What was every comic you ever made since the beginning? That includes non-webcomics as well. Also talk about past comics that you actually made, not planned to make.

Tell us a little bit about them.
Age you were...
What do you think of them?

How has your comic making evolved through time.


Example... myself

1993?:First comic/s I ever made was when I was eight years old. It was a series called Hamster Island. It was about a butch of hamsters that got stuck on an island like the Swiss Family Robinsons. Some of them had wings for some reason. Didn't really think of it as a comic back then more of a book with pictures. Made them for the amusement of my brother. My brother drew some of the action scenes. Hamsters slaying T-Rexs to save the princess hamster. It was awesome.

1999?: Second comic I made was in Middle school or early High school... think I was...14. It was a Pokemon and Digimon crossover comic: Pokemon vs (season 2) Digimon. It had Pikachu sending hatemail to the Digimon asking for a fight. Lots of stupid jokes making fun of Pokemon and Digimon. My brother loved this comic, kept motivating me to continue until I finished the story. I ended up sending the comic to an penpal buddy in Australia before I learned how to use a scanner. So the comic was lost.

2004:Next through High School I was trying to come up with a story for a video game RPG Maker. I came up with the rough outline for The Planet Closest to Heaven in my last year. Friend suggested I make it into a comic since I was coming up with so many jokes and gags. Before making the comic, practiced drawing during my first year of college(mostly due to hesitation and thoughts that I wasn't good enough yet). Then finally made the comic during the 2004 summer. This ended up being my first webcomic. Still continuing it after three years which is nice. Didn't run into a hole yet.

2004:The Adventures of JillyFoo. A short gag comic I've made only a couple strips for. Had many ideas, but not enough for an official updating webcomic.

2006: Demon Eater. Based after a weird dream and some old stories. TPCTH got critiqued saying I should try to make a comic non manga styled. I made Demon Eater in a way to spite them. It was supposed to be laughably bad, offensive, and disgusting, yet now I seem to have fallen for this comic. The main character is such an underdog. Can't help but want to make him grow.

Way back in high school I did a bunch of comics between myself and my friend Marie, where we were Chemistry Crusaders or something... sort of a silly superhero thing where we solved all the problems with chemistry. They were quite fun to pass study hall with, but nothing very substantial or memorable. :)

My two webcomics were The Repository of Dangerous Things (which came first), and What I Learned Today (which came after). When I was doing those I often did one- or two-page guest comics for other folks (Fan art too but those don't count.)

I cringe at a good number of my RDT pages now. Early on the art wasn't very good and the jokes were fairly bad. I was happy with them when I did them, but that was years ago now and now only the ones past page 75 or so remain shiny to me. However it was a huge learning experience and I know a lot more about making comics now - that was most of the point of RDT really, I just wanted to make a comic and practice a bunch of things, art-wise. So, I accomplished what I set out to do with RDT even though a lot of the early pages are embarrassing.

WILT I'm still pretty happy with. It was meant to be an easygoing side-comic but it turned out to be more fun to work on than RDT. It was a different challenge too, while RDT was full-page format, WILT was one-panel gag stuff like the Far Side (nowhere near as good of course). Having a comic made of crayons and markers was fun as well. WILT is a comic I wouldn't mind going back to if I ever felt like I had enough ideas for it, but that's not too likely. I'd probably rather move on to something different, as it's been a few years since the last WILT.

I did a 10- or 11- page short story comic for DD book 3, which I think is lost forever in the void now. It's a 'retelling' of The Old Woman and Her Pig. I'm still fairly happy with it and wouldn't mind posting it somewhere, but I'm still holding out hope the book will happen one day...

I'm working on scripting my next comic but my motivation is lacking, so it's taking an embarrassingly long time to get it going. :) I get excited thinking about it, but when I sit down to work, bah.

Hm, I'm sure I'm forgetting something...

Well, I got tons and here all of them...

1. Jawaz And Joozo: The idea came in when I was around 8 or 9. It's about 2 Japanese searching all over the world for treasure. (Year 1992 or 93)

2. Sonic Comic: My version of Sonic The Hedgehog with new characters and such. Dr. Robotnick sides with Sonic because there's a new villain in town called Rocky (kind of a wolf character). (Year 1993)

3. Foose: (I hate this idea) it's about an alien creature who can change forms of his face and there's a guy who tries to capture Foose to ger rewards and such. (Year 1995)

4. Mr. Fudge: I did only one because I REALLY hated it! It's a fat version of Charlie Chaplin who fights robots and such. (Year 1996)

5. Skull Fighters: Inspired by Streets Of Rage saga, I wanted to create a team that can fight bad guys and stuff. It had like 6 fighters. It was interesting to certain point. I made like 6 comics. (Year 1997)

6. The Electronic Girl (a.k.a The Burnhams): The birth of Ann Burnhams. Out of all my ideas, this story is my favorite. Ann Burnhams became my all time favorite character and till this day, I love doing epic adventures for her. Back then, the beginning had a different script than the one I'm doing today. That's why, I'm obsessed in writing this one. Because of this, I want to become either a comic creator or an animator. (Year 1998)

7. Larry: This ones pretty stupid. A guy called Larry who enjoys killing creatures called "Cuties"! He kill them in brutal ways and sometimes eat them raw. It's very sick and twisted! (Year 1999)

8. He's blond... he's a rocker... he's on Drunkduck it's Billy Learns To Rock: Yes, Drunkduck's favorite rocker got his bith at this point. BLTR had only Billy for the first few comics. Larry comic did assist me to create Billy. It was a gag comic before it became the epic that it is becoming as of today. Originally, Billy had a sister and a brother but the brother was declined. Billy used to annoy his family with his quitar playing everywhere. Frank and Tanya were in the old version BLTR. Mark wasn't. Lewis was. There were no villains. I used to mix a lot between BLTR and Burnhams. (Year 2000)

9. PUNKZ: The most mature themed idea. It has sex, violence, drugs, and all the bad things that you can think of. It's about 3 big Punk factions who oppose the other: Punxtaz, ZZAMS, and Blue Lightning. Punxtaz are the good faction, ZZAMS are the evil faction, and Blue Lightning are in between. Very fun but very mature. (Year 2001)

10. Mic & Joe: Another mature themed idea. It's about 2 guys living in a neighborhood that are obsessed with marijuana and weed even I created Twix with weed flavor... everyone and everything smokes even rocks, trees, and even the sun. Mic & Joe are toubklemakers and it has lots of weird cast. (Year 2001)

11. Oyl n Gaz: After an accident, Oyl and Gaz almost died but their grandfather, which is a great scientist, replaced their brains and lungs with mechanical elements which enabled them to be smarter than average which they use their ideas to create amazing stuff for prank tricks. (Year 2001)

12. Candice Millano (a future DD comic): I'm not gonna say anything because it's going to be on Drunkduck very soon. (Year 2002)

13. Steamer (a future DD comic): Same as above. (Year 2002)

14. Armored Heroes (a future DD comic): Hush... (Year 2003)

15. Futuresurfers 1, 2, and 3 (a future DD comic): You'll love this! (Year 2003)

16. Billy Learns To Rock (DD debut): The year where DD got to witness my first story and still on going! I thank everyone for their support so far. (Year 2004)

17. Electronic Revolutions: The Burnhams (DD debut): It's another story being told on DD and still on going. (Year 2005)

18. To The Sun And Beyond (a future DD comic): Pirates and such! (Year 2006)

19. Descendant Warrior (my final work): My action/horror idea! (Year 2006)

20. My next idea's theme is circling around Pagan mythologies and witch-craft! It is still on the thinking process but will not be a DD comic!

Let's see. I started doing comics before the internet, so several of them never made it there. (thank god.).

My first comic was a garfield-esque gag strip about a cat that looked like a raccoon and his friends. It was called "Tinker" which was the name of the real live cat that it was inspired by. I did 'tinker' cartoons for years. I still draw the character from time to time.

My second comic was actually an adaptation of a superhero story I had written for my brother to learn to read called X-cellence. (I was going through an Xman phase.)

My third comic was the beginning of my love affair with Manga/anime and was a comic done for a fanzine called "Chalise". it featured a young, modern day girl getting whisked away to a post-apocalyptic world she was 'destined to save'. Of course she got a costume change every time she went there. That was pretty short lived. The art was.. well to say shitty was putting it mildly.

I did some short sequential art based on various interests between that failure and my next comic, which would be Shifters: The Beast Within. I partnered up on that with a writer to help me get my story ideas and world co-herant. It was a very valuble learning experience, but things kinda didn't work out the best. He got busy and we had serious creative differences, so the story wobbled all over the place, characters got introduced that shouldn't have been there, tone shifted like a windswept sea, it was just a mess. I couldn't continue the way it was.

While I was figuring out what I wanted to do with Shifters, I was involved in a really cool RP that resulted in the inspiration for Brymstone (in my sig.)

So I restarted Shifters:TBW as Shifters: Redux just January of this year.

So I have two active comics, although not as active as I might like. Those are the two people know anyway.

I only did a Love Hina hentai parody some years ago just for fun (colored & everything).

Hello NANO is my first real comic.

Kid:
Basically drew Doraemon characters in nonsensical short adventures. I loved Doraemon.

Age 11-13:
1. A long (spanned 2 notebooks) action/humor comic featuring myself as a police inspector and his deputy guy busting supercriminals all over. Started as a rip-off of Inspector Clusoe from Pink Panther, which gradually grew into its own thing. My art improved visibly during this period.

2. An entire notebook of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style story, featuring Robot Man (who remembers that cartoon show?) fighting his evil nemesis (Roboron?).

Teen:

1. A story about 3 little dinosaur friends who look like Fraggles, being the only ones to escape a massive invasion by evil bat-like devil aliens. With the help of a Star Child who took the form of a little dinosaur, they start a guerilla campaign. Everyone uses magic. Everyone is cute, even bat devils. The only one not super-deformed (i.e. cute) is the big boss bat daddy-devil.

2. Was crushed that Dragon Warrior (Dragonquest TV anime) stopped airing after 13 episodes in USA. Started drawing my own continuation of the story. Drew 2 chapters (totaling 35 pgs?). The epitome of my Toriyama art style phase. Later on, found Chinese-dubbed episodes up to eps. 40. I was in heaven. Though, never knew Japan decided to run a 2nd season after seemingly ending the series prematurely at eps. 40. Missed the 2nd season. Doh.

3. Drew many many MANY doodle comics involving John Woo fighting action. Characters were Pac-man vs Ghosts (yes they can fight ala John Woo just fine without legs), rubbermen (naked guys without any anatomical features so I don't have to bother drawing clothes) vs rubber aliens, rubbermen vs ninjas, rubbermen vs devils. Very epic; I honed my abilities to storyboard action scenes.

College:

1. A college newspaper strip called Live By The Sword, a strip styled after Prince Valiant. Originally inspired by the desire to draw a prequel to Dragon Warrior, detailing the childhood of Daisy, the chaotic good rogue swordswoman of Dragon Warrior. However, the setting was more European fantasy world than Toriyama fantasy world. MASSIVE improvement in art as I grew beyond Toriyama art phase and explored American comics styles, and also was forced to learn shadow/light composition because a newspaper only has 2 colors. Cemented my current art style.

2. Discovered Impromanga (now defunct) online. Participated in many round-robin titles. Tried out a variety of art styles for each title. Started exploring manga style again, after I got over my shame of the manga style (y'all know what I'm talking about).

3. Some King of Fighters fight scenes.

Graduate:

1. Started FIGHT with Ed, an artist I befriended during my Impromanga romp. He approached me and asked if I wanted to come up with a story idea centered around the phrase "A Gathering of Heroes." I came up with FIGHT (he came up with the title; I couldn't think of one). FIGHT ran on Drunkduck during its early days; currently on hiatus.

2. Currently quietly working on FIGHT 2 with Ed. We don't plan to go online until we're done with 3 chapters. FIGHT and FIGHT 2 will go on DD simultaneously, because F2 is technically not a sequel. It's almost a simultaneous-quel in a weird way. And most ppl here never read FIGHT 1 anyways. And it's a cool new storytelling method (for me), having 2 titles set in the same world. And we'll continue on both titles once F2 catches up in page number with F1.

"Used Books" is the first thing I've ever drawn. (Not counting notebook doodles or high school art classes.) I started drawing it in January 2007. I'm 24.

I do believe it has already evolved (thank God; it was HIDEOUS). I doubt I'll do another comic -- Though judging from the enthusiasm around here, it seems addictive.

Probably the very first homemade original comic I remember making was also a vampire one, inspired by Vampire Hunter D. As far as I remember it starred two girls in skirts and bikini tops that hunted vampires....can't believe I made that. XD

There were LOTS of fan and original homemade comics I made as a kid...many I'm sure I've forgotten about.

I also made a lot of little Dragonball Z fancomics for a website I made with my sister.

My first attempt at my own original webcomic lasted only a couple of pages...I think it was called "The Dark Dimension"? Don't even remember what it was about...I just know it starred a short, evil girl with green hair.

After that was "Jack the Slayer" which was my first webcomic Jack starred in as a demon thing...with a tail...and a split personality. XD Boy, it was a mess plot wise and everything else...don't even want to talk about it.^^;

After that I went on to the uh...many incarnations of Vampire Phantasm.

I still think Vampire Phantasm is inspired by Inuyasha. You must have/had some sort of crush on Inuyasha.

Man, Inuyasha has gone to hell after all the fillers started. It used to be so good.

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I still think Vampire Phantasm is inspired by Inuyasha. You must have/had some sort of crush on Inuyasha.

If Inuyasha is like VP than it's a coincidence. I have never watched an episode of it in my life.

Elementry school~Middle School:
I did a 13 part pokemon gold series comic... each part was like 10 pages...
5 pieces of paper folded in half. I also did an alternate 3 part gold one and
a 6 part digimon thingy. They will never be online. NEVER!

Highschool~
Well... I began Lost Invisible right after I finished Junior year...
And then there was Pointless Project... a comic about... err it was a wacky
reality TV show comic I stopped after the fifth strip. it was done in 4 panels
a strip. It may come back. Cause its haunting me.
Then some fan comics (FMA) and other stuff...

College~
Lost Invisible still going. I was in highschool! K!? I'm till doing it
cause I love it and i have plot I love as well :3

And not too long ago I started Nightmare's Cure.

There was actually two alternate comics I might have done instead...
but I decided with this one as of now... so yeah, bunch of ideas
still foating in my head and sketch books...

Random Adventures- Throughout Jr. High I drew a series of comics I came to refer to as "Random Adventures" (I know, such a creative title). The whole series was actually based on a series of comics drawn by my friend Dustin. I wasn't very close friends with him, but he and his close friends were all in comics he would draw in his notebook. I asked him to put me in one, and he refused. So I drew my own comic, where I introduced a character like me that killed his character.

Now, just to explain the premise, the characters shared our names, but otherwise looked and acted nothing like us. My character had a cape and his hair was fashioned in "Sonic the Hedgehog" style ridges. He was also always drawn in profile, since I didn't know how to draw that hairstyle from any other angle.

The story was very "Final Fantasy" in setting, in that it was a more or less modern world with a lot of midieval stuff mixed in. Everyone's powers were derived from the Chrono Trigger system (everyone had an innate element, etc.). It went so far that Dustin actually changed his character design to look like Magus (as well as a few other guys to match), and I ended up playing along.

Eventually Dustin moved away, and I stopped focusing on writing comics about killing him pointlessly and started writing more for fun than anything else. Eventually I met my friend Kyle, and that's when I really got into comic-making. Kyle was also an artist, and was very creative (at least, compared to Dustin) to boot. We started to collaborate on our work, creating an actual setting for our comic world and redesigning the characters to look a bit more original. He had his own character, and our characters became more equal rivals than people who can instantly kill the other depending on who's drawing the comic.

I tried to continue the series into High School, but my thoughts and ideas were becoming too convoluted and way beyond my skill level to convey, so I put it on the "back burner" intending to pick it up again later. Looking back, though, the whole idea is pretty generic, so I'm just going to let it die.

Creatures of the Night - In a pre-Underworld America, I came up with the highly original and not-at-all contrived Creatures of the Night; a story about a Vampire (Steve) and a werewolf (Fred) trying to live a more-or-less normal life in "The City". It was basically an action-comedy, though looking back my excuses for an action sequence to occur were pretty contrived. Example: They follow a crazy cult to a ceremony, then decide to bother them for no reason and end up kung-fu fighting the lot of them. I wasn't aware of the concept of a webcomic at this time, so to make my story available to the public I actually printed it out on printer paper, stapled them together in "ashcan" format, and sold them for 25 cents a pop (which, looking back, probably didn't pay for the cost of printing). I ended up doing 4 issues at 12 pages each before discovering the internet. This was my Junior year of High school

Elijah and Azuu - So at this time I discovered the concept of a webcomic, and I was intrigued. Realizing that CotN wasn't really up to snuff, I decided to instead start a new series based on a story idea I'd come up with for CotN. I got myself a Keenspace account (which, of course, never worked), and started up Elijah and Azuu, with the intent to use it as practice for making comics until I was ready to go back to CotN (practice that is continuing 1200+ comics later). In case you're unfamiliar with me, the series is still going, and isn't likely to stop soon.

Napster.boat - During my senior year, while I was still doing E&A in black and white, I found myself with the ability to build up a backlog fairly easily, and so thought it'd be fun to do another comic that would update only on Sundays. The basic premise came from something my friends and I would joke about; going into international waters to avoid copyright laws and somehow become software pirates. I named all the crew after alcoholic drinks for no apparent reason, and haven't updated it in a few years.

Mahr's Miscellaneous Mishaps - I don't remember exactly when I started this series; it was some time during my senior year. Anyway, I'd made the mistake of trying to play Star Wars Galaxies, but while looking up some help guides online I came across this cool little Machinima comic about a Rodian bounty hunter. I basically just ripped off the premise, but my series lasted longer and looked a bit prettier. I eventually got it hosted on a site dedicated to Machinima comics, until the admin and I had a falling out. It hasn't updated in a few years either.

Exquisite Dead Guy - Named after the They Might Be Giants song, I started this series almost immediately after World of Warcraft came out. I was still on the machinima site, and I came to the decision to end Mahr and replace it with this new series. The series updated pretty regularly, since all I had to do for it was take screenshots and arrange them nicely on a page. It's actually easier to make than a sprite comic, which I'm aware of because of my last project...

The Shy Experiment - Last year the forums were having another of their "Sprite Comic" arguments. Anyway, part of that was the discussion about whether sprite comics were inherently flawed, or if there were so many bad ones by some kind of coincidence. So, for science, I did my best to create a "good" sprite comic. I had a lot of different goals, but the odd thing was that, since people seemed to like it, I didn't really enjoy working on it. I was expecting some harsh criticisms and some critiques and a desperate struggle to make something readable out of the wretched world of the Sprite, but apparently I'm pretty good at the damn things. Though I suspect a number of fans were just spillover from Elijah and Azuu, so that likely gave me an unfair edge. By coincidence, around the same time a few other guys got the same idea to make a "Good" sprite comic, and since I was the first one to advertise mine I got to look all special and original.


These days, though, I basically just work on E&A.

7th/8th Grade: The Adventure of Megaman X and Frost Beast
A crappy comic with Megaman X and a Slash Man recolor, inspired by, like every other beginner sprite comic, Bob And George. Stopped for lack of readers (I didn't know about DD back then.)

8th/9th Grade: Final Fantasy VI: The Real Fantasy
A way better comic than TAOMMXAFB (See above) and includes my first attempts at sprite comics using Photoshop more than MS Paint (Later comics, 50 and above), but I ran out of material and had to quit.

9th Grade: Anything Goes
My current project, and with all custom made sprites, backgrounds (Those aren't exaggerations, I've been working my ass off on them), and no plot to stick to like FFVI:TRF, I can write myself into places with usuable material!

1) Unnamed - It was mostly one or two panel comics involving this teddy bear I had when I was a kid. I dressed him up in boots and camo and gave him an Uzi and it was all about his random military adventures. I think I was, like, seven or eight. By the the time I was around ten he graduated to being the main character in short stories, usually for English classes where I had to write something using the spelling words that week. Drawn in pencil on notebook paper. I still have some of them.

With that my focused turned to writing, and it would be almost another ten years before I would start drawing anything other than margin doodles, turning my hand towards designing elements based off of my prose concepts for visual reference. That eventually snowballed into my doing comics.


2) 1994 "Yargels!" - A strip I did for a couple of punk `zines, which pretty much poked fun at the punks, goths, rivets, straightedges, and skins. It was a gag strip that involved the main character, a punk named Yargels, his Riotgrrl sister, goth girlfriend, and his two best friends, a straightedge and a non-racist (specifically SHARP) skinhead. Oh, and of course there was the obligatory pet, belonging to the sXe friend (Puff-less, the straightedge dragon). Initially it seemed like a fun idea, but rapidly it lost its appeal.


3) 1994 - "Morose" - A short 8 page comic. Set in a Virginia city after a virus had killed three billion globally, and governments had collapsed. It was a simple, straightforward story about a girl kidnapped by a gang planning on raping her, and the anonymous guy wandering through town who saves her. It was set in the same universe in which I was writing prose at the time.


4) 1995 "Anger in Being" - Another short. It took place in the same universe as "Morose", but closer the the characters in my prose (the grandaughter of two of the main characters). It also establishes a blood fued that will carry on through a number of my stories in this timeline, whether comic or prose.


5) 1995 "The Guild" - Took place almost 2100 years into the future of the same timeline, following a group of bounty hunters in training on an alien world, including characters by the name of "Quill Storms", "Trent", and "K'Siurra". It ran about 60-some pages.

"Yargels!" through "The Guild" were all done on copy paper with a #2 pencil and a ball point pen.


6) 1995-96 "Molly" AKA "Dimension" - There was no script, it was all freeform. It involved a cyborg girl named Molly and her military unit, under the direct command of the AI that governed their world, luring victims to be drained by the crystal that served as energy source for the AI. With Molly unable to deal with it anymore, and learning that the AI didn't create her, merely found her unconscious and studied her technology to where he could duplicate it and construct the others of her unit, she escaped. The unit gave chase, as did an enemy nation that saw Molly as a way for them to get an in to destroy the AI.

It was at that point where I started to lose interest in the story, and in a strange late night drawing spree I worked myself into the comic (the only time I've ever used myself as a character, or based a character on myself) in a sort of "Cool World" fashion. I drew myself drawing the page I was drawing, ripping the paper with the pencil, and then getting sucked in through the tear. But I was god, because I was "the Creator". It was cushy...except for the athiests, who wanted to kill me to prove I wasn't "god". That was much with the suck. But "The Creator" brought in Nike, a character from one of my prose stories, and she saved Molly. The whole thing ran for like 6 issues, becoming "Dimension" near the end. There was also another arc, about 3 or 4 issues, that took place twenty or so years after that involving Molly, Nike, and their daughter.

This was all done on Bienfang bristol, which is the worst paper I think I've ever used. All the pages were 10x15 inch image areas, quills and bottles. I used tone for most of it, here and there for contrast, but really it was far too cost-prohibitive at the time, what with one sheet going for anywhere between 5 and 10 dollars. I stopped using a pink eraser at the start of this book and shifted to kneaded. This project marked a shift in my style to a more cartoony style, one that could be considered "manga", though that really wasn't my intention.

Over the years Molly and Nike have become a couple, and their reality has remained aware of the Creator's existence. I still use them every now and then, in shorts. When I feel I need a break from the dark epics I'm prone to doing, or I want to do something a little "off", I put together a little Dimension short. It's been a couple years since the last one, it's probably getting close to that time again.


7) 1996-1998 "Prenna" - An ancient living starship was discovered by an alien species before humans were even a thought. The ship has been passed down through the years from one symbiotically bonded host pair to the next, a religion and a culture developing around the ship and her hosts. For a time, the ship was used to force a peace in the galaxy, but for as many friends as the generations of hosts have made, they've made more enemies, and many times the hosts to Prenna have had their species or their homeworlds wiped out by those enemies. Because of this weight, over the years, Prenna's power has been corrupted by each successive generation of hosts. Now it's come to Earth, and the two human siblings who have become the current host pair have to fight to keep themselves alive, Earth from being destroyed, the military from hurting their friends to try and get hands on the ship, humanity from descending into chaos as it becomes aware of such threats. Oh, and then there are the two galactic superpowers and the militaristic fragments of what was once Prenna's society, all of whom want control of her.

This was my first webcomic, from the mid 90s. I stopped it after issue 6 was completed, while I was working on pencils for 7, because I didn't like the holes I felt I saw in the story, and over the course of the six issues, my art had improved considerably (Prenna was actually created around the same time as "Molly", both being used as a test bed for developing my art). Issue 6 was just below the bottom edge of print-publishable quality, far as I was concerned, but the earlier issues were just atrocious, and I didn't want to continue on with something that I could never really put out anywhere because of the earlier quality. Even given that, oddly enough, it seemed to have a pretty good-sized following. Now closing on ten years after I started it and seven years since I took it off line completely (I let it sit online for a while after I stopped doing it), I still have people asking after it.

I switched to Higgins ink for my quills on this project. I was still using the Bienfang paper, though. Near the end I started using 2H lead in my pencil instead of the #2 equivalent HB.

This was book was notorious for massive rewrites. I must have five different versions of the first six issues, which go anywhere from changing a couple of scenes to being completely different stories.


8) "Two" - This was a story about a human girl, the lone survivor of a failed colony, and an alien who came to find each other friends on a world where there was no one else. It took place in the same timeline as "Morose" and "The Guild", and there were other elements, but it didn't go much of anywhere, only about 40 pages, so it's barely worth mentioning.


9) 1998 "Onyx" - A one-short story about a pirate captain and her crew, and one of their adventures. This actually takes place about one-thousand five hundred years after "Sune" and "Endless Winter". I did this one shortly after I stopped doing Prenna. Then I took a hiatus for about three years and didn't do any art.

This was a weird backslide for me, because I used both Bienfang and copy paper for this one. Whatever I could get my hands on.


10) "Home Made" - I don't really remember when I did this one, but it was here and there along the way. There were five strips total, I believe, most of them intended for Sexy Losers. It involved two half-siblings and their seeming inability to grasp the taboo of their, er, "special relationship". It was originally intended to use two of the main characters from Prenna, but I felt doing that would involve too many ties to a complicated backstory that just would not benefit in a 4 panel format, so I created two new characters for the strip. However, as a nod, I put a poster for "Prenna" on the bedroom wall in the first strip.

Alternating between a kneaded eraser and a plastic/white one on these strips.


11) 2001-2007 "Endless Winter" - During my hiatus I started writing this title. It takes place in the same timeline as "Morose" and actually began with the next generation, but as I wrote a 20-something Calypso and Sage Severns telling other characters about their parents, I became wrapped up in exploring who Cray and Maril Severns were, so I started writing about them and one of their adventures, at the end of their careers as pirates, smugglers, scavengers, and mercenaries. I started and stopped the art a few times because I had more important life type things on which to focus, so its development has been a little less concentrated than most. And so that's the story that's currently running on DD.

It was with this project that I started using EON's blue lined bristol board, a much nicer board to ink. I think, perhaps, "Home Made" fell pretty much within the early time of "Endless Winter's" development because now that I think about it, I used the same paper for those strips. By this time I was also using Rapidographs, Rapidoliners, and Microns in addition to my quills for inking. For ink I was using Dr. Ph Martins and FW.


12) 2005-2007 "Sune" - Same timeline as "Endless Winter". After a string of bad relationships, one that left me destitute and two that almost killed me, literally, I was all rediscovering myself. I've had a few friends over the years that have said I should write a book or do a comic about my life, given all the crazy shit I've been through, but my answer is that no one would believe it could all happen, at least not to one person (and I wouldn't even know where to start). So instead I took that whole general vibe of being lost and broken but on the verge of self-discovery and used it as inspiration for Sune. Like Endless Winter, it's running on DD.

Here I use Deleter paper. No particular reason other than when I did the 24 hour comic/first issue I'd ordered some Deleter the week before because I was interested in trying it and it was a quarter of the price of EON for twice as many sheets. While smaller and thinner than the EON, the paper has held up well. Outside of the first issue, I haven't used anything but Microns or staedtlers to ink this.

The script folder for "Sune" is huge. There are anywhere between five and fifteen revisions for each issue, sometimes minorly altering the timeline of the story, sometimes drastically. EVERY character has been considered for killing off over the course of the series, depending on the draft.

I'm a firm believer that people die, so do characters, so when there are life or death situations there really are life or death situations, because anyone could go over the course of a series.


13) 2006-2007 "Prenna: Shining Through" - This year is the ten year anniversary of the original "Prenna" going live online, so on the side I've been tinkering with this full-color prequel, which takes place two-thousand years ago and tells the story of the living ship and her hosts near death and being hunted by the combined fleets of three different species. That'll be two issues. There's also a revised version of the original story slated for this year, but I'm not doing the art for that, my friend Anthony is.



To the best of my recollection, that's about it. But I keep remembering things as I go along.

EDIT: I just added the few personally acceptable pages of Dimension to DD (which includes 2 short comics and a couple of pinups)...so that's up here now as well.

When I was in the 1st grade, I did comics:



It didn't have a name.

In the 8th grade, I did a comic called Icecream town. It was adorable...



That lasted about 5 pages.

Then, I did another comic, which is actually still up, but I'm not going to give you the URL. That lasted for 3 pages.

I'm going to continue that last one when I get better at drawing, because I like the storyline. Heeyyyy, that's what my avatar's from.

1987: I started working on four panel comics featuring a cartoon snake as the protagonist. As I as in grade school at the time, it mostly delt with how much I hated school.

1991: After getting a copy of Warriors of the Wind and buying a bunch of Akira manga (at the time I had never even heard the terms anime or manga and had no idea how bad of a hack job the movie was) I started copying the Ghibli style. Previously I spent more time drawing characters from TMNT (the comics, not the show). I didn't do much in the way of actual comics, though. I was more interested in game design, so any art I did tended to just be sketches (although I did do some fairly elaborate stickman battles in the margins of my notebooks).

1995: I started working on character designs and story concepts for a scifi comic I never ended up making. The idea was split into three longer comic series and I had the storylines for the first two pretty much all worked out. I wasn't satisfied enough with my art skills at the time to take it further, though. Maybe in the future.

2001: After losing focus on what I wanted to do with my life, I failed out of school and was forced to take a year off. After acing classes at the local community college, I earned the right to return and renewed my interest in art. Over the Summer in 2001, I approached a friend of mine about writing scripts for a comic based on an old RPG campaign we played a few years back. In September, I started posting the first pages of Bhag. The author and I are currently working on rewriting and redrawing that comic. While a few pages are up now, they will be replaced in the future.

2003: My author and I started working on various crossover comics. Most got posted, including an anual series of Christmas specials of Killroy and Tina. Since my author had worked on another comic in the past, he wanted to do a little crossover with a friend's comic which featured anime versions of herself and her friends. Rather than use Bhag characters, though, the comic was supposed to take exaggerated versions of us and a few of our friends and basically create mayhem and destruction in her comic's universe. In the end, we scrapped the crossover idea, though, and instead used the characters in a few shorted comics that we made for friends of ours who were getting married. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can still find archives for the Akhmed and Isukun Adventures. The art sucked, though, and they were full of in-jokes, so I wouldn't recommend them.

I think it was during that year that I also began work on a Bhag flashback comic that was supposed to have a more serious plot. It was more work intensive than Bhag, though, and the plot started to get gay (not that that's a bad thing, it just wasn't my intention), so I decided to take it back to the planning phase.

I also worked on stories and character designs for a comic called Nippon 2052 about a near future Japan that is thrown back into a feudal-type society after the new emperor fails to seize control of the country. That one started out as a project for a film class, but I had some difficulty deciding on how to handle the characters and the scenario, so I gave up on it. Same with a comic I was working on about a cat that turned into a ninja and a furry comic that featured a down on his luck lawyer who got Magneto-inspired superpowers from a black hole in his chest when he got drunk.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, we also create the Bhylle-Bobbe comic for the first Drunk Duck book. That series will likely pop up again in the near future as an interactive flash comic. Another author is currently working on the scripts.

2005: I created a number of character designs for a magical girl team after the Bhag author and I watched several episodes of Pretty Cure and discussed how we could improve on the formula. Then, a year ago on Sunday, we started posting the Teenage Girl's Guide to Her Ever-Changing Body based on those concept drawings (after much debate over the title). I think that brings me up to date.

my first comic... hmmm....
in eighth grade I was really good friends with this girl named Tricia and we thought we were the funniest people ever... and so one time after watching The Blue and the Grey in history, we laughed at how lame some of the lines were... they referred to war as "the elephant" so I drew this random picture of all these elephants with machine guns just slaughtering each other. it was pretty hilarious. even my history teacher liked it.. .. a little.

*then in 8th grade I started doing this comic about the adventures of these very bored goddesses who liked to descend from the heavens and wreak havoc on humanity. the main character looked exactly like Eve from MisfAs... (hehe) it wasn't the cleverest of comics, and mainly was about the main character mentally torturing her younger sister. oh, and the obligatory porn jokes. back in 8th grade, porn was effing hilarious.

*in ninth grade I started a comic called "Middle of Nowhere High" and it was about the depressing lives of high schoolers. There was an albino girl who had no pupils (I forget her name... I think people just called her The Albino) who sells her soul to the devil for pupils/ for the devil to be her BFF!! forever!! oh and there was a girly-boy named herman who always got beaten to a pulp... and the main character, augon, who is very unliked for no apparent reason. Then a new boy comes to school and he and augon become friends!!! yay!!! and they sit sadly and watch all the popular kids playing Twister and having fun. I didn't know about webcomics back then, so I just photocopied it and made my friends buy it. hehe. I stopped after a few months though.

*in senior year I made a really, really crappy comic (I drew it in ballpoint pen on lined paper... I spent maybe a minute drawing each panel...) about this girl who wants to win a jump-rope contest! so she gets the help of former jump-rope champion smokey robinson (no, not THAT smokey robinson) and his mute friend, Miracles... but smokey has an asthma attack, and so she never achieves her goal. then they make out (that was how every strip ended, with them making out). That comic lasted a while, and the main character and smokey attempted suicide, made a band, played scrabble, went to the beach, got deported, enlisted in the army... oh and smokey attempted to make out with the main character's half-sister (who was half-seahorse) and ate her by mistake.
wow, that comic was so much fun. I never named it though.

and then, MisfAs! almost all my other comics were drawn without any regard for artistry, and usually on the margins of homework assignments and stuff. So this is really my first *real* comic. (as you can probably tell from the art's improvement, XD!)

Ideas come, ideas go. I had so many ideas for my comic when I was a teen. Most of my ideas are bits and pieces of drawings that never gets transformed into a comic. I'll just list the significant ones that I did for the first time.

1st idea at age 11+:
A comedy comic about a French guy with no luck finding love. Instead of a decent girl, he gets gays, prostitutes, unfaithful ladies, ugly peoples, etc. going after him.

1st webcomic idea I actually drew at age 18:
A twisted tale of journey to the west in 1998-1999. It's basically the story of Saiyuki gets messed up. No, this story has nothing to do with Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki but it's actually a reference of the 500-year-old fantasy novel, Saiyuki [en.wikipedia.org], written by Wu Cheng'en. The comic was once hosted as Classic Tales Retold at Tang's Doji site, but original webcomic was lost forever due to the hosting site gone down.

I remember reading Journey To The West Chinese manga when I was a tot. That, along with Doraemon, were my staple manga consumption.

My parents had it easy.

1. Kid acting up? Give him a new issue of Doraemon or JTTW. Kid shuts up for a few hours.
2. Kid doesn't want to go shopping for clothes with Mom & Friends? Kid getting bored and antsy? Give him a new issue. Follows Mom & Friends all day without another word.

1. The Adventures of Robot Dude and The Adventures of Mindstormer: Both made in kindergarden. Both amazing bad. Both didn't make it past the first page.

2. 5tuff: I made this with my friend in 4th grade. Surprisingly, it's still being made today due to its random humor, tons of characters, simplistic to the max drawing style, and amazing amount of in-jokes.

3. White's Revenge: Xiao Xiao rip-off. Gory stick figure fighting goodness. No racial commentary intended.

4. SUPERHEROIC!!!: A comic that was supposed to feature all of my previous superhero characters (yes, including BFH.) I kind of forgot about it for a while.

5. Simple Awesomness: It was really good, turned into meaningless filler, got remade, and now hasn't updated in like 3 months.

6. The Adventures of Sludgey: Taught me that the random characters should never be heroes. And pie isn't funny.

7. All my Gnomz comics: I tried to bring story to a website offering only profanity and bush jokes. I failed. Miserably.

8. The Unnamed, Real- Life Random Comic: Some really random stuff taken from real life based on me and my friends. However, since me and my friends all pretty much look the same, I have purple spiky hair and my other friend has orange spiky hair. This one may be my favorite.

9. Fire and Ice: Based on a game on homestarrunner.com, this serious sprite comic may actually be my best one yet.

10. Whatever Dude: Pretty much 200% random filler. I'm desperately trying to get people to read it.

My next idea for a comic is Deathpool, which will be a drawn interpretation of my writing project which I'm currently doing for english class. It's going to kick butt.

Hmmm...let's me think.

The first one I can remember was Space Brigade, it was a superhero team book about a group of space travelers, I only made one twelve page issue.

Ninja 3000 Another superhero comic about a ninja in the future. Roughly 3 pages long.

The Legend of Okami I spent all four years of high school working on the script and concept art on this one. It was meant to be a really sweeping storyline it the form of shows like Escaflowne. A group of kids that get transported to an alternate dimension that is at war with Another alternate dimension. The story was suppose to be action, drama, and romance. It was actually pretty good but I couldn't transcend it to comic book form. Maybe I'll animate it one day.

Teck My most recent attempt at a super hero comic. I'm having trouble with it so I'm using my Civil War Event to practice, since the two are the same in look and feel.

The Pure Soul Started as a practice story for TokyoPop's Rising Stars of Manga contest. However once ideas started flowing it went WAY over the 20 page limit. I have idea for it but no actual script. I'm just writing it as I go.

Catholic School My first attempt at doing a full on romantic story. This is proving really difficult which is why its not even posted yet.

I've written a lot of stories but only a few comics, and only these ever actually went anywhere.

dang thats alot of history....

Well me I started off by drawing my comics by hand when i was little and soon stopped when i got into sports do to time. I think it was a spin off of Dragonball. I never gave it a name. after disovering sprites and found Insonicnia on the internet I was hooked on sprites and Now i could make comics and play sports.

Dragonball Spinoff: it was just random sprite comic to just practiced at

Megaman vs Sonic: This one i actully had a story but I got bored with it fast.

Kingdom Hearts Final: This was my first comic i actully had reviewed by anyone. People liked it but it was the same storyling of KH but I made Sora an Idiot, Mickey and Riku pimps, and just about skrewed up every charecter there. I liked it but i had other comic that i though about doing and put this one on hold

Crossover: This was my best work that I worked on. About 5 mangas try to prevent the darklord. It was hosted on MFZ for awile but the fourms closed and my comic was shut down with it. SO it was moved here. I havn't really had any comments on them yet so I have no clue if people will like them here yet.

I started with a shounen-ai comic called Destiny's Fool which was changed into a written novel. (I canf inish those in a month. The webcomics, not so much.)

Then I started Paranormal Activity and it seems to be sticking despite hiatuses.

I started Shadow Prince but have decided not to do it till after PA is finished.

Well, in middle school, I started a comic about cats who found an artifact from a lost civilization, snd then suddenly, all these evil kitties are trying (verrry unsucessfully) to steal it from them. I don't really know what everyone wanted that thing for, even to this day.
There was also a pair of bizzare kittens named Gurgle and Gulp that like jumping off of tall buildins and landing on one of the characters head for no reason at all.
It didn't make any sense, but it was still fun to do.

In high school, I started my first major project, titled "Ruins", which I never actually finished drawing, but I did write it in story form. This wasn't that long ago, and my current project, Hotaru, which is posted on here, is set in the same world about twenty or so years later.
Anyway, the story was basically that an insanely over-happy girl starts following a rebellious angel, a silent dark angel, and a robot. They all hate her. She dosen't seem to notice, much less care. After many misadventures together is search of a valuble piece of information that spells out the future of angels and demons alike, it has become clear that no one is exactly as they may first seem, and even the most cheery smile can hold a darkness that could rival that of even the most hate-filled demon.

I'm not telling any more then that, because that story is still very dear to me.

1999: A short comic strip featuring random poems that absolutely made no sense at all.
2002:Title: Chaos Incarnate. A story about a young teen who is the avatar of chaos. It was a very gloomy story. half rebirth and tragedy. It was a collab between me and another writer.
2003: Another short comic featuring poems. This time around they made sense. The theme was the discovery of yourself. It was half autobiography and introspective on who I wanted to be and how I planned to get there.
late 2005: The Little Star. It took me a while to finish this one but i did it.

There's a lot of started comics from the mists of time and space lying around in my house. From the looks of things, I made some comics when I was younger, based on stuff like 'The Lion King', 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and later I did some 'Warhammer' comics. They never got off the ground.
In high school, I did a few comics which gained popularity with bored classmates.

1. The Incredible Adventures of Stickman. (8 years ago)
It was quite simple. In fact, most of the jokes were entirely based on very little happening or a big drama being made over nothing, or the sheer ridiculousness of the situations. The cast were: Stickman, a nice, but clueless guy. Stick Lady, smarter than stickman, but also hysterical in a cliched heroine way. Evil Stickman, who had to be foiled and say 'd'oh!' in order for any strip to end. The Skeleton army...of two skeletons. I actually went as far as to do a rather long spoof of Star Wars ep I in this comic, and it was widely read in classrooms.

2. Chalk and Cheese. (7 years ago)
I really started to dislike the number of people asking me why even though I was a pretty decent artist, I did a comic with stick people, so I made a comic with an original cast that was very random. Bob the Exploding Tortoise, who was very pessimistic and often exploded in a mushroom cloud. Snuffles the Hyper-Intelligent Guinea Pig, who was super smart, but unable to communicate this, so people thought he was a normal guinea pig. Sir Colin, the Motorbike Knight, who wore biker clothes and a helmet all the time, but actually HAD no bike, he as always saving up for one. Potter, the 35 year old bookshop worker who thought he was Harry Potter...And, probably my favourite, Flamingo-Man, a ridiculous superhero in a tutu who turned up at the mention of the word 'Flamingo', or anything that sounded vaguely like it saying "DID SOMEBODY SAY FLAMINGO!?" ...Needless to say, this comic proved exactly WHY I did a really simple comic with stick people. Very few people 'got' it.

3. Star Legion 22 (the old one) (7 years ago)
I'm currently working on another comic project by this name that's totally different. The original SL22 was a very private affair, drawn in very minimalist, plain pencil line art, barely shown to other people and never uploaded. It was a sci-fi fantasy about groups of teens fighting and researching monsters in their town, and there was a lot of shadowy stuff going on behind-the-scenes. It fell through in the end, 'cause it lacked purpose and development.

4. Anglomanga (the old, old one) (6 years ago)
The old Anglomanga was heavily inspired by Megatokyo and vaguely based on my everyday life as an English teenager. The main heroine was Emily Lancaster, nicknamed 'Coda'. It ran for about...uh...four strips in the 4-panel MT format. It was really WAY too much like MT. It was my very first webcomic.

5. Stereo'ed (5 years ago)
A spoof of RPG games that was a little too close to RPGWorld in humour style to ever have been a serious project. Some of the character designs were kind of cool though. I DID think the Penblade from Ikea was a good joke as the main hero's weapon though...maybe the only really good joke in the few pages I did. This comic was part inked and pencil-crayoned, part pencil shaded, then later I did a few strips spoofing Zelda in a really different, CG'ed style with new characters, one of whom was Coda from Anglomanga.

6. Anglomanga (the old one) (4 years ago)
This featured Coda again, as a magical girl this time. Also, my real life friend Kim appeared as a ninja girl who hated Coda imposing on her territory as the town's protector (reflecting our friendly rivalry as fighters and artists in real life). It really didn't run very long, but there are some things from it which will resurface in FanDanGo.

7. Anglomanga (last year)
This may yet get re-uploaded. I used the name 'Anglomanga' for all my random gag-sketches. It has pretty much always been my standby comic name of choice. This is actually, technically a newer comic than FanDanGo, it's just not running right now.

I actually did several, under a fictitious comics "company" called "Saber Comics."

The AR-MEN: 1980 - 2001 This was my baby, the first and longest running superhero team comic. I started this in 1980 and unofficially stopped in 2001...but I did a finale issue last year and put it online (not on DD, sorry). And don't ask me what the "AR" stands for, I never figured that out; it just looked cool. This ended up have 146 issues, 6 annuals, 2 special editions and 3 giant-sized issues. Woohoo!

Lupine: 1983 - 1986 A werewolf story with a twist. This was pretty much a deliberate New Mutants fancomic with the addition of a couple of my own original characters. This was the only time I ever wrote myself as a (lead) character. What can I say, I wrote this between the ages of 12 and about 15.

The Star Men: 1984 - 1989 I inherited this series from a childhood friend of mine who started this comic around the same time I started the AR-MEN. He got tired of writing and drawing it and basically said "Here, run with it!" So I did. Another superhero team but I enjoyed developing the characters and it helped advance me as a writer and an artist.

Caution: Party Zone (1988) My first attempt at a comic strip for a college newspaper. I made 30 strips, penciled and inked (with zipotone shading!). Bring a mystical book into a party filled with stoners and watch the fun begin!

Joe's Generic Strip (1991) My second attempt at a comic strip for a college newspaper. Also around 30 strips but a lot more fun. A college student's physics experiment goes wrong and at night, he transforms from a scrawny geek into a muscle-bound long-haired metalhead. Neat stuff! I might resurrect it here for nostalgia...

isukun
2003: My author and I started working on various crossover comics. Most got posted, including an anual series of Christmas specials of Killroy and Tina.

And thats when I fell in love with you isukun

Common Sense (2005)-
This was basically the first version of Victory Theme. I called it Common Sense at the time because it sounded cool, and I would still call it that, had the name not already been taken .It contained one-dimensional characters, poor quality jokes, needless swearing, and a bit of violence- worst of all, I classified it as a 'gaming comic'. I only have two of the three sketchbooks that I drew comics in, because one was confiscated by my middle school. Due to the violence (which was comparable to Penny Arcade, which my comic somewhat ripped off), the school thought I was going to become some sort of Columbine shooter, and decided to confiscate the sketchbook (which contained the only somewhat-decent comics I ever produced). It was also requested that I go into counseling.

Come to think of it, I also made a sprite comic during that period, using mostly handmade sprites. It has since been lost in the annals of history time, much to the relief of everyone with a rational mind.

1993: LSER, tale of the Library Database Robot. I'd be shocked if anyone in the entire world besides me has any copies left. It appeared in a newsletter for the University of Delaware's Library.

1994 to 1996: The Adventures of Superchum and the Mighty Befrienders, published twice a week in the University of Delaware paper, The Review.

1994 to 1996: I did weekly political cartoons.

1997: The Adventures of Superchum and the Mighty Befrienders appeared on the First State Comics website.

1998: Superchum #1 was self-published. Boy did I lose money on that one! Hah!

1998 to 2000: The Adventures of Superchum appeared weekly in The Reporter in Lansdale, PA.

2000: I did some crazy 4 page thing for a jam comic, Worlds of Adventure.
2000: I started a jam comic, called The Originals. I think I scared everyone because I went a bit too deep into the tech aspect of how someone could teleport. It failed miserably.
2000: Superchum went back to the web. For about 5 months.

2005: Judges the Movie preview comics.
http://www.judgesthemovie.com/Comics.html
Sonny King, Deadline ... Buddy Colt: Field of Blood ... and Afrodeesiac: Do the Hustle.

That's my published history of comic strips, at least. I won't bore you with one shots and failed projects that never saw the light of day on any kind of regular basis.

-Steve