Related Thoughts = "Thought Family", Right? DOODLES!
Wolves, General Safety, Hot Sauce, and More!
2019-08-28 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wolves, General Safety, Hot Sauce, and More!
2019-08-28 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWay, way, waaayyyy back when I was but a young'un, I did a series of cartoons for my Active Duty army unit. These are crude and rough and show a very, very early style to my art, a style that stuck with me through most of my junior high school years and into high school and early adulthood. The style seems (to me) to be...
2019-08-22 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI think I was angry about something. Or we were in "Resiliency" class, something.
Maybe I was mad that the scanner was acting up?
Either way, be sure to thank and tip your terrorist today.
2019-08-21 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostSpecialist Jorge Ricardo was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1981. His family is second-generation American, with his grandparents coming over from Mexico in the 1950’s. Rather than working in agriculture, the family instead gravitated towards the railroad, with Jorge’s father working as a safety i...
2019-08-16 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't have any doodles today; regular readers know why I have been thrown off-track recently, with the death of a beloved family pet. Typically I load images into Patreon all at once, and then I schedule their release-- so most of the Doodles, "BOHICA Blues Downrange!" and Classic Comics that people see here were loaded we...
2019-08-14 21:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostLieutenant-Colonel Wesley Fassbender was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1956. He joined the Army at 18 as an Infantry soldier and was trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1974 by a cadre made up almost entirely of Vietnam War veterans. He spent six years on Active Duty and got out, including a tour i...
2019-08-09 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy first Patreon video upload*, and I amateurishly unbox my brand-new "BOHICA Blues: Mobilized!" comic book!
I will be contacting my Platoon Sergeant Patrons soon for their addresses so I can mail them their copies.
There's also a guest appearance by my dog, Butter!
*I did post a video about...
2019-08-08 15:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostSome more character sketches I did for some old Dungeons & Dragons campaigns from long ago; some were actual characters and some were NPCs that were used to drive stories.

A lot of female magic users and the like in this b...
2019-08-07 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJuni Okuda was born in 1981 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. She grew up there until her sixteenth year, leaving the islands only to visit relatives in Korea. When her father got a job at Micron Technologies in Boise, Idaho, the family move was a shock to her. Everything in Boise was wrong—there were fou...
2019-08-02 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNever too late to start thinking about Christmas shopping! Above: no, this is not going to be a Christmas card design this year. Or is it?

A sky full of WW2 planes! B-17G, P-51D, and a P-38. Interestingly enough, the P-38 was a...
2019-07-31 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI just sort of assumed that enough people would be familiar with the TV game show "Wheel Of Fortune" for this to work... that's the challenge with pop-culture references; there's no guarantee of universal familiarity, much less appeal. But then again I suppose the idea of spinning a random wheel to see what kinds of "prizes" ...
2019-07-30 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello, and welcome to some more BOHICA News!
We've added a new Sergeant and there is plenty of room for more! Join before sunset tomorrow and stick around until January 1st of 2020 and you can get a free "BOHICA Blues: Mobilized!" full-color collection of the earliest BOHICA Blues comics! There's some new commentary and...
2019-07-30 15:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Joseph “Joe” Rock was born in 1982 in Spokane, Washington. When Joe was 12 years old, his father got a job in Boise and the family moved there. Joe found himself liking Boise a lot and eagerly took to his new home, graduating from Capitol High School in the year 2000.
After ...
2019-07-26 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPoor Private Doodles. Strap in, here we go again.

LINK SAUSAGES! IT'S LINK SAUSAGES!
Many many years ago, MAD Magazine published a comic about the problem of "doggy doo" in the streets of New York. People were walki...
2019-07-24 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostYou asked for it; you got it. Above: a difficult horse that doesn't want a saddle has to get a couple bottles in him first.

A funky airplane design; the Japanese had an experimental fighter late in the war that had a pusher/can...
2019-07-17 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWow! A couple of people have decided to jump on the chance to get the BOHICA Blues collection book, "BOHICA Blues: Mobilized!" by self-promoting to Sergeant!
I'd like to welcome both Rohan Tolstrup and Chuck Sherman to the ranks of Sergeant! I hope you enjoy the benefits of Sergeant -tier membership and the books ...
2019-07-15 16:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostI will be at Boise Comic Arts Festival this year, August 24th through the 25th! It is free to attend so stop by and say hello!
2019-07-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMore silliness like the prior silliness. Above: I have a feeling I was in a sexual harassment class.

Wanted to go home, ended up at BIAP (Baghdad International Airport). Seriously, dude, what did you expect when you put on that...
2019-07-10 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAbove: an angry little ball of piss known as a "cat".

When we were mobilizing to go to Iraq --when we were in Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin-- we had a weird creepy guy that would hang out in the men's showers and just... stand there, wa...
2019-07-03 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThose of you in the "Sergeant" tier and higher have been able to read the "Empires" science-fiction war story that I did back in the 1990's. The "Empires" setting is supposed to be huge, a galaxy's worth of adventures, and I had plans for multiple different storylines to be placed in it, most of which had nothing to do with t...
2019-06-28 16:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostAbove: I don't know what I was thinking. I like it though.

Is this what happens on the first day in the animal shelter after the dog-catchers have caught them?
2019-06-26 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello! The above *should* represent the most up to date and proper Patreon listing so far. I've had some new Patrons enlist recently; some new and some are shifting their levels of support around, going higher or lower. *Please* check your emails as I sent out some messages recently but have not heard back from everyone. I re...
2019-06-25 16:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostDid you know that BOHICA Blue sis also featured in the pages of the National Guard's magazine, "Citizen Soldier"?! It's true! You can see re-worked versions of BOHICA Blues classics retooled for general National Guard audiences. The magazine did a print run for one year, then switched to all-online publication, but you can st...
2019-06-23 16:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostA series of character sketches for games and stories over the years! Above, a Gnoll which eventually served as a character for an upcoming future project.

This was a young princess that was kidnapped, and while a search party w...
2019-06-18 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIs it just me or nothing gets my dark humor side bubbling up quite like "Resilience Training"?

Thinking about wolves. Grrr.

I found some old doodles --actually, old comics and comic characters and some game characters-- that were created but not much was done with them.
Above is EOD Cat, or Explosives & Ordinance Disposal Cat. EOD is basically the military's "bomb squad". They have a reputation for being weird and a bit high strung, whil...
2019-06-05 17:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostSome changes in the Battalion roster! Welcome our newly-enlisted Specialist, Rohan Tolstrup! Also, a former Sergeant got to step up to Platoon Sergeant, so congratulations to Chris Hopkins! Our former Platoon sergeant is still with us, but at another level of support.
So regular followers to the Patreon page...
2019-05-30 15:43:56 +0000 UTC View PostI'm trying to make "The Human Earwig" a thing for an upcoming BOHICA Blues. Instead of "The Human Centipede" in their world they have the Human Earwig. A mad scientist grafts a guy's hands to his butt for some reason.
Where do we go from there? Where does this crap come from? Hell, I don't even know.
2019-05-29 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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People keep coming back for this. Are we feeling guilty about something?

Top: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk of the "Flying Tigers". I love the P-40 Warhawk. Below: a sort of Dornier/Heinkel-inspired aircraft.
2019-05-22 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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