2012-05-10-paula

On Captains

2012-05-10-paula

Meet our third and as far as I know right now FINAL character here at Existential Girls: PAULA SUMMIT. She is a mild-mannered artificial intelligence attending a suburban middle school in order to learn about human behavior. Her best pal is Astrid, a Bad Girl who hangs out in the Bad Girl Bathroom. Please enjoy their adventures.

This is actually the third Paula Summit comic. The second one is kind of not that good, honestly, and the first one was good, but even more roughly drawn that most of these strips (which are almost universally sketchbook affairs, by design, to keep the Creativity Flowing), plus I have no idea where it is now within my big pile of sketchbooks. So, uh, maybe those will turn up one day, but for now let’s just start here.

So let me tell you what’s up with the schedule going forward, with the launch of BAD MOTHER on SUNDAY:

  • Tuesdays/Thursdays/sometimes Saturdays: Bad Mother
  • Wednesdays: Existential Girls
  • (eventually) Mondays: Man Who Hates Fun, once it resumes

So at least three updates a week, albeit one of them a wacky sketchbook strip often enough featuring Boat Girl, whom Everyone Loves.

Hey, I don’t know if anyone noticed the link in the corner, but the excellent illustrator Anton Solomonik has finally released his secret project ANIMAL CITY to the world! Check it out here and let him know what you think of it!

Okay okay I’LL SEE YOU ALL ON SUNDAY for the BIG FANTASTIC DEBUT OF BAD MOTHER EVERYONE!!!

2012-05-08-rhoda

Rhodabelle Lett’s Frank Capra Miracle

2012-05-08-rhoda

Another adventure of RHODABELLE LETT, who has GOT WHAT YOU NEED. I remember drawing this at Second Stop Coffee in Wmsbrg Brkyn with Anika and Anton some time during the month before moving from NYC back to Texas. My favorite joke in this (and I don’t think it’s an obvious joke which is why I’m spoiling it) is that Rhoda doesn’t really know what an email address is.

Check back THURSDAY, where we meet yet another of our revolving cast of STAR ATTRACTIONS, the enigmatic Paula Summit. OR if you’re not interested in that, check back on SUNDAY when my new comic BAD MOTHER will debut. It’ll basically be like a classic All-American newspaper comic strip, except containing fun “queer” themes and questionable Napoleonic parenting tactics that no all-American newspaper will ever publish on their comics page ever. It’ll be great fun for us all.