Extras!

I've had the opportunity to meet several very talented comic creators online and in person. I'm always honored when I get the opportunity to work with them on their comic.

A few people may remember my very first comic I started back in 2003. It was to be called "Random Acts of ADP" and my IRL buddy Ira suggested the URL "www.racomics.com" instead of my default ISP web space, with RA being the short form of "Random Acts". This was the first attempt at making a comic. I drew Jim at his desk and used MicroSoft Paint to make the scanned image into a GIF file. I didn't have Photoshop yet and was pretty much clueless at this point. (Note that flat panel monitors like Jim's were cutting edge technology at the time and I'd only ever seen a couple at this point.)

The first time I worked with someone else's characters was when Krishna Sadasivam had a caption contest with his comic PC Weenies. Due to a glitch with my e-mail client he didn't receive my entry until well after the contest had ended but he was kind enough to let me post it here.

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The first time I was asked to provide a guest strip that appeared on another comic's site was when Matt Stout of Big Sandy Gilmore and the Light Box Podcast needed a break to catch up on school work. I was really honored that he chose to ask me.

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There was this guy who was tracing or using Photoshop® on other people's work, changing up the colors and calling it his. Apparently he was taking this crap work to conventions and selling it to unsuspecting fans. My good pal Chris Flick of Capes 'n Babes ran a comic addressing this issue and me being his pretend online arch-nemesis responded with the comic below.