Jokes like this have been made about blood sucking before. Sergio Aragones in Mad had a great strip back in the 70’s about a vampire sucking a hippy’s blood and tripping. And the FX TV show version of What We Do in the Shadows did this idea three weeks ago. My version is more deadly as Creep Rat drinks bug poison. Yes, this is a reprint. I’m off to the East Coast Comic Con this weekend so I need time to pack.
Here are 4 one-shot gags from my sketchbook. They are drawn as fast as possible to get the idea across. Not very artistic, yes, but what the hell? Ha. Related
Here I return to the one-panel gag cartoon format. Because I don’t have my own shorthand gag cartoon style I’m aping the style of British cartoonist Pugh. I’m actually looking at his gag cartoons and taking his situations and making them my own as a kind of exercise. How can I make it Kaz funny?
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Kaz grew up a working class brat who loved cartoons, monsters, punk rock and fine arts. He studied cartooning at NYC’s School of Visual Arts under art spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. In 1991 he created the Harvey-nominated strip Underworld which continues to be published in alternative weekly papers across the United States. Since 2001 he has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo and Disney’s Phineas & Ferb.
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