I was reviewed! - Ninja Style!!

 So - today, my weird comics OCD had me searching all my old social media and Discord vaults and whatnot for ONE icon of a platypus that I made a bazillion years ago. I thought maybe that I may have put it in DeviantASrt or one of the many flash-in-the-pan social media sites that I may have joined in their 15 minute heyday, so I Googled my name + platypus.

I found almost nothing, but the only 2 examples of me on YouTube... the one and only YouTube/Tiktok video I've yet made

AND

Apparently, a webcomic reviewer did a little 3 minute review of a bit of my output! He had positive things to say, even! I was shocked! I didn't know this was a thing! It's been up for 5 years and this is the first I've seen/heard of it.

I've been in a funk for the last week or so and this was really an ego boost that I needed!

Shared Universe(s)

 Lately, I've been shoring up a bunch of my non-superhero comics into one universe.

Sorta.

Mostly, it was by accident. Part of it has to do with the weird comicking OCD I have had for the last twenty years wherein I hardly ever truly drop a character or concept completely once it's been created and cemented a certain way in my head... or I've destroyed them ON PAGE.

Also, if i do drop a character or concept only to bring it back in another project later, it will still have some lingering continuity or shared backstory to some of the old stuff which winds up blending that into the new.

Listing my comics I came to the realization that my projects Wonderland Hates You, Rose Tinted World, Tales From the Spiffee Burger and others all take place in the same universe. Some of that is by design by way of my fictional city of Saint Murphy, Missouri.

Chip of Rose Tinted World's mom is the mayor. Spiffee Burger location #347 is located downtown. The bakery where Cookie Bellingham's future boyfriend works is owned by the local crazy rich guy who was once an employee of Maddie Crenshaw's (among other things).

This month, over at ComicFury, the 30 Days of Characters event wherein we participants create new characters and/or update old ones for our projects is underway. I have updated 20 out of 26 days so far. (I may go back and shoehorn a few in before the end of the month.) And of the twenty (sometimes groups of) characters thus fare created/posted, 10 updates have been characters for various "St. Murphy" Comics.

Including comics old, current and those in production but unfinished, there are 17 'St. Murphy' projects going on right now. A good number of them are on ComicFury. Two of the others that haven't premiered yet are going straight to my Patreon. I haven't worked all the bugs out of the second project, but the first one I tentatively call 'Marshamallow Peeps'. It'll be a normal slice of life sit-com style comic. The protagonists are BBW girls. I plan to basically make it the OPPOSITE if 'Cathy'.

Instead of being office workers, approaching middle age, obsessing over their weight and trying to catch a man to please a nitpicky biddy of a mom, they are going to be happy, confident and have each others' backs - which means that I am going to have to find fun adventures to put them in and give them positive personalities. Anything but the same old tired fat jokes, overeating and whining.about self esteem and body image issues. Besideswhich, they will be in an 'adult' comic on Patreon drawn by a cartoonist who LIKES big women, so I will admit that a lot of the silly, dumb comedy (and nudity) is going to be focused largely on one thing.

Make that "TWO".

Who knows, maybe later in the year - 'round Thanksgiving or Christmas time, I will concentrate on short vignettes for each property. Maybe 2 to 4 pages each and make a "St. Murphy" graphic novel or something.

For now - on with the show!

Forward

 I've been plotting and planning and deliberating on whether or not to make this blog since New Years Day. It took me three and a half weeks to come to the decision.... and I keep forgetting that I have it. Moreover - part of me wants to go back and post ALLLL my comics here. Another part says that I should simply post what I make NOW and move forward.

One of the main reasons that I want to place stuff here is that about a year and a half ago, my external harddrive, which housed about 8 years of my work, writings and personal pictures went tits-up and took a big chunk of my life and memories with it.. That is the ONLY reason I even fuck with social media these days and also have made this space. I don't want that to happen again. This blog, along with several Discord accounts, ComicFury and even the DeviantArt account I kept for my superhero stuff is mainly to make sure that my "Digital Footprint" actually remains, in some capacity.

So, to that end, I guess I will post mostly the new stuff and occasionally some of my favorite old stuff. If I can wrangle any personal memories from the old FB account that I can't find the password to, I'll post it under the private feature or to one of the other accounts with a private feature. One can do a URL link to the pics on this page, right?

Anyway, here's the most recent page from Honeybees From Heck to get the proverbial ball rolling:

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.