The signs were there all along. It doesn’t take a genius to see what this means. It was only a matter of time. The evidence just kept mounting, until finally, the pressure was too much. Something had to give. Continue reading
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Trigger Warning
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Where We Differ
If there’s one thing I’m certain of, more so than I am that the earth is round, it’s that you and I are different. I don’t know you personally, but I’d bet my bottom dollar we wouldn’t click. I know this from a life of experience. That, and every single person I encounter informs me of thus.
You might think I have a problem with being “different”. I don’t. You do. Out of some deluded sense of camaraderie you felt from one of my comics, you thought I was “like you”. Then, when you realized you were wrong, you attacked me. You all do this. On the internet, on Facebook, to my face. I’ve dealt with this shuck-and-jive routine my entire life. I’m not what you want me to be, so you decide you’re gonna give Big Bad Matty Boy a piece of your mind. Because I’m apparently your little toon-scribbling monkey. Time to bring me down a peg.
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A Cartoonist Goes To Jail
This is a project that will be previewed in the Bands I Useta Like Summer Super Special Spring Break Special. Expanded, it’ll be 48 pages- a page for every day I spent in Fulton County Jail. Doing these strips is sheer agony, so:
1. I’m looking into crowdfunding options, because not only would this require funds, I require motivation to do this instead of more fun things, like say anything else.
2. Individual pages will be for sale. Signed, whatever ya want.
Contact me for more information. I’ll let you see more if you’re nice to me.
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Softballz
SOFTBALLZ details the trials and tribulations of senior citizen Shelly Softballz, and his autumnal life as a hardworking newspaper cartoonist who’s never quite managed to hit the big leagues. It’s not for lack of trying, though; Shel’s work appears with some regularity in the Weekly Shopper, but only time will tell if he can conjure up that elusive million-dollar idea that’ll second-guess the syndicates. (Or at least a greeting card company.)
Originally posted on Mike the Pod, July, 2009
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Learn To Draw With MATTYtm
What? I didn’t say learn to draw well.
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The Folder
Behold- the folder I’ve been using since the late 1990s for Bands I Useta Like strips.
Note:
- Early on (1999-2002), I would jot ideas onto the folder; see “I didn’t want to become the Tori Amos Guy” in pencil at bottom, “Guy Sieg Heiling” and “Guest Conductor” next to Scatterbrain, and “hippie ballsmokery” next to The Doors
- The West Side Story/Freddy Kreuger(sic)/Dave Brubeck thing is too complicated for a single strip, or to delineate here; I’ll probably write about it eventually
- It’s hard to make out, but next to Nelson (ha) are the notes “Village of the Damned”, and “Nelson Muntz Haw Haw”.
- Ha ha ha, Better Than Ezra. Remember that cushy little 90’s bubble of Jerky Boys/Dirty Work/Collective Soul? That’s probably what I was going for. It’s a safe bet I was gonna make fun of the guy from Collective Soul again for not knowing what “sophomore” means, somehow.
- I’m putting this picture up for posterity as there are over a hundred strips at this point and the damn folder will eventually fall apart or be sold for a ludicrous sum long after I croak.
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