Piperka

The Entrepreneur is a comic strip about the impoverished economy and the desperate and often hilarious actions that people will take in order to maintain their accustomed way of life and save face in front of friends and family. ”Steven” has lost his job at a well-known and prestigious financial firm. Ashamed of himself, he elects to hide this fact from his wife “Nancy” and does the only thing that he can in order to maintain the appearance of working: he goes out every morning at 9 am and begs for change, returning just in time for steak dinner at 5 pm; same hours as the firm. Rather than outright lie to his wife, he decides to pick and choose arbitrary portions of his daily events and construe them in a truth cocktail whenever Nancy questions him about his day. For example: one afternoon Steven was handed a partially grizzled chicken bone and later that day when Nancy asked him how his day was, he responded, “Great! Lunch was catered.”