ohsomuchbetter
Hello again, this is Shawn Lindseth, your
guide to all things Shawn Lindseth., this is a page containing some
strips I did for the The College Times out at Utah Valley State College
(UVSC). It was called "oh so much better than....", and except it
was all squished together like this: "Ohsomuchbetterthan..." and then
it would say something wisecracky, like "...Garfield",
"...Clinton in office" or "...tell your mom to stop calling me".
You get the picture. I used the same pen name, that being "Ten
Times" as I did on a previous syndication attempt you can see on my
main page. These would have run sometime in 96-97 school
year. It published weekly, I can still smell the ink.
Having your comic in a paper, any paper, is a billion times better than
internet publishing, but I digress. You'll notice here, (if you
care to) that this is pretty much exactly like my current strip
"HD&P Comic Strips, Inc.". I think my gags are a little
better now, the lettering is tightened up, and the art has improved ten
fold. Other than that, I really could have written this
yesterday. These were good enough, dare I say, to get into a big
comic strip vote off in the local paper there in Provo "The Daily
Herald". It was a heated competition between me and
Blondie. Needless to say my machine gun toting cows didn't stand
a chance. It's just as well though, seeing as she's mega hot and
all. Anyway, here they are just as they appear in my notebook,
ink smudged and all, with a brief commentary below some of them.
To go back to my main page, click the beautiful blue word "chonk"
here>>Chonk
The above comic is generally the first one I think of when my mind goes
a wanderin' back to the old college days. It was also
the only one with a title still attatched to it.
The above comic I did for an English class, indirectly. We were
supposed to find something in the media and write a paper as to
it's
meaning. Seeing as how I used a pen name, I did this one
especially for the class. I filled it with a bunch of symbolism,
it was
something about the judicial system, I don't remember exactly.
But teacher didn't know that I was the mysterious ink chucking
crusader known as Ten Times. The day came when we were all
supposed to bring in our magazine pictures, or song lyrics, or
what have you for his approval. He called he called me up, I
showed it to him, and he sat there looking at it for a good
minute.
Then he said "I don't get it."
If I were to do this one over again now, I'd supersize
the fruit, and sit it upright, more like a person. And I'd make
slumpy.
This is the second draft of "Camel twister". The first one looked
more like a cow, and camel twister is way funnier than
cow twister. So I actually researched the shapes of camels, and
in doing so, learned a valuable lesson. The lesson:
Never touch a camel's red spot, no matter what the spinny board tells
you.
This one never ran, because I felt like it didn't quite work.
It's supposed to be Michael Bolton's music in the ear phones,
not Michael Bolton walking the dog. Michael Bolton Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton!
That captain cupcake getting married in the top row of my main page,
well that one exists only because this one does.
I liked "Twinkie the Kid" so much I wanted to twist another hostess
mascot. Take that sponge cake!
I'm not an athlete, I hate organized sports. I was traumatized by
naked towel whippings in high school. Anyway, sports comics are
rare.
Regarding the above panel, we here at HD&P Comic Strips, Inc have a
big poster up in the lobby, right above the receptionists desk
in our main offices. You can't miss it when you walk in. On
it is our company slogan, which we try to ingrain it into the very
hearts
of our entire staff. In great big caps locked purple letters,
staring you right square in the face it says: "Cannibalism's always
funny."
My mother once said the above panel was her favorite.
The above comic, "Anglo burgers" as I affectionately call it, is the
first of this batch. I hadn't drawn a comic strip in the panel
format in
at least two years, as I was engaged in a more important work. It
took forever to think this up. I can remember sitting in the
halls of my school
trying to jump start the old creative juices. It was good though,
it warmed me up for the rest of these. Incidentally, this is one
of my strips that
blondie beat out. Man she's hot! I've been thinking
seriously about putting a hit out on Dagwood.
This one here, is my favorite comic from this whole second student
newspaper time period. The picture's ok, it gets the job done,
But man,
this just cracks me up. So much so, that strange dating
preferences has become an HD&P standard, plus, as far as trees go,
this one is quite voluptuous. I mean seriously, check it out for
a second.
