Comics Portal - My Life Making Strange Cartoons

A Philosophy in Spite of Words: Philosophical musing infuses much of my writing, and truly I loved my German philosophers more when I thought they were saying more than they actually were (particularly Nietzsche). It may be difficult to see where my comics fit into this scheme since they developed concurrently to both my philosophical and artistic interests. Yet I have come to see cross-current influences everywhere in my work; and where I exalt the nonverbal over the verbal with much verbosity in my novel writing, it is to underscore the irrationalism more readily identified in my comics.

Comic Archives: This comics portal contains three collections. The first two include my two longest running published comic strip series (and there are many comics here to read). A third collection provides examples of my best developed comic ideas as compiled in comic books.

The Blender Kitty Comic Archive 2005-1999

One man’s reinvention of the comic strip: Blenderkitty.com was named after my comic strip, which in turn was named after a friend’s cat. At the time of the website’s formation, I had reservations about the name, but went with it since the comic strip had a modicum of traction in 2002. The strip ended but the name stuck—at least until vanity intervened and I renamed the site after myself.

Herein lies a generous selection of comic strips from 1999 to 2005. Blender Kitty, Candy Medicine Bear, and occasional interloper Wayne The Endangered River Otter dominant the early strips. The later strips were not rangebound by furry, quasi-domesticated mammals who smoke unfiltered cigarettes and express regrettable opinions.

Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3, Archive 4, Archive 5, Archive 6

The last archive presents a sixty-six strip story featuring my namesake characters.

Archive 7

Profiles in Confusion Archive 2010-2005

Confused people say the darnest things: Profiles in Confusion celebrate differently-abled thinkers, and you either find these strips puzzling or absurdly funny. There are very few agnostics when it comes to this work. Profiles replaced Blender Kitty in all but name after 2005. These comics have been reformatted, and can be read in linked pages.

Comics Portfolio 2000-1988, circa 1966

A Sampling: These pages feature works from my comics output prior to Blender Kitty, including the Epic Dermis collections. As much of this material fades into memory, I am less able and willing to dwell on it. However, I rally on the last page with an overview of my comics development from boyhood.

Excerpts from my Xeric Award-winning comic Epic Dermis n1 begin this selection of pages.