The East Texan: Plan B

We're getting up to speed with my actual works-in-progress!

I have been dubbed the Staff Cartoonist of the East Texan school newspaper as of October, and as such I get to draw editorial cartoons as well as a weekly comic strip collaboration with my fellow comic artist, Bradley "Death" Ray. By "collaboration," I mean that Brad draws comics all the time and yet when he heard of the position on the paper he...told me about it. I was confused, because whereas I'm an art major and all, he's the one who is constantly drawing his little demonic doodles and toons in class. So, when I talked to the editor, I suggested we both work on the comic strip and go every other week.

Technically, I have a bi-monthly comic strip if you look at it that way. So does Bradley "Death" Ray.  We call it Plan B. To keep it unified week by week between our different drawing styles, we decided upon a central theme: the average life and events of a college student. Fairly unoriginal concept in general, and I think of it as our version of the comic strip Zits (look it up), but that doesn't make it boring or we wouldn't do it. Although it is proving difficult for me to stay away from puns.

I will be updated my comic strip every other week, but here are my comic strips that have been published in the paper thus far in my blossoming career move, in chronological order. They're in black and white because 1) that's what the newspaper says because 2) our color printing sucks anyways.

Click on them to view them larger! (and to be able to read them...)

 This one may need a bit of explaining. It wasn't published, because the week after Halloween was Brad's week to post, so by the time mine came around costumes would be a delayed reaction in...November. But I made this anyways because I enjoyed it. The first costume is Lindsay Lohan in her notorious ETSU (East Texas State University) t-shirt. This shirt caused a huge uprising from alumni from the current TAMU-Commerce University, and they didn't want her being a "role model" of their alma mater. It's easy to take their side, if they hadn't kept constantly telling her to take her shirt off and give it back.

This is for this week's issue of the East Texan. To put it in context, we have been hit with a cold front and consequently we have had ice and snow everywhere (which is a miracle in Texas), no school for three days, and rolling blackouts. This is a reaction to the latter.