The Shitter

Getting back to comics, this one came about when I made that solo journey out to Eugene for a year of non-continuing education. A friend and I decided that it would be fun to create a comic to send back and forth to each other via mail.  It all grew out of a silly exchange at a campsite just before I left, which is recreated below.

And lo, The Shitter was begat:

Also, I notice my pageviews went nuts recently, and I have a feeling it might be because I added the tag Edward Woodward to a post.  I'm going to do that again here just to test the theory.

And Then.....

I sent off #3 to another review rag and did a little better...

Some folks saw this and sent along the eight cents asking price, which I had chosen just because it's an awkward amount to put in an envelope, and I even received notes back saying how much they liked it.

I was working on the next issue when... I don't know... I just stopped and that was it.

So here for the first time ever is an exclusive look at what would have been Joe Average #4:

That blank panel on the first page would eventually have been populated by this:

So that was almost it, except many years later when I made the move out to Eugene only to find that they had killed my major of Film and Video just before I got there.  They were pushing me into their journalism program (!) and I wasn't having any of it.  So I drew one more bit with Joe, a take on something called Jim's Journal which was a strip that ran in The Onion.  In the Jim version the caption was "I went to college today.  It was OK."  I put the below on some t-shirts and gave them as Xmas presents.

And that is the near complete story of Joe Average, except.....