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This is where you'll find what happens when people let me have paper and pencils, two items I rarely get a hold of, since I'm not allowed to handle sharp objects such as pencils, and paper is, for some reason, very easy for me to choke on...




Knowledge as a Virus
This was final final project for my sophomore year 'weird-ass' concept art class. One of our potential topics was to make a piece of art discussing language as a virus. I made a big, sprawling comic, with storylines crossing both vertically and horizontally, tracing the spread of an idea through all the storylines. The 'meme' branches to a new person whenever two storylines cross. It's much more impressive all tacked up on a wall (when all put together, its kind of expansive), but works serviceably well in digital format.

Philosphical Query
In Sophomore year of 'weird-ass' concept class, we were asked to make a piece of artwork we'd make in our own free time, as the first step of a decidedly more weird-ass project to be announced later. I made a comic thingy. The dialogue is a dialogue I had with myself in my head one day when I was feeling altruistic.
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A Cosmos
This was done for an assignment for my 'weird-ass' concept art class. The assignment was to create and destroy a cosmos, then bring it some evidence thereof. My first instinct was more or less what you see here, and I pursued it to completion. I didn't actually use this as my final project, as I decided it wasn't 'weird-ass' enough, and went with another concept.
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Debunking the Matrix
This is a comic, in pseudo MAD-magazine style mocking the (bad)movie The Matrix. I probably wouldn't have survived this terrible film if I hadn't been there with a friend with which to MST3K it. In fact, the entire second page is pretty close to a verbatim transcription of the conversation I had with my friend Max when I realized that the movie wasn't remotely plausible and that the Matrix was Science Fiction without the Science. Please forgive the caricature of Keanu on the first page, as I kinda fouled it up.
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Editorial Cartoon
This is an editorial cartoon I did for our school newspaper, The Courier, in which I got screwed over TWICE (this happens alot to me). First, I had to draw a cartoon with my name on it, expressing an idea that I don't really feel that way about. The idea in question was a pretty stupid dress code law requiring people not to show their shoulders. While I agree that that's a dumb rule, I also feel there's LOTS more at our school to worry about than the dress code. Second, the whole premise was undermined when my staff made me edit the original (shown here, for your benefit, as the doctored one is a big, fat fallacy), so that my caricatures of the administration became generic people. They didn't want me to have CARICATURES of AUTHORITY FIGURES in an EDITORIAL CARTOON.
Dresscode Cartoon
Other SHS Courier Editorial Cartoons:
Fire Alarm Cartoon
School Parking Cartoon
My School's Windows Were Bricked Up For Construction Cartoon
My Hometown is a Sheltered Little Bubble Community Cartoon
The Gov't Says We Can't Buy Soda in the Morning, 'Cuz It's Unhealthy Cartoon
My Senior Class is the Cuttingest Class in Years at my School Cartoon
My School Trusts its Senior Class About as Far as it can Throw it Cartoon

The T.R. Wigglesworth Electric Machinery Company
My monthly comic for the monthly SHS Courier, which stars a partially dissected fetal pig named Jeff. Oddly enough, when the art is reduced and printed in the Courier, its much easier to read than when its just shrunk down in the computer here. More will be added here as the new Couriers come out.
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The Adventures of Cap'n Spiffy, Saga 1: Hast du Zeit, den Käse zu spitzen?
This is a rather old endeavor, contining incidents and characters created by myself and my comrade Max. It has some decent silliness and the occasional spat of art that doesn't suck. It's been hailed by some as good, and hailed by others (specifically my pal Rob) as '48 pages of crap!'