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Struppendous Advice
Original Print Date: 08/25/05
This comic was about the sure-fire fashion statements of 2005: the popped collar, the reverse upside down visor, as well as a wish for more exposed naval on the ladies. Chris was also hoping someone would flip out and cover themselves in duct tape as a fashion statement. If you can't duct it...
Comic musings:
I did this comic with the idea of really pushing the boundaries of past comics I did for the paper. I was a bit nervous about having a ginourmous illustration of a naval for the inaugural comic to start my run as the Weekender cartoonist, but it went over well. I also had this idea to have a reference to the "weekender" section in all of the comics I did (which I eventually forgot about later as school got crazier as the year progressed). Check to belt buckle to see what I mean. |
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The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents:
Original Print Date: 08/25/05
After spending the summer in a calm, vacant DeKalb IL, Brayton mused about the oncoming onslaught of Freshman and NIU college students converging on the NIU campus for yet another year of "learning" and drunken debauchery.
Comic musings:
I did this comic really wanting to push myself. I was just starting to dabble with using grayscale in the comics I did for the Star this year. In the past I was making printouts on legal size paper which were scanned by the editor and placed on the page. I later moved over to burning the comics on a CD (and hoping they didn't get messed up in the disc to computer transit). I spent a crazy amount of time on this comic, really hoping to kick the door in for my first set of comics for the Weekender. |
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Struppendous Advice
Original Print Date: 09/01/05
Readers of the 'Struppendous Advice' were and inquiring bunch. This comic posed the question, what if the roommate that NIU hooked you up with in the dorms was actual a commie bastard-hell bent on blowing up the cornfields in DeKalb.
Comic musings:
I give myself props for researching Rocky IV on the tee, (the Rocky when Stallone fights Dolf Lundgren). Choice. Upon discovery of the "halftone effect" I began using it as a background element in my comics. |
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The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents:
Original Print Date: 09/01/05
2005 marked the beginning of the palm pilot and gadget craze. Brayton noticed the growing popularity of the device and pondered what the PDF of PDFs might be.
Comic musings:
I like to call this comic "please hire me Mad Magazine." |
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Struppendous Advice
Original Print Date: 09/08/05
Beer:30 is a time that every college male observes on a daily basis, typically until the wee hours of the morning. In this edition of the "Advice" Strup ponders bailing on some sweet home cooking for some "liquid refreshment of the Gods."
Comic musings:
Struppendous advice usually had two to three "questions" per edition. As time progressed the comics I drew became more and more nonsensical as I tried to cover all of the bases visually. This illustration as as a stand alone image really needs to the article to compliment it, cause you'll never figure out what the hell is going on. |
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The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents:
Original Print Date: 09/08/05
Frats and Fratboys. On a night of wandering Brayton made a comparison to NIU's Greeks and Animal House, literally.
Comic musings:
"Mutant duck" (seen in the middle of the comic, barking) was the unofficial mascot of the "Weekender" for a short time after this comic. |
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