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HISTORY OF BUBBAWORLD COMIX |
IN 2002 I STARTED WALKING THE STREETS OF MY HOME TOWN AND A COUPLE OF TOWNS NEXT TO IT SELLING ADS FOR A NEWSPAPER THAT I WAS GOING TO SELF PUBLISH. THE QUIRK ABOUT MY NEWSPAPER WAS THAT THERE WAS NO NEWS IN IT. IT WOULD CONTAIN ONLY COMICS AND THE ADS TO SUPPORT IT AS A FREE PAPER. A MONTH LATER ISSUE ONE WAS ON STORE COUNTERS AND IN STANDS FOR ANYBODY TO PICK UP FOR FREE. I CONTINUED THIS FOR FOUR YEARS. THEN I PUT THE PAPER DOWN AND QUIT THE PRINTING PROCESS. IT WAS TOO TIME CONSUMING WITH THE DELIVERIES AND PRINTING AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS I HAD. I DECIDED TO MOVE IT TO THE WEB, WHICH IS WHERE YOU ARE NOW. THAT IS NOT WHERE IT ALL STARTED. I THOUGHT ABOUT THE BUBBAWORLD COMIX PAPER FOR TEN YEARS BEFORE I ACTUALLY STARTED IT. WHICH MEANS I HAVE BEEN DRAWING MY COMICS FOR AWHILE NOW. I WOULD DRAW THEM WHENEVER THE CHANCE CAME UP AND JUST STOCK PILE THEM. I HAVE BEEN DRAWING SOME FORM OF SOME OF MY COMICS SINCE 1990. THAT'S 17 YEARS (AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING), I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. THE CONCEPT OF HERMAN THE PSYCHOTIC CHICKEN CAME ABOUT IN 1983, NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO. HE WAS ORIGINALLY TEAMED UP WITH A CHIMP. I DIDNT THINK IT MESHED RIGHT. YEARS LATER I WOULD COME UP WITH KNOTHEAD THE CLOWN AND REALIZE IT WAS A PERFECT MATCH. LIKE JERRY LEWIS AND DEAN MARTIN...FRED AND ETHEL.... BERT AND ERNIE....WHITE TRASH AND TRAILER PARKS. DONT SEND HATE MAIL. YOU KNOW THAT LAST ONE WAS FUNNY. THE SWAMP DRAGONS I PUT HIM ROOMING WITH WERE CREATED BY ACCIDENT WHILE MAKING UP STORIES TO ENTERTAIN A FRIENDS BABY SISTER. I DECIDED , "WHY LET THIS GO TO WASTE". THUS WAS BORN "MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DRAGONS". NOT LONG AFTER GETTING "MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DRAGONS" FLESHED OUT THE WAY I WANTED IT, MY BROTHER SUGGESTED I DO A STRIP STARRING TWO IDIOT BROTHERS WORKING FOR THEIR DAD IN THE APPLIANCE REPAIR BUSINESS. AT THE TIME I WAS RIDING WITH MY BROTHER HELPING HIM AND DAD IN THE FAMILY OWNED APPLIANCE REPAIR BUSINESS. SO I STARTED THE STRIP AND NAMED THE FICTIONAL BROTHERS JASPER AND CORKY QUICK. THUS "QUICK APPLIANCE REPAIR" WAS BORN. I SPENT THE NEXT FEW YEARS DRAWING THIS STRIP GETTING IT DOWN PAT AND WRITING IT. IN THAT TIME I DIDNT DO ONE SINGLE "MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DRAGONS" STRIP. I DECIDED TO DO BOTH BECAUSE I STILL LIKED THE CONCEPT OF THE SWAMP DRAGONS STRIP. EVERY COMIC STRIP HAS AN EVOLUTION TO IT. THE CARTOONIST DRAWS IT FOR SO LONG THAT MINOR CHANGES COME ABOUT WITH THEIR IMPROVING SKILL OVER TIME. WHEN I STARTED RE DRAWING THE SWAMP DRAGONS STRIP I NEVER EVEN BOTHERED TO LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL STRIPS. I JUST WENT BACK TO DRAWING. THERE IS A MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE "MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DRAGONS" STRIP BECAUSE OF THIS. THAT MISSING LINK IS IN THE FIRST HUNDRED OR SO OF THE "QUICK APPLIANCE REPAIR" STRIP. IF YOU TAKE THE 28TH STRIP I DREW OF "MSD" AND PUT IT NEXT TO THE 29TH, IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE DREW THEM. I ACTUALLY DID NOT AND WILL NOT RUN THE FIRST 28 STRIPS FROM "MSD" JUST BECAUSE I THINK THEY ARE THE WORST WRITTEN STRIPS I'VE EVER DONE. OF COURSE THEY ARE THE FIRST STRIPS I EVER WROTE ALSO. LIKE EVERY THING ELSE YOU DO A LOT, MY WRITING HAS IMPROVED THE MORE I DO IT. IN THE EARLY 90'S WHILE WORKING ON THESE TWO STRIPS AT THE SAME TIME, I KEPT THINKING HOW COOL IT WOULD BE TO DO A CAVE MAN STRIP. I'M A HISTORY AND ARCHEOLICAL NUT. (NOT A SPELLING NUT AS YOU CAN SEE) SO BUBBA THE CAVE MAN WAS BORN. MILO THE CHIMP WAS SALVAGED. HE FIT IN THIS STRIP AND WOULD STAY. BUBBA'S GREAT GRANDPAW, PAW PAW BUBBA, JUST ADDED MORE LUNACY. MILO IS THE SMART ONE. I MOVED OUT OF TOWN FOR TWO YEARS AND WORKED FOR MY OLD COLLEGE ROOMMATES' DAD. I SHARED A HOUSE WITH MY OTHER OLD COLLEGE ROOMMATE. WE LIVED IN THE TOWN WE HAD GONE TO COLLEGE IN. IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED. AFTER TWO YEARS I WAS NEEDED AT HOME AND DECIDED TO MOVE BACK. IT WAS 1996. I GAVE MY TWO WEEKS NOTICE AND THE LAST DAY OF WORK WAS OCTOBER 31ST, 1996. I WAS DOODLEING ON A PIECE OF CARDBOAD, SHOWING A GUY I WORKED WITH A DESIGN FOR A BAT PUPPET I WANTED TO DO. IT WOULD GO PERFECT FOR A MAD SCIENTIEST COSTUME FOR HALLOWEEN. THE MORE I DREW IT THE MORE IT LOOKED LIKE IT COULD BECOME A STRIP. I LEFT EARLY THAT DAY, AT LUNCH, AND WENT TO MY HOUSE AND GOT A SKETCH PAD AND WENT TO A HANGOUT WE ALL FREQENTED IN THE SMALL TOWN I LIVED IN. AT LEAST TILL THAT SATURDAY WHEN I WOULD BE MOVING BACK HOME. THIS WAS A TUESDAY. I SPENT THE REST OF THE DAY THINKING UP DOC, LIL' FRANKIE, HARRY THE SPIDER, AND FLESHING OUT MERLIN THE SENILE HALF DEAF BAT. IT IS ONLY FITTING THAT THIS STRIP ABOUT A MAD SCIENTIEST AND A BUNCH OF FREAKS WAS BORN ON HALLOWEEN. IT WOULD BE A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER THAT I WOULD WRITE A RADIO PLAY BASED ON THIS STRIP TO BE ACTED OUT BY MY FRIENDS AND ME ON STAGE IN MY HOME TOWN AND PLAYED ON OUR LOCAL RADIO STATION AT MIDNIGHT ONE HALLOWEEN. I HAD NEVER GIVEN DOC A LAB ASSISTANT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS TOO "CLICHE". WHILE WRITING THE PLAY I DECIDED THE STRIP REALLY NEEDED ONE. I DREW THE CHARACTER FIRST. I GOT IT RIGHT IN ONE TRY. NOW HE NEEDED A NAME AND I KNEW FOR CERTAIN IT WOULD NOT BE IGOR. I LOOKED AT HIM AND LET MY MIND COME UP WITH THE FIRST FREE THOUGHT IT COULD. I DECIDED THAT COULD NOT BE HIS NAME SO I FORCED SEBASTIAN OUT. I WROTE THIS NAME OVER THE CHARACTER. I CROSSED IT OUT. I WROTE THE FIRST NAME MY MIND CAME UP WITH ON IT'S OWN. IT FIT TOO PERFECTLY TO IGNOR. THE LAB ASSISTANT WAS NAMED 'BUTTERCUP'. IT WORKED PERFECTLY. DECEMBER 31ST 1999 AT 11PM I WAS DRAWING THE FIRST STRIP OF A NEW TITLE. ONCE AGAIN I HAD IDEAS FOR ANOTHER STRIP AND IN THE PAST I FOUND THE ONLY WAY TO GET THEM OUT OF MY HEAD IS TO DRAW THEM. SO FAR ONCE I START DRAWING THEM THE IDEAS DONT STOP. SO I KEEP DRAWING THEM. THIS WAS NO DIFFERENT. CAPN' GEEZER IS A TIME TRAVELER WITH HIS COMPANIONS BOT (A FLOATING ROBOT) AND ZOE. HE BELONGS TO THE SPACE-TIME CORPS. HIS ARCH NEMISIS IS MAJOR EVIL, WHO TRAVELS IN A PORT-O-POTTIE TIME MACHINE. I FINISHED DRAWING THAT FIRST STRIP JAN 1ST, 2000 AT 1AM. IT WAS A TWO TIER STRIP ABOUT Y2K. THIS STRIP PAYS HOMAGE TO ALL THE CHEESEY SCI FI I GREW UP WATCHING AND LOVED. I'M ALSO A SCI FI NUT AND THE THEORY OF TIME TRAVEL HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME. ALTHOUGH I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH EINSTIEN AND HIS REALITIVITY THING. GOING FASTER THAN LIGHT DONT MEAN AS MUCH WHEN THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS NOT A CONSTANT. YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED AT HOW MUCH OF CAPN' GEEZER "THEORIES" IN TIME TRAVEL ARE MINE AND WHICH ONES ARE JUST FOR FUN TO MAKE THE COMIC FUN. THEN ONE DAY THE PHRASE FOR NASA ASTRONAUTS, "HOUSTON...WE HAVE A PROBLEM." WAS JOKINGLY CHANGE IN A CONVERSATION I WAS HAVING TO WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF THE HOUSTON IN QUESTION WAS HOUSTON, MISSISSIPPI. THE NEW PHRASE WAS, "HOUSTON.....SUMTHIN' AINT RIGHT UP HERE." WAS DISCOVERED AND THUS THE BRAIN FART THAT BECAME SPACE REDNECKS.....HOUSTON, MISSISSIPPI WITH IT'S OWN SPACE PROGRAM. THAT IS PRETTY MUCH IT FOLKS. |
A NEW ERA IN THE HISTORY OF BUBBAWORLD COMIX HAS DAWNED. MY FOUR PAGE PAPER THAT I DISTRIBUTED MONTHLY WILL NOW BE A DAILY COMIC WEB SITE. WHOO HOOO! EACH TITLE WILL BE UDATED WEEKLY AND THERE ARE SIX TITLES THAT I WRITE AND DRAW. ME SO TALENTED. "QUICK APPLIANCE REPAIR" IS ABOUT TWO IDIOT BROTHERS WORKING FOR THEIR DAD. THEY HAVE ADVENTURES INVOLVING ALIENS, ELVIS, TIME TRAVEL, THE COFFEE SHOP AND SOMETIMES THEY GET AN APPLIANCE CALL RUN. IT WILL BE UPDATED EVERY MONDAY, I TELL YOU WHAT. "MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DRAGONS", AS THE TITLE IMPLIES IS ABOUT A PSYCHOTIC CHICKEN IN A FLOPPY EAR HAT NAMED HERMAN AND HIS PESIMISTIC CLOWN BUDDY, KNOTHEAD. HERMAN DOES LIVE WITH BILL AND BUBBA, TWO SWAMP DRAGONS. THEY WILL UPDATE EVERY TUESDAY. IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. "DAWN OF TIME" WILL BE UPDATING EVERY WEND. THIS IS A STRIP ABOUT BUBBA THE CAVEMAN, HIS CHIMP FRIEND MILO, AND HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER, PAW PAW BUBBA. MILO IS THE SMART ONE. IF YOU DONT READ THIS STRIP EVERY WEEK, THEN YOUR MOTHER SMELLS OF EDENBERRIES. "CAPN' GEEZER" IS A STRIP THAT DOESNT NEED ANY INTRODUCTION........BUT I GAVE IT ONE ANYWAY DING DANG IT. IT PAYS HOMAGE TO ALL THE CHEESY SCI-FI I GREW UP WITH IN THE 70'S AND 80'S. NOT THE 1870'S, ALTHOUGH THEY HAD SOME CHEESY SCI-FI, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. THIS IS A STRIP ABOUT A TIME TRAVELER AND HIS COMPANIONS. HE HAS MANY ARCH NEMISISESSSSS......BUT THE MAIN ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE.....MAJOR EVIL. HE TRAVELS THRU TIME IN A TIME MACHINE HE MADE OUT OF A PORT-O-POTTIE. THEY UDATE EVERY THURSDAY. DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN YET? WHAT IF HOUSTON, MISSISSIPPI HAD A SPACE PROGRAM? WELL THAT IS ANSWERED IN THE STRIP "SPACE REDNECKS". TRAVELING IN THEIR SHIP THE M.S.S. BESSIE (WHICH IS A CROSS BETWEEN A SHUTTLE AND A PICK UP TRUCK FUELED BY MOONSHINE) THEY EVEN WIND UP FEUDING WITH ALIENS. THE GRAYS ESPICIALLY. THIS HERE STRIP UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY, BABY. THEN THERE IS OF COURSE "GOING BATTY". A STRIP ABOUT A MAD SCIENTIEST AND HIS PET BAT MERLIN. MERLIN IS ANCHIENT......HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW HOW OLD HE IS. HE CAN ONLY REMEMBER 247 YEARS, BUT THEY'RE NOT CONSECUTIVE. CHECK THIS STRIP OUT EVERY SATURDAY. |