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This is a series of weekly comic strips that I drew while interning at Microsoft in the summer of '96. The strips were posted weekly to the intern social alias, and were read regularly by over 300 people. As the summer progressed, I noticed that my artwork had begun leaking to the full-time employees as well. Whether his highness, Lord Gater, Himself, read them, I never found out...
Episode 1 - The First Day: This was the first strip
I drew up within a week of arriving in Redmond. I tried to persuade the
Microsoft newsletter to print it, but they perceived it as a PR problem
and declined. They didn't want Microsoft to be portrayed as the "evil
empire." I can understand their viewpoint, but as I told them, the comic
strip was an attempt to show how the company is viewed by many in the
outside world, and I personally had no bitter feelings towards either
Bill Gates or his corporation. Heck, I have really enjoyed my two summers
of work there, and I strongly recommend the internship program to anyone
interested in working in the industry.