I’e been combing through old comics files this weekend and I found some of the very first comics I drew, which were done in good old fashioned stick figure form. Just through I’d post them to show you the evolution of a comic, from thumbnails to stick figure to the final page to the book you store in the bathroom and have kinda accidentally peed on a little but just once.
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When I was a wee lad, I thought that Turkish Delight must have been the most savory sweet ambrosia the gods had to offer. Something worth, you know, betraying your entire family for. You can imagine my gross surprise when I finally tried some, having built it up for years. It was the “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?” moment of my childhood. That, and when my teacher had us all write letters to Santa, and I got a letter back (presumably written by my teacher) saying I wasn’t going to get what I asked for. Very confusing due to the fact that A: I had never believed in Santa, and B: not only was he apparently real, but he was a dick.
When I was little, I always imagined Turkish Delight as Crab Rangoon/Crab Puffs. I don’t really think anyone really knew what it was.
Oh wow. Thanks! Always wondered about this process. Random amateur question. How do you avoid smudging the sketches at the bottom of the page when you have to touch up/write the dialogue for the sketches at the top of the page? Could you post a quick video of a comic creation? (that would be REALLY cool).
you are fucking hilarious. period (on top of the period from that last statement).
You are so rad.
Steve: smudging pencil is par for the course in comics, it’s unavoidable (at least to me) but as I erase all pencil anyways, it’s not a big deal. What is a big deal is finding a good eraser though, which has taken me years and I finally found it and instantly forgot what brand it was. Faber Castell “no dust” erasers do a great job at picking up all the pencil and smudges without lightening the ink too much though.
I think we’ve all experienced our “first swears” with parents to one degree or another, and it’s usually our mom who discovers us swearing. I learned swearing from my mom, who didn’t even yell at me or punish me. She just took me aside and told me in a very calm voice that it wasn’t a very good thing to swear; much scarier than her yelling and spanking, that’s for sure.
As always, very amusing.
The “fuck” comic never gets old.
“Kinda accidentally peed on a little but just once…” Makes me think, how much you wanna bet that someone, somewhere just HAD to try farting on a “Fart Party” book?
I like “Julie’s” worried look in the next to the last panel. I think everybody’s looked + felt that worried. : )
i used to think Turkish Delight was a really light turkey, or a really happy one… i never understood why anyone would want that.
I figured that Turkish Delight was some kind of delicious chocolate like Cadbury.
This is a great Americana piece, right up there with “Go the Fuck to Sleep!” Number one pre-order on Amazon if you can believe it!
this post is fucking awesome.
I guess you have to keep in mind that Edmund was from a primitive culture that didn’t even have Hershey bars.
My little sister asked one day, “What does ‘fuck’ mean?”
Mom: “It’s not a nice word.”
Sis: “I know, but what does it mean?”
Mom: “It means not a nice word!“