I’ve been pretty sick in December and so I've fallen behind on the regular comic. But here's something to tide you over: a new set of nudist conversation enders. Because there are some conversations you just don't want to have anymore. This new batch is all about gullibility and low standards. As a group, we seem to think that any reporting on us is better than no reporting at all, and that ineffective PR is better than no PR. I'm here to tell you that no, it's not.
You can see the archive of conversation enders, featuring more prominent Greyfriar's Isle characters here. These new ones are numbers 14-17 in a series. Download them to your computer and use them like you would use a meme image whenever the direction that a conversation on social media or chat services is going starts getting on your nerves.
Use when: someone shares media coverage that includes nudity, but it's poorly written, not really that positive or otherwise not worth reading.
Use when: your naturist organisation's electronic press kit with canned video replies leads with “No, it's not a sexual thing.”
As Dan Speers said, “don't talk about what naturism isn't, talk about what it is.” And if you can't avoid giving a journalist that quote entirely, just… make them work for it.
Use when: the headline has the word “cheeky” in it, paragraph 1 is about the author's misgivings about "baring it all", but the sight of people of varying sizes “letting it all hang out”regardless of the bits that “dangle” or “wobble” calms her, and paragraph 13 mentions that the author had a great time - and also is never doing this again.
Use when: that social media profile of the mom who threw out her husband and headed for the nude beach with her daughter, who looks like her twin, brings all the lonely men to the yard, ready to have their bank accounts drained.
By Reinder Dijkhuis
Greyfriar’s Isle is a comic about an island and the people who live there. A small family runs Marsh Light, a naturist campsite connected to the beach where locals and tourists spend their vacation time. The island is historically friendly to naturism, but not universally so. Also, there are ghosts and strange, eldritch island customs.
Greyfriar’s Isle is inspired by the comics I read in my youth, by the real-world island experiences I had in my youth, my ideas about what naturism should be and the stories naturists tell each other about themselves.
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