If you follow my twitter, you'll know that I've been doing some character designs based on various lesser-known marine animals. Here are all the designs compiled in one place, as well as several rough sketches of various designs that I scrapped. I might return to some of these later, or recycle certain aspects of them, ...
2021-05-24 17:04:27 +0000 UTC View Post
What no exposure to the outside world does to a mf—teetering on the brink of insanity, scraping the inside of my brain for comic inspiration, when the bastard queen MARINA releases a new single so bad that it inspires me to write a whole comic lamenting the fact.
Originally, this was going to be a simple 2-pager “X ...
2021-05-10 22:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Bringing back out the old, speech bubble-less format here. Not sure how I feel-- looks somehow cleaner and messier at the same time.
Normally, I would think this sort of comic veers into a level of self-deprecation that is annoyingly excessive, veering from comedy to jokey self-pity. But, I think for the joke to work I need an immediate visual shorthand for "guy who sucks" by implication, without outright saying it, so my options were:
A) go with an ...
2021-04-27 17:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Nowadays, when making a comic I usually use it as an opportunity to flex or improve on my drawing skills. In this case, I had to redraw this several times to avoid depicting a child molester as too cool looking or sexy.
The master neologism "Mr. Magoo car" first appeared in episode 2 of The Dismal Jesters Po...
2021-04-19 17:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Ta-Da! Here is an idea of what the patreon thank-you comics will more or less look like from here on out, featuring names of "Legendary Super Tuesday" and "Ten Doller Boller" patrons.
While making this, I noticed a few people at lower tiers who were still pledging 5$ or above; I left them out this time, because I ...
2021-03-30 23:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This was an idea prompted by my friend Spencer. Who’s on your ideal “White Boy Summer” crew?
Not pictured here:
-Two drunk guys wearing Joy Division shirts who get into a fight because each one thinks the other physically stole their shirt somehow
- Barefoot + cutoff jorts guy who actually CAN backflip...
2021-03-29 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In case you live under a rock, Rupi Kaur is in the twittersphere again for posting this nightmare fuel; there's something so viscerally uncomfortable and awful about it, something ascendant beyond simply "cringiness", some fee...
2021-03-25 17:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone: Pugs are so cute!
Originally, I went into the research of this comic with the exact hunch of tall friend; humans are so unrelentingly and nonchalantly cruel to animals in so many aspects of life, sure...
2021-03-22 23:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
As you may or may not have noticed, I just added two new Patreon tiers: 5$ and 10$. Now, first and foremost, let me assure people: nothing is being taken away from 2$ patrons, who will still have full access to all content posted on here. Instead, the new tiers just offer more options for people ...
2021-03-10 22:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post
There are two potential problems with this joke, which I won't know the extent of until it hits public eyes. The first one is that the joke just doesn't read clearly, and people will think that the idea is that conservative fans will react negatively to a classic character being non-binary.
On the far other side of thin...
2021-03-09 18:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a minute since the last update, sorry! I've been spread thin across a lot of other things.
Read the new pages here
This comic really runs the gamut of BT tropes-- introspection, massive walls of text, overthought commentary on the stupidest of dumb internet minutiae, and sex jokes.
This comic originated because I though of the "Biden is a reboot of the Obama administration" joke, and thought it was sorta funny but not re...
2021-03-02 18:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Argh, that last panel really bothers me-- I spent so much time trying to get the perspective right, but it still looks weird. Whatever. Spent a ton of time getting the minutiae of the wording right on the video titles too, wanting to make sure that words weren't overused, comedic patterns are clearly readable, while making su...
2021-02-22 18:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! In case you missed it, yesterday I did a little bit of not-quite-stand-up, not-quite-comic comedy at a local Boston artist's open mic that invited me as the featured act. It was a blast getting to try out something new, even though my nerves meant the delivery wasn't the smoothest. It's about 25 minutes long, and starts ...
2021-02-19 19:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This is very much a throwback to the older, shittier-drawn, less wordy style of comic, but I still think the concept is pretty good. Perhaps I need to refine my ultra-cartoony style, though...
I was a zoology and philosophy double major in college. Taking philosophy definitely helped improve my writing and critical thin...
2021-02-16 18:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I've actually been sitting on this idea for a while, and when the Lincoln Project shit went down, I knew it was the universe telling me it was time.
One joke I didn't end up using because I couldn't figure out how to maneuver it in was Pilson finding a way to say something like "Look, this isn't put on! I know all...
2021-02-08 18:10:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Bing bang boom. A simple one. I usually try to put more effort into the artwork of the comics these days, but I'm not sure I should've bothered trying to replicate Magic's James Gurney-esque oil painting or Yugioh's bright and catchy airbrushed look. I'm a completely amateur painter, and I think the overly detailed and accura...
2021-01-25 18:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another comic about twitter. As with most character design projects, I got way mor into it than I needed to for something that would only appear as a one-off gag, so there are some design sketches at the end there.
There was an interesting little moral question that went into the creation of the second comi...
2021-01-13 18:24:25 +0000 UTC View Post
During quarantine, I’ve felt some stagnation in my ability to be funny, the lack of social interaction meaning a lack of situations necessitating on-the-spot humor. I have, however, had a lot of time to reflect on myself, my life, my fears, and what I believe— I imagine most people have. So, after a lot of unexpected posi...
2021-01-07 23:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post
AnotherYouTube parody, eh? Isn't this all a little... base? Maybe. And yet, I'd like to think that there's at least something a little more interesting about the YouTuber phenomenon, something that cuts a little closer to home about the nature of both us as individual humans and us as a culture-- I think it's a little differe...
2020-12-28 18:28:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprise! My grinchlike dislike for Christmas has yielded two separate anti-Christmas works this December. Huzzah!
Modern christmas music really is the pits-- you either get:
1) pathetic attempts to remix and remake Christmas classics like Jingle Bells, songs with tunes and rhythm so old and shitty that no a...
2020-12-18 20:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a comic that I felt a little less strongly about the longer I worked on it. There's so much bonkers shit about the history of soda that I had to make it double length-- but even still, after all the cramped text, there was little space left to freely riff-- most of the jokes in this comic are just straight retelling o...
2020-12-16 20:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a fairly old-school style comic-- no dense text bursts, just a sort of comedy-sketch style gag. I think it's just okay. The humor rests almost solely on familiarity with outside material, and even though the art is alright in some parts, there are other where you can clearly tell I just said "fuck it, I don't care." D...
2020-12-07 18:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Below is a brand new short story you can download and read! I won't spoil anything here, but I will say that the genesis of this idea was a conversation about samey, boring Christmas movies for kids; shit called Ted Christmas or like The Christmas Goose about a fat fucking cg goose who has to save Christmas. Even Christmas mo...
2020-12-01 18:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostIf you are a new patron and have no idea what you're looking at, you can read chapter 1 for free right here
Here are the new pages
Is this good? Do people like this? Or is it just some hacky "eat-pray-love for failsons" type of thing? Let me know. People seemed to enjoy the other more personal comics I've made, but I still feel like this one isn't as good as the "comic about making meaningful art", which has a stronger core topic and tighter jokes. This ...
2020-11-19 00:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The Tantalus allusion is my personal favorite part of this-- like a tortured, hungry soul is to food and water, so is this decrepit, power hungry pervert to nubile young flesh. But alas, at the very moment he reaches to touch, she disappears. Just a moment ago, she was as real as you or I. But when desire takes hold, "looking...
2020-11-11 20:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Kate Beaton, eat your heart out.
This is based off a real conversation I had with my friend Spencer, demongrified like myself in the comic above. He suggested that 'The Quaker Oats Guy" was one of the founding fathers, and I filled in the rest.
Little details-- Alexander Hamilton is of course making that not...
2020-11-09 22:58:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a premise that is perhaps a little bit hacky, and a format that is a little overused, but hey, you gotta make something that has popular appeal every now and again, right? I'm sure if I were more of a visual artist I would be working myself to the bone on some epic Among Us fanart right now. A man's gotta eat!...
2020-11-05 20:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
