My black-and-white webcomic The Palace riffs on pop culture or whatever topic is on young Asian Americans' minds these days. It's about the staff of the Palace, a struggling old-fashioned movie palace in the fictional Northern California university town of Luminesa. The staff consists mostly of Luminesa State University students like freshman Daryl Ruiz, a Pinoy usher who's worked at the Palace since his senior year in high school and comes up with creative ways to handle everyday annoyances like noisy moviegoers and rival businesses. The Palace screens both repertory theater favorites (Vanishing Point, The Warriors) and annoyingly middlebrow "art-house" movies (the Asian male-bashing chick flick Egg Foo Young, the Oscar-bait bodice-ripper Coming of Sage).
In the next seven-part arc of The Palace, which I hope to begin posting here on Monday, every strip will be single-panel. I felt like experimenting with single-panel gags this time.
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