Apples and Orbifolds -- About the Comic Strip.

About the Strip.
By David Schneider .

During my many years of graduate school, a vision kept recurring, a burned out n-th year grad student showing a spunky new first year grad student around the department. There was something funny about that, oh, of that I was sure, but a punchline didn't appear until Grant Galbraith (a fellow grad student at that time) and I started some serious brainstorming. Grant added some wonderful humor to the early strips.

Ideas had actually been nudged around for a while, but by the spring of 1998 we had a strip storyboarded. Drawing it was the next step. As the artist, I got to work. The result of my first effort (of which we were quite pleased) took this form.

However, with further reflection, more was desired. Several months later, armed with a full arsenal of cartoonist tools (brushes, nib pens, india ink, etc. ETC!!!), Ed's First Day was produced.

A Little History...
The first dozen strips ran in the UW Daily (at the University of Washington, Seattle) under the name Grad Allusions during the Fall quarter of 1998. Ed's First Day debuted September 30, 1998. Those dozen strips were put on the web under the name Padelkord Hall in March of 1999. The current title is: Apples and Orbifolds. (Why three titles? Well isn't this one the best? eh? Someday, perhaps the perfect title shall be discovered.) Currently, there are 30 strips online. I continue to develop the strip off and on.