Comic- The Man Who Smiled Too Much

This comic was initially drawn for Moonbeard, but I didn't quite like it enough. I think this version had essentially the same thing to say without being quite as unnecessarily long or as morbid. Or as gratuitous. I'll happily embrace any of those things if they're sufficiently justified, and they weren't in this case. Though I suppose "gratuitous" is, by definition, unjustified? I don't know. Also, pretty annoying Blogger won't let me post this full-size without breaking it up. Anyway, uh, cool.

sad terminator in a field

I drew an apple you guys

I can't even eat apples. My face goes all numb

sad scribe in a field

I don't know why I drew this. Not that I'm saying NZ rapper Scribe doesn't belong in a picture series of fictional characters that has included such Mario, Indiana Jones, and Batman. He quite obviously does.

Maybe I'm just homesick. Down the road from my house in Chch there was a Subway restaurant. On the wall was a plaque, signed by Scribe, that read: "How many dudes you know make rolls like this. Not many. If any." Possibly the only thing I miss about Eastgate Subway.

sad mario in a field

BANNER ART

The post title was a fabrication. There's no banner art here, only shitty internet ads I made for Moonbeard to use through Project Wonderful and on Inkoutbreak. That way all of the internet will see these ads and check out my webcomic and then I will get millions of dollars through the advertising that I may or may not actually ever put on the website. IT'S FLAWLESS.

This sort of overt self-promotion doesn't count as me selling out as long as I'm sufficiently impoverished.

That last one is kinda obnoxious huh. You can also see a fourth shitty ad on the right or this blog. I think the theory was that if I made the ads kinda terrible it would lower peoples' expectations and my comics would appear comparatively better. They didn't give me a Psyc degree for nuthin'.

You too can advertise my comics by taking any of these images and linking to me. I know, exciting idea right?!

sad sonic in a field

Comic- King of Nothing

A coloured/ revised version of the original comic, on moonbeard.com:

Didn't much care for this comic in its original state, so had a play around. Added colour, texture, some approximation of shading, some panel vignetting, and altered the redefinition of "nothing" in the final panel so the comic actually makes a sort of sense. I don't know if I improved it. Flat black and white images are so much simpler

sad snake plissken in a field