Middle School Was A Trying Time

As the Bird Fly's...

Addendum: "Sad≠Happy=Funny=Sad"

This was part of a series of drawings I did featuring the same bug-eyed stick character. I'd prefer to let it speak for itself.

A lot going on in this one. For starters, there is a floor! The central figure appears to be flinging throwing stars (perhaps the aforementioned ones?) and brandishing an extremely phallic sword. Both the sword and this figure's face are crossed out, most likely because they are (respectively) too phallic and angry. The figure at the bottom escapes the sword's reach, but his/her head has still been both bumped and stabbed. The stick above is unlucky enough to be caught with a throwing star. At the far left another stick figure is run through with a cello endpin, the cello is presumably held by an unusually tall classmate of mine named Nellie.

seizure!!!!!!

Addendum: None

This was one of my first experimentations with negative space. At the top is a prototype I did in Sharpie to test that the idea for a 4-panel "seizure person" would work. Once that was a success, I moved on to a bigger image (albeit in pencil and done by erasing scribbles). At right is another "seizure person," this one quite confused and being bombarded by lines. At bottom is a mess of words and lines, but I'll try to decipher it somewhat. There is a picture of a male and female stick figure. The male stick figure holds a paper that says "BLIMP". To the left of these two figures are the words "Jimbo in Spanish" and "je olde fa-". I can't entirely make out what the fa- word is. Fad? Faq-? Fag? Faw-? Facebook didn't exist (for me) at this time in my life, so that's out of the question. Puzzling.

Bob the Hamma-Stoppa

Addendum: "classic"

This enduring character is Bob, the Hamma-Stoppa. Ironically enough, he himself is shaped like a human-sized sqiuggly hammer that talks like Mr. T. In later comics, I would prove that for Bob, form equals function. At the bottom left of the page is another glimpse of internet-speak, this time from the misunderstood masterpiece The End of The World. At the top right is a spanglish statement that reads, "Paul likes el pene bomberos," or, roughly translated, "Paul likes fireman penis." It was hastily crossed out, and I decided that I would have to be more careful to whom I would show my drawings in the future.

Salad Fingers

Addendum: "Phailiure To Spell"

This was my attempt to render the wonderful, surreal flash animation salad fingers on some fancy heavy drawing paper. I'd say it came out pretty well. I took my time, drew light enough to erase without leaving dark marks on the page, and the source content was simple enough (keep in mind simplicity does not imply ineffective) for me to copy without feeling overwhelmed. Shown here is (right to left) Huber Cumberdale, Majory Stewart-Baxter, Jeremy Fisher, and half of the face of Salad Fingers himself.

ROFL. BE QUIET!

Addendum: None

Two characters. The top one I'm pretty sure I copied from a book or traced, because it is far too cute (and detailed, and well drawn, and thought-out) to be one of my own creations. The bottom one was an exercise in Scary Faces and Semi-Horrifying creatures (which would later turn into Actually Pretty Cool Creatures with A Lot Of Blood). An abandoned Scary Face can be seen between these two characters. To try out my bubble lettering (which I still have difficulty with) I picked a humorous catchall - "ROFL" which ensured that: 1. If I messed up, it wouldn't say anything important anyways, 2. If I did a good job, it wouldn't say anything important anyways.

The Road to Nowhere

Addendum: None

This is one of my first "perspective" drawings (the former being akin to Egyptian hieroglyphs where everybody is pressed flat against a page) as well as one of my more existential pieces. Although titled "The Road to Nowhere," a sign points that reads "Somewhere" that aligns the two seemingly contradictory ideas of something and nothing. Also shown is a victim of life's rapid journey: a bug, most likely crushed underneath the wheels of a speeding car. S/he cries out, but is unheard, the only living creature depicted in this desolate place.

Jim and Jeff

Addendum: None

This appears to be an extremely hastily drawn picture of Jim and Jeff. Their alliterative names do not necessarily make them related. Jim is somewhat of a sociopath; Jeff is a quiet introvert. They are both very special. I think that the purpose of putting "Yeah! Yay!" is twofold: 1. to express just how special Jeff and Jim both are, and 2. to test the waters of wordplay between "yeah," "yay," and "yea".

SUPER SPECIAL TRIPLE HEADER INCLUDING: SOMETHING I DIDN'T DRAW AND TWO (2) SFD4 CONCEPT PAGES!!!

Addendum for picture I didn't draw: "what the hell dude"
Addenda for SFD4 concept pages: None

Anyways. The SFD4 concept pages show Mighty Stick in a variety of poses, including but not limited to: killing people with a chair, killing people with other stick-people, just walking (y'know?), falling, being half-drawn, getting his face tattooed with an enormous "x", admiring the color of blood, kicking his own giant head, and of course having fun with his trusty murder stick. Also visible is my experimentation with the arrangement of the title, which would I thought was critical for the success of further comics. If you look at the top left corner of one of the concept pages, you can see me trying to imitate the headshot icon from "Counter Strike: Source" which had recently come out and which I thought was really nifty (ran fine on my 5200FX, albeit at 800x600). The beautifully drawn picture that I had NO PART IN appears to be a banal rendering of a man on a dock with a definite horizon and a tree/shrubs for perspective. It is the result of my asking of an adult friend for drawing advice and receiving a picture instead. I had written "AWWW FUCK" but crossed out "FUCK" when I thought that that seemed too extreme.

KeKo "Concept Art"

Addendum: None

This was a page I intended to use for ideas for future KeKo comics that I could draw. As you can see, I did not get very far. At the top is a shot of the man himself. He is a sunglass-wearing, gun-toting, bandanna-wrapping (this implies no connection with any sort of extremist sect) clown killer. Below that is a diabolical invention used by a clown to try to usurp our hero's fortitude: a homing rocket launcher that does not home in in a straight path, but that takes a circuitous course so as to confuse the target. I think KeKo is pictured shooting the device so it explodes, killing the operator and causing the homing rocket en-route to fall dormant. Apparently there was to be one final stick figure, but the world will never its nature.