Too Good To Be True

Ain't it most always the truth.

The Exit Out of Here?

I don't know what it means, but it was fun to draw :)  Reminds me of old comic strips from the 20's and 30's where some situations were more about wonder than anything else.

People are really into pirates these days ...

My attempt to write a normal comic strip that would be socially acceptable.  After the Sweetest of Dreams book was printed, a director from King Features Syndicate told me that a comic strip like that wouldn't fly in standard newspapers.  He said it was too strange and that I'd have to tone down my humor and probably write gags that I wouldn't be too proud of.  (Some of that I was already aware of).

I recently drew this one to see if I was still capable of writing "normal" comics for a more general audience.

I'm an Eyebrow

One Halloween @ CCS I was asked to paint random stuff on long rolls of yellow paper as decoration for a dance party, there were more of these on the inside.  I also came dressed as "an eyebrow" from my mini-comic "Halloween Costume Suggestions".  I was very good at doing the worm.

LDS @ CCS

This is the third comic that I was asked to draw for the "Cartoon College" documentary, about what it was like to be the only "active" LDS person in art school.  I guess my punchline was that the only person who seemed to think that it was cool, was drunk.  This comic was unused in the final version of the film.

Later published about a year ago in a magazine about LDS cartoonists.

Tusk Vampires

Unused zine cover I drew for "Salt" magazine, based on a dream I had about being surrounded by tusk fanged vampires.  Not so strange in other countries, I see fangs looking like this in movies from Thailand all the time.

"Homework"

Another unused comic that I drew for the "Cartoon College" documentary after they asked me to draw something explaining what I've been doing since I left the school. 

I really tried to make it look somewhat glamorous, but all I had been doing was homework to try and finish my Chinese classes at BYU.

(Photo taken with my phone.  Sorry for the blur.)

"So Bad It's Good"

A cover I did for Katie Durant's "The So Bad It's Good Movies Fanzine",  I chose to do an illustration of the kiddie matinee atrocity "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" which was the first film we bonded over and which I believe also gets reviewed in this issue :) (circa 2006/7)

A list of my fav Kiddie Matinee films is now up @ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/list/JVMa53UahRM/

BC Sterrett Interviews Himself

Sorry, these pages were photographed with my phone.

One of several comics that I was asked to draw for the "Cartoon College" documentary.  None of these comics actually ended up in the film, all rejected I suppose or were not as upbeat as they had hoped.  I was just being honest.

Drawn in 2010.

(They use my "real name" and not my artist name in the film for some reason, just a heads up.)

The Band Name Book

 My Chicken Heads CD cover art, ended up on the cover of this book (and on the page below).  I want a copy!

Commercialism explored

An odd strip I drew over the weekend.  No punchline or joke really, just a statement on how corporations want you to believe that you aren't cool or wont "fit in", unless you buy or wear their products.  It's also a lot of obvious lame word play on phonetics.

Since I may not be able to post tomorrow I'm posting this now. 

CD cover for a compilation of music recorded by friends. (Although, I don't think any of them appreciated it as much as I thought they would.)  I kind of like the crude art that was made before I knew how to properly color with photo shop.  I want to go back to that.

Portrait of a historian

 

Drawing I did based on a man with weird hair, that I saw giving a history lesson on Canada.

 

See me in concert with puppets and film strips this Saturday :)

Notebook Comic #5: Pickled Nose

                             Not really funny, just something I made up while I was drawing it.

My duck puppet (made by turning a white teddy bear inside-out, and re-sewing it), for "The Carpenter and the Duck" by Jim Copp and Ed Brown.

All my puppets are kind of ghetto, so don't judge my sewing skills. ha ha.  I try to keep them more on the "outsider art" side on purpose as if they are children's art versions of characters.  Does that make sense?

Behind Mirror Land

 

My cover art for the Mondo Music & Video limited DVD release of "Frankenstien's Planet of Monsters" (Now sold out!) Jan. 2012

All Women Are Skinny (Skinny Women Comics: Exhibit b)

                                                Stupid joke, but someone had to say it ;)

Notebook Comic #4: That Wandering Notebook Hobo ...

 

Unfortunately, this was my attitude through most of high school etc. (I have no idea whose math notes these are.)

My Own "Recipee" (sic) ...

Odd notebook sketch drawn over someone's homework notes, based on a line from the film "Thoroughly Modern Millie".

Note book comic #3: Fruit Salad Fairy (Skinny Woman Comics: exhibit a)

                                                       Hey Marsha, does this work?

So much beauty...

Ahhh, life ...

Notebook Comic #2: "Precious Peach"

Baby Syndrome.

Notebook Comic #1: It Dries My Tears...

Notebook Comic #1

I've recently taken up drawing random meaningless comics in notebooks, just to keep me drawing and writing no matter how dumb it is, and also  to re-define what comics are/why they are and how they are designed to myself.  (Inspired by advice from Robert Crumb).

I love that I can draw these and not care about art/design rules, writing rules, publication deadlines, or whether anyone is actually going to read them.  I use notebooks because I get intimidated by professional art/sketch book paper and I can pick up any old used note book in a lost and found or at a thrift store.  I actually like the used papers with writing or homework on them.  I just draw over it.   I also use whatever I have available to draw with. This time is was a pencil and a red sharpy.

I shouldn't have colored the air red, it looks like blood.

If you dislike my notebook comics, it's "ok."  They were not drawn for you to begin with :)

(Above): My theory of mucking around with comics, without rules (or rulers) in a notebook, inspired Riley Thornal to try his hand at writing his very first comic strip.  It is entitled "Sadness."

Quite amazing actually.

Elephant Detective: Episode 172

(Approved by Parents)