MEMO (the comic strip) Anniversaries

I’m currently working on the 700th edition of MEMO (the comic strip) and I thought it might be fun to look at previous anniversary installments.

I started the strip in 2016 but MEMO (the comic strip) didn’t reach 100 until summer 2020 - I had posted a few strips about Nanny feeling gloomy (you’ll find out why at some point in our current serial) and joined Angie and Juniper at The Tangled Winkie in its first appearance.

For #200, we were well into THE PARTY at that point. This makes the first time that M.A.R.T.H.A. connects into the world of Nanny, Angie and Juniper and, again, we are at The Tangled Winkie.

A few months later, I was into another serial with the other set of characters from MEMO (the comic strip), The Lone Apple. I haven’t written much about him in this relaunch but, briefly, he’s a super hero on an alternate world. In the LEGION OF BUGS serial, he and his bestie, The Masked Grape, thwart the evil villian Mighty Ant. In MEMO 300, Mighty Ant unleashes the legion of bugs from the serial’s title:

and, yeah, Mighty Ant had a Twitter account for awhile. I tried to keep it updated but it wasn’t something that I found I had time for what with holding down a 5 -6 day a week corporate events job and putting together a daily strip. But it was fun. At one point, Mighty Ant celebrates that the account has 6 followers. :)

In MEMO (the comic strip) #400, I kicked off the next Lone Apple serial, THE SQUEEZE.

I’m going to hold off on writing too much about this right now because it’s going to show up fairly soon in THE NANNY & THE PROFESSOR and I’ll have more to say about it then.

Onward - MEMO 500 was a big deal and was at the tail end of my experiment of creating a daily strip.

I ‘cheated’ a bit by re-using old art but did create a few new pieces (notably the ‘fab four’ centerpiece of - from L to R- the Masked Grape, the Lone Apple, Angie and Juniper). Looking at this now makes me want to revisit this and create an entirely new piece. As a side note, the Husband liked this so much that he put it on t shirts for us and gave it to me as a Christmas present. :)

Finally, MEMO (the comic strip) 600 - this illustrates perfectly how I’ve been feeling these past couple years. It’s from the TV show HACKS.

That’s it for the anniversary strips - check out MEMO (the comic strip) this weekend (well, hopefully this weekend, I just finished a pretty intense work week) for MEMO 700! :)