Not every idea that I have finds its way on to the site. Some of them are too weird, too obscure, or just not good enough to make it past what little quality control I have in place.

I found these rough drafts of strips while going through some old notebooks. They’re smudged and scribbled and barely legible, but you might get a kick out of them. If anything, let them serve as a warning to what the comic could be like.

(Click on any of these comics to enlarge them and make them marginally more legible.)

This strip is from very early - it’s actually one of the first few that I wrote. Back then I wasn’t afraid of doing a full-page spread for a very thin joke. Sometimes it worked - look at Science - but sometimes it didn’t:

I’m not sure what I was getting at with this one, but I’ve never seen any other strip depict children “chewed” between two guys in tooth-suits.

I grew up in the suburbs, and I currently live in the middle of a big city. Sometimes I write ham-fisted odes to this lifestyle choice:

I actually have a strip entitled small talk. It was about a man who makes a robot to cut his hair because he doesn’t like talking to human hairdressers. Then the robot runs amok and kills him. Here are some earlier riffs on this theme:

I think I was experimenting with an autobiographical tone with these strips. Of course, instead of my own life, I made up something about an overweight kid and dreams about meat-planes. And then I drew a skeleton wearing a top hat. Fun times. . .

At this point, I got sick of scanning. There’s actually quite a bit more of this stuff in the books, but I have to hold something back for the eventual boxed sets.

Thanks for sticking around during the hiatus. New comics are coming next week!

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