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Honestly, if you can't make a  pun out of a set-up line like that... Bear puns are gimmes. 

Alright! Weekly updates are a go! Maybe they won't all be ten panels, though. That... that's actually a lot of work.
Also, if there are any errors in my representation of the Canadian legal system, I apologize. I pretty much based it all on the cancelled CBC show This is Wonderland.

Fun News! I've managed to kick the winter blahs with the help of a friend I call "Vitamin D Supplements", and am feeling ambitious enough to aim for weekly updates to this blog. So yes, look for new comics here every Tuesday. Hang me if I'm lying!

Well, I've been trying to track down one or two comics that I know are missing from my archive, but have had no luck so far. Does this mean the end for this comics journal? Nah, I'll just make some more. On that note, here's a new comic:

Hey, sorry for the delay in getting this one up, it's just that the only jpg I have of it on my computer suffered from irregular cropping of the top border (you can see it there), and I have been unable to get photoshop, which used to function so well for me, to load, so I couldn't fix it. I was hoping some solution would present itself, but it didn't, so here's the comic, warts (and by warts I mean "irregular cropping") and all.




There's actually a pretty good story behind this comic, too. Every so often, I have a dream where a comedian dies. First, it was Gilbert Gottfried, and I had to break the news to my parents, who didn't even care. Next came the Stephen Colbert dream, as presented above. A while later I had a dream where Louie Anderson's rotting zombie corpse visited me in the middle of the night and accused me of not caring that he had died, and my having to admit to him that I really hadn't given him much thought since "Life with Louie" was taken off the air, and hadn't even heard that he had died. Finally, and quite recently, I had a dream where Amy Poehler had died in childbirth and we had a global day of mourning. After each of these dreams, I have checked the internet to make sure that they did not come true, and so far (and fortunately) my prophetic powers have demonstrated a 0% success rate!

Another Delay followed by a comic. Don't you just love it? I wrote this one while I was dealing with a lot of English essays, and there may have been some bleed-in. See if you can guess how!

No update yesterday? I must have been sick. In fact, I still am sick today, but it's not the focus of my life anymore. I'm probably on the mend, so no worries! Anyways, here's a comic that makes no sense:

This is pretty much taken word for word from a conversation I had with my sister, except for the end. That didn't happen. I'm still alive.

What is this comic? What does it mean? Perhaps it simply is. One thing is for sure: if we could all pretend that the "ciAPs" in the third panel read as "CLAPS", it'd probably help it out a lot.

This is another good "layout" comic. Fun side note: the real life person on whom the foil character in these comics is based complained about how I drew his nose so much that I finally changed it in this comic. Also, if you want something fun to do as a cartoonist, design a character who only exists to be sketchy and beaten up. Hours of laughs!

Another later Empty Spaces. By this time, I had about a month to work on each of these (thanks to the monthly releasing of MONDO, now at www.mondomagazine.net) rather than a week, so I had a lot more time to decide the layout, work on the artwork, etc. I had been drawing frost gremlins in the margins of my schoolwork for some time, so it was good to finally put them to use.

Well, I'ma be pretty busy tomorrow (covocation!), so I probably won't have time to post anything then, so here, right now, is a comic. This is what I was talking about in that last post by "more ambitious layouts.

Well, I've done the Punster, but I also did another comic for the first year I started doing these. I'm less proud of it, and I'm not wild about my ill-advised use of colour in the final product (I lack colour sense), but for better or for worse, these are some samples of the first series of comics I did at York. And yeah, for the six panel comics, I don't know what's up with the huge gap between panel rows. I guess that's just how I used to roll!



I guess I was pretty conscious of the derivitive premise of this strip from the onset, as even early on I'm outlining all of the other "Wacky College Students" strips that were currently being published in various York papers.



I should look up some of those other comics, see if they're still around.

And an early two-parter!




I will say that I still like the "fat cop" joke.
So yeah, that's enough of that. Once I started doing more Punsters and less of this, I was actually able to hammer this premise into some of my more ambitious comics (in terms of layouts), but those belong in other posts. For now, I think that's enough of these multi-comic archival posts.

With all that out of the way, we come to the first and, thus far, only serialized story in the Punster mythos. It started with a forgettable, lame and frankly sub-par comic occuring in a period of "idea-drought":


BTW, the punchline for this comic is written in TINY writing on the side of that jar. Get it, he's suggesting suicide! Ha ha ha. Not a great comic, but something about Punster's ennui in this was at least appealing, so I decided to follow it up with this, which is probably my favorite of these comics.






Time constraints led to this next one not being inked, but I think it really adds to the overall gringey (not a real word) flavour.



And finally, the full-page finale:


A "mob" is the word for a group of kangaroos. I assumed this was common knowledge, but apparently it isn't. Still, I like this comic.

And that's it for the punster archive; there's some non-Punster strips for me to archive still, as well as new material, but I think that's enough for today. Thanks everyone!

So afte a while, I decided to make the leap to pen and ink, with some false starts. Now, due to an archival error, the comics directly dealing with this period of time are somewhat damaged, but mostly it's just coffee, although the first one in this series (Time Traveler) is pretty beat up.

So at first I wanted to mark the introduction of pen with a sharp contrast from the old style. I actually like pencil as a medium quite a lot, but it has horrible problems with smudging and general impermanence, so pen is pretty much a necessity. BTW, if you can't read these (and it isn't a function of my poor lettering skills), you can right click and use "view image" to get them in a magnifiable window to themselves.



This next one I felt was too pen heavy. I liked the clarity, but the drawings seemed a bit too simple.


Finally, I settled on a kind of hybrid pen/pencil style, which I like pretty well.

Incidentally, this is my friend Claire's favorite comic that I've done.

Next (and final) archive: The Punster tackles serialized drama! Don't miss it!
P.S. Does anyone know how to do alt text for images? That'd help me a lot.

Here we have part two of the Punster Archives. So after a bit, I wanted to expand on the premise. Hence, these comics, involving
plumbing character depth,


Exploring everday uses of the premise,



And celebrity guest appearances!


Still, four panels is a bit stifling, so soon the comic made the leap to six panels, with drastic effect on the type of jokes the strip was able to make. Hopefully, the puns could now be an aspect of the strip, rather than the focus.



Also, now there's a king in the comic.
Next up: The Punster embraces inking!

So here I am setting up an archive, which I think I'll categorize for easy reference. This first post will concern itself with the earliest strips of The Punster, a character I created in university for pretty much the sole purpose of using what James Lileks terms The Violently Ordinary Rejoinder, or having a spoken retort create a violent physical reaction in response. And for a while, that was fine. As an aside, this first comic is actually a manually remastered version of the actual  first comic, which I have deemed too ugly to ever again see the light of day. I made up the backstory in the first panel later; the strip was not iniutially intended to take place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.



But yeah, that got a bit repetitive after a while.  There was another strip pretty much like these two, but the lil' blighter just didn't want to scan.

So yeah, these get better. After a while, I abandoned four panels in favour of six, which seemed to help things. The next post will cover four-panel comics done after the initial premise exhausted itself (pretty quickly).

So I'm taking a cue from Kate Beaton today and making a livejournal account to post comics on. This should be fun! I'll start things off by posting a backlog, so it looks as though I do more comics than I actually do. Hopefully, this will pressure me to be more productive!