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Welcome to The Ivory Tower archives page. Below is a list of each week's worth of strips that I have posted in my archives. The list includes a rough synposis and both a frames version and a no-frames version of that week's comic strips. The links in light red use frames. The links in green are no-frames.
(If you care to read any bias into my choice of colors, feel free. Frames bug me, to be honest. Apparently, though, a lot of people would disagree with me. Granted, the frames version loads much quicker than the no-frames pages, but hey. Nothing at this site takes that long to load.)

Strips from the week of 8/21/97, in which David quits his job for greener pastures, and a young cartoonist stumbles around the concept of word balloons. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 8/25/97, in which David returns to the college he dropped out of seven years earlier, and the cartoonist discovers his own indecision regarding backgrounds. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 9/2/97, in which David buys his textbooks, and the cartoonist begins to see the merits of minimalist backgrounds, but has some real fun with dialogue pointers. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 9/8/97, in which David comes to accept some difficult financial realities, and the cartoonist inadvertantly uses an Oscar-winning cartoon character without permission. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 9/15/97, in which David has a test and a job interview, and the cartoonist inexplicably uses the wrong size of pen on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday's strips. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 9/22/97, in which David starts his new job, and the cartoonist gets in a poke or two at the CS department. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 9/29/97, in which David makes a new friend, and the cartoonist almost gets into trouble in his own two group projects. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 10/6/97, in which Beth makes David a peculiar offer, and the cartoonist drops the first shoe (and pays a day's interest on a loan). Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 10/13/97, in which David gets the feel for his job, and the cartoonist plays with background details. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 10/20/97, in which David parleys with a member of the cycling set, and the cartoonist displays in his artwork the first real time crunch of the semester. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 10/27/97, in which David dares to enter the terrifying Main Building, and the cartoonist yields a day to a cohort in comicry. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 11/3/97, in which David begins one of the strangest days of his life, and the cartoonist has his Thursday strip postponed by the Daily Texan for inexplicable reasons. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 11/10/97, in which David indulges in some male bonding, and the cartoonist switches to different pens. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 11/17/97, in which David faces temptation, and the cartoonist drops the other shoe. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 11/24/97, in which David spends a lot of time in a car, and the cartoonist finds Thanksgiving cutting short his storyline. Frames No Frames
Strips from the week of 12/1/97, in which David learns the subtleties of lab safety, and the cartoonist quietly wraps up a successful semester. Frames No Frames

'Do not do unto others 'as you would 'they should do unto you. 'Their tastes 'may not be the same.' - G. Bernard Shaw, 'Maxims For Revolutionists'


"The Ivory Tower" and this entire website are copyright (c) 1997 by the author, Kris Austen Andrews. He last updated this particular page on Wednesday, October 8, 1997. He originally wrote it on September 10, 1997 using (sort of) HTMLed Version 1.5f by Internet Software Technologies. This site is hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. The comic strip is hosted by The Daily Texan. The author likes Hostess Ho-Ho's. Coincidence? I think not.