Cartoons

Happiness in Slavery

This has its origins way back in elementary school, probably the third or fourth grade, when my friends and I would come up with whacked-out, hyper-violent smiley-face and stick-figure characters and conceive of ways for them to kill each other. I revisited them (the characters) before Christmas Break 2004, and in Autumn 2005 when it came time to do a regular comic series, I thought of bringing the concept back to life. I emailed my friend about it and he gave me some suggestions for what it should look like:

Whether mine are better, worse, or merely different is up to you. These versions are even better than the ones in the paper because they have color. Mostly. The red makes a lot of difference. Note: These are best viewed with Mozilla Firefox. The Wrath of Double-Face Happy Leroy and the Half-Blood Prince of Darkness The End of the Beginning Legacy of Evil Ferro Fugly Will Have His Revenge on Seattle The Return of the Djogra Intelligent Designer Painkiller Will Leave Me in Stitches Finito, Mussolini

Beastly Knaves Thanks to Emily Reynolds for the coloring job Taking its title from a line in King Lear, this new series involves taking Shakespearean dialogue wildly out of context and framing it around a new story with talking animals. The links will take you to a page with the cartoon itself, followed by the lines from each play that they came from. The lines I used in the cartoon are in regular text, while the unused lines are black like the background. Drag the cursor over the whole block of text and highlight it to see the original lines in their entirety. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

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