This archival comic reader includes a curated selection of my cartooning work released between 2007-2017 across four ridiculous projects. Read below to learn more about each individual series, if you dare.
Ten years of comics you didn't know existed.
Exploding Wumpus
December 2007 — June 2010
Total Strips Produced
256
Total Strips Archived
70 (trust me, that’s for the best.)
What’s It All About?
My then-immediate friends, popular culture, gaming, and nerd stuff.
Content Rating
PG-14 – Immaturely, inconsistently, vulgar.
What You Need to Know:
Exploding Wumpus was my very first foray into the Wonderful World of Webcomics. I began the strip when I was 15 years old, at the behest of my exceptionally tech-savvy friend (hi, Matt!) who had created a website for himself, our friends, and what we truly believed to be hilarious ideas for blog articles, video content, and more. Fast-forward 10 years to see that anything yet-surviving has been specifically chosen for your eyes. The rest – incinerated, salted, or willingly forgotten. We were teenagers. It wasn’t great.
The first six strips released together in December of 2007, after which time I promptly quit. They say never to write about yourself, or your friends — “What?” I yelled back, unconcerned as I ran in the exact opposite direction of that advice. However, I truly believe that if I hadn’t done it that way, I would have never made a seventh strip – because they eventually tried convincing me to start again, and I did, in March of 2008. Now, while it may not all be pretty, I have a time capsule of our hijinx, and in the case of some friends who are no longer with us, I could ask for no greater treasure.
The Aversion Bureau
June 2011 — July 2013
Total Strips Produced
457
Total Strips Archived
457
What’s It All About?
A buffoonish secret agency protecting the world the only way it knows how (poorly.)
Content Rating
PG13 – No really bad words. Occasionally inappropriate jokes.
What You Need to Know:
Stories of the world’s most well-meaning, yet woefully underfunded and mismanaged apocalypse-prevention agency as it attempts to thwart unimaginable evils on a budget. It’s a comedic, character-driven adventure that contains more content than anything I’ve ever done before or since.
Feeling I had learned so much of what-to-do and what not-to-do with the formless, inside-joke enigma machine that was Exploding Wumpus, I was determined to treat THIS comic like work, and make it unlike the last project in every way I could. I took the route of a story-based adventure, planning the characters, setting, and plot as much as I could before creating a package of finished strips to launch with. For the first year-and-a-half of TAB I treated its production like a full-time job. I posted five black and white strips, Monday through Friday, without fail, and created a sixth, full-colour “Sunday Strip” whenever my insanity meshed with mortal time well enough to allow it. Although you have to watch me re-learn how to draw from the first strip of this project, I struggle to apologize sincerely. If you allow it, this comic will take you places.
Gamer Roommates
November 2013 — May 2015
Total Strips Produced
141
Total Strips Archived
125
What’s It All About?
Internet culture, video games, and absolutely random nonsense.
Content Rating
PG-14 – Often vulgar, but with a more refined palate.
What You Need to Know:
Gamer Roommates is a no-concepts-barred gag comic strip set to the tune of “two guys sitting on a couch playing video games” — the name itself being a hilarious (I certainly thought so) play on the idea that, since the dawn of web cartooning and its subsequent near-domination by the monolithic now-corporation Penny Arcade, that EVERYBODY and their artistic dog has created a comic strip about “two guys sitting on a couch playing video games.” Of course, almost nobody received the title of the strip as the masterful lampooning it was intended to be, and I spent most of the next two years too busy making comics to even play any video games, resorting then to jokes about whatever nonsense amused me while I toiled at my work-a-day job.
This comic was the first time I ever really saw quantifiable “success” with a project while it was still updating, and all the lamentation of its inert joke-title aside, Gamer Roommates is a real treat. I spent most of a year paying my rent with it thanks to the Patreon service – whereby fans contributed directly to its creation in return for (late-delivered) perks and sneak-peeks. Eventually, my life and primary employment changed so drastically all-at-once that I decided to stop producing the strip despite its apparent success. Regardless, t’was a wild harvest. Enjoy the fruits.
IT HAS PICTURES
November 2016 — March 2017
Total Strips Produced
100
Total Strips Archived
100
What’s It All About?
A completely disconnected series of jokes and increasingly desperate puns.
Content Rating
PG-13 – and only rarely treading into 14.
What You Need to Know:
It Has Pictures was a flash in the pan return to cartooning almost a year-and-a-half after the end of Gamer Roommates. I had been briefly unemployed and just wanted to get back to the creative production of something personal, instead of for-hire, and whatever it was going to be, it was going to be mine.
So, I got myself psyched up with a dead-simple production plan and started making strips as soon as I could. To my mind, the production of It Has Pictures was purely about cartooning for the sake of cartooning – no pretense, practice, or packaging. I did research by looking closely at the kinds of quick-and-easy comics I was enjoying myself at the time — stuff that would not only be easy to think of, but easy to produce. No idea would be too small for It Has Pictures, because the title itself was the only rule I followed. I didn’t set myself to a particular product, nor did I worry about where it was going in the future – I simply started making comics until I couldn’t anymore (around the time that I became gainfully employed again.) The first 54 strips were released daily, and I adopted a three-per-week schedule after that point. All in all, It Has Pictures was a challenge, an experiment, and a pent-up cartoonist just going absolutely nuts for five months the same way a convict gets out of prison and just has sex, eats cake, and has sex with cake – just whatever, man. He lives life. He lives it until it breaks apart in his hands — like cake you’re trying mercilessly to have sex with.
