A few comics for your viewing pleasure

So I was at work and a little bored, so I decided to do a few comics to put up on SG. I hope everyone enjoys them.





Please comment if you wanna.

Marginally funnier than this:

Yikes, So I guess I missed the mark of humor with these. That is unless you consider family circus funny...hmmm...

Maybe back to the drawing board. The humor part of cartooning is the hard part, it is the drawing part that I never have a problem with.

Any advice anyone?

[Edited on Feb 21, 2005 by squerk]

WTF, mate?

Squerk - that calamari thing is hilarious. The drawing is awesome though, I don't see why you think you don't have it down.

Do you do little comics like this a lot? I'd love to see them.

I always wanted to do a little online comic strip... but I really don't have the drawing capacity. *shrug* Oh well.

Keep up the good work! Martyr those insecurities!

-D

Thanks for the support man. I was mainly discouraged because the only comment for like an hour was one compairing me to family circus...which I absolutely loath. LOL, I'm glad someone found one of them funny. Yes, I actually do have a ton of cartoon/comics laying around. One of these days I mean to do an actual webcomic. Time is my enemy...

I think time is everyone's enemy. I should be working on my car, but I'm not. I'm here.

-D

Yes, I to am here typing away when I should be doing other things... But in the mean time, If you really want to see more of my art go to my deviant art page: http://squerk.deviantart.com/gallery Not a whole lot of comics, but you may like some of what I have there.

Oh, yah, that is good stuff right there man. LOL!!!!

Maybe you can enlighten the rest of us?

what was the point of ripping on this guy's strips?

alll you seem to do is grab comics on the web. youre not cool. `

nevermind... sorry.

[Edited on Feb 21, 2005 by JoshXXX]

I can try. Granted, there's a good chance that I have it completely wrong... but I can explain why it was funny to me.

There's this evil deity named Cthulhu in an H.P. Lovecraft book, titled "Call of Cthulhu"

From the book:

Anyway, Cthulhu for some reason has ended up being the 'posterdemon' for most of geekdom. Everything from t-shirts representing 'the collect-call of Cthulhu' to the hilarious Hello Cthulhu!.

The tentacles coming out of the 'Pizza Cult' box is the head of Cthulhu. Whether he's waiting to eat the guy, or the severed head happens to just be a topping, I'm not sure. Nor do I think the reason of the head being on the pizza is where the humor lies. Either way, it was fucking hilarious to me.

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Squerk, help me out here if I'm wrong.

[Edited on Feb 21, 2005 by Telepathboy]

My mommy says I'm cool.

Mmmm, the head of Cthulhu on a pizza. That makes me smile with hunger So, in a lot of lovecraft based literature and illustration, there are a multitude of creatures which have tentacles of some sort. So what is under that pizza box is really up to you. Use your imagination...if you dare... (dramatic music here)

This is fascinating to me now. Where did you get the impression it was Cthulhu in the box?

Pshaw, pick a side!

I think it was the 'pizza cult' that threw me in the Cthulhu direction. Although yes, I'm sure there are quite a number of squiggly faced demony things that could be summoned (and who knows the possiblities of coming up with new ones!!!) by a group of fun-loving demon worshippers, Cthulhu is really the most recognizable. At least, in my opinion.

That or mind flayers.

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-D

P.S. - I showed the comic to my friend Nessa, and her first thought was Cthulhu as well... so I'm sticking to my guns!

I definitely had Cthulhu in mind when I drew it. But if someone sees something else, that is out of my control. LOL, maybe I should do another one with puppies inside the box. *evil grin*

That is just awsome!

I laughed so freaking hard when I saw that family circus /mind flayer bit. That's classic... oh man. I'm showing that to everyone I know.

By the way, Squerk... I checked out your DA site. You are quite talented. I kind of suck at giving compliments, so... yar.

-D