November 7, 2009
October 5, 2009
August 24, 2009
August 15, 2009
The Internet
In 1995 there was a short-lived Warner Bros. cartoon called Freakazoid!, in which the title character got his superhero powers by entering cyberspace and gaining all of the knowledge of the Internet. The cartoon itself became a zany piece of animation history that has to be seen to be believed, but the concept of gaining superhero powers through the Internet was very interesting.
You have to understand that this was 1995. There was no Facebook, no YouTube, no Google, and no Flash animations. Yahoo was only a year old, Netscape Navigator was the most popular web browser, and most people entered the Internet at speeds that would make the above comic take about 10 seconds to download.
And yet, none of this mattered to the early pioneers of the Internet, because they had accomplished their goal of allowing people from any part of the world to share information. Doctors could find cures for diseases from medical papers written in a different continent the day before, families could contact their relatives in a foreign land without paying expensive long distance charges, and artists could show millions of people lovable animations of hamsters dancing to a Disney song played at twice its speed.
Wait… what?
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July 31, 2009
Teenagers
Finally… sketch #50 out of 50. It’s taken awhile, but I really wanted to see this through to the end. Artists – myself especially – are notorious for starting big art projects that don’t get finished, and I didn’t want this to be one of them.
When I started the challenge, I asked myself what I should do for the final drawing. I decided that I should go back to my past, back to a time before anyone knew me as Screenhog. On the day that I turned 13, I started working on a comic strip called “Teenagers”. I tried to get one comic strip done per day, and while I didn’t quite fulfill that, by the time I was 16 I had created over 700 comic strips in that series.
Of course, the older I got, the more I devoted myself to other projects. Teenagers just wasn’t as important to me anymore, and the characters I had created were hardly seen by anyone. Until now.
I present to you the cast of Teenagers. Allow me to introduce you to them.
First off, on the top left, is Ilsoap. The original Ilsoap. I draw him differently now, of course, but he was the main character in the comic strip. When I first drew him, everyone asked me if I was trying to make him look like Bart Simpson. Honestly, I wasn’t, but I can see the resemblance.
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July 23, 2009
And The Record for Most Watermelons Stuffed In A Person’s Mouth Goes To…
This cartoon, I think, worked better in my head.
I was thinking today about how people will sue companies for stupid reasons, and asked myself “Why would someone sue the Guinness Book of World Records?” The answer, I thought, would be that someone who had tried to get themselves in the Guinness Book failed in their attempt in an embarrassing way, and decided to “get even” by suing. What would this stupid Guinness Book stunt be? Why, stuffing watermelons in your mouth, of course!
Thus, the above comic. Of course, jokes are never funny if they have to be explained, and this one needs the explanation. Needless to say, it will not become a Jellyfish in Armour anytime soon.
July 3, 2009
JIA #18 – Bank Robbers
Got an e-mail from Frank that said “heres a drawing idea… a piggy bank robbing an actual bank”.
That’s funny. That’s Jellyfish In Armour material right there:
June 21, 2009
Moon Cookies
Continuing with the “Send Me an Idea” challenge, here’s an idea that Jimmy sent me: “I think you should make a person or something in space. You should make the person or whatever you want with a cookie.”
Hmm… space and cookies. Well, this was the first thing that came to mind:
June 7, 2009
Golden Disappointment
Sketch 14/50, I believe. I’m going to have to work a bit harder if I’m going to reach that deadline of the end of July, methinks.
June 6, 2009
Self-Cleaning Oven
Honestly, now, who would want just a self-cleaning oven when you can have an oven that can clean your whole house?
