Name: Wombat Sanders, W
Age: 17
Description: The lazy and generally particularly apathetic
artist of the strip "Ball of Yarn". He leads an incredible
life of staring at things and starting fires.

Name: Nibble the Otter (not a euphemism)
Occupation:High Executive Officer in Charge
of Everything I Don't Want To Do,
and part-time sidekick
Description: Wombat's best friend who lives elsewhere,
and talks to Wombat online
Makes an annoying ding every time he speaks

Name: Kati
Description: "Once upon a time, there was a wonderful and beautiful princess named
Kati. She lived in an enormous castle filled with all the best things in the world, and wore
the most fabulous dresses ever seen by anyone. She was filled with happiness and love
for every living thing, even the hideous and horrible cockroaches that roamed her castle.
But I was jealous, so I killed her and stole her name. You want some?!?"

Name: Xandar
Description: Possibly some sort of genetic experiment gone
horribly wrong, he's also the strip's token Norwegian

A choir geek, but one who wears a top hat with his tuxedo

Name: Heintz, Ketchup
Description: An easily amused friend from school,
he writes down every amusing thing that we hear in class (see in-jokes)

Band geek

Name: Withheld, out of respect... (meh)
Description: Just your average drooling idiot
He appears in cases where it would be too depressing to actually see that a real person had done something (or very nearly)

Description: The generic icon used to represent any of the
various hotgirls I know who don't get their own icons. While
some may find the icon offensive, or at least in poor taste,
none of the girls it represents seem to have had any objections

Name: It's just my mom. She's a lawyer, and this is the icon she wanted. She's as weird as I am, but with more experience at it

And just so you know, we're the normal ones in our family

Name: Dolson, DOlson
Description: A sad, and lonely child, he was raised by a pack of wolves in the
dangerous and frightening Rocky Mountains. He was found and brought in by
a lowly hermit, who raised him like a son. Then he kicked him out, and sent
him to college in Florida. More or less, anyway, I skimped a bit on fact-checking.

The end.

Name: Joe
Description: My mormon friend. He's in my math class, and we had lunch together for a while. He's amusing in the way that watching people get hurt on TV is amusing. Yes, in fact, he's exactly like that.

He's a men's room sign because there is a men's room sign at my school that is very clearly doing jumping jacks.

Name: The Angry Mob
Description: My angry mob. I just had a lot of ideas that seemed like they'd work really well with an angry mob.
So I drew one. Probably the single most amusing character icon yet. Everybody needs an angry mob.

Although, Idiot's pretty funny.

Name: Marie, Rie
Description: My girlfriend. She's just so very cute, I had to put her in my comic. She's always having all sorts of wacky adventures, but it's mostly just in her head. She doesn't even drool on herself anymore.
We're all very proud.

Pictures: 1 2 3

Name: Nick
Description: My older brother, Nick. He is represented by a pile of poo by his own doing,
and his cunning use of reverse psychology. He does... I dunno, something with computers?
Hard to say, really. I ought to look into that. He's also constantly offering me useful advice,
though I'm not sure quite why...
Perhaps he likes to make people cry? Of course, his comics will only appear around holidays,
since he doesn't live with us.

Name: David
Description: One of my friends from school, he tends to say things without thinking about them, or attempting to make sense. We also have the strange habit of finding humorous ways to threaten each other in spanish. While amusing at first, and a perpetual source of comic material, roughly one in ten of his comments is actually funny. The rest are simply his way of begging us to beat him to death. One day, somebody may not be able to resist...

Name: Lawrence
Description: He's an enormous ball of brown, because he'll be attending Brown this fall. He didn't like his original icon,
however, and made me give it creepy eyes and feet, and change the color. This makes it much more difficult to understand,
and in fact, quite a bit weirder. However, it also makes it such an amazingly good representation of Lawrence,
that it will never, ever, be changed.

Name: Dad
Description: My dad. He exists at a sort of weirdness outside the bounds of the laws of the universe. He enjoys telling stories with no ending. Ooh! No, you know what? He's Grampa Simpson. Yes, I think that sums it up nicely.

Name: Shirley
Description: Crazy, crazy Shirley. I originally meant to put her in about... um... eight or nine months before she actually appeared.
And in fact, I've still got several unused comic ideas starring her. I really ought to get on that. She's the only one who sends me notes using the contact form... for every single comic. She'll be going to school with me at UA, so she'll probably get to keep appearing.

She also had Greg shaved.

Name: Greg
Description: My friend (Kati's brother, Shirley's... I don't know, pet or something). I've apparently known him since fifth grade, but didn't like him until tenth. Woops. Oh well, we're cool now, and he likes to do odd things to amuse himself, and talk about penguins. His icon originally had bright red spiky hair, much like him, but Shirley demanded that it be removed.



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