March 2011
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January 2011
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GrrrFriend: Puppy Love
This week’s cartoon is now up at TheGloss. Take a look—it could change your life. Probably not, though. Still.
(Fun Fact*: the art on this one looks a little different from the last few strips because this cartoon was actually completed before I switched over to making the whole thing on the computer)
*Disclaimer: “Fun Fact” may not actually be fun.
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Get To The (Cyber) Chopper
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GrrrFriend: Date Night
After a break for the holiday season, GrrrFriend is back and as mediocre as ever! Check it out at thegloss. And give it a “like” while you’re at it, pretty please?
December 2010
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GrrrFriend: Gift of the Mer-gi
All I want this holiday season is for you to check out my new comic over at TheGloss. Have a wacky fun Christmas!
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GrrrFriend: The Social Network
New comic at TheGloss. Check it out!
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GrrrFriend: Glengarry Glen GrrrFriend
Time for a new comic, Tumblr people. I was about to write that I really liked the way this one turned out, but then I noticed a dumb lettering error towards the end. Argh. As usual, check out the rest at TheGloss.com.
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GrrrFriend: OCD, OMG!
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, GrrrFriend is back and banal as ever! Take a gander at The Gloss to see the whole thing. Hope everyone had a nice holiday.
November 2010
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GrrrFriend: Be Nice
Today’s comic teaches why you should be nice to people in the service industry. Read more at TheGloss.
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"System Failure" from Pronto Comics
Here’s a page from Pronto Comics’ “System Failure,” a four part sci-fi story written by Josh Cabrera and illustrated by yours truly. You can find the entire first part over at www.prontocomics.com. Let me know what you think!
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GrrrFriend: Sleep Study
Today’s comic is 100% true. Head over to thegloss.com to read the whole thing.
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GrrrFriend: Use The Force
Head over to TheGloss to read the Geekiest comic to ever appear on a women’s interest website.
October 2010
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GrrrFriend: The Ab
Read the full strip over at The Gloss, if you dare.
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GrrrFriend: The Purchase
Read the rest at TheGloss!
(Does anyone actually read these things?)
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GrrrFriend: Bitch, Please
Check out the my newest GrrrFriend comic strip over at TheGloss.
It’s the comic that has semi-anonymous internet poster Heather raving: “Can I say how much I really hate this comic?“
Oy…
P.S. if you’re curious, the magazine she’s reading is titled “Progesterone Monthly.”
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GrrrFriend: It Just Don't Quit
Take a look at my latest comic over at theTheGloss! Please?
September 2010
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GrrrFriend: What's On TV?
Won’t you please check out the newest GrrrFriend comic at The Gloss?
For those that are interested in this sort of thing (or thang, if you prefer), this is the first strip to be inked digitally.
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Fight!
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GrrrFriend: Underpants Party
Check it out at the Gloss.
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GrrrFriend: The Pep Talk
The newest installment of “GrrrFriend” is up over at TheGloss—check it out!
Here are some rave reviews from my fans:
“I can’t tell if it’s pedophiliac fantasies or just good ol’ fashioned infantilization of women.”
“It seems, reading most of his comics about “Grr – friend,” that he is trying to impress upon us that she is both childish and bitchy.”
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GrrrFriend Thursdays
Click the preview above to read the latest installment of “Grrrfriend,” my weekly comic at thegloss.com. What’s funnier than a stroke?
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Cartoon About Nothing
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GrrrFriend Thursdays
Click the pic!
August 2010
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Buy This Book
“Save The Assistants,” by Lilit Marcus and featuring a few illustrations from yours truly, is out TODAY. Woo. Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it. Buy it.
BUY IT!
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GrrrFriend Thursdays
Click the pic! New GrrrFriend at TheGloss.com
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GrrrFriend Comics!
I’m happy to announce that, beginning today, you can read my new comic strip, GrrrFriend at TheGloss.com! Click the preview pic to take a look.
Special Thanks to Lilit Marcus (BUY HER BOOK) for making this happen. Check out her blog here: http://lilitmarcus.tumblr.com/
(I learned how to embed links in text! I’m an html superstar!)
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Odds and Ends
Hi Blog,
Been busy lately with a bunch of stuff, but I wanted to provide a brief update.
First off, I put up a portfolio website, which you can view at http://wackyfuncomics.arloartists.com/
Once I figure out how, I plan to link this site and that one together (even the simplest of programming tricks is like magic to me…).
Next point of interest: A book I did some illustrations for,...
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You Make Me Happy
July 2010
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Beware the Boy Wonder
More digital inking practice…
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Hi Hulk
Well, with Poison Ivy earlier this week and the Hulk today, I guess I’ve got a green theme going on here. Maybe I’ll try my hand at Green Lantern next, or perhaps a can of spinach. Or an envious dude.
Hoping to get some honest-to-goodness comics up soon, rather than these pin-up sketches (which are pretty much exercises to help me gain proficiency coloring and using...
June 2010
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Get Out The Calamine Lotion...
It’s Poison Ivy!
That’s all I got…
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Black and White and Red All Over
For those unfamiliar, pictured above is Harley Quinn, a character introduced for “Batman: The Animated Series” in the mid-90s.
So here’s the thing—as soon as I decided I wanted to draw Harley, a variation of this pose popped into my head. I had the gist of the staging—Harley laying down on her belly, head closest to the “camera”—but I...
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I Can Haz Super-Villian
Alright, so here’s a wee little Catwoman doodle that I banged out last night. Then I manhandled it in Photoshop while experimenting with brushes and textures. Oh well, no big loss…and I may have actually learned something in process.
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Batman!
Here’s a drawing that appears to depict Batman squirming around as he tries to hold in a bowel movement. Oh well.
Pencils and inks, if you’re interested:
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Why Is My Childhood Dying?
Hello Blog, longtime no see. The last couple of weeks have seen the passing of Gary Coleman and Rue McClanahan, two comedy icons of the 1980s. One played a rambunctious kid from the streets taken in by a rich benefactor while the other played a geriatric sexpot living out her golden years in the company of friends. I forget who played which role, but they each had a huge presence in my...
May 2010
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Golden Girl
I drew this as a greeting card for www.pigspigot.com (you can send it electronically or via snail mail by going here: http://www.pigspigot.com/app/view/Friendship/General/links+to/A+picture+of+a+user+generated+greeting+card+tagged+as+thank+you/greeting+cards+for/Print+ECard+Tweeting/content/1010www.pigspigot.com (you can send it electronically or via snail mail by going here:...
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Wonder of Wonders
Here’s DC Comics’ celebrated Amazon princess, Wonder Woman. As I sketched this out, I realized she’s tough to pose properly. She’s supposed to be a warrior, but it’s hard to find a dynamic action pose that doesn’t make her look too masculine. On the other hand, it would have been easy to do a cheesecake-type pose, but that wouldn’t be true to the...
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Mean and Green
Hi there. Here’s a quick Hulk doodle (brush pen and photoshop). Been very busy working on a big project that I can hopeful talk about soon…
April 2010
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MVP
I like basketball. I like the New York Knicks. The Knicks have not been good recently. Lebron James has been very good recently. He was just named MVP of the NBA and may be looking for a new team next year. I would like Lebron James to be very good on the New York Knicks. This is a picture of what that might look like.
This one started as a quick pencil sketch that I decided to bring...
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Full Frontal Infant
Here’s the cover to a new birth-announcement card I made for pigspigot.com. You can see this card (as well as a couple of variations) at http://www.pigspigot.com/app/view/Occasions/Birth/links+to/A+picture+of+a+user+generated+greeting+card+tagged+as+cute/greeting+cards+for/Print+ECard+Tweeting/content/933. Pretty vanilla, I know, but I thought some of the line-work turned out alright. ...
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Still Here
Sorry I haven’t been able to post much recently—been very, very busy with a big project that I can hopefully talk about in more detail soon. For now, here’s a recent card I did for pigspigot—you can check out the whole thing here:...
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Wolverine
Happy Tuesday Evening! Here’s a portrait of Marvel Comics’ massively popular mutant, Wolverine…and he looks like he’s mere moments away from popping out his adamantium claws. Actually, I left the claws out with the plan of adding them in later, with photoshop, just haven’t gotten around to doing that yet.
Here’s the pre-color, inked version, for those...
March 2010
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Wacky Fun Comics: The World of Tomorrow!
In today’s new Wacky Fun Comic, our pal Steve gives us a glimpse at the world of the not-too-distant future. In fact, some of this stuff is already happening. I’m sure you’ve all read the newspaper stories about the Cyborg Lincoln project, and you can already order your own pair of baby shoes online from Zappos. “Baby Shoes—for that baby-soft feeling!”
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Rodney Redux
The other week I posted a quick, 30-second scribble (plus another minute for colors) of Rodney Dangerfield. The man had such a great face that I knew I would need to draw it again. Here are two sketches I came up with last night (still playing with the brush pen). There will be more, I’d wager.
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Wacky Fun Comics: Ninja No-Nos
Well that didn’t make a lick of sense, did it?
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Hulk Smash!
Playing around with different styles…here’s the not-so-jolly green giant, the Incredible Hulk. He’s fun to draw because you can basically do anything you want with his face as long as he looks angry. In case anyone’s interested, I’m also posting the pencils and inks (color done in photoshop).
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Wacky Fun Comics: Revenge Is A Dish Best Served...
Well it looks like Derek may have finally met his match—a lethal disease that’s ravaging his body organ-by-organ! Just like the real-life Derek! Man, what a total loser! Enjoy the new comic, folks.
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No Respect
Had some time to doodle today, breaking in a new brush pen. Some people can do really amazing things with brush pens; I hope to some day be one of those people. Now? Not so much…Anyway, here’s a quickie of the late, great Rodney Dangerfield.
And here’s another quick sketch, this time of Marvel Comics’ Hercules
When I have the time, I think I want to try doing a...
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Wacky Fun Comics: Meet Derek
Today’s newest wacky fun comic introduces Steve’s arch-nemesis, Derek. Needless to say, this is only the first installment in what promises to be a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Derek is based on my own arch-nemesis, Derek. Derek is probably the worst person on the planet, and if there is any justice in the world, he will meet a terrible, terrible fate. Also, he likes to...