There was a time, eons ago, where my 'skills', such as they are, floated freely from subject to subject. I could write, come up with ideas, complete grand concepts and even manage to illicit a few grins.
When a member of the Long Beach Union Newspaper I held the exalted (and reviled) position of Grunion Editor. The Grunion was the satire supplement of the aforementioned Union.
So, naturally, when me and a few other intrepid souls started our OWN newspaper (I was co-EDITOR IN CHIEF) it fell to me to create a humor page of some sort. I will, at some point post the results of other pages. But one that I was quite proud of was the comics page I did for the humor page.
I had an idea to do a bunch of parody comics. You know, make fun of Wizard of Id. That kind of thing. Only thing was, HOW? I couldn't, and can't, draw anything, so I needed help. Alot of help. A, I dare say, SHITLOAD of help.
Lucky for me that my good friend was (and is) Scott Rogers--artist extraordinaire and someone who can draw anything!
I broached the subject with him. I had a handful of ideas. He was lukewarm on the idea. I went home thinking "well, I'll put that on hold."
Next day I met up with Scott and both he and I had spent the previous night, separately, writing about 10 comics a piece. He was interested. . .in spades! We ran every one of our ideas around and around, keeping some, spitting out others.
Eventually, this is what we came up with. Hope you enjoy.
(the Lost Patrol one literally had me rolling on the floor laughing when we wrote it.)
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