I did 7 pages for an anthology, and they had to cut the page count, which meant losing some of these pages. Here's another story that was meant for it.
Here's the seventeenth issue we did, minus the cover and the David Speaks Out comic I posted a few months ago. I forgot how much we stole from other comics and cartoons. See if you can spot them all.
One of the good things about not making many copies is we could write each person's name individually, like in the last panel here. Since it was a back-to-school theme, I decided to do the story on notebook paper with its "teeth", round corners and everything showing. It didn't really matter since everyone thought we drew on lined paper anyway. Astute readers might say we took this from "Sparky Sperm" by Crumb, and they'd be right. We decided to have some guest artists who also did mini-comics like us do their take on our characters. This one is by Doug Holverson.
I was looking through a bunch of boxes today looking for things to throw out and I came across even more comics from my childhood people would only care about if they were already familiar with my current work. There was this kid David we used to draw all the time and make fun of for practicing karate, which we called ju-jitsu just to annoy him. I saw him recently at our high school reunion and he actually has some drawings I did of him that I don't remember.
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Much of the material here is at least a generation old and therefore sometimes has racist and sexist standards we wouldn't conform to today. I try, but can't always do a line-item veto. Remember, if something has stereotypes it's posted in spite of them and not because of them. You're not wrong to be offended, think of it like a friend you like hanging out with 95% of the time but once in a while they embarrass you. My own attitude is to move forward.
Many of the images I posted between 2011-2013 were disappeared by the image bank I was using then but I still have most of the scans and am bringing them back slowly. Be patient.
Some people don't realize you can make images bigger by clicking on them or that there are earlier postings beyond this page. Well, now you know. You're welcome.
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SAM HENDERSON has been doing comics, illustration and writing popular among people aware of their existence since his birth, though he wasn't paid for it until 1991. In addition to his own series,The Magic Whistle, clients have included Nickelodeon, New York Press, DC Comics, Heavy Metal, New York Observer,and ...um... Screw. He was a storyboard director for SpongeBob Squarepants in 2001.
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Portrait by Jess Rullifson.