Good Sir, I Cannot Draw

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"It's a comic, called Good Sir, I Cannot Draw."
—Good Sir, I Cannot Draw about page, MatthewJA

Good Sir, I Cannot Draw is a stickfigure webcomic hosted on Comic Fury, run by MatthewJA. It is a gag-a-day, and is currently one of Comic Fury's all-time popular webcomics, to the surprise of pretty much everyone. It is quite self-explanatory; MatthewJA cannot draw very well, but manages to still entertain his audiences with his jokes. On occasion, the comic will use jokes from the Comic Fury forums, or even from the comic's previous user comments.

Tropes used in Good Sir, I Cannot Draw include:
  • Abandoned Info Page: The old 'about' page specifically said that it would never be updated, before ironically being updated and this line being removed.
  • Alt Text: Every comic makes use of alt text to convey additional jokes or to supplement the comic.
    • If you don't think a comic is funny, look at the author comments to explain things. If it's still not funny, look at the alt-text. You'll have a 90% chance of laughing due to at least one of them.
  • Art Evolution: The later drawings are radically different to early ones.
  • Author Guest Spot: On occasion, the author makes comments from within the comic which break the fourth wall.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Done on comic # 2, via the Author guest-appearing.
  • Cut and Paste Comic: Here.
    • Ironically, the panels in the cut and paste comic...were not copy and pasted.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The comic is titled Good Sir, I Cannot Draw, coming as a great shock to criticisers by reducing their possible ammo.
  • Failed a Spot Check
  • Fun with Acronyms: The author frequently uses the term 'GSICD' to abbreviate the comic.
    • Many readers have used it in other ways. "Good Sir, I Cannot Die", for example.
  • Guest Strip: The comic has a large number of guest strips from a large number of other webcomic authors.
    • One of the things which makes the comic so popular is that Matthew JA also does guest comics for others.
  • Homage: A number of times, but notably here.
  • Hurricane of Puns: Many comics have a large number of puns, and often almost always, a 'pun-hurricane' will break out in the comments.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Here.
    • The mentioned Hurricanes started as just a few jokes, before it became practically mandatory.
  • In-Joke: The very first comic doesn't make a lot of sense if you're not from Australia.
  • Just for Pun: Some of the comics' titles, frequently why the people tell their puns in the comments.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Here.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Here.
    • In general, the stick figures are often well aware that they are stick figures, and pretty much every stick figure anatomy problem has been dealt with, and then some!
  • Meaningful Name: The comic is titled Good Sir, I Cannot Draw, and the author cannot draw.
  • Recycled in Space: Some of the jokes strongly resemble each other, for example, comic three's user comment jokes are nearly identical to the ones in comic 65.
  • Shout-Out
  • Stick Figure Comic: The comic was once noted to be "as close to being a stickfigure comic as a stickfigure comic can get".
  • Strip Archive: It is quite the readthrough.
  • Strip Buffer: The comic author frequently mentions uploading comics up to a month in advance.
  • Painting the Fourth Wall: Here, here and a large number of other places.
  • The Rant: Every comic has an "author notes" section at the bottom where the author makes comments about the particular comic and the webcomic in general.
  • You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!: Comic eight, the observer is quite dumbfounded.
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