Life Without Taffy

That exchange between Randal and the British guy on the Clerks cartoon is amazing and I completely pounded the whole “You’re A (blank)” thing into the ground years ago. I was playing Bookworm today and I got ‘fag’ as word and this little definition popped up on the top of the screen.

When I was working on my 24 Hour comic last month I referenced an old comic of mine, Domestic Violence. I just unearthed a copy of that comic that I drew back in 1993:

Yep. Look at that shit. Pretty effing gross. I can’t even begin to explain what’s wrong this. And it gets worse:

I have no idea what that stain is except that it’s not the worst thing on the page. The Characters Created By credit is a little misleading as the main guy was supposed to be my friend Eric who got all mutated by toxic waste and turned into a muscleman apparently.

That’s what I thought a back of a head looked like. And that alley’s on a hill. And a prostitute (?) getting beat up? SHADDUP!! I was a good writer even back then. Supposed to be some sort of arty brick wall back there. A panel with just word balloons? I should do that some more now. Then a really strangely drawn half-naked man. With weird anatomy.

I guess I had never seen a real gun at this point so I could draw it correctly. Or a person.

And then comes the action! Yeah! Whoops?

Here we have a .. JESUS CHRIST! IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE A LADY?/???????//?

Why yes, that man is 14 feet tall. What a  weird comic. Shit. I was 16 and I really wanted to make superhero comics and this what I came up with. I probably drew/wrote 20 comics throughout high school. What else was I gonna do? Go to parties? Make out with chicks and/or dudes? I was a huge nerd. Oh well.

So if anybody wants to see any else of these things, let me know. They’re not all quite this bad. Then again, nothing is.

The desktop  wallpaper on my computer is a unidentified bird on the telephone wire in  our backyard. Click the image for a super-large version if you’d like it on your desktop as well.

A request from Mike Larsson for a cat comic. Yes it’s like every other cat comic I’ve done. She likes to eat what can I say?

I usually sketch out a little thumbnail of what I’m going to do. Sometimes as large as 8 1/2″ x 11″. They’re pretty rough.  I just want a little idea of where things go and what’s going to be said. Generally what I layout is exactly what I draw. I may change the dialog, but it’s pretty close most of the time.

Being that this is something I may want to publish in a comick book in the future, I pencilled it on one of my comic boards. They run 11″ x17″ with a 10″ x 15″ drawing area. I do my best to redraw the thumbnail bigger. The loose sketches are really good for unconventional  faces and poses. I have kind of given up drawing like a normal person at this point so I do have good idea of what look I’m going for.

And then I trace. Here’s the finished comick. Click to embiggen.

It’s true you know. I’ve done the research. I’ve crunched the numbers. Shit, I have a graph around here somewhere.

As suggested by Doug Lussenhop. I would use a crusty old zombie hand myself. But that’s me.

Every time I get from my chair to get a drink or go to the bathroom or whatever, this little gremlin yells at me.

Anybody remember Slapstick? Anybody? I dug the heck out of his 90s miniseries.

Hey gang. I’m drawing this evening and for the next couple hours I’m taking requests. What should I draw? It’s up to you guys. Reply to this post or my Twitter and I’ll post it after I’m done. Thanks kids.