Posts Tagged ‘Mr. Mittens’

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Billy and the Cougar

by Justin on May 29, 2008 at 12:20 am
Billy and the Cougar

We’re the first to admit this probably isn’t one of our best strips. Usually, one of our strips fail, it is because we have spent far too much time rewriting it over and over again and in the process kill the joke by trying to get the wording exact. This one was the opposite. We basically had no rewrites. It still makes us laugh, but there is an inside joke there.

This was the third appearance for the female professor character. She was originally created for the Valentine’s Day strip, brought back once more for the staff meeting, but we weren’t sure if we’d really use her much. She appeared in the next week’s strip and became an essential character.

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Campus Trek

by Justin on May 28, 2008 at 12:20 am
Campus Trek

We really wanted to use the “popular guy” character more (he would later become Rick). So we thought a good way was to make him give campus tours. It could even be a recurring theme throughout the strip, if we ever had problems coming up with an idea for an idea one week. It may be the first real time we portrayed him as completely absent minded.

The character of Jean-Luc Seltzer is an homage to a friend of ours. Our friend is really tall so the character will not fit height wise in one panel. Also, he was given the first name of Jean-Luc since our friend is a big Star Trek fan.

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Dr. Klownus’ Blues

by Justin on May 27, 2008 at 12:21 am
Dr. Klownus’ Blues

This strip originally featured the character of Evil Beard and Mr. Mittens in a bar together. However, after introducing Dr. Klownus and Dr. Bones just the week before, we felt we needed to reuse one of them. So Dr. Klownus got his first starring role in a strip.

This is the strip that really cemented the fact, both outwardly and to ourselves, that Megan and Mr. Mittens should almost always be together. She carries him around in a lot of strips, and in this one holds him silently while he drinks. It also established that Dr. Klownus’ face is his actual face and not a costume.

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The Selecting Hat

by Justin on May 26, 2008 at 12:21 am
The Selecting Hat

Of all the original strips, this was by far the biggest headache of them all. I am not sure if any of the humor comes off anymore, because we rewrote the thing 20 or more times. We really shot too big with it, wanting far too many characters and far too much going on. Add in the fact that we were introducing three whole new characters and it was just a mess.

In the second panel at the bottom left you may notice a character wearing a mask. No, he is not someone random or a bad drawing of the blind professor, as some have guessed. He was actually a character named, creatively, The Masked Professor. He was slated to become a recurring character, but we simply ran out of time and couldn’t fit him any of the remaining strips that year.

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Spring Breaking

by Justin on May 25, 2008 at 12:22 am
Spring Breaking

We wanted to do a strip for Spring Break, and several ideas floated around about what to do. We decided we’d show what all of our characters we’re doing for the break, and so we brought back the Jolly 4 Jesus guy as well as Racer Patrol. Cancun seemed to be the big destination that year, so we chose it and off we went. It was also one of Mr. Mitten’s first big roles.

Missed by probably everyone who didn’t live in White College at some point in their life, the reason Racer Patrol chose White College’s air conditioner to bust was because it was always broken anyway. In three years of living there I never figured out why, and it seemed as good an explanation as any.

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Blind Man Walking

by Justin on May 24, 2008 at 12:22 am
Blind Man Walking

This remains one of my favorite strips of all the original ones. I love the play between the foreground and background conversations. Ok, so I am a little biased. Anyway, we wanted to feature Mr. Mittens heavily in a strip after his first appearance, so we decided what better way to show his true personality than to have him pick on the blind.

Though some might assume we wrote random dots down for what the blind man says, it is in fact really something written in Braille. I make this point, because it took quite a while to translate it to page. The blind man asks, starting with panel one, “Where’s my car keys?” And now that people know, all that hard work wasn’t for nothing.

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Enter the Feline

by Justin on May 23, 2008 at 12:23 am
Enter the Feline

If there was ever a turning point in the strip’s history, then it was this week. We introduced Mr. Mittens for the first time, and all Hell broke out. Mr. Mittens had actually been a part of idea for the strip from the beginning. The original idea was no more than, “A hobo gets hired to teach at college and has a cat who does drugs.” Oddly, it took us this long to do the other half of the original idea.

It truly was a turning point. Besides Mr. Mittens being introduced, we also introduced the two Greek organizations on campus–Lambda Lambda Lambda and Alpha Sigma Sigma.

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