Tales From the Spiffee Burger 012: Communication

 

Being able gt "smell what The Hat is cookin': makes Cookie a special girl, indeed!

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 011: Past Mistakes

We've all taken jobs in a fit of desperation, at one point or another that we ultimately regret.

Say what you will about Spiffee Burger (and I'm sure you WILL), it's a helluva lot better than "Sloppy Toppy's Topless Bar & Grill"! 

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 008 to 010: Szechuan Sauce

 Thus begins the short saga of the Szechuan Sauce guy. i know I've posted this before, but if I am gonna be reposting my comics over here in this BlogSpot for a while (At least util I can make enough money to reobtain my own personal website), then I'd like to keep them in order.

So:

And a small test of the video feature:

Did it work??

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 007: That Guy

 

So THAT'S who Zack's been talking to all this time! But who IS he? Doesn't matter. What does matter is that Cookie can see him too, for some reason, but wisely "NOPES" her way out of the situation.

iPractice

 Trying to get the hang of the new iPad. I've resolved to do some practicing on some free digital art apps before I commit to buying/downloading a specific one. The free sites are... incomplete(?) because, well - they're FREE! How much did I expect? Still, I have to admit that I am much better at the 'draw directly on screen with a stylus' than I thought I would be!

Here's a few practice runs with Warren and Verolina from Tales From the Spiffee Burger:

For today's practice scribbles, I've been using Canva.com, Magma.com and sketch.io.

Not too bad for a rank amateur, if I do say so myself! I'm even more happy that the iPad didn't burn out after ONE FRICKIN' USE, like the last draw-on-screen thing I got did, 4 years ago.

I think it was a WACOM thing? I'll have to dredge its corpse out of the closet and check, but I think it was. I bought it, and Clip Studio Paint with the Bien money in March of 2021.

I used it ONCE, to make this:

A picture of "not" Tom & Jerry. It was literally my very first attempt and I was satisfied with it. The machine was working fine, I was satisfied with the 'test run'. I turned the machine off and when I turned it on again the next day, it turned ON but would not accept drawing on the screen AT ALL. it became a mirror monitor for my laptop/paperweight. Never found out why.

I had even stopped using CSP. I didn't reactivate that until Photoshop's subscription bullshit got too REAL for our bank account, 2 years ago.

I still have CSP and I think it would do fine with an actual stylus, but I am searching to see if something better is out there.

A lot of folks whose art mojo I admire use Procreate, and that looks fun. The best part is that it's apparently only $12.99 and is a buy-only-once app with no subscription.

I think I may go for that and just keep CSP on my (dying) laptop for clean-up purposes.

Happy PI Day, everyone!

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 006: Bingo!

 

Who else did stuff like this at their jobs in orde to make that asshole customers more tolerable?

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 005: Regular Customers

 

Cookie doesn't like CLOWNS. Someone in my original comments sectio pointed out that those two should really be eating at Krusty Burger, which mafe me remember that there IS a 'Springfield' in Missouri! Perhaps it's a neighboring town to St. Murphy?

Out of Order

 I've been on, ast least, a little roll, lately, when it comes to Tales From the Spiffee Burger. The first chapter - "Cookie's First Day" is still in full swing. I realize that with that last post being about Cookie, I've skipped ahead in reposting the comics to this site, so I have to remedy that... sorta.

Firstly, let's post the next strip in the rotation. Spiffee Burger #5: Regular Customers

Yes, Cookie has a mild case of Coulrophobia. Someone in the comments section of the original post mentioned that this couple should really be eating at Krusty Burger. Hey, there's a "Springfield" in Missouri, right? Maybe St. Murphy, Missouri, where this comic takes place is a neighboring city - or dimension?

Now. After the last post, it's only fair that I post part 3 of the "Szechuan Sauce" saga.

Good riddance to that guy! And, we find a bit more about Cookie! Psych major! Plus, a little cameo in the bottom panel from Raylin of WynautWarrior's "Hopebringer" comic!

Now, the Szechuan thing was comics numbers 8, 9 and 10. The next time I post a Spiffee comic, it will be number 6 and I will move forward from there. Confused yet?

One last bit of goodness:

Digging through my files, I found the first 2 bits of fanart for Cookie/Spiffee Burger.

One from ComicFury user Casscade of Cookie looking non-plussed:

Going full-circle with the above, every time I look at this bit of art, I can hear Marge Simpson's exasperated groan in my mind's ear.

Also from ComicFury comes this piece by Microraptor, of Cookie before the Spiffee Burger job, where she worked at a Star Trek themed coffeehouse native to Micro's comic, Cryptida.

Quite nice!

Cookie Bellingham

 I've been getting a good bit of mileage out of Cookie Bellingham this last week.

Tales From the Spiffee Burger's current chapter is all about her first day on the job, and the last two pages have her dealing with a "problem" customer.

Y'all know the SZECHUAN SAUCE story, yeah?

5 Nerd Points to the first one who can tell me where Cookie's Pop Culture Reference comes from!

Over on ComicFury, I've done scribbles in certain forums for ol' Cookie as well.

First, there was the "Draw your character in an overly cute style" prompt, in which I made a chibi Cookie.

I probably should have made her eyes bigger.

Then, there's the "Doing Nasughty Art of your Comic Characters" thread in which I posted Cookie's glow in the dark earrings and bioluminescent tattoo.

In the end, I'm glad I put Cookie in the Spiffee Burger comic. The original slice-of-lifwe idea I had for her probably wouldn't have gone too far.

[Bitter] Also, as a footnote, "Happy" 50th birthday to She Who Will Not Be Named. (the FIRST one.)

Here's hoping that getting old didn't agree with you. [/bitter]

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 004: Solace

 

A girl likes to be complimented from time to time, and there are few greater compliments than one of an incompatible sexuality expressing an admiration for your body. I think. I guess. Maybe. Your Mileage May Vary.

If you can't tell, Verolina may have a teeny little crush on Fitz.

Tales From the Spiffee Burger 3: Personal Details

 

Yes, it's true! I cannot tell you how many straight women, gay dudes and self-identified asexuals I've known who, despite their various sexualities to the contrary really dig tits!

Tales From the Spiffee Burger #2: Marshmallows

 Another page of Tales From the Spiffee Burger carted over from ComicFury:

As stuffy as Barbara can be, she does this sorta thing to her sister (and any newbie that she judges to not be a creep) all the time.
Cookie really doesn't mind, but somebody oughtta get the poor girl outta there before she suffocates.

Haulin' Ass to Lollapalooza!

 Here We Go Again!!

It's been a while since I gave Blogspot a try, but I'll be honest - I hate modern "Social Media".

Like, ALL of it! Even the ones I LIKE (BlueSky and Instagram... and that second one is really just for the overwhelming number of chubby girls whose entire 'Instagram Persona & Presence' consists of bouncing their ridiculously oversized breasts into their cameras while the worst music in the world plays for the sake of some snarky-ass 'meme'. Don't get me wrong. I'm a red-blooded American pervert cartoonist with an almost stereotypical obsession with gigantic (natural) breasts, but seriously! When did this become a 'thing'? And why wasn't I notified on Day One?!) - Even the ones I like have become tedious.

Being the Old Fart that I am, I miss the heyday of LiveJournal. I miss blogs and journals in general because I am a journaler. A writer. I enjoy expressing my thoughts in full sentences instead of truncated 300-character (or less) text-soup full of abbreviations, L33t5p3ak, 'modern slang' and sheer illiteracy for the sake of manufactured brevity that's supposed to appeal to those short on both brains and attention spans. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy, "BTW".

Also, I miss the days when one could post as many pictures and photos as a rudimentary knowledge of HTML would allow instead of a maximum of four - or worse, ONE - per post! I'm a CARTOONIST, for fuck sakes! So, I have created this page in order to post said thoughts and cartoons, mostly unfiltered, just in order to have a place to do so that isn't DEVIANTART (don't get me started), FURAFFINITY, as I outgrew my 'furry phase' over a decade and a half ago, or out-of-the-way, niche-y spaces like NEWGROUNDS, MASTODON or PILLOWFORT.

So, that being said, here's a smattering of the stuff I'm doing these days. Most of my sequential comics are already being hosted on ComicFury and The Duck Webcomics - both of which I am still enjoying, but I, for some dumb reason, feel weird about posting Nonsequential Arts and One-shot Comics there.

On January 1st, I launched the newest version of my old autobio comic, Shrimp Fried Riot - and took out MOST of the autobio elements. Perhaps this time, the whole damn thing won't come out like some kind of illustrated mid-life crisis turned suicide note.

The protagonists, Mutt & Ozzie are the replacements for 'original' Octavius (me.)

At some point in the future of this blog, I will go back and (re)post all the original Shrimp Fried Riot comics. Also, with the permission of David "ProfEtheric" Hickmon, I started an ongoing comic taking place in a 'SpiffeeBurger' restaurant, which started in his comic, Autumn Bay.

My Spiffee comic began in the pages of my comic "Never Odd or Even";

This was sort of a "back door pilot" that introduced the characters for the ensuing comic:

Things seems to be going pretty well with it, so far.

I also brought back The Honeybees From Heck after a couple years' hiatus. What better way to reintroduce my favorite Girls with Boys' Names AND cement my notion to add more gratuitous nudity into my comics in this, the New Year than with this page:

I figure - why not? Every other graphic artist on the Internet is making pics of random naked people doing random naked things. Why should I be any different?!

And, of course, there's my superhero themed - or should I say Super VILLAIN themed comic, "I Was A Teenage Super Villain", which I am STILL doing 5 years in.

I am in the middle beginning of Chapter 7. So far, only a few members of the titular team have even been seen in this chapter, as I have introduced two other teams in order to set up future storylines, but they'll be back!

And, indeed the whole point for making this blogspot:

Random pics, pin-ups, jokes, NSFW content and Nerd Rage that I really can't post too many other places without breaking the rules or offending the sensibilities of the community at large.

So, this is who I am and what I do. If you dig it, feel free to stick around.