here lies x

green tea mochi

discotheque mesas of the southwest

behold the king of toads

chalice of four winds

sword

pyramid machine

pistols at dawn

mosquitoil

I'm going to be posting more new drawings, album art, sketches, writings etc now that I've posted all of my old comics. staaaay tuuuuned

It's Ice Cream Time!

This is probably the comic I got the most positive feedback for. It's not intended to primarily be a parody of the Kool-Aid man at all. It's sort of a joke about marketing geared towards kids, but the main joke is just the creepy, hollow look in the Ice Cream mascot's eyes. If we had kept going, there probably would have been more comics with him in them. Sean's coloring here is marvelous yet again. It was also another step towards our longer style that we never really got to post in colored form on the site, mainly because coloring and lining them took a lot of time and effort.

There were a couple panels that I cut from this, in which the Ice Cream man encourages the kids to throw their food away and actually scrapes their food in the garbage for them. I thought it would be funny for him to encourage the wasting of perfectly good food in favor of ice cream (while other people in the world are starving), but it sort of disrupted the flow of the comic, so I figured I'd make a comic solely about that in the future. This one is probably the one I'd show people first if I wanted them to get into our comic.

Tall Tom and Short Steve

One of the best, by far. Sean's coloring really made this comic what it is. I love the vibrant, stylized look mixed with the simple anti-humor of the strip. There was at least one more of these drawn but not colored or photoshopped, which I will hopefully post later. One of the few sets of characters I would have considered making into a long-running series (but I would have made it less dry and more ridiculous.)

Aside from the unreleased, 16+ panel comics we had planned to color and release, this is probably the comic that most makes me wish that Drawing Blanks had kept going.

Noah's Ark

Maybe the lamest one I did. It's definitely more suitable for a newspaper or something, and it sort of reminds me of the Far Side, but I think this one was pretty shitty overall. Sean colored it like a piece of old biblical parchment, which I think was pretty brilliant, but it ultimately made the comic less colorful, which (my shitty drawing aside) maybe lent to this one being more bland. Also, in retrospect, I would have made the creatures much more realistic, detailed, and intense. I bet it would have made this a half-decent comic.

By the way, the joke is that the ark leaves without the creatures, and thus, they never came into existence, immortalized only in myth.

King of the Seven Seas

Pretty depressing. Another old one I'd made that we decided to use. I guess the joke is that the King of All Mermen is tired of living for whatever reason, and takes the opportunity to present LMAO Shark with the honor of being king after the wily shark has somehow saved Atlantis. In retrospect, I would have started this comic with a panel of LMAO Shark tearing open a bunch of evil mermen or whatever would have invaded their city.

Fish people.

Another Strike

Another one with a twist. What you think is a bowling shirt at first is supposed to be revealed to be a prison uniform once the punchline is given, but that secondary joke didn't really come across too well. Sean's mouse was fucking up when he made this, but it kind of gave the comic a blurry feel that I like. The last panel reminds me of sesame street. This was originally an LMAO Shark comic as well.

I would never under any circumstances do this to a police officer, but I can't deny that I've laughed about it.

The Apple Gang

Not one of the better comics. Not funny and pretty plain. I only like the idea of the sour apple being a bitter jerk. Also, I love the lettering in the last panel, and I'm not sure why I didn't make it more consistent throughout the comic.

Les Comiques Francaise

So weird. None of the French in this comic makes any real sense. I had just finished two semesters of French when I made this, so I wanted to use it. I was planning to make a bunch of these, but I never got around to it. It's one I'm kind of proud of, because it's silly, nonsensical, and Sean's coloring/photoshopping is pretty much perfect.

High Score

I liked this joke a lot. I'm apparently a fan of ridiculous surprise endings because that's what most of my comics are. I think the joke is diluted a little by the shark character drawing the focus, as the joke has nothing to do with the character being a shark. Still, it's one of my favorites, for all its simplicity.

Count Rapula

Count Rapula. A rapper of the night that will not hesitate to violently tear into your neck if you ask him for an autograph. I'm not really sure what the joke here is, but I like the distinct lack of a punchline. The repeated panel at the end sort of provides a mundane context to this insane character. It's kind of about meeting someone famous in an everyday place and having that celebrity lose their mystique, if you want to read too closely into it. Sean's coloring in the middle panel makes me smile.

There was going to be another, very realistic and anime-inspired comic that featured the Count rapping and then violently devouring a victim. A rough sketch is floating around here somewhere, and though it's terrible, I'll post it if I can find it.

Of Bikes and Elephants

This is one of the only older comics we resurrected as I originally drew it. Sean was somehow able to add color around my rudimentary drawing, and I think that in doing that, a cool, stylized, almost crayon-like quality was added to this extremely fucking absurd comic. Very indicative of my old style of humor, but I definitely feel that this one was worth bringing back. For some reason, I like this one a lot.

Moosendorf

I'm not a fan of parody, but I figured I'd try and make a mutated version of a Sunday paper strip. Obviously it's supposed to be a version of that one comic, but I think the funniest part is the fact that it's a foreign knock-off. That's the real joke. Sean nailed the colors yet again, and it's one of the few where I felt I was able to accurately draw what I saw in my head.

Infidelity (Or: The Bad Seed)

I like this one purely because I think it was a pretty different style from what Sean and I had done before it. It definitely was one of the first steps towards the more epic, longer comics I started writing. A lot of the drawing was rushed and kind of shitty, but the coloring and use of weird perspectives kind of makes up for it, I suppose.

All in all, it's probably one of my least favorites. I'd almost prefer it to have been put up before mentioning P.H. Jones at all. I think it would be funnier without context.

Enter Jellybones

Jellybones was a character thought up by Sean and I (but mostly Sean) during a late-night summer comic-drawing marathon. I don't think this comic is very funny, but it was a very old one that we decided to redo, so that's my excuse. It was one of many comics that started out as LMAO Shark, my first ongoing comic (most of which really weren't very funny.)

Peer pressure.