Hey look, fictional Super Rangers merchandise!

Between a busy afternoon at work and walking around zombie-like after working til 2:30 a.m., I didn't have time to draw a page last night so I did this little piece below. I'll be using it as a promotional ad and  probably a filler to help issue two get to the 8 page length it needs for print-on-demand.

 

This gag is inspired by a talking plush doll I got for $5 of one of the Power Rangers Samurai. He says phrases from the series when you push his chest. Life just isn't complete until you can have a doll say "Power Rangers Samurai, victory is ours." whenever you want. Anyway, it got me thinking what it would be like if there were dolls like that for issue three's Power Rangers parody.

 

Worth noting is the inclusion of Stickboy's girlfriend Kinkygirl who doesn't appear in the issue but if I ever do a follow-up, would have some gags as the Hot Pink Ranger. The line that popped in my head for her was just too good not to put in...

 

 

 

Political Cartoon-palooza! Gray Mail

It's Kinkygirl in all her black and white glory! This political cartoon for the UNCP newspaper from about eight years ago marks the only printed appearance of Stickboy's girlfriend, Kinkygirl, who I already discussed in a post about  the College Follies Facebook page.

This one is about "gray mail." It's the email you get that's not unsolicited junk mail, but it still clogs your inbox with messages you don't want. In this case, it was the university flooding our inboxes with emails about campus events. The sender was labeled as Kay Oxendine, who was in the Office of Student Activities.

I love the expression on Stick's face. And how great it is to see a big, heavy, bulky computer? I bet you could throw your back out carrying that thing.

Social Media on Parade: Facebook photobombing

In the time between finishing pages for the comic, I'll be posting various bits of art I've done related to the comic. So I thought I'd do a series of posts on the new art I had to create for each College Follies social media site.

We'll start with Facebook. The 500 pound gorilla of the internet. The social network Mark Zuckerburg started to get back at an ex-girlfriend (hey, if Aaron Sorkin wrote it in a screenplay, it must be true).

So this is the image on facebook.com/collegefollies:

It originally started out as art for my YouTube channel with my main character Stickboy trying to get himself and his girlfriend Kinkygirl on tape, with his pals Psychoboy and Bigirl jumping in to get in on the video. When I discovered I completely misunderstood how YouTube channel art worked, I had to go with something else for my channel art.

The image was reworked for Facebook and became Stickboy taking a photo of him and Kinkygirl with Psychoboy and Bigirl photobombing him. All the characters pictured have appeared in various bits of art I've done for College Follies since I first drew the series in 1999, except Kinkygirl. It's her first time being drawn for the series...well sorta.

Kinky is based on my ex-girlfriend who became my ex-wife. During our eight relationship, I would draw Kinky on homemade cards I would give her and even in a little book I drew for her as a gift. When we divorced, she obviously kept all the cards and the book I made for her. For whatever reason, I never made copies or photos of any of it. I didn't keep any sketches or designs I did for the character (if any existed, I may have just drawn her directly on the page).

So other than Stickboy himself, I've actually drawn Kinky more than any other College Follies character. Yet I don't have any references for her other than a single published image of her that was done for a political cartoon in my school newspaper (and that was at an odd angle, so I couldn't tell how I did the shape of the face).

So I was pretty much coming up with the design for her as I did the Facebook image, I think it came out decent, though I may do some tweaking on it in the future. It's good to see her character in a proper image for the series. Stickboy, like everyone else, deserves some love.