Christmas in September

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This is a caricature portrait of my brother Joey, his wife Jennifer, and their granddaughter, Everlee. This was a Christmas gift from Everlee’s mom, Autumn, to Joe and Jennifer.

I got back to basics when drawing these caricatures. Although my drawing tablet has its advantages, using just a primitive pencil and eraser on paper is much more enjoyable. I drew the faces with pencil, scanned them into Photoshop, and then created the rest of the portrait using the drawing tablet.

Would you like to give a caricature portrait to one of your loved ones this Christmas? Let me know what you want and I’ll quote you a price, then you will say, “yes or no”, then we dicker and haggle maybe, and then you say, “yes”. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Contact Bob at oddboxcomics@att.net

I think, therefore I am, I think

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I have taken the next step in evolution by creating my first “talky”. I have animated my comic strip! The plan is to produce one per month. Enjoy the existential hijinks! At this time, only my followers here at Oddbox Comics get to see this. I have a little bit more work to do on this before I make it public on YouTube. I’m going to make a new thumbnail that parodies YouTube thumbnails. You know, a lot of sensationalistic bullcrap with plenty of arrows and red circles. Also, I plan to attach my animated ScribblePad ad.

I hope you enjoy this Exclusive Showing!

Canine Psychoanalysis

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One day, my niece Kya was explaining why she would never use nasal decongestant ever again. She said that it worked so well that she could “smell her own nose”. To me, that was a gag that needed very little refinement. In my mind, the only thing that could make it any funnier was the situation seen above.

Summer 2023 Version

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I have created new packaging for the ScribblePad. I think it makes the product look more complete. If necessity is the mother of invention, then this is the baby. I’m not quite sure what I mean by that. It was born more out of economic necessity rather than aesthetical necessity. I wanted to move on to blister packaging for the next batch of Scribbles but was running short on money, so, I thought, “Perhaps I should figure out a way to do my own packaging on this go around”, so I did. Ta-Daaaa! It is basically the same as the last packaging, (same size, same bag) except the display cardstock goes inside the bag and extends all the way to the bottom of the bag. I call this, “The Poor Man’s Blister Packaging”. Not only does it look better than my former packaging, in my opinion, but it is sturdier, stronger. Also, like blister packaging, I have more space to add other pertinent information on the back (directions, instructions, ingredients and so on).

Not only does the ScribblePad packaging have an exciting new look, but the pad designs themselves have been altered in subtle and not so subtle ways. For instance, one just disappeared. (But that means there is a new one!)