You get the webcomic merit badge Gabba Gabba Hey for joining a collective.  Hey I get this one too - I was part of Alternative Brand Studios (or Altbrand as it was known as) back in the 1999-02 years (that might be stretching the formal existence of Altbrand a bit).  All of us met making Halloween cross-over comics for the Fright Night Project, which was for several years an annual webcomic tradition.  (I ran Fright Night for most of its lifetime too - taking over from Terrence Marks who started it).

Okay I get this merit badge -- I did a few guest comics for others back in the last century.  The main two I remember (fondly) are one for Chopping Block and one for GPF.

I just found the GPF one -- it was a joke about patents!  Ha, perfect for GPF.  And jokes about patents are just as relevant today as they were in 2002.

(Can't find the Chopping Block one on google though...)

I'm still drawing this very silly pop culture parody comic -- I think I'll try to stick to black and white.  This one, however, relied on the A Team van for the joke so I did a second version with a quick flat coloring to make sure no one missed the reference.

A few of many sketches I finished with an ink wash.  They were originally part of a comic I worked on in 2002 (pretty sure about the timing of it).  Always liked the look but it didn't work at all with the story I drew them for - maybe if I had a tale that fit the feeling this kind of rough wash creates I could do more of this again.

It's always interesting what a CMS does out of the box and what gets filled in with extra modules (i.e., things you add on to the core program).  Drupal does a lot of nice things in its core but in general doesn't do everything.  In fact there seems to be a healthy ongoing evaluation of what should be in core and what shouldn't.

Brainstorming titles - I kind of like The Prime Derivative but maybe something else will occur to me.  Sketching out the two main characters repeatedly now - trying to work out how to do the art for this thing.

I drew this back in 2007 to accompany a post on a "webcomics open" KC Green organized.

Excuse the dust but I had a bout of nostalgia and completionism leading me to load up some old posts from previous versions of xaviarxerexes.com. 

Two things I still kind of like - the old motto: "mad, bad and dangerous to gnaw" and the logo from 2007 (below).

Another story idea bouncing around in my head -- this one sort of an uber-parody.  Tried coloring it (flat colors only) - tried going with a single color (blues) then went ahead with more colors -- maybe I should have stuck with the black and white version.

(reposted from January 2009)

Oingo Boingo - my favorite band for a loong time.