New Comics Day

Hey, Magic Whistle #11 is out today! Hasten ye to your local comic book emporium! Do it! Hasten!

If you've heard the phrase "literary graphic novel" used so many times that you want to punch something, then I heartily suggest you lock yourself in a room with this book and learn to enjoy life once again.

Sam Henderson visited CCS a while back and this resulted in a lot of comic jams and foul ideas that might not otherwise have seen the light of day. One page that he did with me and Rich is included in this book! My own contribution to the strip has pretty much nothing to recommend it at all, but it's an honor to be included and the rest of the book is fucking funny. 

Creepy Loser Secret Origins

I still have one notebook from when I was about ten years old. Almost every single page is covered with doodles and some of my first ever attempts at comics. This was before I became the self-important douche-bag that I am today.

Can you understand what the comic posted below is about? 

Me neither.

A page of the alphabet and monkeys - just like Lynda Barry! 

Also many attempts at a stylized "S" that I never did figure out how to draw.

There are not many notes in this notebook.

Okay, but this comic I figured out! It's the Frog Prince.

Let me explain: In this version there is a lady who is so wealthy she throws her necklace in the trash. She doesn't even need it. A happy-go-lucky street urchan sees this and retrieves one of the gold beads, only to drop it in a pond. She cries at her misfortune. A frog brings the bead/gold ball/whatever back to her and she kisses him on the eyeball. He turns into a prince and they live happily ever after, mostly because all the girl cares about is that ball.

Titles made of worms: 

a technique I would repeat nearly 14 years later for my first assignment 

at the Center for Cartoon Studies.

more similarities

Thanks for visiting my past with me.