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Apr 04

Black on Black.


Parking in Urbana-Champaign, particularly within campus limits, is not only hard to find, but the parking police are real assmunches. They’ll ticket you if you’re a minute late, and the police amount over a million dollars a year in parking tickets. Pays for their donuts, I guess.

15
Apr 04

Things to Do When You Graduate and You’re Still Unemployed.


People don’t think about it, but after graduation is scary. This comic serves as a reminder, as well as stuff this comic with as many characters as possible.

13
Apr 04

Tasks of the O.A.R. Ninja, Muscle of the Office of Admissions and Records.


The Office and Admissions Record Ninja is a fun character, and I feel I under-utilized her this semester.

Notes: Lincoln Hall is lecture hall that’s literally falling apart and is in desperate need of repair. UI-Integrate system is the way students register for classes; at first, it was confusing to use. Parkland is a local community college near U of I.

01
Apr 04

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.”

17
Mar 04

Oh Those Stereotypes.


Chief Illiniwek… discrimination or not? Oh, the politics!

08
Mar 04

FUCK SPRING! FUCK MIDTERMS!


We had heavy, inexplicable snow storms in March, and most students had midterms.

04
Dec 03
28
Oct 03

A Ghost Story: Part 1.


First of a three-part Halloween storyline.

One of U of I’s local legends is that the English Building is haunted. Apparently, it used to be a girls’ dormitory and a female student either committed suicide or simply died on the upper level. Nowadays, the Teaching Assistant office is located there, and each TA has their own weird and creepy experience to tell.

I modelled the ghost here after Samara of The Ring fame. I should also note that I forgot to put the characteristic mole on Lizzy’s cheek. Laser surgery?

17
Oct 03

Enter the Administration Ninja.


More new characters! The O.A.R (Office of Admissions and Records) Ninja is the embodiment of the administration of the University of Illinois. I mean, seriously, there’s nothing more sneaky and brutal as the faculty here at Illinois!

Decorative flower vase.

15
Oct 03

College Survival Tips: Volume 2.


This was drawn during the 2003 Baseball season when the Chicago Cubs were doing pretty well.


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