Now THIS is a milestone! After years and years and YEARS of making sneaky early bird cameos in the Christmas comics, May finally gets to appear as a “regular” character, AND be acknowledged by name! That’s last one’s probably the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2019
The dark and gritty sequel to Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer that absolutely NO ONE asked for! By the way, the single most time consuming part of this entire page was browsing through dozens and dozens of old[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one image officially ruined Christmas. I was just trying to come up with something that’d be in character for all the various characters but didn’t want to actually SHOW what’d be in character for Astrid, so I figured I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even if you didn’t grow up with VHS, you’ve still seen pretty much this exact thing in the form of budget DVDs at the dollar store checkout. And it’s always the same batch of old copyright-free Christmas cartoons, too, like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I always say that these Far Out There Christmas comics are as close as I’ll probably ever come to actually making my own holiday specials, and this time we’re taking that literally! For the next 25 days… well, 24 days[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Well, this is it. The last regular comic I posted on SmackJeeves. There’d still be the first few Christmas pages to go, but this was the final “plot-relevant” page to go up for well over a year. At[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: DANG IT! I’m sure Past Me wrote some actual real commentary for this page when it went up on SmackJeeves, but it’s not mirrored on any of the social media posts. To think, for the longest time I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Oh yeah, I like how this page turned out. May’s reactions continue to be fun to draw, for once we have a fire effect that actually DOESN’T look like garbage, and even the “generic thinking graphs” turned out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I’m pretty sure Past Me would have devoted a pretty sizable chunk of the commentary for this page to some form on “May in the last panel is what I feel like after working on all the holiday[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, just in case you can’t recall, May is referring to something we glimpsed all the way back in page 48, which was ABSOLUTELY NOT planned out in advance. I can’t remember when, but there’s SOME page where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…