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Aug232006

How to Fake a Smile

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Reader Comments (40)

My favorite Instruction ever. Now all I have to do is think, "Your hide will make a fine poncho!" and there's a smile on my face....

November 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMShades

Yes, my real smile makes people think that i'm going to kill them in their sleep(darn, they figured out my plan! . . . ) But it's a great way to make people leave me alone . . .

December 2, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterizzy_wolfe_13

The third panel's smile is depressingly like mine.

This is why I do not laugh.

December 23, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLima Beam

2nd panel is like mine
tho people usually think im high

December 29, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterCrim

i don't smile like any of them...mine is too terrifying for me to even see...when i happen to pass a mirror while smiling, i usually become temporarily comatose. man, i want that poncho!

January 16, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJiggly McSickfingers

good times...

February 9, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnother Rob

This is the funniest thing I've seen for weeks!!! I cried laughing!

February 11, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMark

the third one made me laugh

i have a cross of the first one's eyes and the third one's mouth
which makes me look
quite frankly, a disgustingly scary looking girl :<

my real smile is brought out by thinking of that time i pulled a girl off the bus by her hair and kicked her butt... very, very good times

February 24, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKat

Still my absolute favourite!! My co-workers are worried about my state of mind though, ever since I posted it on my office door...

February 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSam

This comic made me smile :)

March 3, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlly

I get this all the time: "Why don't you smile in pictures?"

Uh... I was...

March 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterK

Pure genius. I can't look at one panel in this strip without giggling like a school girl. This is a true masterpiece.

March 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterB1

I look exactly like that first panel when i smile. Ever since i first saw this comic I always say "I am genuinely delighted" when I fake a smile for pictures.

May 9, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJason

This is one of the first I ever saw on this site and still my favorite, partially because I remember having to work it out for myself. If I pay attention, I can manage a smile like panel 2, if I just let loose and grin unselfconsciously it's panel 3.

June 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAsh

[...] How to Fake a Smile [...]

I just read them all in the last couple of days. This one was my favorite.

January 18, 2010 | Unregistered Commentersomeone

Hahaha.. Excellent! This comic is pure genius! Way to go!!

February 19, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDarko

One of my favorite comics every.

April 4, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSharon M.

OMG.... now I know what my boyf is thinking. I am afraid...... very afraid.

April 9, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSusie

If you removed the beard from the first frame he'd look like Andre Agassi.

April 25, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHoodman

You just need to learn the eye movement that goes with the mouth movement that gets that perfect smile. It's a two in one deal. Most people think it's instinctive; I learned it. If you can do that, even without the smile, then you're rolling!

Try to remember a situation in which you naturally smiled and separate the eyes and the mouth. And then try it at home in the mirror. Even if you just learn the eye thing, it still counts as a smile to people!

April 25, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterThera

Was it tough getting Stone Cold Steve Austin to stand still while you drew this? ;-)

April 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPhoto-Matt

Excellent comic! First panel looks too much like my smiles! Hahaha =)

May 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAnn Thomas

This was brilliantly funny. Thanks you.

May 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterThomas Stone

maybe now I can get a picture up...if I can ever get still enough....I haven't cried so hard in ages...hilarious.......

June 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTodd Powers Widener

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