I’ve been taking it easy the past few weeks so I really don’t have anything new to post. I’ve mainly been working on updating Animafax.com. I’ll be sure to put a post here when it’s done. I’ve had some time off lately and I’ve been sorting through some of my old crap and realized that I had digital copies of all of my old comic srips from my university days. They’re the low-res versions, but at least I have them. I drew this comic called Jungle Jazz for The Argosy, the student news paper at Mount Allison, every week for about two years if I remember right. The strip is pretty simple and just plays off the personalities of Ringo a screwball monkey and Sam a “straight-man” snake. There are some other characters that come in, but I don’t want to ruin the surprises. In an effort to keep up my blogging I’m going to post one strip here every Wednesday. I don’t think I’ll be drawing any new ones but I have quite a few to post.
It’s funny to look at your old stuff. At the time, I was reading a lot of FoxTrot by Bill Amend and Sherman’s Lagoon by Jim Toomey. You can totally see it in the posing, layout, and even some of the pacing of the Jungle Jazz strips. Like a lot of cartoonists I have to say that Calvin and Hobbes by bill Wattersonis by far my all time favorite strip. Lately, meaning over the past two or three years, my favorite strip is easily Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman. Jim Borgman has a blog where he chronicles his work as a political cartoonist. Busy man.
That’s enough yammering out of me. Here is the first strip!
