Shirt Guy Dom
Shirt Guy Dom strips (or, more commonly, SGDs) are a type of non-story strip. With only a few rare exceptions, these strips are are written and drawn entirely by Megatokyo's editor, Dominic Nguyen. In the early days of the comic, SGDs were drawn with a trackball. Today, however, he has moved on to bigger and better things: An optical mouse. Nevertheless, it is the trackball which has become forever imprinted upon the minds of Megatokyo readers.
SGDs, like DPDs, are usually unplanned interruptions in the comic. They appear when Fred just can't meet the comic deadline, for whatever reason, and finds himself completely unable to produce any artwork in time for the scheduled update. On rare occasions, Fred has actually planned SGDs in advance but, normally, Dom is given very little notice when instructed to create an SGD.
The name "Shirt Guy Dom" is a reference to an individual affiliated with Sluggy Freelance, Shirt Guy Tom. He's the person who is (or was, at one time) in charge of shirts there, and he created some stick figure filler strips for their site.
The story of Shirt Guy Dom's origins is provided by Dom himself in Megatokyo Volume 1 on page 99:
- Ah, the early days of MT. The saga of the shirt guy starts with Largo, who gets tired of people asking him about our newly opened t-shirt store, and says "All questions go to Shirt Guy Dom". So, I'm the shirt guy. I shrug it off, since it doesn't matter to me. Then one night Piro can't finish the comic on time, and I get a message from Largo around an hour before we're scheduled to update. "We need the shirt guy to do stick figures", it says. I realized that it would make people suffer, and the rest is history. We haven't been sued by Sluggy Freelance yet, so I'd consider it a success.
List of strips
| Date | Strip | Title (strip list) | Title (in the strip) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2000 | 031 | Never Again | ||
| 24 Nov 2000 | 045 | SGD: Emergency Abstract Art Day | ||
| 10 Jan 2001 | 065 | SGD: Dom Day 3 | ||
| 19 Feb 2001 | 082 | SGD: Ed does a bad thing | ||
| 27 Feb 2001 | 086 | SGD: Dance Dance Violation | ||
| 14 Mar 2001 | 093 | SGD: Dom gets Dom'd | ||
| 9 Apr 2001 | 104 | SGD: Ed-chan no ribbon??? | ||
| 8 Jun 2001 | 130 | SGD: the acen that wasn't | ||
| 18 Sep 2001 | 170 | dom does baltimore | ||
| 26 Oct 2001 | 186 | SGD - Bad DomArt Day | ||
| 7 Nov 2001 | 191 | SGD: ed and dom's big adventure | ||
| 20 Feb 2002 | 227 | SGD: Trepanning for Dummies | ||
| 22 Feb 2002 | 228 | SGD: Only Mostly Dead Piro Day | ||
| 29 Mar 2002 | 242 | Telling it like it isn't | ||
| 10 May 2002 | 257 | more weird for your dollar | ||
| 29 May 2002 | 265 | DDD: Brain fart | ||
| 1 Jul 2002 | 279 | SGD - Cosplayer Zombie Hoard Bloodbath | ||
| 26 Aug 2002 | 302 | SGD: MegaTokyo walkthrough! | ||
| 27 Sep 2002 | 315 | SGD: A man of letters | ||
| 9 Oct 2002 | 320 | Pipe Cleaner Dom Theater | ||
| 28 Oct 2002 | 328 | SGD: Ninja vs. Schoolgirl | ||
| 17 Jan 2003 | 361 | SGD: A special hell for editors | ||
| 24 Mar 2003 | 388 | SGD: Fan art and hair balls | ||
| 19 May 2003 | 411 | SGD: Airport Hate | ||
| 21 Jul 2003 | 438 | SGD: San Diego Wildlife | ||
| 25 Aug 2003 | 453 | SGD: Face/On | ||
| 5 Nov 2003 | 481 | SGD: Ode to the chainsaw | ||
| 5 Dec 2003 | 494 | SGD: Dom's Guide to Nonexistent Swag | ||
| 19 Jan 2004 | 509 | SGD: Dom no kimyou na hatsuyume | ||
| 1 Apr 2004 | 542 | SGD: A new schedule | ||
| 28 May 2004 | 564 | SGD: Ed's social graces | ||
| 17 Nov 2004 | 636 | SGD: Leg work | ||
| 28 Mar 2005 | 691 | SGD: Uneasy is the Head... | ||
| 27 Jul 2005 | 740 | SGD: Crossed Wires | ||
| 19 Aug 2005 | 749 | SGD: A Blast from the Past | ||
| 22 Aug 2005 | 750 | SGD: Diarrhea of the Mouth | ||
| 17 Oct 2005 | 774 | SGD: Family Ties | ||
| 28 Dec 2005 | 802 | SGD: Lightweights | ||
| 24 Mar 2006 | 837 | SGD: Cubicle Defense | ||
| 27 Mar 2006 | 838 | SGD: Morning Alarms | ||
| 7 Jun 2006 | 866 | SGD: Making Good Neighbors | ||
| 24 Jul 2006 | 885 | SGD: Pressure Cookers | ||
| 4 Aug 2006 | 889 | SGD: Sticks on a Plane | ||
| 7 Aug 2006 | 890 | SGD: Is This the Real Life? | ||
| 27 Jan 2007 | 960 | SGD: Anything to Declare? | ||
| 27 Jan 2007 | 969 | SGD: As Time Goes By | ||
| 6 Apr 2007 | 985 | SGD: 568 grams | ||
| 22 Jun 2007 | 1017 | SGD: Into the Hellmouth | ||
| 11 Nov 2007 | 1063 | SGD: Excessive Exuberance | ||
| 16 Nov 2007 | 1065 | SGD: For the Man Who Has Everything | ||
| 19 Nov 2007 | 1066 | SGD: The Long Goodbye | ||
| 23 Nov 2007 | 1067 | SGD: Rock the House | ||
| 10 Jun 2008 | 1129 | SGD: Attention to Detail | (notes) | |
| 1 Apr 2010 | 1263 | SGD: Poetry Hour | ||