24 Hour Comic Day 2011

Well, it's that time of the year again. October 1 is 24 Hour Comic Day. Once again, I am taking the insane challenge of drawing an entire 24 page comic book within 24 hours. For the past few years, I've been doing this.

Last year, I didn't finish. CLICK HERE.

The year before that, I finished. CLICK HERE.

The year before that, I finished. CLICK HERE.

A couple of years before that, I finished (but not within the 24 hour deadline). CLICK HERE.

This year, I'm gonna draw on my new Cintiq! Technically, it's not new but used. However, it's new to me and I've been drawing like mad since I got it. What better way to break it in than drawing this year's 24 Hour Comic.

If you're a fellow artist who is taking the challenge, check out this great 24 Hour Comic Survival Kit. The wonderful people at Blitz Comics put this together and it's full of great stuff, including a thumbnail page which I plan on using.

Tune in Monday to see if I finished the challenge. To everyone taking the challenge, good luck!

Meet Al the Oyster

Here's another classic Boz comic. This strip introduces Al the Oyster. Al is an oyster who can't form a pearl. The gag is that he's constantly forming countless other things besides pearls.

Weird Sketch Wednesday

Here's a sketch I did for a children's book that I'm working on with a friend of mine. The story called for a female ogre. This was my first draft. I wasn't satisfied with this version so I scrapped and redrew it. I felt this one was too manly (even for a female ogre).

Meet Crabby

Here's another classic Boswald T. Bass comic. Crabby is a very crabby crab. I mean, he's a crab. It's what he is. I really like Boswald's expression in the second panel.

Happy Belated Cinco De Mayo!

Here's a fun little poster that I made for Gremillion & Pou's company Cinco de Mayo potluck dinner. The combination of Roofus wearing a sombrero and holding a bag of Chips Ahoy cookies makes me chuckle.

Aquatic Introductions

This is an underwater strip that I developed when I was in high school called Boswald T. Bass. You can see the development of this strip on my previous blog posts here and also here. This was the final incarnation of the Boswald strip. I only did a handful of these comics, but I think they are a lot of fun.

A Tribute to Duck Amuck

Yesterday I posted a sketch of this drawing. Here's the final product. I inked this on my Wacom and colored it in Photoshop. As I mentioned yesterday, this drawing is a loving tribute to the Chuck Jones' animation classic, Duck Amuck.

Weird Sketch Wednesday

Once again, it's Weird Sketch Wednesday. Here's a weird one drawn by me and my niece Eileen. She drew the Roofus head and I drew the rest. This is an homage to the classic Daffy Duck cartoon, Duck Amuck. Watch it below. Tune in tomorrow for the inked and color version.

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Phoning it In

Here's another installment of cartoonist Kenny Keil's Cool Beans Man. Kenny's a super talented cartoonist and all around good guy. Plus occasionally, he lets me color one of his comics. Check out his blog HERE.

Roofus' Little Sisters

My nieces, Eileen and Shayla, thought it would be cute if Roofus had a little sister. So, I gave him two little sisters based on Eillen and Shayla. The girls got a kick out of seeing themselves drawn as cartoon dogs.

Charles and Laurie

Recently when my brother Charles visited, he asked me to draw caricatures of his kids. Little did he know that I would draw a caricature of him and his wife, Laurie. Eileen and Shayla loved it.

Sean Campbell: Jedi Knight

Here's another caricature I drew. This one is of my nephew Sean. He's a big Star Wars fan, so I drew him as a jedi knight.

Eileen and Shayla

Here's a caricature that I drew of my nieces, Eileen and Shayla. Their dad, Charles (my brother), asked me to draw a caricature of Eileen and Shayla similar to the one I drew of his other daughters (Jade and Tiffany). Gladly, I obliged.

Jade and Tiffany

This is a caricature of my nieces, Jade and Tiffany. I drew this years ago. Both Jade and Tiffany are grown women with children of their own. I had completely forgotten about this drawing until Tiffany posted it on Facebook recently.

It's fun to see old drawings. It's similar to looking at an old photograph you haven't seen in years. I've posted the original as well as the newly drawn version.

Picture Pages with Uncle Brad

This past Labor Day weekend, my brother Charles and his family visited. It was great to see Charles and his wife, Laurie, but it was even greater to see my nephew and nieces: Sean, Eileen and Shayla. I gave them copies of my Slick books and my Roofus book. They loved the books a lot. After reading the books, they wanted to make their own drawings. We had a fun evening of drawing cartoons.

Shayla drew some Slick comics.

Check out her HUGE signature. Hilarious.

Eileen really impressed me. She had a loose leaf binder full of drawings that she has done. It reminded me of my Slick notebooks used to draw. Some of her drawings were impressive.

This was one of her originals: Frosty the Snowgeek. In case you can't see it, he's holding a textbook. Very creative and funny.

Here's a fantastic drawing of Roofus by Eileen.

Here's a drawing of Roofus' mom by Eileen.

And here's a drawing of Roofus' dad by Eileen.

Eileen drew this for my birthday. It was by far my favorite present I got this year.

Happy Birthday from Roofus

I recently celebrated my birthday with my family. They got me a Roofus cookie cake. I gotta say, Roofus tasted pretty good.

They're Not Comics...They're Graphic Novels!

Recently, the downtown/main branch of Shreveport's Shreve Memorial Library hosted a ribbon-cutting for their new, $25,000 graphic novel collection on Thursday, August 25. The comic art collective 4 After 5 hosted an all-ages workshop on creating comics prior to the ribbon-cutting. Pictured here are (l to r) Brad Campbell (that's me), Travis Eck, and Jeremy Johnson. Thanks to Chris Jay for the fantastic photography.


This was 4 After 5's first speaking engagement. We were all a little nervous, but once we got started, everything went great. It was a fun and enjoyable experience and I look forward to doing it again. Also, major props to Shreve Memorial for respecting graphic novels as literature by giving them an entire section in the library.

Also, I made these cool new Roofus magnets.

Journal Comics: April 7, 2011

It's cool to see Disney back on track. I've liked most of their latest theatrical efforts. I especially enjoyed both Tangled and Princess and the Frog (both princess movies, go figure).

This was my last journal comic. I enjoyed making these comics and I hope to draw more in the future.

Journal Comics: April 6, 2011

I do this a lot. I'll come home from work and konk out. I added the Sandman for some added humor.

Journal Comics: April 5, 2011

This journal comic was a rant against the upcoming Governator cartoon from Schwarzenegger and Stan Lee. Don't get me wrong. I love Stan Lee. He wrote some of the greatest comic book stories ever told. But, seriously, Stan (I'm talking directly to you, Stan)...hang it up, man. You're not gonna top Spider-Man. You're not gonna top the Hulk. You've outdone yourself, sir. On behalf of the comic book fanboy community, knock it off.

Here's my original Stan Lee sketch.

Journal Comics: April 4, 2011

This was something that I enjoyed about the journal comic experience. It gave me the opportunity to comment on current events. When I found out Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan Lee were teaming up to create a new animated series, it blew my mind.