Thoughtless, Sausage-Fest Style.

For April Fools’ Day, the other cartoonists and I decided to draw each other comics. I got Matt Yurkanin’s “Thoughtless”, and I drew and wrote his comic like a poorly-dubbed Anime. And yes: Yurk’s Booker T’s character resembled Pikachu, the villain is Dr. Weird from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” and that’s Sailor Moon and Hello Kitty at the end.

Check out the rest of the collaborations/swaps here:
Joe Martin takes on Matt Vroom’s “I Hate Pam.”
Matt Yurkanin takes on Pat Doran’s “The Way Life Should Be.”
Matt Vroom taking on my comic, “Sausage-Fest.”
Pat Doran takes on Joe Martin’s “Boy.”

Interlude: Time Machine.

A quick interlude during the Rules of Attraction storyline, whose origial run started in February 2004.

Anyway, all the DI artists and I collaborated on a single theme that day, and we all had to include the line, “We’re going back…! …To the future, Marty!”

Here are the rest of the cartoonists’ Back to the Future comics:

Matt Vroom’s “I Hate Pam”

Pat Doran’s “The Way Life Should Be”

Matt Yurkanin’s “Thoughtless”

Cleaver of Meats (or How I Killed Matt Vroom).

A lot of Asians on campus (and, unbelievably, across the nation) were outraged by Matt Vroom’s comic from the Comic Wars. I personally didn’t have a problem with it (and neither did my Chinese editor), but I was asked to draw this comic to — from what I can surmise — trivialize how superfluous the situation was; it’ll show that Vroom and I are, in fact, friends.

It’s okay, though, I saved a lot of money by switching my insurance to Geico. I also had Subway for lunch.

All-Out Comic War.

Originally, the immediate day after the explosive deaths of all our characters, we were going to fill the comic page with “Felicity’s Way” comics. However, because of scheduling conflicts and a lot of controversy surrounding this comic, the finale (or rather final punchline) of the Comic Wars never came through.

It’s all gravy, however. The Comic Wars were funtastic.

The Other Cartoonists.

I asked the other cartoonists to draw their characters nude for me. They were more than willing to oblige. Low blow, low brow comic if you ask me, but the masses seemed to enjoy it.

Poor, Dirty Hippy-Skater.

I had to photoshop Matt Yurkanin’s characters. Also, the resulting leakage of Yurk’s clogged toilet continues onto the very controversial “I Hate Pam” comic. Why the Daily Illini still has this comic up demonstrates their idiocy. Ooh, did I say that?

And So Begins the Comic Wars…

Ah, the infamous comic wars that lauched the Daily Illini comics into — well — infamy. My comic buddies and I decided to have a little, week-long collaboration where we’d just poke fun at each other.

You can see Matt Vroom’s comic on the Daily Illini site.

4 Types of Drunks.

Pat Doran’s “The Way Life Should Be” was above mine.

College Survival Tips: Volume 5.

What’s with college kids building erotic snow sculptures? Additionally, what’s with college kids like Matt Vroom’s “I Hate Pam” comic more than mine? Oh wait, it’s hot.

And That’s the Punchline.

So it was all a dream Chris had, including the entire cast exploding…I wanted to make “Felicity’s Way” to have a five-day run, but everyone was so upset and disgusted by the four comics, I had no choice but to bring back Sausage-Fest prematurely. Oh well, I had fun playing this practical joke on everyone, and every time I reread the “Felicity’s Way” comics, I crack up.