New Subnormality posted

This week’s comic is finished. The poor kid–she never had a chance…

–Rowntree

Captain Estar Goes to Heaven

Okay, the “graphic novel” I keep mentioning is finally ready for prime-time, so click here or on the image above to go and read it. I should mention it contains everything except graphic nudity and sex, so don’t be accusin’ me of not warnin’ yer. Also, I’ve gone over everything to make sure there’s no mistakes with regard to pages linking to one another and pages being in sequence and so on and so forth and etc and yadda yadda  but there’s about 48,000 individual things that can go wrong when you throw up a couple hundred web pages in a short amount of time so please report any massive, fatal errors to me via the comments feature here. Other than that, my chipper, down-to-earth attitude belies the fact that a whole lot of thought and toil and emotion went into this comic and I really don’t care if everyone thinks it’s the Worst Thing Ever because it means something to me. Hence I offer it to you for free, instead of cooking up some elaborate money-making scheme involving paper and staples and pricetags. Besides, the art’s too dodgy for the mainstream. Okay, fuck, whatever, it’s late–I’ll catch you later.

 –Rowntree

New Subnormality posted

Again the time has come for a new comic. I swear I just made that one about the time traveling stuff, but whatever. Lousy passage of time. Anyway, old whatserface returns this week for some more retail madness. And yes, It’s pretty much supposed to be Shoppers Drug Mart. I shop there a lot. This ain’t product placement though. I also support my local sketchy corner store with the flies and the faded packaging and the expiration dates which bring back memories of elementary school. Friendly service though, and they have a wide selection of butter tarts and feta cheese.

 GRAPHIC NOVEL UPDATE:

Finally finished scanning in all of “Captain Estar Goes to Heaven,” and am now gradually making the necessary web pages. Not too much longer to wait, I reckon. I’ll get it done during the week when I’m too goddamn tired after work to do anything else. As you were.

 –Rowntree

New Subnormality Posted

This week’s comic is now finished. All the people who think my comics are ”too wordy” will love this one, because I made it just for them. Well, not really, but, er, what was my point here…? Oh yes–if you object to reading then go look at a less demanding comic. Something no so brutally taxing, like Garfield or Sally Forth or that delightful Marmaduke! God knows, The Perry Bible Fellowship is practically word-free, so go read that too! Anyway, I had this big sombre, thoughtful thing planned for the Rememberance Day comic, but then I scrapped it at the last minute because, while it’s my comic and I can do what I want with it, it’s also supposed to be a humor comic and people have plenty of other ways remind to themselves of the sacrifice of our war dead. Or something like that. It’s late, and I just don’t care anymore. Anyway, the comic’s done so go read it or don’t.

ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: Should I ever disappear for a week or two for no apparent reason, it’s because my computer fucking ate it and I’m scrambling around trying to buy a new one and reinstall 744 different programs. This scenario is looking more and more likely as my computer edges closer and closer  to the scrap heap. Ominous noises, blue screens of death, multiple log-in failures, etc, etc. So this is just a preemptive warning. You heard it here first.

 –Rowntree

New Subnormality on the way

I’ll just say it: this week’s comic will be delayed until monday night because it’s taking a while to do and if I rush it it’s gonna look like shit. I apologize, because this keeps happening with the longer strips, which this is, but I haven’t had time this weekend to crank the thing out. But rest assured that it’s on the way. I will NOT be skipping updates, but having to work full time sometimes necessitates the occasional delay. I like it even less that you do. But I say again: Subnormality will NOT skip any updates. A new comic every week–that’s the mandate. Half the appeal of any comic strip is getting to read a new one on a regular basis–that’s the First Lesson of Cartooning.

 –Rowntree

Interview: Flak Magazine

If yer wanna read an interview with me, here’s yer chance. Flak Magazine has been good enough to run my comic on their Sunday Comics page since the summer, and they have been running a series of interviews with most of the featured cartoonists. I’ll admit to being in kind of a belligerent mood back in August when this interview was conducted, but I stand by my remarks (although Scott McCloud isn’t completely a rubbisher. But his “Reinventing Comics” was as shite as “Understanding Comics” was brilliant). I only wish I’d mentioned more of my influences, because there’s some glaring omissions. Tom The Dancing Bug, for instance, is my favorite comic of all time ever. If it didn’t exist, then that’s what my comic would be like. But we already have a Tom the Dancing Bug, so my strip goes in other directions. Adios!

–Rowntree

New Subnormality posted

I suppose this week’s comic could be interpreted as anti-hillbilly.