#036
Here’s the first part of a new chapter. Who knows how many parts there’ll be?
(I do, and it is probably five.)
I’m in kind of a rush right now, but I’ll come back later today and put up some Comicon sketch stuff like I promised.
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LATER: Okay, here’s most of the stuff I drew in my sketchbook during downtime at Planet Comicon last weekend:
Octopus Kid on a pogo stick! Whaaa?
There were roller derbyists skating around the telling people about their match on Saturday night. They didn’t come talk to me, but I still drew one.
Nothin’ really special on this page.
I drew a scarf-based superhero, and on the right are some notes of interesting things that were going on.
I like interesting people. One of the best short stories I’ve written was inspired by a girl at the Plaza Art Fair, running around with her friends but sticking out like a sore thumb because she was dressed in a huge hockey jersey. (I should submit that around, actually.) This is a picture of another interesting person, this one from Planet Comicon, though I was working from memory and probably didn’t capture much of the likeness.
This is an idea that I had last Sunday, since my table-neighbor was telling people about a book he wrote involving a cult and the end of the world. My idea is called “Cady’s in a Cult,” and it would be a longer-form graphic story about a girl named Cady who’s born and raised in a cult. I was imagining her staying up late and talking to her wild, Lovecraftian alien god, kind of like those moments in “Persepolis,” and writing a respectful investigation of not just religiosity, but what it means to be born into any system of belief (moral, political, environmental, etc.). I might start writing it over the summer if it keeps blooming in my head, shooting for 40-100 pages, maybe. My favorite thing about the prospect of drawing it is everyone dressed in the same robe. It would be so easy to draw people if everyone wore the same thing.
Hi Jimmy
I was the a–hole at Planet Comicon that made the made the association between your work and Calvin and Hobbes. Yeah, move. Sorry ’bout that.
But you made a bridge for me, from the most loved comics of my childhood to what is actually created today. Thank you for that.
I have gotten mounds of enjoyment from seeing your work. Mrs. Wormwood and the Gorilla Teacher are so much alike. But it was really the red-and-black striped shirt that linked the two together.
Thanks for bringing back a memory of my childhood, and for rekindling the basis of my sense of humor today.
Dude, this is the best comment I’ve gotten about the comic and the sentiment behind it means a lot to me. I hope it’s okay if I filter some of the language. I told a lot of kids about the comic at PC, and I’m keeping the website friendly for them.
I’m flattered by any association with Bill Watterson, too, because I’ve been a big fan for a long time and he has obvious, not so obvious, intentional, and unintentional influences on Dinosaur Kid. Other people said they saw a lot of Rocko’s Modern Life, which I was also a big fan of, and there are a lot of similarities in the look of the characters. I think that one’s funny though, because the links to Rocko never even occurred to me. That’s just how I learned to draw, I guess, and I never thought about the source.
I found out about this comic from Planet Comicon. I’ve been reading the older comics and really like them so far.
Interesting seeing the sketches from Planet Comicon! I love seeing what observations other people pull from things.
I also thought your style reminded me a lot of Rocko’s Modern Life (which I loved as a kid)!