My references are only an old memory of a underground comic book, by that really famous guy, I think. he did a comic book very similar to this, "despair"comics, or something like that.two people in a room,ordinary,in futile mediocre hopelessness of being stuck in this mediocre society, and daily tedium. this is an update, to the present despair and futility people feel now, a lot of them.--but the original picture was FUNNY, dark humour and satire. he's better than me.God, was that the seventies or eighties, i lost all my comic books.Damn. I lost my "armadillo comics" it was funny, well drawn.ok, so i copied his old comic book page, concept, ect. I liked it so much, it was such a good vehicle for this subject, the modern one.( I am also personally not feeling so good, i have two ear infections. ouch. And i just got older, shit, i hate that. (I'd prefer it to go a lot faster, and get it over with.like this picture concept, it just drags on.)---(thanks, itchymonkey, nice to know Crumb hates getting old too.)

(Despair is "mourning, grief", someone died, too.And someone else, is going to die."Old age is not for Wimps.")