Here are some of my cartoons, both animated and, um, stationary.

I made the ninja cartoons a few years ago, when I was obsessed with The Official Ninja Webpage, and ninjas in general.There's quite a few things in the cartoons that is derivative of Robert Hamburger's ideas, but I always felt I had an original take on the whole thing. They enjoyed a bit of cult status for a while after Robert posted links to them, and were well known enough that one time some guy I didn't even know told me to check them out. When your work is well known enough that strangers are telling you about it, you know you've made it, I guess. But then the prats over at the Pratt server removed them without even telling me about it, Robert removed the (dead) links, and the files have been languishing on my hard drive ever since. Now they are back online for your enjoyment. Enjoy them while you can; I still haven't found a permanent home for them.

The other animations are from an animation class I took as a senior. The Self-Portrait is probably the best of them. I'm only just now realizing that both of the others are based on comic strips I wrote as a freshman. I guess I was kind of lacking plausible ideas for cartoons. As a side note, one of my classmates recently pitched a show to Cartoon Network. I don't know if they picked it up, but it sounded like a cool show.

The story with the "improved" comics is that, sometime last year, I started reading about 60 comics online every day, after becoming obsessed with The Comics Curmudgeon. For those who are unfamiliar with The Comics Curmudgeon, whose name is Josh, he reads the comics so you don't have to, commenting on and criticizing them with the kind of intensity and rapier wit usually reserved only for snarky movie critics and art history professors. Because of that site, I started following all the soap opera strips, all the unfunny, "golden age" comics that your grandfather probably reads/writes, as well as the one or two genuinely funny strips in the papers, and writing long, involved, often heavily researched comments about comics on the CC blog. But when Josh went on his honeymoon last summer, two things became clear: nerds can still find true love, and I was going to have to find some other way to deal with my newfound comic-bashing addiction. One day, when I read a particularly horrible "Arlo & Janis" comic, I couldn't stand it any longer. I fixed the comic to make it funny, and posted the results on my livejournal. I plan to do this some more, since it was very satisfying to make crappy comics funny. For now, there's only the two of those, plus my semi-original "Garfield" comics. I hope you enjoy them.

I think "original comics" probably speaks for itself.