I've made many comics over the years - I started in High School with a few that got published in my hometown news flyer - they were one-panel 'far-side' style weirdness called "The Wright Angle". (best of luck if you can find one).
In college, I did a short run of strips for the school paper - this time the comic was called the "Meaning of Lite" and was more 'Bloom County' influenced - centered around a few Gen X college kids. Here, the jokes were mostly about bad cafeteria food and roommate woes. I remember in one bit, a funny animal rights organization was picketing the strip -- that is to say, an organization for the rights of funny-animals, who were upset that no such funny-animals had been included in the cast of the strip as required by various cartoon labor laws.
Around 1993, as I prepared to move to Seattle, I tried adapting the strip, taking the main character Alan, giving him a last name (which had never come up in MoL), and making the comic about adjusting to a new life in a new place. So Alan - became Alan Strange - and the strip became "In a Strange Land" (never published)
For a good ten years after that, I half-heartedly made comic books that I'd never finish. I got a job working for Studio Foglio and doing freelance art for the gaming industry.
Then, in 2004, I saw a really bad movie. "Van Helsing". I had so much I wanted to say about it that I dug Alan up out of his grave and went to town. This time, Alan became Alan Arcane - a graphic artist - and the comic was ArcaneTimes.
ArcaneTimes Volume Two - The Fogg House >>
