I’ve been digging through my old comics and came across this series that I did for a local newspaper back in the late ’90′s. It was about a small town called Backwash and its crazy inhabitants. The Backwashians were drawn as various animals like ducks, beavers, toads and birds.
When I first started, I wrote way too much (everybody does this at the beginning) as can be seen by this comic….retiree Ernie Duckles trying to enjoy a nice Spring day…
…and here’s another Ernie Duckles strip from a while later with much less writing in it…although still kinda wordy…
I did this comic for about 2 1/2 years and it was a lot of fun. I tried to sell it as a daily newspaper comic but it had a big cast of characters and too much detail to squish down to 3 panels. This was before the web (or at least before I was online) so after the paper it was in folded, so did the comic. I can post more if you guys like them…let me know.
The blue tarp heritage moment comic was one of my favorites
Well, if you have the rights to reprint the strips, go ahead and do it as a daily. I’d subscribe.
Thanks Michael! For now I think I’ll go through and post them here on the blog.
It might be fun to collect them in a book someday…when I have some extra time…Ha…