Droopy Allen

I've always, since I saw pictures of Woody, most likely before I saw a Woody Allen film, I thought the guy was the Droopy Dog cartoon in human form. As he gets older, his jowls become droopier and more exaggerated. They are also both sad characters and have a funny sing songy way of speaking. So I combined the two. This is probably my least favorite so far, it is pretty much Droopy with a few Woody Allen characteristics, the hair, glasses, and sweater. I threw him on a tall director's chair, and that gag is my favorite part of it. It's like, how did you get up there little dog? Hilarious.

Frog Dylan

Here is Frog Dylan. Not much to say really, it's Bob Dylan as Kermit the Frog.

Winnie Smalls

I created this character, Winnie Smalls, a few months ago when I had a realization that Winnie Pooh and Biggie Smalls are similar, not only in dimensions, but that they both are known to wear red shirts. After my Cookie Monster Tom Waits fusion had success on social media, I decided to go back to Winnie Pooh mixed with Biggie and spin it into a comic. Although I wrote earlier that the Spongebob wasn't that fun because it was a digital project, I had a lot of fun doing this one, I can't pinpoint why, it just looked nicer as I was working on it as it went on. I also did a similar background color thing with this strip as I did with Cookie Waits. I'm going to continue with these pop culture and ficitoanl character mashups. Next up: (Kermit the) Frog (Bob) Dylan! Here's the final and the pencil sketch I took a picture of and painted over.

Spongebob Acidpants

So, I realize that drug humor is easy and a pretty cheap way to make something "funny". However, although I'm not too familiar with Spongebob, whenever I saw an episode or a clip I feel like it is one of the most drug influenced cartoons I've ever seen. Mainly, I thought it was hilarious if something lived inside the triangle from the Dark Side of the Moon. I thought of this comic about 10 minutes before I got to work, I doodled it out there, and when I got home I started penciling it on bristol paper. I quickly realized I'm going to have to do this all digitally if I want it to REALLY look like Spongebob. So I just took a crappy photo and started to ink over it, eye-dropping the colors from a picture of Spongebob I was referencing. I added a trippy background and some stars, the Dark Side of the Moon image, turned the opacity down, downloaded the Spongebob font, and it was complete. It was much less fun to do a comic completely digitally and I think the joke is pretty juvenile and my parent's probably aren't thrilled...but here it is. The doodle, sketch, and final.

Single Panel Comics

I have been trying to enter the world of single panel comics. I have always loved single panels, I had ideas here and there but none that I found particularly funny to really try and create. Ever since I got enough money to go wild at the art supply store and get proper inking pens and bristol paper I have been non stop practicing and improving my cartooning skills. I am having a ton of fun coming up with these ideas and drawing and inking them, usually late into the night listening to Marc Maron's podcast: WTF. If you don't know about Marc Maron, he is brilliantly funny and his guests open up to him more than any other interviewer I like to watch. 

My general process for these comics is to sketch out a bunch of rough thumbnails (usually at work or wherever I get the idea) on scratch paper to get the staging and composition. Then I do some character design and try to work expressions. When I move to the bristol paper I start with a 3H pencil and block in the scene very lightly, move on to an HB or F (is there a difference?) The final step is convincing myself that my hand is not too shaky from the 3 cups of coffee I've had and start inking. I let myself get loose and tell myself I can correct the boo boos on Photoshop, but I try and get it as close to the look I want on paper. After that, I take photos with my iPhone (lack of working scanner) and touch up the inking and add color and such. Can't stop doing these, they are only getting better (Cookie Monster Tom Waits is the latest) and they are more fun to me than the average Bear and Bread.

Hipster Cartoon