In 1992 I drew a daily comic strip for the OSU school paper, The Lantern. It was called Potbelly. I drew the strips at triple the size to pack in detail and used a lot of white out. I loved doing it, but my jokes were laaaaaaame.
The character was a dog with an oversized belly. He didn’t speak but held up signs instead. My inspiration was Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes. Eventually I got distracted and took the summer off, coming back and renaming the strip Bedlam and adding human characters. It still didn’t get funny.
But the Potbelly character stuck around and holds a dear place in memory. Eventually I’ll capture a slew of them and capture as a Project.
Until then, here’s 👉 a handful more strips on my old site.
This is so cool! My childhood best friend and I were both huge fans of comic strips. Her favorite was Marmaduke, and mine was Funky Winkerbean. Now I feel like I need to go look up Funky Winkerbean…