When the Flowers Talk

Some fun facts about the corpse lily:
Its scientific name is Raffelsia arnoldii.
It's the largest single flower in the world, reaching over 3 feet in diameter and 24 pounds.
It's a parasite, with the flower being the only visible part outside of the host plant.
It's one of the three national flowers of Indonesia, where it is a protected species.
And most importantly, it smells like rotting meat.  Though you probably already guessed that.

Being a Library Page

This requires explanation. 
Last Saturday I decided to challenge myself.  I heard about this thing called the 24-Hour Comic Challenge, which is to create a 24-page comic book entirely within 24 hours.  No physical work on it can be done ahead of time (except maybe gathering reference photos and drawing supplies), and once the clock starts it doesn't stop even for breaks.  It's kind of a big deal if you can finish it, since even professionals have trouble completing the challenge, and it sounded like the sort of thing that would help me as a cartoonist, even if I didn't succeed on my first attempt.  The only problem is that my work schedule is not particularly conductive to this sort of thing (technically I have the weekend off, but I don't think my bishop would be amused if I fell asleep halfway through playing the organ on Sunday).  But a 12-hour version of the challenge?  That I could work with.  So I did.  And I conquered!  
It's hardly my best work ever, consisting mostly of sketchy line drawings.  But for what it is, I'm pretty proud of it.  So I now present my 12-page, mostly autobiographical depiction of a typical day working a job with a pun-y title:

Refined Young Ladies

Promoting indesputable elegance while braining bloodsucking fiends. 
Pearl probably wasn't accepted here. 

The Princess Apparent

A good princess can't stay hidden for long.  The local wildlife won't permit it.

Note:  Proper colors will arrive shortly, unless a fairy godmother or something finishes it before you read this, in which case disregard this message.

Edit:   This comic has magically been bestowed color.  Whether or not a fairy godmother had anything to do with it shall be left ambiguous. 

Tipping Point

Chaos of the messy kind will descend in three... two...