Added 1 new A* page:Here's a little comic strip I did at some point during my freshman year in college...uh that would have been '92-'93 I guess:
I did have a roommate freshman year, which I suppose was making a big impression on me. He was a nice guy, but also large and athletic and from Rochester, NY, which is apparently colder than Chicago in the winter, because he would open the windows--in the middle of the Chicago winter--to cool down. He also came and went with some fanfare at times when I would have preferred to have been asleep. This predicament was tidily solved when I moved my bed into the closet. ... It was a big closet! These strips were drawn with a regular rollerball pen--probably a Pentel Rolling Writer, which is still my preferred writing pen, messy, fat line and all--on typing paper, because I didn't know any better. I'm impressed by how neatly I got the panel borders drawn! I would totally not have the patience to do that now. There are obvious influences from superhero comics here--my brother and I collected a bunch, mostly Marvel, through high school--and I think maybe some Phil Foglio in how those big excited eyes and mouth are drawn.
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