Cooties

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 205

cartoonista — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 204

cartoonista — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 203

cartoonista — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Alien humor…

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 202

cartoonista — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Oh yeah, remember when Nate slipped Carmen the game? Clever kid…

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 201

cartoonista — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Here’s a little refresher if you need it, of Jake’s brain getting a Chen upload.

Episode 1 - “Infestation” - giant-sized 200th strip!

cartoonista — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Woo hoo! 200 comics! I hope you like this one, cuz I sure had fun with it. Now witness the power of the Q’utees’ fully armed and operational lens flare!

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 199

cartoonista — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Can I just say it’ll be nice to stop having to draw specks of chili in Lori’s hair from now on? Anyway, it happened during the food fight scene, (um…a year and a half ago…yeah…)

Back from the dead

cartoonista — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:17:36 +0000

Hello again! If I have any readers left after my 6-month hiatus, you have hopefully been looking forward to the return of Cooties, and the exciting conclusion of “Infestation”! I had originally planned to take a longer hiatus to completely finish writing, drawing and coloring each remaining strip in my first chapter, but I had too many requests to continue the story that I just couldn’t ignore them. Therefore, Cooties will be a weekly strip, updating every Monday, until I have a buffer large enough to go daily for the rest of “Infestation”. After 3½ years, all of you who have stuck with me deserve the big payoff, so I will do my best to deliver. Be here every Monday for the ninja-y, superhero-y, alien-y goodness of Cooties!

Episode 1 - “Infestation” part 198

cartoonista — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Priorities, people!

The Big Hiatus, and some explanation

cartoonista — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:18:23 +0000

Cooties was begun as an experiment. I’d done four years of a regularly-running comic strip at my University paper, plus a few years of editorial cartoons for a small-town rag, and wanted to try my hand at a long-form story-based comic. About 3 years and 175 comics later, I thought I’d try another experiment and make Cooties a comic that updated every weekday. That experiment ended in spectacular failure. The strip as a whole, though, has grown very dear to my heart, and I can easily see myself working on it until I’m an old man.

That being said, I’ve been forced to take a hard look at what I’ve been doing and ask myself what has worked and what hasn’t. I think I’ve figured it out. As a result, Cooties is officially on hiatus. My little characters deserve better than a hastily-scrawled punchline that I stuck in at 2 in the morning because I needed to update on time. I am going to spend some time plotting, writing, scripting, and then penciling, inking, and coloring. This will be done without a deadline looming over me as if this were a job. I want to start putting my best work on display, and taking the time to do it right.

Once the rest of the comics for “Infestation” are completed (written, inked, and colored), I will start updating the site again, one update per day. I really wish I’d done this to start with, now that I’m a little more experienced with this webcomicking thing. Anyway, I don’t know how long this is going to take. Hopefully not longer than six months, but no promises. I’ve got a house to sell, finances to fix, kids to raise, and a marriage to nurture, and turning Cooties into another job wasn’t helping.

To my dedicated readers, even though I can count you on all my fingers, you are truly appreciated. Some of you have read this thing for a very long time waiting for me to finish the first story. I promise, though, that the wait will be worth it. And I won’t drop off the face of the internet, either. I owe several people some guest art and stuff that I want to finally get around to, and still want to be an active participant in my host’s community. I’ll try and keep you posted on the site and Twitter and such. Until then, be excellent to each other!