This entry has absolutely nothing to do with the election.

[mister_punchy]

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I can almost smell the teen spirit!

[americanbeetles]

Sweet merciful crap, that is both bracingly topical and dazzlingly epic. I actually like the art ("art") a lot, it reminds me of something between Mad and the gleefully stupid kids' comics they have in the UK.

I too produced vast reserves of terrible high-school comics, most of which were utterly NSFW and the rest of which have, thank god, slowly disappeared from the internet. But nothing of this... volume. Dang!

Re: I can almost smell the teen spirit!

[mister_punchy]

Ha, thanks, but yer work seems so much less filthy / deranged than mine does... how was yer teen output NSFW?

I was pretty forcibly reserved in my teen years so outside of frequent violence, Playground Patrol was pretty clean. No real swearing, no sex, no alcohol, no drugs (except for a bunch of hallucinogenic toads once), no cigarettes, no boobies. I drew much more inventively disgusting shit when I was in the third grade:

http://mister-punchy.livejournal.com/369131.html

Re: I can almost smell the teen spirit!

[americanbeetles]

Wow, your third-grade oeuvre is transcendent. Ah, poop comics, I knew them, Horatio. Later in my "artistic" development, a generously subversive uncle allowed me to read his Zap Comix, Life in Hell, etc-- by 7th grade I was obsessed with underground comics and spent a lot of time drawing incredibly smutty R. Crumb rip-offs along with my equally virginal, nerdy best friend. (made all the more hilarious by our then-vague understanding of male genitalia and the mechanics of, you know, intercourse)

This all ended when my mother found one of my sketchbooks. Not so much because she was mad, but more due to instant, crushing mortification. :(

Re: I can almost smell the teen spirit!

[mister_punchy]

Hahaha, oh man, I've gotta see those. You can tell that even by high school I had some pretty disproportionate ideas of wimmins' figures... lookit the introductory panel of the badass alterna-chick who falls head over heels for Mice's endless charm. It looks like she's smuggling her own tits under her armpits. For all the attention I paid to boobs, you'd think I woulda done better.

I don't know what I woulda made of Crumb but I loved "Life In Hell" as a kid, even pre-Simpsons. Even if a lot of its direct references probably went over my head, I loved the whole acerbic tone of it, plus the drawings were crude enough that I felt I coulda done 'em myself.

Still brilliant and insightful after 25 years:

http://mister-punchy.livejournal.com/383210.html

[mister_punchy]

I've been slowly killing my scanner for the last couple years.

But my 4th-grade "Punks" comics are way better than these:

http://mister-punchy.livejournal.com/212053.html

[willie_randolph]

Wow. I like how your style develops.

This is some cool shit right here.

[mister_punchy]

Isn't it weird how distinctly it develops over just a couple years? And gets a little less OVERTLY Simpsonsy? Some crazy shit happens during teendom.

[jake_richmond]

Fuck, the good old days! I remember getting really pissed off when you first showed me these. I couldn't figure out how you could produce this much funny, well drawn stuff without any apparent effort. I was crazy jealous.

[mister_punchy]

Haha! Of course, looking at it now it doesn't seem particularly funny or well drawn, but I still don't know how I had the discipline to churn out as many of 'em as I did despite spending so much time on plays, homework, school artwork/posters, near-constant journal-updatin', taking billions of photos, and hating people. It's been years and years since I've done any kind of comic longer than a few pages, but I don't particularly want to either.