Welcome to SMZcomics!
I’m starting up this journal as a place to post and share my comics: both old comics that don’t yet have a home on the web, and new comics that I’ve been itching to draw, as well as sketches and other...
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The ever-reclusive Catbox.
I promised some content, so here you go. This is one of only two strips ever made starring “Catbox”. I developed this idea in the fall of 2006 when Buggy was petering out. Largely inspired by Nedroid’s...
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Taking it from (almost) the top.
Okay, I’m going to try and take this semi-chronologically for a while. I started making comics in elementary school. I remember doing a comic strip called “Shopo” and making Transformers comic books....
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In the cards.
The saga continues! And the rest of the main cast are brought in. Can the plot be far behind? Strips 5-8: At this point, introductions may be in order. Seen in the last two panels of the above strip,...
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Sketchin’.
I said I wanted to start drawing more, right? (It’s true whether I said so or not.) My sister got me these super-cool brush tip pens for Christmas, and tonight I dug out a brand-new sketchbook I got a...
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Meet the villain.
Enter Lord Broccoli and his Cauliflower Men! Dun-dun-DUUUNN! Ha ha, silly middle school plots. Strips 9-12:
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My best girl.
My drawing for the night. I had told Elizabeth last night that I would draw her today, and of course she remembered. So I had her sit down and I drew her. I’ve done more stylized drawings of her...
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Veggies in disguise!
So everyone wears crazy Halloween disguises so the bad guys won’t recognize them? And I love Sam’s line at the end of the second strip: “I’m glad you’re not lying.” Like telling the truth is a change...
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The (little) man himself.
I’m making an attempt to draw every day, now, and Elizabeth gets all interested when I pull out my sketchbook and pens. Last night she told me I had to draw Alex (having drawn her the night before) and...
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Pretty much the end.
Here are the final 5 strips of my Slippery Wars comic. Sam and Leaftop arrive at Lord Broccoli’s fortress and… Well that’s pretty much it. I honestly don’t know what would have happened next; I wasn’t...
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Bear With Me.
My sophomore year of college, I started up my comic Scamper’s Quest. (It has its own site, so I won’t dwell on it here.) Later that year, I started developing a concept for a hand-drawn strip called...
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From out the darkness.
Here’s something completely different. Shortly after the first relaunch of Scamper’s Quest — a few months after college — I started throwing around the idea of an epic fantasy comic featuring geometric...
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I couldn’t bear any more.
As mentioned previously, I tried a couple of times to restart my shortlived Bear With Me comic. The final attempt (in 2004, if I recall correctly) was perhaps my best effort, with new comic ideas and a...
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9 x 1/2 = 4 1/2
Hey! A new comic! This is the big reason I started this journal in the first place. This comic is part of a (hopefully ongoing) series, tentatively titled I Write The Songs. The subject of the comic is...
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This happens all the time.
The music at the top is from my instrumental, “Middlenight“. On second thought, it probably would have worked better to put a more complicated piece of music in there, but oh well. That’s Alex giving...
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The origin of Catbox!
Okay, really, it’s just the first Catbox strip. I already posted the second strip, but here’s his never-before-seen debut! (This was from the fall of 2006.) (Click to enlarge) I would like to do more...
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Well, it’s something!
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s a sketch I did Sunday at church on the bulletin. “Duck & Moose” are characters I designed for a friend’s website. Hooray for coloring...
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I can’t believe it’s not better!
A co-worker of mine had been sick for a few days, so I thought it’d be nice to send her a “hope you’re feeling better” e-card or something. A quick perusal of the internets produced nothing that wasn’t...
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At long last…
This is actually the first Catbox comic I ever conceived. I originally intended it to be a Beartato comic, but then thought, “Why don’t I use my own characters instead?” and shortly thereafter, Catbox...
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Kicking your gun; now THERE’S a good idea…
I was planning on drawing a new comic last night, but didn’t get around to it. (And maybe that’s a good thing; apparently, yesterday was Bad Drawing Tuesday!) Anyway, I remembered I’ve got some old...
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Up to the highest height.
Happy Friday! It’s time for the latest Catbox adventure! I came up with the idea Monday night, drew it and scanned it Wednesday night, and then spent all Thursday evening coloring it. Can you have a...
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Avert your eyes!
I did already post these before on my blog, but here they are once more, because I feel like it. It all started when Nedroid was challenged to draw 200 bad comics. He failed (they were funny) and a lot...
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Teaser trailer!
So apparently there’s a new X-Files movie coming out this year? You… you think we’d have heard more about it by now, seeing as how it’s three months away. Anyway, I sketched out a comic about it. It...
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Ice queen.
Back when we had that weekend blizzard about a month ago, the kids and I went outside to play and build a snowman. Well, they ended up playing, I ended up building…well, a snowwoman. I had gotten a...
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I just might be.
Wednesday evening before I left work, I was sketching some Slippery Wars characters with a felt-tip pen. Playing with some new styles, trying some things out. They’re some of my oldest characters, and...
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GYAARRR!
The past couple weeks, I’ve attended a couple of meetings at one of my company’s divisions. Instead of driving 45 minutes north to the office, I drive 1.5 hours south to Lake City. I brought a notepad...
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It’s like journal comics or something!
I’ve always wanted to do this kind of thing, but never did. Anyway, I had a “Respectful Workplace” seminar at work today. I brought a notepad along (to doodle, of course) and ended up drawing this...
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He seems like a nice enough guy.
Last night I took my first stab at drawing something from my favorite fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I tried my hand at the half-breed Jhag, Icarium. Below you can see the evolution of...
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WITNESS!!
Here’s some more MBotF fanart. I was rereading The Bonehunters the other night, and had a dream where I was Karsa Orlong, one of the book’s (many) main characters. Here’s the quick sketch I did of him...
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Self-replication.
I sat through a lot of testing today at work, most of which I was not involved with. As I did not have a laptop to do other work, I ended up doing quite a bit of sketching. Specifically, I drew a lot...
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Oops.
More cartoons from Wednesday. When trying to come up with secondary characters for Catbox way back when, I came up with the name “Turtangle” (among others.) I liked the name, but struggled with how to...
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Have you seen the muffin thief?
Another comic from Wednesday. This was the first one of the batch, and was done rather sloppily, so I figured a quick color job would help.
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Some Transformers.
Here’s a couple of pen sketches: last Wednesday’s Megatron, as well as an Optimus Prime I doodled in church back in July. I absolutely love how Megatron’s head turned out, though I wish I had done more...
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Nothin’ wrong with the cookie sheet.
Yay, more Catbox! This idea just popped into my head tonight. It’s not really Catbox’s birthday, but it is Scamper’s!
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Happy medium.
I drew this yesterday. I happened upon my old charcoal pencil from college, and decided to give it a whirl. Wow, I’d forgotten how awesome that thing is.
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A backlog of Catbox.
I’ve done a number of Catbox items over the past few weeks that I’ve been meaning to post here, but for one reason or another, haven’t gotten around to yet. Jumping back three and a half weeks ago:...
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Wow, it’s something!
It’s amazing how long it’s been since I’ve drawn something worth posting here. I’ve actually done a handful of Catbox character designs (Toros, Rhombit, and Pandagon) that I’ve been meaning to post,...
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A conversation with young me.
(With apologies to Kate Beaton.) A week or three ago I had this idea for a comic, where my older self tells my younger self about all the foods he’ll grow to like when he gets older. I don’t have the...
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Aptly done.
Sketch time! I scribbled this out yesterday during a 5-minute lull. It’s an “Aptorian” demon from the Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series. Three legs, one multi-faceted eye, and lots of teeth....
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Red Asner
Short version of the story: A thread in a forum I frequent inspired to draw this sketch of Red from my Bear With Me comic. As I was doing it, I was reminded of Freakazoid!‘s Sgt. Cosgrove (voiced by Ed...
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Message Board Pictionary!
Over the past week or so, on the Malazan Book of the Fallen forums, there’s been a game of what amounts to Pictionary going on, dubbed “Draw & Guess” with the drawings done exclusively in MS Paint....
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