Goldbugs.

Goldmember.

This morning I had to give a bit of an economics lesson to someone who is hugely in favor of the gold standard. He believes, as many “goldbugs” do, that if we stopped letting the Federal Reserve control our money, and just went back to gold, we’ll no longer have to worry about inflation: Gold will hold its value, and the government won’t be able to monkey with its value by printing up more of it.

“No,” I said; “instead you’ll have Bond villains who monkey with its value by hoarding it, or after a few years of hoarding it, flooding the market with it.”

He didn’t understand. (Hadn’t seen Goldfinger, or even Goldmember.) So I explained.

Back to blogging on Mr. Squish.

Somehow, Thursdays have become “Throwback Thursdays” for a lot of people, in which they show old pictures of themselves, “back in the day,” which depending on how old they are, was either decades ago, or two years ago ’cause their friends don’t know what they looked like in junior high.

Whereas I have 24-year-old comic strips.

The above (which you can click to embiggen) is the first “Mr. Squish” strip I drew for the CSU Sacramento Hornet. (Not yet the State Hornet.) I’d drawn “Mr. Squish” for the Solano Community College Tempest in spring 1990, and I still haven’t tracked down my copies of it, but I have most of my strips from my Sac State years, so here ya go.