Click the above link to go to Superfogeys. Yours truly was the last of a long list of great guest cartoons. Superfogeys is the webcomic by the talented Brock Heasley about what happens to a group of superheroes and villains who have gotten too old to fight the good fight. They retire to Valhalla – Home for the Supertired.
I’ll post it here later but check out my submission now and tell Brock how great it was even though it sucked compared to the talent of the other folks who submitted.
Head over to Tony Piro’s Calamities of Nature to see my guest cartoon that I did for his contest. My topic was about 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calendar.
I wasn’t a winner by a long shot but Tony felt shamed into posting my cartoon anyway since I took the time to enter. 🙂
I’ll post it here in a few days.
I don’t know how she found it but Midwest Mom over at hmmm-sweet-splendid-wisdom has found a picture of me and posted it on her site. Go check it out here.
Our final selection is from Nate Fakes. He draws, might draw, used to draw the Frustrated Cartoonist. Hell, I don’t know. You see Nate has hit the big time with Mad Magazine as well and will have a recurring strip going forward. He swears that doesn’t mean the end of his Frustrated Cartoonist character Jim, but given how he drew him at 100, I think it might be a sign.
The Frustrated Cartoonist is Jim who longs to be like Nate and actually get paid to do his craft. Yet like all of us frustrated cartoonists, he has to manage a day job to pay the bills. That and his girlfriend and neighbors seem to cut into actual cartooning time. Anyone who has ever had a hobby that they eventually wanted to become a career will relate.
So I give you the slow progression of age of Jim.
So thanks Nate and thanks to all the great cartoonists for helping me out. I look forward to reading all the comments.
Follow Nate on Twitter so you can keep up with all he is doing.
And follow me on Twitter too. I should finally be posting again sometime this week.
Our final two guest cartoonists are actual published cartoonists in the ultimate of cartooniness – Mad Magazine. First up is D. Long (you can see the image of the now released Mad that has his work on his blog). You actually have to buy the magazine to see what he drew though. Someone is yelling “damn the capitalists”
Now D is the mastermind behind Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life. I am thinking his website address of eqcomics is short for Edmund’s Quest but it could be that he used to draw cartoons for home audio buffs and didn’t want to lose the URL.
Anyway, D takes Edmund on an ongoing quest that continually gets him in and out of trouble. Just when you think he is safe…BAM, another tragedy befalls. Mr Long is quite the character himself and decided to show us what he thinks he will look like at 100.
I am thinking that his balloon fetish might have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks D!!
Follow D. Long via Twitter updates!
Come back in 2 days for our final guest cartoon from the Frustrated Cartoonist!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
Anyone with “Bear” in their webcomic title has to be outstanding. And David LaMason must be even better than that because he has “bear” appearing twice in the title. And this has special meaning because I am the recipient of David’s first Guest Cartoon.
Unbearable Bears is the story of Oskar, a dimwitted but loveable bear, and Bainbride, a headstrong birdbrain (literally he is a bird). Frequently David himself has been making an appearance so he counts as a character too. Thus I give you David LaMason at 100.
I know this comment will come out of one of you. NO, David was never “touched” by Michaels Magic Glove.
Check out David on Twitter
Come back in 2 days for another new guest cartoon from EQ Comics!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
Robert Matejcek is the mastermind behind Spilled Ink. Robert, a semi-reclusive web cartoonist who doesn’t like to leave his apartment. He has an adoring cat named Dharma (I think he needs another one named Greg) and a patient wife named Annabelle.
Spilled Ink is a semi biographical look and Robert, Annabelle, and Dharma’s life. Man would it be fun being a nosy neighbor of theirs. Check out the whole family at Spilled Ink but first check out this great cartoon of Robert and Annabelle at 100.
You can follow Robert on Twitter as well.
Come back in 2 days for another new guest cartoon from Unbearable Bears!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
George Ford of Addanac City was one of the first Webcomic artists to find me on the internet and actually comment on my stuff. Addanac City is all about Hank Addanac and the loons that surround him. George describes Hank as “one kid who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Nearly every day, you can find Hank in hot water with his family, friends, and school officials. Hank has no respect for authority whatsoever. He’s that kid you love to hate and hate to love.”
Some tend to compare Hank to Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes but I tend to think he is more like Dennis the Menace because he is oblivious to the mayhem he causes. However Hank is Dennis with some actual Cojones. You can follow George via Twitter as well.
Thanks for the funny George!
Hank Addanac at 100
Come back in 2 days for another new guest cartoon from Spilled Ink!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
Next up in the Guest Cartoon line-up is Warren Frantz of Off Season. Warren is a relative new comer to creating webcomics but not that new. He just moved his comic to the big time of Drunk Duck so there is only one toon up there as of writing this. So check out his archives here. If you like you can also follow him on Twitter.
Off Season follows the goings-on of mild-mannered professional hockey goalie Gully Golz and his best friend, fiery sportscaster Sammy Melon. It answers the question: What do athletes do in the off season? First up is a picture of Gully now.
And at 100…
I love how he still wears his gloves and puts them down his underpants. Thanks Warren!!
Come back in 2 days for another new guest cartoon of Addanac City!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
A month ago I put out a request to webcomic creators to share with us their view of themselves or their comic strip characters at age 100. I won’t be able to comment while deep in other stuff so make sure to give all my guest cartoons the love and support that you never gave me.
First up is Byron Wilkins of 1977 – The Comic. Why is Byron first…well because he was the first to send me something and by now he is wondering whether or not I would actually use it.
1977 explores the madcap life of four friends trying to make it in the Rock biz. The 70’s were all about the Kouchie and the Coochie so don’t click on the link if you are offended by sexual or drug references. Byron says of his creation “The comic is based loosely on my life back in 1977 when I was 20 and eager to be a “rock star” and ended up playing gigs at bars in downstate Illinois (the big time for sure!).”
Byron’s character Bud (hmmm wonder how he got that name) is a 20 year old Chicago native who plays bass in the band. Check out Byron’s site for more folks from the band and be sure to follow his TWITTER updates.
Thanks Byron!
Come back in 2 days for another new guest cartoon from Off Season!! You can also keep up with me via Twitter. (just not now, I am busy I told you)
While you are anxiously awaiting Thursday…check out Nate Fakes site. I did a guest cartoon because I knew this was going to be a busy week for him. Recovering from a turning 30 hangover can take a while.