Drawn sometime during the 1st Quarter of '93, nearly 15 years ago. This was originally done for a high school English assignment. As would be inferred, we were doing a course about literature on the Arthurian Legend.

It's hard to keep straight all the Arthurian tales, as they are all presented in different ways and sometimes they kind of mix and mash together, but this comic was based, for the most part, on one of the earliest Launcelot stories, where he challenges the rogue knight Tarquin, but gets captured by Morgan le Fay and two or three other witchy women, after they unsuccessfully try to woo him. He gets rescued by a mysterious woman (who would turn out to be Guenevere), on the condition that he helps her father King Leodegrance win a jousting tournament. And naturally, Launcelot, being the top badass knight, won the tournament, defeated Tarquin, and saved the day.

Remember the knight from Girly? Well, that was not the first comic of mine where knights have appeared. Since I drew this very comic, they've been a recurring theme. This is because there's so much comic potential in knights, especially when they're placed in a modern setting.

The first thing you have noticed, I'm sure, is that Launce appears to have tits. I wanted to give him a comical pectoral muscles, but clearly lacked the ability to do so.

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This was an English assignment, but I seem to have made a couple mistakes right off the bat. In my defense, I think the book which featured the story I based this on DID spell Tarquin's name that way, for some reason. "du Lane" was entirely my mistake, though. Everyone knows he's Launcelot of the LAKE. Not a lane. And if he WAS Launcelot of the Lane, which lane would it be? There are so many lanes out there.

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In the story I read, Launcelot was stalked by some witches, and the only one mentioned by name was Morgan, whom, as everyone may or may not know, was one of the main antagonists of the Arthurian stories. The story didn't give much of a reason for her being there, and she didn't seem to know who Launce was, either. She was probably included so that there would be a popular villian people would recognize involved. This may be one of the earliest uses of the cameo role!

This comic was drawn during the very beginnings of when I migrated from comic art to animu art. "Drawn by Japanese" is one of the earliest (if not THE first) attempts at drawing an anime-style girl, and believe it or not, it's the character who would later evolve into Miki, the bitchy girl from the Wendy comic.

Beth the Valley Girl is a character from my "Cashews" comic, appearing in a cameo role. By 1993, valley girls were quickly on their way to extinction, and Beth and Shirley the Loon from "Tiny Toons" may have been the last two valley girls ever to exist in Pop Culture.

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In this comic, I tried to keep Launce's expression very serious and unchanging, but with a hot girl present, it was perfectly appropriate for him to break character, much like Droopy did after getting a kiss from Red at the end of "Wild and Woolfy". And with this whole scene being a ripoff if Tex in general, I thought it prudent to add that caption.

You know, you don't see this much in comics and cartoons anymore. Wild takes. I'm totally going to start drawing them in Girly now.

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This was a very, very common joke, but I'm, rather impressed at my 15-year old self for adding the twist of him busting through the wall, which negated his need for any help in the first place.
Ha ha ha! Jokes are so much funnier when you explain them!

Josh Means and Lemon are both very old, very recurring characters of mine, who are, in fact, part of Girly's universe. Josh is the brother of Babs, one of Autumn's friends, and these two have appeared as background characters in a few comics, including the recent one of Autumn and Chuy's wedding. (#509. Go look at it right now! You'll see them! Wow!)

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Good Lord n' Butter, I misspelled Leodegrance's name too. It was so nice of my teacher to not give me an F.

Since I don't have much to say about this page, I'll take this time to mention that the Horse is one of my best characters ever. I need to make a similar horse for Girly's knight. I think I will! Too bad those of you reading this have just had the surprise spoiled for you. =(

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Wow... Two Shakespeare references in a row! And to think, these days I just make references to TV shows all the time. I've become such an uncultured swine.
The Caeser quote is wrong, I know. The joke still works with the actual line "Speak hands for me". Some versions of the text add commas around "hands", but the original draft had no punctuation, leaving the emphasis of the sentance a bit ambiguous to modern readers.

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You know, at the time, I just wanted to give Tarquin some goofy reason for turning to evil, but looking at it now, this is really awkward, isn't it? If Launcelot did indeed murder Tarquin's dog, that would make him kind of a total dick!

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My attempt at drawing a horse was.. uhhh... noble. This was several years before I learned the value of reference materials. And yes, with each page, Launce's horse does seem to be digging further and further into his groin. He loves it.

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I took some liberties with the ending, making Leodegrance's daughter Elaine, rather than Guenevere. Elaine was the other girl in Launce's life, but they never got married, for Launce's heart belonged only to Guenevere. Eventually, Elaine became aware of this, and used a spell to take the form of Guenevere, leading to her knocking boots with Launce. Then Galahad was born. That part is accurate. That's all!

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