Nightmare Chair

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Apparently I couldn't wait for Halloween to do a horror-tinged comic. Blame it on all the pumpkin spice latte ads I've been bombarded with. And as a lazy man, I can think of no subject more spine-tinglingly spooky than poorly upholstered furniture. WoOoOoOo! 

Ebony and Ivory

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For something a tad different, here's a quick comic presented in glorious black and white! Okay, actually with this one I'm going all classy and trying to imitate the style of magazine cartoonists from the forties and fifties. I'll leave it to you to decide if I succeeded at aping this style, since you're all no doubt familiar with the oeuvre of Hank Ketcham.

It's a great maddening exercise for working on your inking skills, since you can't fall back on coloring and shading to hide the flaws or help it read better. Really, anything that makes you feel like a fraud is gonna help your art in the long run.

Man Literally Versus Nature

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Raccoon battles are simply one of the many trials every dumpster-dwelling individual must face. And pigeon skirmishes. But pigeons are the raccoons of the sky, so that just goes without saying.

Troubled Loners Are Big This Year

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Like most girls her age, Rita finds herself dating a 500-pound greaser who's consumed by existential dread. Like most adult men their age, Sonny and Snuggs just regard the proceedings with detached bemusement.

Career Day: Part Last

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And so ends the Bean Counter's first storyline, and like all great epics, it all wraps up with a smoldering school bus. Thank you for soldiering along through my awkward, fumbling first attempts at serialization, and I hope the underlying commentary on nuclear proliferation was as apparent as I intended it to be all along. Seeya in a week!

Career Day: Part Four

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Full disclosure: This story is just repurposed from my old spec script for Speed 3: Shake N Brake.