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I started drawing "The Diary of Captain Jack" three years ago. I was bored and in a room with a chalk board. So I made up the first episode on the spot, thinking to make fun of Pirates of the Caribbean, which I had just seen, and... voila! Captain Jack, the particularly paranoid pirate, and Winston, his first and only mate, were born.
As time went on, I got better at drawing characters and set pieces, the dialogue got a bit snappier, and the whole thing came together, but "Captain Jack" has never forgotten its origins. I still do every episode improv-style on a chalkboard or whiteboard, then copy it over afterwards. I write each episode under the watch of a writing group I attend every week, so they can see my mind at work and offer the occasional suggestion or plot twist.
"Captain Jack" is a cartoon created for one purpose: making fun of things. It has very little actual plot; 80% of the action of each episode consists of dialogue ridiculing the 'helpless verbal victim of the week.' No offense is meant if you like any of the things to be made fun of, but if you leave hate, I WILL be forced to laugh hysterically for taking the comic more seriously than it takes itself.
~CM
UPDATE: "The Dairy of Captain Jack" may have ended, but Jack is back in a brand new series, "Imaginary Friends Brigade," in which he and a number of other preposterous forgotten characters manage to escape the Island of Misfit Ideas and return to the real world... which they may just discover is way weirder than the one they just left. Jack stars, supported by another great (slightly larger) cast. Go check it out!
As time went on, I got better at drawing characters and set pieces, the dialogue got a bit snappier, and the whole thing came together, but "Captain Jack" has never forgotten its origins. I still do every episode improv-style on a chalkboard or whiteboard, then copy it over afterwards. I write each episode under the watch of a writing group I attend every week, so they can see my mind at work and offer the occasional suggestion or plot twist.
"Captain Jack" is a cartoon created for one purpose: making fun of things. It has very little actual plot; 80% of the action of each episode consists of dialogue ridiculing the 'helpless verbal victim of the week.' No offense is meant if you like any of the things to be made fun of, but if you leave hate, I WILL be forced to laugh hysterically for taking the comic more seriously than it takes itself.
~CM
UPDATE: "The Dairy of Captain Jack" may have ended, but Jack is back in a brand new series, "Imaginary Friends Brigade," in which he and a number of other preposterous forgotten characters manage to escape the Island of Misfit Ideas and return to the real world... which they may just discover is way weirder than the one they just left. Jack stars, supported by another great (slightly larger) cast. Go check it out!
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Tools of the Trade
pencil, paper, chalk, whiteboard markers, paper, a chalkboard
Other Interests
writing foolish comics involving poorly drawn stick figures
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Due to my own changing schedule and the amount of time and/or energy I can put into each comic and still hope to get them out on what passes for a weekly basis these days, I've rolled out a new comic called "oddly" which is basically just my same old style, same old character(s), and same old snarky humor in the form of long, rollicking rants that don't require coherent plots or continuity editing. My new MC, Oddly, is also a little more down-to-earth about politics, religion... all those cocktail soiree taboos that Captain Jack, cocooned in his blinding halo of political correctness, would never dream of even mentioning.
Unfortunately, I do
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The Boys Are Back In Town
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Greetings from the desk of CM! I'm at it again with the stick figures, although this time, they're looking a little more chic and polished. Give it up for "The Imaginary Friends Brigade," a new take on Jack's adventures fighting stupidity. Hope you enjoy it as much as Jack's diary.
P.S. I put up all the remaining Captain Jack episodes I had squirreled away on my hard drive, so feel free to enjoy those as well.
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And that's all, folks
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So things haven't gone exactly as planned. I have a treasure trove of episodes on a flashdrive somewhere that are going to take some serious editing to be readable - some are from a lifetime and a half ago, when I still worked on a chalkboard. Yuck. But I did handwrite the series finale, so that went up before everything else. Leave it to me to do things backwards and upside down.
Anyway, it's been a fun time. Enjoy the last episode, whoever you are.
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Thanks for the watch and the favs on my Workday Comics!
Your comics are very funny!