This was made several weeks ago, but I felt I should probably hold off on releasing such a mean-spirited comic in the midst of such an intense political moment. I guess now is fine?
Truth be told, I think much of my decision/ability to be so ruthless towards these innocuous trends is that I've never really felt part of any sort of arts community; that isn't a call for pity-- in fact, I pr...
2020-06-10 23:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostOops, uneven numbers! But I need to maintain flow.
Read the new pages here
2020-05-25 22:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After watching plenty of Metalocalypse, I wanted to design a fictional band of my own, as a sort of character design exercise. It spun a little out of hand, and I ended up spending more time than I meant, creating a little story and personalities to go with it. Real comics coming soon, I promise! Until then, I will go a little into the my design thought process below, if you are interested in t...
2020-05-25 22:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post
There isn't a whole lot to say about this- it was originally going to be a twitter only shitpost, but I think the excess of words merits an official post. This is more or less true, though exaggerated; I will occasionally rock a pair of overall shorts like some kind of twink super mario. I wore them to an ice cream date a few years ago, chocolate ice cream smeared all over my face, and my date ...
2020-05-12 21:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I developed a fondness for horror movies fairly recently, but they are rife with tedious cliches that are neither interesting nor scary, which I simply cannot abide. The impetus for this joke was the realization that unlike serial killers, "crazy guys", etc- 'Satanic cults' literally don't exist. There are dangerous cults, sure; but those are almost always tied to some pseudo-Abrahamic religion...
2020-05-11 16:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I wish this comic flowed better- the continuation of text page to page is a little janky, but its the only way to make it so the pages aren't totally bare.
I'm afraid I don't have a whole lot to say about this comic- its another in the 'normal situation descends into madness' genre. So I'll add this bit of lore; the girl's cat is named Melty and was a rescue. It's not a sphinx cat, ...
2020-05-04 16:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a comic idea that I felt lacked the flow to meet my standards-- I would have liked to include more than 4 people, but couldn't come up with anything. However, I think there are some jokes worth salvaging, so here is another "comic sketch" of sorts. Looking at it now, however, I think the final panel is actually rather funny. (Originally it was "what is this, a dorohedoro episode?" but I...
2020-05-02 03:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
“Peanuts?” The flight attendant asked, as she made her way down the aisle of flight 4090, NYC to London. She turned her head as she said it to each passing row, as if she were calling out to a lost pet. Arriving at row 22, she deposited the paltry blue dime bag of airline fare into the hand of a well dressed man, seated in the middle. He wore a tan and brown cow print jacke...
2020-04-28 21:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems like the 'conversation with a younger me' format has become a go-to for many cartoonists to explore personal issues- I saw a very sappy version of this on twitter and the hateful, spiteful machinery of my soul drove me to lampoon it. I'm not sure most people will even know that's what this is supposed to be parodying, though it goes off the rails enough to stand on its own without that...
2020-04-20 16:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostRead the new pages here!
In case you missed them, read pages 1-5 here
Enjoy, or don't
2020-04-16 19:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostEugh- a top 10 list? Have you mistakenly wandered into the official patreon of freaking Kotaku? No, you aren't mistaken. I've made over 100 comics at this point, and thought this might be a good opportunity to share some of my personal favorites- my own tastes may vary wildly from what the fan consensus is, after all. This will also act as a good opportunity to reflect on some past com...
2020-04-08 22:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
There isn't really any clever jokework here, obviously- just a low iq bit of timed political satire. Surely, with this double-sided blade of a comic I have fully lopped off the heads of both parties in one fell swoop. Of course, the 'both parties suck!' shtick has been around for decades, but I felt the need to make this after it seemed to mutate into a remarkably grotesque form after this late...
2020-04-05 16:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This sort of goofy, bugs-bunny-ass slapstick is a little bit out of my usual wheelhouse, and is another gag that might work better as a one-off joke in a sitcom. Alas, I don't have the resources to make that happen. Maybe someday! Comics are my preferred medium, but I think I could potentially have success with short stories or screenwriting/directing as well, so long as comedy is in the ...
2020-04-03 21:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, I will be uploading the pages of the new Bad Enders chapter in chunks, as it is being drawn. You can read it here.
I'm posting it separately in case people don't want to be spoiled on it, and to preserve the image quality. When the entire thing is done (will likely be around 90-100 pages) it will be uploaded ...
2020-03-27 22:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, joking about Whole Foods in the midst of a global pandemic- this is the sort of thing that would be topical during the Obama-era Daily Show. Whatever! If there are jokes to be made, I'll make them. You get what you get and you don't get upset!
This comic was the product of a brainstorming sesh during quarantine- typically I don't actually sit down to brainstorm ideas, they will just c...
2020-03-26 17:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one of those ideas that is satirical, sure, but also leans heavily into absurdist imagery; its jokes like these that I'm unsure are quite as funny outside of my own head- the concept could be improved by providing proper context, movement, and comic timing, such that I think it might be funnier as a skit, for example.
I would really like some way to illustrate the goofiness ...
2020-03-19 19:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This was sort of an amalgam of a few different jokes: originally, the entire comic was going to be about the technocratic future, as I thought the idea of watching ads to subsidize your ambulance was pretty darkly funny; however, I couldn't find the perfect advertisement to depict visually to make the beats of the joke work. However, in this format the bulk of the joke is text-based, and I had ...
2020-03-18 17:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it punching down to make fun of a rich hollywood celeb for being ugly? Maybe. But I'd like to think that this comic takes more shots, or at least is intended to, at the utter artifice of hollywood glam, both in terms of the ridiculous, absurdly expensive outfits people lose their mind over, as well as the insane hollywood bodies that require a salaried personal trainer and who knows what els...
2020-03-11 17:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a comic I had been working on for a while- having only 4 people seemed like to small a survey to really capture this demographic in a satisfyingly full enough way, but I spent weeks trying to think of other funny characters to no avail. However, I think the material I have is funny, so I didn't want to put it to waste.
This comic is perhaps a little more mean spirited than u...
2020-03-09 04:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I am of two minds on this joke: on the one hand, it relies heavily on topical internet humor and crude sex jokes, two things I'm trying to wean away from, but on the other, it also holds an undertone of bleak satire (or at least tries to). There's a quote from Rocco Botte of Mega64 that I always come back to as part of my philosophy towards comedy; its something to the effect of "its easy to ta...
2020-03-04 20:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope the compression doesn't fuck this up too badly.
This was obviously motivated by Disney announcing their new "first openly gay character" the ugly ass cyclops with no lines. Its an issue that pretty much everyone is one the same page about, but there is a lot of material to work with re: gay characters in mainstream children's media, so I went with it anyway.
The c...
2020-02-25 22:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I had actually thought of this original little bait-and-switch joke before I ever thought to make it a political allegory. There was another version of this comic where the politician turns to the worker and says "That could be you one day, if you just work really hard" and then reveals in the last panel that he was, of course, referring to the person on her knees.
I went with this ...
2020-02-18 23:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post2$ Patrons have probably noticed a little something; since several people have requested it, I threw together a patron-only discord server! I am relatively new to using discord, so please bear with me. Hopefully I haven't made a terrible error.
2020-02-17 04:13:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I always worry if comics like this, so heavily laden with topical internet concepts and lingo, will drag me down as creator. People already classify my comics as 'memes' because the art is simplistic and they are posted online to be shared, and I suppose posts like these won't help me get taken more seriously as a comedian or cartoonist. But on the other hand, what am I to do, NOT make jokes ab...
2020-02-11 23:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This was made, of course, in response to the backlash against Rashida Tlaib daring to boo Hillary Clinton. I don't think I need to elaborate on why that sucks, people smarter than me have probably written about it.
My favorite joke here is the 'hot sauce in my bag swag' refrain- truly a bizarre gaffe from the 2016 election, and probably my favorite, better than anything Trump s...
2020-02-03 01:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This comic idea came to me in the middle of watching Knives Out, and it sort of wrote itself from there. A tried and true recipe for comedy: familiar thing we know the details of (mystery movies) + a humorous modifier (sex jokes), twisting the familiar into a goofy version of itself and subverting our expectations of the familiar. There's more to it than that, of course, but once you have that ...
2020-01-29 20:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally, the comic was going to include a little bar chart or something for each category that would display the levels of "Irony" "Rage" and "Smarm" with reddit high in smarm but low in irony, twitter high in irony and medium in smarm, and 4chan high in rage and irony. Ultimately, there wasn't really enough room, and I think the illustrations are funnier, so I left it out.
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2020-01-22 19:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow! Who is he? What's his deal? Well, thanks to Patreon's horrendously bad image compression, you'll have to find out here!
2020-01-21 23:42:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I am unsure of the strength of the original joke here- it isn't particularly clever, and would probably work better if it was seen acted out in person with the subtleties of real time delivery, instead of as a comic. I decided to go with it, though, because:
1. I think the comic could make up for it in relatability
2. I was nice enough to include a second, more absurd and goof...
2020-01-14 23:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post