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White Boy Summer Draft Picks Just Leaked

This was an idea prompted by my friend Spencer. Who’s on your ideal “White Boy Summer” crew?

Not pictured here:

-Two drunk guys wearing Joy Division shirts who get into a fight because each one thinks the other physically stole their shirt somehow

- Barefoot + cutoff jorts guy who actually CAN backflip, and is also really sick with the diabolo. Thinks bare feet is natural and healthy, and that cavemen could outrun dinosaurs easily. Is constantly walking directly over grilled vegetables at cookouts and then eating them...

Trying My Hand At Poety

In case you live under a rock, Rupi Kaur is in the twittersphere again for posting this nightmare fuel; there's something so viscerally uncomfortable and awful about it, something ascendant beyond simply "cringiness", some feeling which cannot be fully articulated but best described by the sensation it induces-- as if your skin is trying to pull apart from you flesh and physically walk out of the room. Awful. I could spend whole paragraphs tr...

Two Friends Discuss Dogs

Everyone: Pugs are so cute!

Pugs: 

Originally, I went into the research of this comic with the exact hunch of tall friend; humans are so unrelentingly and nonchalantly cruel to animals in so many aspects of life, surely that same attitude extends into the realms of pets, no? Well, as it turns out... not totally! The thing that immediately struck me is how powerful the attachment between man and dog is post-socialization; dogs actuall...

Adding some new tiers to my Patreon! Please read below for more information

Hello!

As you may or may not have noticed, I just added two new Patreon tiers: 5$ and 10$. Now, first and foremost, let me assure people: nothing is being taken away from 2$ patrons, who will still have full access to all content posted on here. Instead, the new tiers just offer more options for people who want to support me, as well as a special shout out every month. Let me explain briefly;

When I first started the Patreon about a year ago, I never really anticipated it being anything more than a place to put s...

Marvel Fucks Up

There are two potential problems with this joke, which I won't know the extent of until it hits public eyes. The first one is that the joke just doesn't read clearly, and people will think that the idea is that conservative fans will react negatively to a classic character being non-binary.

On the far other side of things, there is the potential reaction that non-binary will see this and go "Yeah, so? Whats the problem?" There is a trend among certain NBs I've seen around twitter to self-describe by saying stuff like "I'm gender trash....

Bad Enders Chapter 2 pp 49-54

It's been a minute since the last update, sorry! I've been spread thin across a lot of other things. 

Read the new pages here 

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My New Comic Series

This comic really runs the gamut of BT tropes--  introspection, massive walls of text, overthought commentary on the stupidest of dumb internet minutiae, and sex jokes. 

This comic originated because I though of the "Biden is a reboot of the Obama administration" joke, and thought it was sorta funny but not really, which got me thinking of other gaming jokes, which made me think of the CD Projekt Red joke, which I did think was very funny, and then I started thinking about the role of "gamer comics" in the current ze...

Cute Monkey Videos

Argh, that last panel really bothers me-- I spent so much time trying to get the perspective right, but it still looks weird. Whatever. Spent a ton of time getting the minutiae of the wording right on the video titles too, wanting to make sure that words weren't overused, comedic patterns are clearly readable, while making sure that blame is cast on the human in question, not the monkey, for what entails.

Originally, I didn't intend to have the last panel be so sad, but as I was thumbnailing the comic in my head, that just seemed to be...

Powerpoint Comedy at Bummer City Open Mic (Starts at 1hr13m)

Hey! In case you missed it, yesterday I did a little bit of not-quite-stand-up, not-quite-comic comedy at a local Boston artist's open mic that invited me as the featured act. It was a blast getting to try out something new, even though my nerves meant the delivery wasn't the smoothest. It's about 25 minutes long, and starts around the 1 hour 13 minute mark in the embedded video (although you can also stick around and watch the other people do their thing, as well)

It's chock full of funny stuff, so if you like my comics I think this i...

Animal Crackers

This is very much a throwback to the older, shittier-drawn, less wordy style of comic, but I still think the concept is pretty good. Perhaps I need to refine my ultra-cartoony style, though...

I was a zoology and philosophy double major in college. Taking philosophy definitely helped improve my writing and critical thinking skills, and taking zoology improved literally nothing about my life. I did, however, get to learn and memorize a shitload of bones and muscles and the names of a ton of weird-ass animals. It's truly given me an appr...

Damage Control

I've actually been sitting on this idea for a while, and when the Lincoln Project shit went down, I knew it was the universe telling me it was time. 

One joke I didn't end up using because I couldn't figure out how to maneuver it in was Pilson finding a way to say something like "Look, this isn't put on! I know all the random phrases, even the new ones! Poggers and such" and then being asked by the interviewer why he knows all the words that only teenage boys use.

When deployed right, I think a simple "What the" is far funni...

Every Magic The Gathering Card vs Every Yugioh Card

Bing bang boom. A simple one. I usually try to put more effort into the artwork of the comics these days, but I'm not sure I should've bothered trying to replicate Magic's James Gurney-esque oil painting or Yugioh's bright and catchy airbrushed look. I'm a completely amateur painter, and I think the overly detailed and accuracy-intended look of the art may actually distract from the punch of the joke. Using the same simple artstyle for both cards might heighten the differences and increase the humor. Ah well.

One additional aspect I di...

Fandom - A Comics Quadrilogy

Here's another comic about twitter. As with most character design projects, I got way mor into it than I needed to for something that would only appear as a one-off gag, so there are some design sketches at the end there. 

There was an interesting little moral question that went into the creation of the second comic-- the main joke is essentially lifted from, well, real life. Someone had retweeted a screencap from a screencap aggregator twitter account ("cringe political posts" I think it was) where two people were arguing in earn...

A Comic About Maturity

During quarantine, I’ve felt some stagnation in my ability to be funny, the lack of social interaction meaning a lack of situations necessitating on-the-spot humor. I have, however, had a lot of time to reflect on myself, my life, my fears, and what I believe— I imagine most people have. So, after a lot of unexpected positive reception to previous introspective comics, I offer this.

I think comics that are intimately personal are a good way of creating powerful narratives— packed with intimacy, drawing deep emotionality out of th...

Ancient Greek YouTube

AnotherYouTube parody, eh? Isn't this all a little... base? Maybe. And yet, I'd like to think that there's at least something a little more interesting about the YouTuber phenomenon, something that cuts a little closer to home about the nature of both us as individual humans and us as a culture-- I think it's a little different than just having Zeus and Heracles walking around a mall and going "whoa, what the heck?" Maybe it's not. Maybe if it's funny, it doesn't really matter. So, is it funny?

I think the art is quite solid in the fir...

The Ultimate Christmas Album

Surprise! My grinchlike dislike for Christmas has yielded two separate anti-Christmas works this December. Huzzah! 

Modern christmas music really is the pits-- you either get:

1) pathetic attempts to remix and remake Christmas classics like Jingle Bells, songs with tunes and rhythm so old and shitty that no amount of synthesizer can save it

2) Cringey attempts by major musicians to create a new modern original hit, people like The Strokes or Foster The People coming out with songs called like "Just another New York Chr...

Two Friends Discuss Soda Pop

This is a comic that I felt a little less strongly about the longer I worked on it. There's so much bonkers shit about the history of soda that I had to make it double length-- but even still, after all the cramped text, there was little space left to freely riff-- most of the jokes in this comic are just straight retelling of historical fact, which is fine, I guess, but I think I can do better. I think the "Chemistry" two friends comic is the high point, currently. 

Originally, the argument was going to escalate further and culmi...

The Remake Genie

This is a fairly old-school style comic-- no dense text bursts, just a sort of comedy-sketch style gag. I think it's just okay. The humor rests almost solely on familiarity with outside material, and even though the art is alright in some parts, there are other where you can clearly tell I just said "fuck it, I don't care." Designing a hulking, bejewled genie is a lot more fun in theory than in practice. The girl, on the other hand, is a sort of genderswapped J Helzer, with some other little character design elements I wanted to practice thr...

WHO KILLED SANTA? (an instant holiday classic)

Below is a brand new short story you can download and read! I won't spoil anything here, but I will say that the genesis of this idea was a conversation about samey, boring Christmas movies for kids; shit called Ted Christmas or like The Christmas Goose about a fat fucking cg goose who has to save Christmas. Even Christmas movies for adults are usually the same shit! Some romcom holiday movie about a dysfunctional family someone's significant other has to meet, some lonely chick wishing for a Christmas romance (who might find it in an un...