Squirrel Appreciation Day
Added 2025-01-21 19:49:01 +0000 UTCOh right the comic is 23 today.
Which ALSO means it's SQUIRREL APPRECIATION DAY! WOO! ππΏοΈ
(Not even kidding. By the largest of coincidences, my comic's anniversary is on the same day as Squirrel Appreciation day.)
Comments
it's probably the only comic I've been reading since it's year 1 that is still around and I've stuck with :-) But no wonder.. it's awesome :-)
Bernard
2025-01-23 02:42:35 +0000 UTCI don't remember when I started reading but it was before Ellen went around and introduced herself formally, long after everyone knew who she was.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-22 18:53:59 +0000 UTCCheers to Grace or whatever her squirrel name is.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-22 18:49:29 +0000 UTCCongratulations. Shame, had I known I'd have replaced the Birdfeed yesterday.
Bjoern Woike
2025-01-22 08:32:20 +0000 UTCCongratulations, and my goodness I guess I've been reading this comic for just about twenty years now! (I started shortly before Grace's party.) It was I think the second or third webcomic I ever read, and it's stuck around at or near the top of my favorites ever since. (Actually, maybe the first? Digging through some old backups, it's the first one I have a saved link to, April 5th 2005, and several others I know I read early on are saved over the following days, so that might have been when I started reading.) ...Okay, this has inspired me to dig *deep* into old filesystems, and I now suspect EGS was the very first webcomic I ever read. I found a saved file that I'm pretty sure is the recommendation list that introduced me to the whole concept of comic strips on the internet (sadly, without enough metadata to tell me where it came from), and EGS was the first entry on the list, with the most glowing recommendation. Given that file's creation date, I probably started reading in March 2005, or maybe as late as April, as I didn't have reliable internet access at the time. Anyway, squirrels are cool.
Rob W
2025-01-22 07:45:11 +0000 UTCLol, what an amazingly fitting coincidence. Congrats!
Blind Mapmaker
2025-01-22 05:45:33 +0000 UTCCongrat's ! I've been following EGS since very nearly your first posted comic. It's one of the few web comics that I have gone back and read over from the beginning. .... Also, I like squirrels. I'm in California, and some of our grey squirrels have black fur. (Not a different species, just al variation if fur color.) Anyway, Thanks for the many years of fun, and I hope you can continue for a long time.
William Green
2025-01-22 01:13:24 +0000 UTCSuch a good squirrel!
WebWombat
2025-01-22 00:49:33 +0000 UTCWow 23 congrats! Love your comic, Dan!
tortle
2025-01-22 00:36:47 +0000 UTCI started reading during sister. You've been there in some of the darkest times of my life. I won't say you saved my life with cliff hangers, but there were a few times that waiting until Monday was one of my reasons for putting off doing anything permanent. You were there before I learned I was bi, gender fluid, autistic. I didn't learn those things from you, but when I did learn them, thanks to you I wasn't alone. I can't put into words what your work means to me, so I'll just say Thank you.
Jason Dayspring
2025-01-21 23:10:31 +0000 UTCI actually can't tell you when I started reading this. I think it was while I was in school, which would make it 2003 π¬ Lost track of it for a bit - just wasn't reading any web comics at all - and then picked it back up 2008. Had to way to see what comics I'd been reading before - cuz I did it from a school computer - so I could only pick back up the ones I could remember. Thankfully, this one's pretty memorable π
AstroChaos
2025-01-21 22:04:45 +0000 UTCI first found this comic in 2004, during the Painted Black arc. I don't remember how I found it, but once I started reading it, I was hooked forever. :) It's amazing how far it's come since then, and I still love it so much.
M.
2025-01-21 21:12:57 +0000 UTCAmazing to think Iβve been reading the comic for that long. I wasnβt there from the beginning, but close to it. I started with the first Sister arc and have been here ever since.
Taigan
2025-01-21 21:05:53 +0000 UTCStyro Pyro has a wild squirrel that is totally not a pet but hangs around anyway.
Ed Abrams (aka The Superdak)
2025-01-21 21:00:02 +0000 UTCThat is crazy
BJ
2025-01-21 20:43:09 +0000 UTCWhat I meant to say was tha....SQUIRREL!
Hans Peter Bak
2025-01-21 20:29:16 +0000 UTCAnd no drawing of shifted Grace to celebrate?
Stephen Gilberg
2025-01-21 20:23:33 +0000 UTCHow time pass ...
Diego Rossi
2025-01-21 20:00:03 +0000 UTCI appreciate the squirrel.
Violet Moon
2025-01-21 19:54:47 +0000 UTCIf you had asked me 23 years ago if I thought I'd still be reading this, I would have said, "I won't start reading this for 3 years so you're asking the wrong past self". Congrats on the accomplishment! Can't wait to see what metatextual narrative NP is exploring in 2048.
Matthew Taylor
2025-01-21 19:54:14 +0000 UTCBest coincidence ever!
Calvin-Skye
2025-01-21 19:53:18 +0000 UTC*puts on Jets song, sings*. Are you going to be my Squirrel?
Foradain
2025-01-21 19:52:40 +0000 UTCFanart ahoy
Tony B
2025-01-21 19:50:44 +0000 UTC*Grace squeeing intensifies*
Seadog Driftwood (Casey)
2025-01-21 19:50:31 +0000 UTCI think we know the proper sketchbook for the monthe the cast in Squirrel form at a party for grace
octave
2025-01-21 19:50:28 +0000 UTCMan, I was CERTAIN that this was going to be just an excuse to post a cute picture of Grace. My disappointment is immeasurable. EDIT: Oh whoops I meant to also congratulate you on the 23rd anniversary of EGS! Been loving the comic for about the last 18 years, and eagerly await every new post!
jubs
2025-01-21 19:50:24 +0000 UTC
