I think it’s nice that the apple dumpling gang are both southerner and hobo-coded. It’s like bisexuality for characters that wear itchy footy pajamas with a butt flap.
The bit about using pre-existing images, which is a bit that was done out of necessity, is not really that funny, and doesn't add that much, and which could probably be done better in a different comic if I went into it...
2023-07-06 16:59:32 +0000 UTC
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I can’t muster the energy to ruminate on why, but there’s something strangely pathetic about depicting yourself as a fictionalized cartoon “sona” alongside your actual, real life partner. And so, I nixed that option, even if doing so leaves the reader wondering “just who is this handsome stranger protagonizing in Beany’s latest comic?...
2023-06-06 16:44:52 +0000 UTC
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If you take Boston’s commuter rail down to the very last stop, you can find yourself in Rockport MA. Apparently, it can get pretty touristy in the summer, but if you go in the off season, you can experience it the under the ideal conditions for any small, coastal New England town; chilly, breezy, and almost totally devoid of anyone who doesn’t belong there, the intoxicating scent of the oce...
2023-05-11 17:02:08 +0000 UTC
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Astute viewers will recognize my detestable, lazy ass re-using the AAAAAAAHHH!!!!! 20 Minute Glutes cover art from TMWWWBSASATWI for our male product in question. Hahaaaa.
I will be candid here. At time of writing it’s 4am and I have to get up in six hours to catch a train. There isn’t a whole lot that can be said about this comic. It’s a pretty old idea that has had many m...
2023-05-04 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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“NOOOO THE ORKS AREN’T FASCIST THEY’RE JUST FUNNY GUYS THAT SHAKE THEY BUTT!!!!!”””””— Guy who wants to pretend like Thanos wasn’t a Ork
Man, am I semiotically working the shit out the laugh-cry emoji in this comic or what? Just taking that fucker in my hand, and performing some linguistic Fushigi with it. (Do people remember those ads?) It’s a tonal signifi...
2023-04-03 16:04:23 +0000 UTC
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At the time of writing this, I have no idea what the reaction to this comic will be. Will it be celebrated, universally, by the visual artist caste, their foggy and formless whorl of feelings toward AI art now made lucid, reflected oh so perfectly back at them, a gifting of words by their brilliant and generoush cousin, The Writer?
To put more bluntly— will I receive comments, as I some...
2023-03-01 18:07:04 +0000 UTC
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Do you think he meant to write "invincible" or "invisible"?
Good comics forthcoming, I promise
2023-02-03 00:36:07 +0000 UTC
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Oop, a gaming joke! Tick that one off your 2023 beany checklist, and shame on me for saying I’de never do another. Still, I’d like to think I bring a certainly quality (quality) to the gamer comic that genre that was otherwise missing. Go ahead and check off “David Wallace reference” while you’re at it as well. One unused idea I had was to have my ideal game turn out to be the same th...
2023-01-03 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Magento: You penis is mine, Xavier! (MVC3 Magneto voice) COCK SQUEEZE
Professor X (being lifted up out of his chair by the crotch) OOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Magento: Nobody can stop me, you fool! You can't have X-Men without X-penis! Ahahahaha!!!!
*snikt*
Think again, bub.
2022-12-06 18:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes, when you’re in the game of making comedy generalizations, you gotta kinda take a swing, not in the dark, per se, but in low-light. I am not a particularly big rap guy (I like Kendrick, I like some Kid Cudi, I like Jpegmafia, for hairline reasons) but I am well enough aware of the general culture to know that at some point, people stopped making albums called like “Peanut Butter N...
2022-11-29 18:01:02 +0000 UTC
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A comic parodying “those” kinds of t-shirts. They’re so culturally minute and specific that we don’t really have a specific term for them, yet have such distinctly recognizable trends and aesthetic flavor that they can be effectively parodied.
Scrapped ideas:
1. A shirt that said
“LETS GO BRANDON”
then below, in smaller text
“BRANDON IS THE NAME OF MY...
2022-11-10 18:00:18 +0000 UTC
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It would have been easy to just use this as an opportunity to draw a bunch of obscure characters I personally like, but at that point why not just draw full-on fanart? I wanted each character’s costume to be something they would actually pick, revealing a little tidbit about each of their personalities.
Will and Astrid: I think for most adults, Halloween becomes a holid...
2022-10-31 17:00:47 +0000 UTC
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If it isn’t clear, that first twitter avi is supposed to be a woman’s ass in a skirt. No special reason, I guess— I just feel like I see the kinds of avatars pop up a lot on norm twitter. I suppose that makes Archibaldo a woman’s name? There is no intention here to make a point about whether these kinds of sex-sells twitter girls have a disproportionally more pedestrian media diet, or w...
2022-10-20 16:59:19 +0000 UTC
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I think it's almost become a running joke how bad the patreon thank-you comics end up looking, but in this case, that last panel is supposed to look bad.
If you want some highly potent unintentional comedy, I would encourage everyone to check out the referenced video. Every line from the comic is verbatim.
2022-10-06 16:55:27 +0000 UTC
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It can be a little difficult to play up themes of a savage, unforgiving frontier without playing into racist stereotypes regarding indigenous people, especially in a specifically American context. It can even harder when you want to turn what was geographically Mexico into one giant Cormac McCarthy Doom level. Of course, necessity is the mother of invention. How do you dodge t...
2022-10-05 21:56:37 +0000 UTC
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A Sincere Thanks To My Top Tier Patreon Patrons For The Month Of August shirts dropping on teespring soon!!! Just kidding!!!
2022-09-07 16:31:22 +0000 UTC
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Ah! Chapter 2. It’s a shorter one this time, and it took longer than I expected, but I think I am settling into a good pattern of work with my new job, so I should be able to bang these out quicker.
Gareth is loosely based on a real camp counselor I briefly had when I was in high school (I think?). My memories of him are almost nonexistent aside from the fact that he was hairy, long-hai...
2022-08-09 03:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Apologies that this is kind of rushed-- I am working hard to try and get the next chapter of GUE done, in addition to working a full-time job. I think I might possibly try and rethink how I do these sorts of thank-you posts in the future. Nothing certain yet, but stay tuned.
People love that guy from The Bear guy. I think he looks like the dude from the "making babies laugh" TikTok, but w...
2022-08-05 20:50:29 +0000 UTC
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My surrealist-writing chops perhaps aren’t as up to snuff as I’d like; does that visual analogy in the first sentence of paragraph 2 make sense? The idea is that the “barista telling me about his day” scenario is such an immediate and grotesque descent into abject horror, that it would NOT ONLY be akin to someone opening up the gates of hell and unleashing it upon the world, but would M...
2022-07-28 17:00:45 +0000 UTC
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I worry that there's a sort of racial 'fly in the ointment' to this joke. A large part of the humor of the joke sort of relies on this conception of "the hood" as something other, and as the child's upbringing and lifestyle as decidedly not that. In that case, using the visual shorthand of "nice little white boy", in the form of Ceasar, would make more sense. But a stunt li...
2022-07-07 00:09:34 +0000 UTC
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That's the name we settled on? Really? Well, whatever.
Thus concludes our little prologue. Ultimately, the quality of joke is not entirely up to my standard, but such is usually the case with most Pilot episodes. Establishment of premise is sort a clunky affair. In any case, I'm confident the next couple "chapters" or whatever will be funnier and arrive speedier. Ordinary c...
2022-07-03 07:17:56 +0000 UTC
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Man, I really can't overstate how much I've agonized over Calbain's design, especially his hair-- trying to fit a "culturally omnipresent and enigmatic creature of yore"-shaped-peg into an "anime character"-shaped hole, without having the end result look like Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. A lot of character design choices about trying to make the character look thematically appropriate ...
2022-06-24 21:33:03 +0000 UTC
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must... simplify...color scheme
some good faces in this one, and the reappearance of our verdant friend. The conclusion of our little prologue encroaches.
2022-06-17 06:32:51 +0000 UTC
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I will be picking up a full-time day job again, starting tomorrow, so please bear with me if my output slows down somewhat.
2022-06-08 04:21:33 +0000 UTC
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Since so many of you guys are members of the queer community, I have decided to give back this month by redesigning my iconic pride flag to be more inclusive. No need to thank me!
2022-06-03 22:17:53 +0000 UTC
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Someday, someone will write an essay about how I took perfectly fine comedy stories about the absurdities of day to day life, and then ruined them by adding a bunch of superfluous anime bullshit, forever hamstringing my chance at mainstream success. Oh well. At least it looks cool.
The wrist brace was a last minute decision, and I hope it reads clearly-- I might change it later. OO looks ...
2022-06-02 20:55:45 +0000 UTC
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Experimented with using thinner line weight on this one. Doesn't seem to hold color so good. Ah well. The last panel looks alright, at least. Live and learn.
I'm going to be gone for a week, but will resume work afterward.
2022-05-23 20:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Name forthcoming!
If it wasn't already obvious, these are the first pages for the new series I've been alluding to. They will stay patreon exclusive until the first chapter is complete, at which point I'll but it on twitter, insta etc. Not sure yet what the status will be for future chapters-- they might remain patreon-only, early access, or maybe certain chapters and strips will be exclu...
2022-05-17 20:57:49 +0000 UTC
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Not super satisfied with the visuals on this one-- text feels a little too small, composition isn't great, and the colors are all muddled. Doesn't *pop* like it should. Learning to work in a more visually dense style like this will necessitate some growing pains ( compared to say, bad enders, which was essentially all white and background-less). I will probably be trying out some different comp...
2022-05-13 20:43:58 +0000 UTC
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2022-05-08 21:04:29 +0000 UTC
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