About My Comics - "Stupid" & "Mr. Funnyman"

I've posted plenty of artwork I've done so far but not very much of my own creations (Rick the Raptor and The Curses of Spinthra are it as of now) so I decided to post about my two biggest comic projects that I want published.

First is my graphic novel, Stupid. I finished drawing and writing this comic in 2007. I started it in mid-April and finished it in early May making it my quickest work to date. Over the years of 2008 and 2009 I would randomly go back and do clean-up and text editing. I now have a fully finished 125 page black and white graphic novel. This comic, although not as good a work physically and concept-wise as some of my other creations, has a special place with me. I based this comic on the first comic book character I ever created when I was only a wee artist in 1992.

The story follows the happenings in a strange world, mostly surrounding an area known as Kawnk. This land is ruled by the Beasts, a race of reptilian-monster-people who are headed by the twisted and domineering President Lasher. For as long as the Beasts can remember, they have used strange little creature-people called "That Things" (since no one can exactly say what they are) as slaves. The slaves are given degrading names by their Beast masters. When Lasher is informed by his council of the existance of "That Things" not in the Beasts' captivity, he dispatches his guards to find them. The guards return with only one, which they name Stupid. The now imprisoned Stupid can not adjust to this life of torture and, with a little help from some new friends, plans to bust him and the rest of the slaves out to freedom.

I'd like to publish this comic before any of my others since Stupid is my first true character, but whatever comes my way I will settle for. The book's a comedy/adventure story. The only trick now is to find a publisher who will put out my work.

Next in the line of comics I wish to publish is Mr. Funnyman, a comedic parody of textbook superheroes. This is an on going series of books. Each book will contain two episodes and two shorts (four books a volume). I've completed all of volume 1, and a lot from later volumes. This too is based on characters from my childhood, and in my personal opinion is the funniest work I've ever done.

Mr. Funnyman follows the never ending battle between meat-headed, conservative superhero, Mr. Funnyman, and the evil, living pin, Pinhead. Pinhead's created a serum that can combine objects into humanoid creatures to help him play out his evil desires. Mr. Funnyman, with the help of his not-so-compatible, scrawny, liberal sidekick, Adventurer, must continually stop Pinhead's evil plans and fight off Bush Gardens, Electro Gator, and whatever other evil creatures Pin Head might throw throw his way.

I will post more about my comics in near-future posts. Stay tuned.

(All comics contain strong language, violence, and adult themes)

More IT Drawings

Here are more random drawings I did of characters from Stephen King's IT. Anybody who has read the book knows that the huge spider is It's true Earth form. The drawing could have been better. She's a little too light in coloration, and even though it's a picture of a grotesque nightmare, the coloring looks a little cutsie and out of place. I do, however, like the way the dead lights effect came out. I was afraid that would be really hard to pull off by hand, but I refuse to ever use photoshop or any computer effects on drawings when it can actually just be done by hand. The light pouring from her mouth and eye sockets and womb are the best part of this picture in my opinion.

The next picture is of something that was never featured in the film adaptation in 1990. The Turtle was the creator of the universe and the opposing force to It. This picture's ok, but it's not exactly what I pictured. First off, The Turtle's too skinny. When reading the book, I imagine it being massive. Also, the coloring has a very bland effect in my drawing. I imagined it being a glowing medley of swirling color. The book describes The Turtle's coloration as being so magnificent that you can see galaxies in it's toe nails. Also, there is a part where the crease line down the center of the shell is pretty crooked, which makes it pretty ugly. These are mistakes I usually don't make in drawings, so I'm kind of bumed about this one. Whatever. Try to enjoy it, still, if you can. More art coming soon.

Random Doodles

I just randomly felt like doodling monster faces the other night, and due to my lack of posts recently, I may as well just post these up. They're quick and pointless but, whatever, enjoy them. I'll put up some more finished artwork soon.

Famous Faces from Yesterday

OK, I'm finally posting new artwork, but it's of old stuff. Go figure. Here are some drawings I did last night of famous characters and stars from the 80's. Sorry for taking so long with this post. Don't know when the next one will be so enjoy these for now. Why don't you test your love of the 80's and see if you can identify all the faces.

Rick the Raptor

Hey. Since progress with my major works is slow (I've got my graphic novel, Stupid, completely darkened, typed, revised, and ready for publication. Now the problem is the publishing part), I'll post a link to a comic strip series I made and posted in late 2008. I started the strips in 2007, then picked them up again in summer of 2008 and began posting one on every weekday in August. The series is not a major work of mine, and the sense of humor is much more tame and typical than that of my other comics. In other words - they make you chuckle at best. I still like Rick the Raptor, though. I don't think a comic strip is supposed to produce the kind of hysterical, rolling-on-the-floor laughing that a solid story consisting of a series of pages should. The idea of a strip is to create a clever punch line using a minimal series of frames. The main factor of my point here is that gut-busting humor is rarely based on punch lines. The funniest humor is made up of funny dialogue and events that may be funny because of ridiculousness, randomness, the shock factor, witiness or rudeness. A comic strip is funny in the sense of a quick yet clever joke is being made that at the end makes you think "Oh, I get it".

Anyway, Rick the Raptor follows the daily antics of Rick and his pals living in a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth and humans were looked at as simple animals. Rick, the unmotivated, lazy, grumpy main character of the series, accompanied by his friends - Clarissa, his sensible yet rowdy neighbor, Dave, his bestfriend and drinking buddy, and Tony, the local bartender, star in 94 comic strips on this official myspage page I created earlier this year. I randomly started posting them in August of 2008. At some point in October, I miscounted and thought that the series would reach episode 99 exactly on Christmas day, so I planned a series of holiday episodes with one final one-framed season-ending frame. When I reached the month of December, however, I recounted and realized it would only be episode 94 on Christmas day. If I had still pushed for episode 99, the season would have ended exactly on New Years, but I had already planned the final episode, thus the final episode of the season remained 94. You can read all of season one at this page, and check out character artwork by clicking the Pics section in the upper left corner of the page. If you have a MySpace account, you can add the page to your friends at the bottom of it. I may make a season 2 some time, but there's no guarentee, for as I have already said, this is not one of my major comics - it's kind of just a side one. If I ever made a season 2, though, I would probably like to see if I could get the strips of both seasons published in a collection book. Anyway, enough babble. Check out the comics for yourself. Sorry again for yet another post of old work.

http://www.myspace.com/ricktheraptor

Caricatures at Applebee's

One night a couple of months ago a friend of mine and I went to Applebee's only with the intention to draw charicatures of all the people we saw (I find their food completely repulsive, honestly). Here are the ones I drew. I will post more of my artwork for my comics and all soon. I usually don't draw people as much, despite the fact that almost every picture I've posted so far has been of a human being. I like drawing more unearthly characters and animals (mostly insects and reptiles and especially dinosaurs).

Although Blogger deleted my AdSense account for some reason (there are no longer ads you can click to make me money, which sucks because I'm not exactly rolling in cash right now). Well, I've been given word that I may very possibly be able to publish my graphic novel, Stupid, in the near future, so if that happens, you need to go out and buy it.

Sorry for all the half-ass posts of older artwork I've been doing. I promise I'll post new artwork soon. I'm also currently working on another graphic novel called Round Rock. I started it in 2008, but haven't really worked on it too much until now. I'm allowing the artstyle and frames in this book to be much more loose and free and I'm really having fun working on it. It also looks great (I think, at least) and I'm quite fond of how it's coming along. It's also pretty funny (Once again, at least I think it is). Well, I'm not going to spill too much about Round Rock yet. I'd rather you all get well acquainted with Stupid and Mr.Funnyman first.

Sorry - Tonight it's Leftovers

Hey. Here are some random ass pictures I did this month last year and over the summer. These were just select pictures I posted on my My Space and Facebook pages. They aren't for any of my comics or anything. They're just random drawings of made up people or characters from other stuff. One of them is supposed to be Eve from Adam and Eve. It has no religious meaning (I'm a very NON religious person) I just felt like drawing her in my way. Another is of Razar and Tokka from the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that I loved when I was little, as well as one of the Legend of Zelda for the NES. All the others are just random drawings of whatever. My favorite drawing's the blonde chick in the white shirt. I know this is kind of a half-assed post, but enjoy it, anyway. I'll post more soon.

They All Float Down Here!

This is a drawing I did of the seven kids (the Losers Club) and Pennywise from Stephen King's book It. I'm still deciding whether I should add a background or not, or what that background should be. It's kind of hard to draw most of the characters not looking like how they did in the 1990 TV movie. Anyway, enjoy and check back for more drawings.

The Curses of Spinthra

While my graphic novel and comic series are my top priority items I want to get published, I am also making a videogame - a sidescrolling platformer game called The Curses of Spinthra. You assume the role of Duke Legend, a ripped, Fabio-looking demon slayer, and you march into the castle of the evil 18 year old witch, Spinthra, to put a stop to her and her monsters. The game is a comedy, mostly being a parody of the Castlevania series. The game is still in early production stages. I only have levels made, and still have 3 major areas of the castle to make with minor touch ups still needed for ones I've finished. I then have to make all character, enemy and item sprites and animations and then finally the triggers and code. The game will not be completed for some time but I am intending on posting it for sale when it is. You'll just have to be patient for now and enjoy the artwork.

Spinthra is the final boss character of the game, yet the central main character, too. I concentrate more on her than the hero because the hero is mostly just supposed to be the player. Spinthra is an 18 year old creature called a black witch who has a head of hair resembling a spider. One is born every 100 years in the Netherworld. When a black witch is born she is immediately made ruler. When she turns 18, she is then old enough to bring her castle to Earth and reign havoc on mankind. Being a witch, Spinthra can assume a number of different forms such as temptress form and spider form. I will post many more pictures for The Curses of Spinthra in time. Hope you are looking forward to it's release.

Welcome to the Blog of Brendan Corris

Welcome to the Blog of Brendan Corris. This is only my first post and, as you can plainly see, I am just getting started at Blogger. I am a 22 year old cartoonist trying to publish my comic books like my 125 page graphic novel, "Stupid", my comic book series, "Mr. Funnyman", and other things like my videogame I'm making, "The Curses of Spinthra". This will be my main posting spot for all my artwork. All updates on my works will be logged on this blog. This is basically your one stop for Brendan Corris material. I'll post some random artwork first for everyone to give you a taste of what I do. I'm still having trouble getting the background up. I hate code. So much copying, pasting, and hoping it will work. Anyway, come check my stuff out.