Drunk Elephant Comics

Sunday May 6, 2012

No Strip For Monday

I’m on the road to home from my first year at the Center for Cartoon Studies, and friends, it’s a 3 day trip. I promise I’ll update on Tuesday. Thanks for your patience!

Wednesday April 11, 2012

500 Strips

Holy cow, it’s here. Today is the 500th Drunk Elephant strip.

I’ve been so busy at school that this milestone crept up on me. I’ve done so much over the last 9 months, including work on some outside comic projects that will be announced shortly. I am thrilled, however, that I’ve been able to keep this comic going through all of it though, and I’m equally thrilled that you all have stuck with me.

I’ve been thinking a great deal about when would be a good time to end this strip (I’ve had the ending thought out since the very first strip), and 500 strips is a natural time to start to think about it. Drunk Elephant has always been an exercise in improv for me; I usually create each strip the night before and don’t work with a buffer. At the same time, I am also wary of overstaying my welcome with these characters, and don’t want you all to slowly drift away from the strip but to go out on a high note.

In September of this year, the strip will have been running for 4 years. I have a ton of other webcomic ideas I’d like to share with you all in the future, so I’d love to hear your thoughts about this strip. Leave a comment, shoot me an email (this seems to be what most people prefer), but I’d love to hear from the fans. Again, I can’t stress enough how great you have all been, and I value your input.

Thanks for reading!

Saturday March 24, 2012

Spring Break!

Technically, Spring Break is over for me on Monday, but with traveling and trying to wrap up projects for the end of the semester, I’m going to take a break this week while I get settled back in at White River Junction and the Center for Cartoon Studies. I should have lots of announcements this month though, including the 500th Drunk Elephant strip, so keep up with me on the site! Thanks!

Wednesday February 29, 2012

Me Versus Hank

I’m prefacing this post by saying that I’ve known many people who have had a lot of success at dating online, some of them even getting married. I also know a lot of folks who are into LARP’ng, and that’s cool too. Just clarifying before I get angry notes, that Hank thinks you guys suck. He’s kind of a jerk. I think we all know that now, yes?

I get asked if I am Hank quite a bit, and the answer is no. I mean, every character is me to a certain extent, but Hank’s views don’t reflect my own in most instances. I like getting up early in the morning and drinking coffee, for example. The parts of the strip that are the most like myself are how the characters speak to each other. The beat and the cadence of the dialogue, how they say what they say, that’s totally me. Several of my classmates at CCS have told me this when they’ve graciously used their free time reading through the archives, as have friends and family. You hear about writers having a ‘voice.’ Kevin Church has a great one, for example. All of his comics sound like him, in my head.

There are little things too that the strip is imprinted with, some of which are totally subconscious and wouldn’t be noticeable unless you know me well.

One of the things we’ve talked about here at CCS is that every comic is autobiographical in some regards, and it’s true. There is definitely the story of my life running through all of these strips, but it shows up as a theme, an arc, a line of dialogue, a different line weight on my brush. It can’t be helped.

So, am I Hank? Yes. And no. Sometimes. Also, never.

Monday February 27, 2012

The 2012 Drunk Elephant Membership Drive is Coming in June!

After polling the current members and looking at their feedback, I’ve decided to hold the 2012 Membership Drive in June this time. Part of the problem last year was how topsy turvy my life became as I prepared to move to White River Junction, which delayed the production of the members-only t-shirt significantly. While no member complained about this, they resolutely wanted another t-shirt. With this in mind, I felt it was better to be done with school before I started the new membership drive.

Thanks to all the current non-members who have been inquiring about when they can join, and thank you to all current members who have stood by me and supported me through the year!