Welcome to my new blog! Who cares, it doesn't count until I get some followers, but I gotta start somewhere, a?
It all started back on July 27th 2011, when Google had the search suggestion at left, "Polar bears? Space travel? Chocolate Cake? What do you love?" Of course I love all three, and on a whim, as I am a being of pure whimsy, I drew a cartoon to tie all three together.
Of course I had to go the lolcat speech route, maybe a bit obvious, but, the absurdity of space faring polar bears who's only mission was to find some elusive chocolate cake...IN SPACE...demanded it. Of course there had to be consequences, and that's what you get for being out in space in the first place dummies! You're endangered!
Regardless, I shared it on Google+ and Facebook, and started thinking, three seemingly random things strung together in something coherent (tenuously of course). I find my own sense of humor, that is, when I illicit laughs from individuals around me at a time that do not involve me messing up or falling down, is when I react to a situation. So, I asked some friends to help me out, give me three words or concepts, and I would take a jab at it.
My friend Chance Wimmer, a guy I went to high school with and only barely remember (though he's probably my best friend on the internet), gave me Converse "Chuck Taylor All Stars" - Pudding - Elephants. Here's what he got in return:
Now, I ruminated on this for a while. An elephant wearing chucks eating pudding? Too literal. An elephant wearing pudding eating Chucks? Bizarre, still literal. Elephant wearing Chucks stepping in pudding to lead to a dung joke? Poop may be lol, but it wasn't tickling me yet. Then I took the first idea and put a spin on it...not an elephant, but the Elephant Man, Mr. Joseph Merrick. So there you go, the genesis of the first proper Three Words comic.
And that's what I hope to do with the blog installments of my comics. I will share the comic and its origins and inspirations, giving you an insight into my twisted thinking.
Now, this is just one avenue I plan to share through, I also have an open group on Facebook, here, and I opened my very first Twitter account, here, for my comic. I'll probably get a page up on Google+ soon.
So, please share, tell your friends there's this comic this guy is posting that you can have control over. There are limits to taste, like, I won't do Hitler, and topical stuff might night fly, like nothing with Casey Anthony or whatever captures the Nation's attention with its fresh blood in the future. But keep it fun, make it bizarre, don't try and think of what I'll draw, try to see if I can string unrelated things together, that's when it's the most fun for me. If I'm having fun, then hopefully you will too.
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