetless. I had to waste my time watching regular TV! It’ll take some time for me to recover from those dramatic moments…!

UML Bunny Diagram – This weekend I’ve been writing a research paper while drawing today’s strip. In case you start reading AI stuff at mid strip, think that a reviewer is reading weird stuff when reaching the “methodology” section.

Carrot Dispatcher – Here we are again, another issue of the Roy and Gem story arc, with more silly innuendos about bunnies and carrots. The “hares and rabbits” stuff had more sense in Spanish, but it got lost in translation…

Nutty Visitor – Hey! Here we are again, with another strip, and Anne Squirrel is doing her re-appearance! YAY!

Last Interesting Session – This one arrives late, as I hurt my hand and I can’t draw fast enough now. Let’s see what my physician says about this… It’s a pity because I was about to finish another brief of Starla Bunny, and it will have to wait a little bit…

Meanwhile, another one with Gem and Roy!

Introduction to Radio – Hey! I can publish again, now that my hand doesn’t hurt so much (I got injured two weeks ago). Also, now I have a Cintiq “clonic”, and I can draw better even with my hand bandaged, not forcing it in harmful poses 🙂

So, starting a Johnny + Steffy story arc, involving the campus Radio. Someday I’ll explain the history of that radio station, and what happened when we were there.

A “Draconian” Present – Here again with another strip of JRS, while vacations end in a few days.

How to Kink your Bunny – Another update of JRS! This time featured by “The Samoan” as Dr. Amorós (Dr. Loving), a character from a podcast we used to do in the Campus Radio.

The Instructions – And another JRS update, where Gem and Roy attempt to prepare Johnny’s night with Steffy.

Versalles I – There’s a pub, in the restaurant’s street in front of Campus, called “Versalles I”. Here, all the peculiar people from the neighborhood, the four soldiers from the spanish army near Campus, and the student troubadours from the 90′s.

During the student years, the people from Revistes Campus Nord went to that pub to collect fries with ketchup and mayonnaise by tons, then resist all night at Campus. Then we lost part of our remaining health.

Squirrel Help (Part 1) – Yeah! Here we come again!

Near the campus we have two parks, the “Cervantes Park” and the “Royal palace park”. Both are open to the public until late, and the second is the official HQ of the “Union for the Mediterranean”. Also there are jazz concerts at night. All surrounded by lots of police vans.

Squirrel Help (Part 2) – Yet another JRS issue! How are your winter celebrations? Did you had the typical (kinda-of-annoying) family dinner?

These days I’m having holidays, but I have to set-up the material for a subject on data mining, so I’m half-busy. Even though, I expect to have free time to draw extra things than JRS that I have in mind.

Regina Cosplay – Yeah! How’s this new year going?! I’m still on “vacation”, but actually preparing the classes for the next semester (also writing assignments and exams, to have everything ready).

So, here’s another issue of JRS!

The Pony Girl – Ha! I could update before Monday is over, thirty minutes before the end of the day (Central European Time).

P.D.: I need a name for that “Pony” girl.

Casal’s Night (Part 1) – ¡Late Update! (I wanted to post on Monday, but it was impossible…)

[From “casalpedia” Greskero: n.m. (”greskera” n.f.) Kind of a being, sometines similar to a person, commonly found in the association “TelecoGresca”, in charge of the spring festival at Telecommunications, and pull the trees of the Campus when drunk.

Panda Confusion – This strip was inked using a Microsoft Surface. It is quite handy for sketching, but when drawing the definitive line-art, the Ugee (~cintiq) has better sensitivity, and does not produce so much aliasing as the Surface.

This issue has “Koopa, The Radioactive Turtle” as invited guest.

Casal’s Night (Part 2) – Monday update In-Extremis, 3 hour before Tuesday (CET)!

Still Regina Firefox – Hi everyone! There’s another JRS issue here!.

Last Friday we celebrated the FestaFIB (I think I talked about this previously. It’s the Spring Festival at the faculty). Some alumni and former participants met there, most of them married, to be married in no time, or about to give birth. Also the persons who served as inspiration for some post_tag like “Gem ‘Buns’ Rabbit” or “Nami ‘Mama’ Bear” showed up. Plus Fubu, Karibul, Koopa (the radioactive turtle), and other post_tag appearing (or to appear in the near future) from “l’Oasi”, the faculty magazine. We did a BBQ.

Squirrel Domination – Hi again! Here we are with another issue!

Given that webcomic time is relative (to something in the universe, random or away from our understanding and control), this issue is happening when Team Fortress 2 was NOT free-to-play and there were no hats in the game.

Gaming Pack – Hi again! There’s another strip of JRS with Anne Squirrel!

Firefox Acceptance – Hi again! Today is holiday in Barcelona, so I take the chance to put another JRS issue!

Can’t resist – Hi again! We survived to the spanish police this weekend, and I can put another issue of JRS. This time with Roy realizing Anne’s problem.

Leader Duties – Here we are again! Another week, with another strip!

Is the world still existing? We had a very “interesting” week here at home, and I don’t know if the rest of the world is still there. Let’s see if we survive this next week!

Too quick, so slow – Hi again! Here we are another week, with another strip!

Demand for Squirrel – Hop! Last-hour Monday Update! How’s everything going? Good?! We’re getting ready for Christmas here. Also, getting ready next issue of JRS!

Free Pizza Party – Hi everyone! I’m back, after two weeks of exhausting work.

This issue is based on real events, with rel pizzas, and real discounts. We didn’t pay anything for the 30 pizzas, and we still had codes for some weeks. Domino’s BlackJack Pizza learned not to ask for promotion websites to stingy consultancy firms.

The guest tar is “Rino Rodríguez”, one of the artifice of the pizza party.

P.D.: Happy holidays (that festivity/celebration that represents you the most) to everyone!

Bunny Escape – Here we are again! I realized that soon JRS will have 10 years (counting with the original version at HERE), coinciding with the 400th issue. I have to thing something for the occasion.

Pizza Party Wrap Up (Part 1) – Monday Update! (In extremis! Here it’s 23:55)

Just got busy this past week, spending my free time with that “Doki Doki Literature Club” game and its lore. Meaning that I couldn’t sleep, so being useless during the morning.

I had time to think about the next story arc, beyond issue 400.

Cleaning Party – ¡Hi again! Today I’m talking about “El Xollo”, the Civil Engineering’s Faculty magazine, as “l’Oasi” is from Informatics and “Distorsió” from Telecommunications. Few people have seen them, as they appear once a year, they hit the magic button for “make magazine”, and then disappear. Their mascot is a “water drop” (?), that once was drawn on cardboard for promoting the magazine. But nobody takes permanent care of that cardboard figure, and it goes from hand to hand traveling the campus, clubs and associations. Today it sits in the Civil Engineering’s Canteen.

Magazine Brainstorming – Hop! Another issue this week!

In the magazine office it is known that the most “in” teachers at FIB are Glynn Morill and Borja Vallés. They’ve been in the top ten for decades. When I joined the magazine 15 years ago, they already were “in”. They’ll always be “in”.

Continue 3, 2, 1… – Hop! Midnight update! On a Tuesday that’s already a Wednesday! Is everybody already sleeping, or going to bed? In that case, good night!

More Pages! – Hello, hello! Easter update today! A festive day here in Catalonia, as in most of Europe.

It is a usual thing for the Magazine veterans to disappear, leaving the hard work for the new members of l’Oasi. This “helps” the newbies by making them to gather the people from other clubs and associations to finish the new l’Oasi issue.

Designing l’Oasi – Hi again! Everything OK at home?!

A classic from l’Oasi, that design time where articles are put, images are places, and pages are composed; everything without any hint from the “old ones” on how to use Aldus Pagemaker Adobe Pagemaker Indesign.

Another classic is to debate whether or not publishing the magazine digital, or keep it being printed. Each new generation discusses the same, and never is carried on. Meanwhile, each issue has less volumes printed, as nowadays nobody seems to like printed magazines anymore (only the teachers seem to buy that).

Selling l’Oasi – Hi again! Here we are.

When we sold l‘Oasi we set up a table in the middle of the Faculty Plaza, with piles of magazines, while we went down across the campus on top of an Ikea shopping cart shouting that l’Oasi was on sale. We also camped outside the computer rooms, where all the students went between sessions to check on-line their schedules, before we had smartphones.

The Replacements – Hop! Tuesday night update!

Time to start replacing “real” post_tag with “invented“ ones. When I started this, I filled the JRS universe with post_tag based on real people from FIB/UPC/Casal, and made the bad choice of preserving some of their names, linking the character to the real person. That prevented me to put some of them in compromising story arcs, to not offend that real people. I also attempted to “alter history” by modifying published issues, but it was kinda complicated, although some post_tag were already anonymized/unlinked.

People come and go from the faculty and the “Casal de l’Estudiant”. Associations pass from the older generation to the newest when the first ones graduate. And this is the excuse to substitute the “real-named” post_tag. Obviously, the new post_tag will represent clichés and protagonists of real stories, but this time under new secret identities.

A JRS Comic – 400th issue of JRS! Also, this Friday June the 1st is officially the Tenth Anniversary of “Johnny, Roy and Steffy”. Actually, Ziritrion drew the three post_tag before, and I drew the first strips months before in my personal blog, but the JRS webcomic blog started on June the 1st of 2008.

I have in my To-Do list to put all the comics in a single volume, even digital, for whoever wants to have them all together. I’ll tell you about this soon! Also, Karibul, Fubu, m0d, people from l’Oasi, also Ziritrion (if he doesn’t forget about this) told me that, possibly, they send me something for this anniversary. I’m putting this together, also. And if somebody else wants so send something, you’re welcome to do that!

Now, I’ll be a couple of weeks preparing new story arcs, and update the “character sheets”.

Thanks to everyone who read me during this decade, at any time, and from any place of the world! Let’s keep going 10 more years!

J.L.B., El Pitiflí

P.D.: I hope that, at some point, I will learn to draw

Those Names – Hi again! This is an update before Monday finishes! Here I introduce the new character, “Chilla” (her real name is actually Leela)

That New Staff – Hi again! I bring you here new post_tag to renew l’Oasi staff. Here’s their respective presentations to the group. (The real “Trizion” actually resembled and acted a lot like Weird Al)

An RPG Game (Part 1) – Hello everybody! This story, as the previous one and the following ones, is based on real events. The stories of the underground people (basements 1 and 2, Illusionism, Anime, RPG, Aerospace clubs, etc…) can easily match the ones of the upper floors associations.

An RPG Game (Part 2) – Hi again, and happy Catalan National Day! Let’s continue with another real story from Casal and Revistes Campus Nord.

Little Endian – Hi again! Another JRS update here!

This is something silly I had in mind since long ago, and I never found anyone who didn’t see it not silly.

Sweet Dreams, Regina – Hellooooo again! I’m back here with a new issue of JRS, with extra censorship. Even if nothing could be seen, I’m not the one perverting your minds through illustrations with sexy results.

Fragile Roy – Hi again! We have here another issue.

So… I’ve already stated that JRS is a “mostly SFW” comic, with just a pinch of “rabbit meat”, showing naturally here and there, as we’re not always dressed 24/7. And that’s my intention, to keep this way with JRS.

Also I wanted to start a parallel blog, maybe with more nudity but never hardcore (e.g. poses and pin-ups), preventing “dangerous material” to reach the main channel and keeping your spirit pure and clean.

But, as I just read when logging into Tumblr, they’ll start to enforce rules against not SFW stuff, and at this time I don’t know how to proceed. Maybe some stuff of JRS gets me in trouble, also any other alternative blog become impossible. If I was already thinking twice and trice every post I ever made, this new situation will make it worse.

I’ve seen other people fleeing to Twitter and other platforms (Deviantart, Furaffinity, etc.), so I maybe take the “big journey” too.

I’ll make a decision in the following days for what to do, and I’ll communicate it to all of you, my dear followers, bots and non-bots. At this time, I’ll keep my channels (“pitifli” and “jrscomics”) as usual, and your comments and support will be as always very welcome.

Stay tuned for further communications!

Can we fix it?! – Hop! Monday late update! How’s everything at home? Here we’re a little bit overwhelmed with work and stuff. As I’ve been explaining the past days, with all this Tumblr lock-down thing, I started my own “evacuation protocol”:

1. I created a Twitter account: Enlace (<- follow me follow me follow me). I’ll publish there the illustrations and links to JRS issues, in parallel to tumblr.

2. I’m setting up self-hosted blogs to save everything: SenseTomaquet and JRS-comics. When it’s decent to visit, I’ll share here the URL and the RSS!

3. I’m thinking how to automate everything, to not upload everything 99999 times in 99999 different social networks.

4. Also, I’m thinking to open a Deviantart account or similar (Furaffinity…?), as I observed that Twitter is too much “frenetic”. (Now I realize they screwed a perfect social network for my things).

If you have comments or suggestions, they’ll be welcomed! Thanks to all of you,

El Pitiflí

Sex-Friends – Hi again! I’m back on Monday Wednesday, with a new update of JRS!

With the Tumblr catastrophe, I built a website (https://www.maiuscomics.com/)[https://www.maiuscomics.com/] with parallel blogs (JRS in english, and the multi-purpose illustration blog), in case Tumblr ENDS©. I still have to arrange lots of things on the page, but that’s what I could finish within the rush.

Bunny Warning – Hi again! Monday update, at Christmas eve! Everything OK? Spending time with family and friends? And waiting for gifts from Santa Claus or whoever? (Here we do a thing called “Tió”… look for what’s exactly, and discover the extravaganza…)

Happy holidays!

El Pitiflí

Linden Pub (Part 2) – Hello again! Here I bring another JRS issue, with Bill and the places in the uptown side (just next to the Campus).

The Linden Pub (Part 4) – Hop! Here we are again! This time with the story of the “bitchwatching”, where we escaped from Campus to have some “bravas” at Bar Tomás (in Sarrià, uptown Barcelona), and later we spent some time in front of a “famous” brothel from there, to make uncomfortable its clients, while we ate “churros con chocolate” from a nearby “churrería”. I just added the “points” thing to insert some kind of “Bamboozled!” game.

Bravas Tomàs – Hi again! I’m back, with new issues of JRS. Last week I was too busy to finish this one on time.

This issue happens at Bar Tomàs, in the old district of Sarrià. They say they make the best Patatas Bravas of Barcelona, and that’s the place where the king of Spain (the old “casual”, not the new “granny-killer”) went frequently. Actully, ithe place is a tourist trap, and those Bravas are not that good.

The Legend of Moskovskaia (Episode 1) – Hello, hello! Another week, another strip!

The next story is based on real events, one of the most weird episodes of Revistes Campus Nord. Here starts the story of “Moskovskaia”, also known as the “Jabber from UPC”.

The Legend of Moskovskaia (Episode 2) – Hop! Another issue before Easter, with the story and history of the “Revistes Campus Nord” servers. Actually those servers had a “jabber” and pirate copies of “Happy Tree Friends”, because the previous admin was a fan before youtube.

Next week maybe there’s no issue, as I’m a few days on vacation for Easter holidays. I will write some scripts for the next ones. See you soon!

The Legend of Moskovskaia (Episode 3) – Hop! Monday update at the last minute (Central European Time)! How’s been going this Easter? (I didn’t even have tie to draw bunnies and stuff, that I know it’s typical from the Americas or something…! And I don’t know why yet…! But it’s OK…!) Here I’m finishing things in the last moment, as ever, so everything in order! See you!

The Debate for Moskovskaia – Hello hello! This issue is 3 days late, because it took more efforts that I though (even being that simple), and because I’ve been working in the “MisadventureMay” (you can check my Twitter @SenseTomaquet).

The debate happened, but the machines remained in their place. But things didn’t end there.

Bloody Disaster – Hi again! I’m updating on Wednesday because schedule issues (again). This time we have an uncomfortable situation going on…

I’ll have to speed up production to have a good buffer for fall, as I’ll be out of town for some time! Let’s see how I do this…

Mammal Emergency – Hello hello! I’m back from vacation, and here is a new JRS strip. This week I’m trying to advance some stuff because I’ll be working around for the next months without stopping for a second.

Meanwhile, here’s some Steffy and Johnny!

Bill Advice - Hello! I’m back after a week with the computer having lots of trouble…. First CSP started working weird, then the Surface deteriorated and started to flick more than usual… But finally we have new JRS issue!

The End of Moskovskaia (Part 1) – Hello again! Nightly update (American time) of JRS. We’re finishing (literally) the Moskovskaia affair, and how the Age of the Servers really started in Revistes Campus Nord.

* This issue represents a real event, that truly happened.

In Technicolor – Hello hello! How’re holidays going? Everything ready for the new year? I hope and wish that you all had a happy holidays and you have a happy new year! 😀

Meanwhile, here’s Johnny and Roy!

Guitar Man – Hello hello, my pretties! I’m back around here. Today I’m experimenting with “The Color (TM)”. From the beginning I filled the comic strips with B&W textures, from when I drew over paper, as scanning pictures 11 years ago produced low quality lines hard to fill with GIMP. The textures (actually, lines) where added over vegetable paper when inking, then scanned. And when starting with digital drawing, I kept the procedure because textures are easy to add. But seen the previous strip, it is possible that adding color is not an issue anymore (with so few time to draw, I have to optimize time, and coloring has an overtime). If it goes well, I’ll keep the color on strips!

In other order of things, the Guitar Man! One guy at the copy center, and the Telecogresca association, that every afternoon brought a guitar to the cafeteria terrace, playing always the same three chords (C, F, G) for years. The CPET Copy Center and Telecogresca were a black hole where students entered and remained there for life, becoming part of the Campus people. When the copy center was close, all that fauna was lost forever 🙁

The Tickets (Part 2) – Hop! Wednesday night update! With all the mess of this month and week, and that yesterday I started inking over the wrong layer (and I had to start inking again…), that I missed all deadlines!

The “Fake Llimoner” and “Esbart Away” come from my friend Marklar and his theory that you can create a hipster trendy pop group joining a Catalan name and an English name.

The Tickets (Part 4) – Hop! Monday update! This time with some “fan art”, as I needed a supporting group for the “Fake Llimoner”, so I drew a real group with one of their songs (translated to catalan). 100 mini-points for those who guess which group and which song is it supposed to be. The solution, in a moment…

P.D. I only could fit in the strip three of the four members of the band, so later I’ll publish the image with the four members.

The Tickets (Part 6) – Howdy! We’re here again, with a somehow explicit update (I’m sorry!). We’re back with the two concerts of Fake Llimoner and Esbart Away, this time with Roy, Gem and Pony.

The Tickets (Part 8) – Hop! Good night update under lock down. A few days ago the Government of Catalonia ordered everybody to stay at home, and here we are since then. I just went out the other to buy some groceries, and discovered that somebody emptied the stock of toilet paper.

Meanwhile, some JRS comics!

The Tickets (Part 10) – Hop! Monday update on time! I’ve been 19 days without leaving home, no more than for taking the garbage out and buying food at the mini-market down in my block. And there’s still 12 more days of official lock-down (for now…).

Meanwhile, we’re out of the Fake Llimoner and Esbart Away concerts!

The Tickets (Part 12) – We’re in Easter Week, and here in Catalonia today is Easter Monday. This means, holiday at home, as we can’t go out yet. I hope you enjoyed the festivities, whichever you celebrate!

Meanwhile, here’s the last strip of the current storyline!

CopyTrap (Part 1) – How’s it going? Here we are still watching everything through windows and television. That, and we’ve another JRS comic!

Weird Anime – Good morning! Update on time, on Monday morning. Is everyone OK, at home or around? Here we’re still locked, working remotely, all day in front of a screen and with the headset on.

Today’s guest subject is “MAC (Abstract Calculus Models)”, basically Computing Theory. By the way, these last strips are dedicated to the day that Ziritrión showed me, in similar circumstances, an anime called “Dokuro-chan”.

Closing Magazine (Part 1) – Hello! Finally, a Monday update! Last week I couldn’t finish the strip, so here it is today! I leave you with the usual issue-closing day in l’Oasi Magazine.

The Query (Part 1) – In 2008 an SQL query was created in Revistes Campus Nord, being it the best in all history. It was immediately declared as “The Best in the West”, granted a seat in the Royal Academy of Spain, also given the Saint George Cross, the medal of Best Car of 2009 and the prize of best sparkly water Barcelona 1898. That Query only had a function, short and clear, as needful an valuable. That function was, as you already deduced, getting panties wet. History will remember that Query, along other important events on that year, being those the “SisTel Rap”, the Pikachu plushy that got Manguerito angry, and the sandwich that somebody forgot in the fridge on that hot summer.

The Query (Part 2) – Another week here, another week locked down at home, with the summer upon us. And in this strip, more SQL query!

The Query (Part 4) – Hop! This week I’m on vacation in places without Internet, and trying to finish the comic strips the best way I can.

Meanwhile: as the law in JRS dictates, from time to time “Regina” has to make an apparition, so here’s an excuse to draw that red panda girl 😛

The Enclosed Society – Hello, hello! How are things doing? Everyone safe at home, with air conditioned? (It’s being unusually hot these days, even for summer!) Today I bring you another strip, this time from home. Bye!

Velociraptor – Hello again! Today I bring the story of the legend of the Velociraptor. Once upon a time, around 2006, a student from Civil Engineering crossed the Campus quickly in long strides. He was not in a hurry, it was just his way of traveling, also his way of existing, without stopping his run. He run the stairs up and down, trotted the bar at the Polimenú, and when he has no place to be he circled the Telecos square. Everything with his neck forward and arms resting on his chest, like a velociraptor. Everybody had seen hm at least once, and every local knew him. Only the librarians hated him, as he entered he library and ran between the book shelves. And the same way he arrived, one day he finished his studies and left, somewhere to run in greener fields. I don’t know where Veloci is right now, but God bless him! [An emotive fanfare sounds in the background]

Celebration Dinner (Part 1) – Hello again! Another week, another strip. This time with the traditional dinner after selling all the magazines with profits!

Celebration Dinner (Part 2) – Hello! Another strip here, with a day of delay. Because coloring (even if colors are gray) is really tedious… Here I leave you with Anne!

Celebration Dinner (Part 3) – We’re back here, with a night at the Toreros. That place is a “restaurant for groups”, with cheap food, cheap beer, and a tourist trap and Erasmus students. Every time we sold the magazines we went to that place because they let us to do some fuzz… until we did too much and they kicked us from there. So we didn’t go back, and looked for ther place (e.g. El Puma or the Merendero Campechano). Once older we settled at the Salamanca, where we’re returning after the pandemic.

Celebration Dinner (Part 5) – And we’re back with more stuff! Last week I couldn’t finish the comic strip as I was with other tasks, but today I did! I leave you here with Anne and her issues.

Celebration Dinner (Part 6) – Last-but-one strip of this season. We’re closing this story arc (Wait! There was a story arc?!) and get ready for the next one, with more stuff at the Faculty, the Student House and FestaFIB! Meanwhile, here’s Roy and Anne.

Celebration Dinner (Finale) – Friday night update! This is the issue 500, closing this chapter! Now I’ll take some vacation days, to finish some business (a DnD game and additional assets for my MSX game), and then I’ll be back with the next chapter.

Good night everyone!

Morning Breakfast – Hello again! I’m back, after three months disconnected. All this time I’ve been occupied with work, and I didn’t have any time to sit and write or draw. Also I needed some vacation of all of this. This does not mean that I stayed doing nothing, but I’ve been doing some illustrations that I’ll publish in the blog and twitter, and I’ve been programming parts of the engine for the MSX game I’m preparing.

So now, we start with a new episode of JRS: “Night at FestaFIB”. Meanwhile, I leave you here with Roy and Anne!

Morning Girl – Hop! Wednesday night update. This is one of those updates in which I think what to write in the post that accompanies the comic (this is, this text you are reading now), and I don’t know what to explain. Not work stuff, because it is simply boring and/or cannot be detailed. And even less stuff from life and love, as being more than a year inside home does not provide many adventures to tell. And if I started talking about the game I’m coding, I’d have that feeling that I’m repeating myself too much.

Anyway, meanwhile, I leave you with the comic, with Anne and Roy.

Morning Boy – Good night! I’m here again, with another comic strip. I’ve been all Easter (actually, the official holiday days) in the mountains, with the goats and without Internets.

Here you have some Roy stuff!

Councils and Delegations – Hop! We’re here again! Today’s holiday in Catalonia (Saint John), and I took the vacation for finishing this strip. It was waiting for inks and colors for 5 days.

I leave you with the first issue of the Thread #1 of “Night at FestaFIB”.