Thanks!

Also on a more serious note, thanks for continued readership of the website! You all have been great. Readership has kind of leveled off this month but there is still a sizeable number of you, so thanks again!

What If? Comic Strip

What if I had stayed in bed instead of getting up to reword the comic? What if I had actually scripted the entire comic strip's idea before lettering? What if nobody reads this? Well if you are...thanks...but I digress.



Read this week's Boomerang? If you did, the comic above is how I worded the comic originally and had even posted it for a few hours. But even in posting the comic I knew something didn't flow right. Upon having a critique and a moment of clarity while laying in bed, with a headache and upset stomach, I realized I just had too many words in the comic! I had written too much! Just as I have now--I've gotta stop telling you all my dirty little secrets!

Something Old into Something New

(sorry its so small, actually I couldn't find it on my hard drive as noted below, so I ripped it from my old blog)

I didn't need 1.21 jiggawatts to bring this diddy from the past, but I did have to comb my hard drive for it. If you notice this is basically the same joke used for this week's Boomerang. This originally ran in Towson University's Towerlight, the April 27, 2006 edition. Black and white. Old School.

Looking at this comic makes me realize how crude my art was, (and I'm pretty sure still is in some regards.) So why am I showing this to you? Well I thought it was really funny then, and still funny now, what can I say. This week's Toadyhog may seem familiar as well, well it is the same image, and same gist of the Thanksgiving Toadyhog, but I was going for more of a reoccuring joke, of Nicole giving ultra militant class presentations.

Musicians recycle music all the time, so just think of this week's comic as, a re-mastered remix.

Obama in '08!

Now don't take this week's Boomerang as me slighting Obama's message for hope--far from it, in fact I saw him speak this past Monday here in Baltimore--giving standing ovations and all. He is the only candidate of anything--ever, that I have been this excited about. It has even renewed my interest in national politics. And yes the fact that he is an African American candidate attracts him to me, but his race is not everything, and you know how, because I would never, ever, ever,ever vote for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton (you just can't trust a man with a perm (unless W were able to run again.))

But I stray from my purpose. All in all, tough week for me, little... very little rest (in fact I apologize for this political rant being so inarticulate), and some of the comics this week are some what last minute ideas, but I hope you enjoyed them. Hopefully with this President's day weekend break I'll be able to gather myself. Hope to get up another post Friday-- a comic related post! Read more comics!

Black Cartoonist Unite

I initially read about this in Newsweek, two weeks ago, and now the revolultion has begun!

(stolen artwork above, hence the watermark--but I like pictures with my words.)


So today, February 10th, a number of professional, nationally syndicated, cartoonist unite to show their dissatisfaction with the current climate of the comics page. Obviously I am not one of them (I'm not nationally syndicated in any newspaper) but I understand their intent.
Now understand this is not some affirmative action protest. It is simply a protest of the way "black" cartoons are perceived. The perception being, that all "black" cartoons are compared to each other, rather than judged off of their content. As a result of this glance over judgement of their comics, some of the cartoonist find that their work is bumped from a comic page, in favor for another "black cartoon."
Think of it like this, remember when The Bernie Mac Show was placed against Damon Wayans' My Wife and Kids in the same time slot. The beef many African Americans had, was that, [African Americans] presence on television was/is so slim and diverse, why pit two of the more successful shows against each other. --Its the same argument with the comic page, only the talent gets paid a lot less!
I'm not a journalist, and this blog isn't an op-ed piece, so if you're interested in a more informative take, go here.

Random Acts of Boredom 2/10/2008

RANDOM ACTS OF BOREDOM by Derrick Johnson
"The Jerk"

Procrastination

Procrastination, it is more than a verb, it is a way of life. Nothing on the blog for the moment. More comments coming later in the week, along with another Random Act of Boredom.