About Mountain Time

Mountain Time is primarily the story of the city of New Lancaster (pronounced newLANkestr), a coastal city in the Mountain time zone of the USA. (Don’t think about that too much or look at a map.)

Mountain Time has dozens of recurring characters, but most episodes don’t include them. This is far from a selling point, but I’m saying it anyway.

This comic isn’t popular. I dream of the day when people remember that cartoons can be silly, weird, nonsensical, or some other version of “playfully strange.” It seems like that doesn’t exist in modern webcomics. To that, I say: Hat ownership is not without peril!

 

About the Characters

There’s quite a few of these, so they get their own page:

 

About Comments

Leave ’em. I try to respond to every comment—even if you leave one on an old comic. (Seriously, it doesn’t matter how old. I’m made aware of any and all comments when they come in.)

 

About the Author

My name is Chris Combs. I’m a bad artist in his forties with Central European ancestry who’s never had luck with Jewish women. If I ever become a vegetarian dog-lover, you should probably shoot me.

My favorite color is green.

I like email! Send your thoughts to isto at mountaincomics dot com. I make it a habit to reply to all email.

 

About Other People

Joshua Abraham Norton lived in San Francisco, where he lost his fortune in a bad rice deal in the 1850s. In 1859, he declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, which is pretty much the only reasonable reaction to losing your fortune in a bad rice deal.

Ed Gein was a killer and grave robber who liked to fashion human remains into housewares. It turns out this is a good way to get movies made about you.

 

About Triple Antibiotic Ointment

Despite what the commercials tell you, the jury’s still out on whether triple antibiotic ointment is any more effective than regular petroleum jelly at preventing infection and/or healing wounds faster. What’s more, triple antibiotic ointment can cause contact dermatitis and contribute to antibiotic resistance.

 

About Public Health

Wash your hands, use rubbing alcohol on your phone, keyboard, and mouse, and don’t have sex with public transit. It’s pretty easy.