Friday, November 21, 2008

The comics crusade

My brother Wolf and I collaborated on many crazy projects when we were little, so I suppose it was only natural when we started an ongoing comic together for no real reason other than to crack each other up. This was back in the early 90s when I was living in L.A. (L.A. in the 90s! Woot, woot!) and Wolf was in New York, so we'd send them via good ole snail mail, and I remember Wolf used to (I'm not sure I did) draw really hilarious things on the envelopes. Damn, I should post one of those envelopes. Maybe I will!

Anyway, here are the first couple frames of what we ended up with. His is the first three frames, mine are the next four. I'm too lazy to post all 8 pages, but I'll tell you this: there is no way you can possibly guess what happens to this poor head and its resulting headless body. So much. Too much!



Well, recently a little bird reminded me about this strip (thanks DPE IV) and I un-filed it and read it again after lo, so many years. Wolf and I had some fun chuckling over it again, and he reminded me that we took something more like six or seven, or, ahem, eight? years to finish(!!) — considering it's not so much finished as halted since we just dropped the ball completely at some point, but aha! still managed to tack a satisfying end onto it, if you ask me — as opposed to the mere two years, as I originally thought. In other words, we were a bit lazy about passing it back and forth.

This step back in time coincided some with Wolf's birthday this year, and we were inspired anew! Wolf dared me to start a new comic for us to collaborate on by his birthday (Nov. 17). Well, ha! I did it! The below is the first installment. So it's your turn now, bro. Get to work!

Click below if you'd like to see it larger.

4 comments:

Ade said...

The cellphone has even made it's way into your comic.

I never thought I'd see the day.

Anonymous said...

You don't have a belly, what's that about? is that the kind of phone you now have?

Jocelyn said...

Naw, that ain't me! I ain't got no long ponytail and tummy tire like her. I wish! But of course, I used familiar elements (running, the lower east side park, that time I fell down an open manhole...haw haw just kidding). And no, I used P's Treo as a model. I have a Samsung phone with a keyboard that slides out the side all presto magic-o.

Anonymous said...

no one family should be allowed to be this talented.