Tree Thugger

Teddy the greaser always manages to be equal-parts understanding and terrifying.

Foliage Funnies

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Really, is there any gesture more romantic than the plucking of trees? I didn't think so, either.

Cigar Affician-aaah, No!

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I can easily say the cigar-eating makes this is the manliest comic I've produced in recent memory. My left hand was coated in a mane of fiery red hair by the time I finished, which is standard for a drawing of this testostitude.

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.

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.