I created my first comic book at six years old. It was an original story based on the “Star Blazers” animated TV show. Thing was, I could draw the ship okay, but I couldn’t draw people at all well. So, every page, every panel was just drawings of the ship in space, with word balloons coming from it. It was probably 4-6 pages of printer paper, folded in half and stapled in the middle. I wish I still had a copy of it.
My senior year of high school, I created an X-Men type group of superheroes who had been cryogenically frozen to survive the apocalypse. During their freeze, they were exposed to radiation and developed mutant superpowers. I don’t even remember the team name, and none of the artwork has survived.
A year later, I developed a comic book called “Pocket Lint”, an anthology book comprised of stories and art by several of my friends. I created three one-page comics for the book: “Minor Gods” (about some really bored gods no one believed in anymore), “Ziegfried the Wonder Streudel” (about a superhero pastry) and “The Count of Molly’s Crisco”. When I went to print it, I realized everyone had used different sizes of paper to work with, and (in 1993, way before Photoshop) I just wasn’t able to pull it together. All that survives of my stuff is a single promotional flyer featuring an image of Ziegfried, and the complete page of “Count”.
Six years later, after being inspired by the movie “Office Space”, Christian Klusman and I formed Blonde Fetus Comics and created our first title, “Honey”. Issue #1 premiered at the Small Press Expo in 1999. We premiered the second issue the following year at Small Press Expo. We never did a third issue. The 9/11 attacks grounded the planes and canceled the Expo for that year. We had planned a second comic called “Cry, Cecilia” which never got off the ground.
In the gallery below, you can find samples of what survives from some of these projects.
