Joel Duggan

This weeks comic is on time! Woot!

Things have been crazy once again this week. I’m trying to make more time for myself lately to draw and toss some fun things up here. This comic is from a series of six running gags about Ringo and his pet rock. The series was actually the first set of strips to run in The Argosy at Mount Allison. These aren’t the originals. After I graduated I sent Jungle Jazz to several syndicates to try and get published and the artwork from the original pet rock series was really dated, so I redrew the comics to better match the bulk of work I had done by the time I graduated. I’d have to ask her again to make sure, but I think the pet rock jokes are my sister’s favorites.

I haven’t been that up to date with my blogging. I keep trying to post at least once a week, but even since the New Year I haven’t been able to keep even that up. Here is this past weeks Jungle Jazz comic. The first of the longer series of gags is coming next post. Enjoy!

I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite comic strips is Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman. Jim Borgman is also a political cartoonist in Cincinnaty. He has a great blog with sketches, notes, thoughts, and finished cartoons. I’ve been a bit behind in keeping up with some of my favorite blogs, what with the holidays and a busy start to the new year, so I took some time today to browse around. When I reached Borgman’s blog I found an interesting string of statements concerning minorities in cartoons. It’s not overly long, but a good read. I reccomend it for any walk of cartoonist.

I’m still working out how to post this properly with the New Blogger. The straight link to the post made on Friday, January 12 is below.

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/borgman/

Most of the early Jungle Jazz comics are just “one off” gags. Looking back I think I was still exploring the characters personalities and how they relate. Later when I got more comfortable with the characters, I started working small story runs of six comics. These next couple of gags were inspired by Mark O’Hare’s Dog’s Best Friend. O’Hare did some great gags that had distinct timing using multiple panels of just silhouettes.