A proto exercise in style?

I've been sorting through old sketchbooks in preparation for packing up for our big move to France in September* and I was very surprised to come across this little sketchbook comic I did in 1989:

I have no memory of drawing this and I've hardly looked in this sketchbook since I finished it in college.

Weird, right?


In case you need to refresh your memory, here's the "template" page I ended up coming up with almost ten years later and which served as the basis for my Exercises in Style:

*you hadn't heard? I'm overdue for a blogpost about that but in the meantime you can read Jessica's post about it.