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Zoovac's Dream Part 3

Too much A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: pcg.wikia.com. You are Balzac Globotron, an alien in space. You are looking for the Trance Gem, a crystal of incredible … Read more

Zoovac's Dream Part 2

More A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: pcg.wikia.com. You are Mortimer Von Fog Whistle, a ghost in your mansion. You are on a quest to scare off the family that has … Read more

Zoovac''s Dream: Part 1

A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: pcg.wikia.com. You are zoovac, a robotic clown in a stick, on earth. You are trying to take down the company, an evil corporation … Read more

Starry Mustard House

I won’t lie: this is the darkest, horniest piece of A.I. assisted fiction I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen very little. It does have a happy ending, however. Some background. Starry … Read more

Detect This

I’ve been writing(ish?) stories via aidungeon.io, a ML algorithm trained on text adventure games. The first was a fantasy, and this one is a detective story. It gets weird. You are Zorro, a … Read more

Chris the Wizard

I’ve been writing(ish?) fiction via the fantastic aidungeon.io, which is a machine learning algorithm trained on text adventure games. You are Chris, a wizard living in the kingdom of Larion. … Read more

Understanding your cat, astrologically

This is a piece I wrote for McSweeny’s that I didn’t think would get published, but wanted to go through the process regardless. As suspected, it was not published. Here it is, in all … Read more

Twelve Angry Rejections

“Just frame it like, ‘Let’s see how much I can fail.’” I was sitting at a window table in a lower east side dive with a small group of writers I had just met, questioning … Read more

The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I.

It’s like if Humphrey Bogart and Tina Fey had a baby. —Stephen Spielberg Gwen Gween, junior detective Folks, it is my distinct pleasure, honor, and plonor1 to announce the release of The Pulp … Read more

Who's on JavaScript?

If you like JavaScript this binding, and the comedy classic Who’s on First?, then is this the mashup for you! INT. OFFICE - DAY Two programmers, Phil and Mary, sit at their desks, typing. After … Read more

This is a little comic idea I came up with months ago for a Star Craft 2 cartoon contest Blizzard was running.

If you don’t know what Star Craft is, then you won’t get the joke…and even if you do know Star Craft, there’s a fair chance you won’t get the joke either. Needless to say the cartoon did not win, but it was a lot of fun to make. Pierre did the art, by the way (I can’t paint like that).

Various 'critters' from Star Craft stampeding in terror. One of them has exploded behind the group. Above them, the stylized Star Craft mouse cursor hovers. The caption reads: 'The deadly Mouse hunts stampeding Critters with a series of rapid-fire clicks...'

So I’ve been having random ideas for comic strips, mostly one-panel affairs, but some multi-panel concepts as well. Here’s my first attempt.

A drawing of a bald, sickly man with bloodshot eyes holding a coffee. He says, 'Dear God, I'm so tired, I could almost sleep!'. The caption reads, 'An insomniac after a long day.'