The Comics of Normal Bob
The Sheeples - A comic I started in 2006 illustrating my hate mailers along with my favorite quotes from their letters.
Satan's Salvation - A strip I've been illustrating since 2002 that explores the love/hate relationship between Jesus, Satan & me.
Creatures of Neptune - My bizarre pen & ink freak show dated as far back as 1994. |
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| Before Mr. X was the clumsy, laughable mascot for Crisis(TM) the Boardgame he was a jinxed, suicidal, hopeless undead. Some of these are a bit hard to follow I know, so I'll walk you through them best I can. |
Mr. X
12/92
A grief
stricken Mr. X tries to take his own life (jumping off a cliff,
hanging, stepping in front of a train, poison).
Having failed, he takes a walk. The camera pans back into the
universe.
Mr.
X is in a padded cell. |
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Mr.
X
Christmas 92
Mr. X
walks along side of his shadow (or is it Death?), and attempts
to take his life a few more times.
He
watches time tick away then he dreams. He dreams that he is
atop the paralyzed moose in the garden, riding it all the way
to Neptune.
That's
my third floor apartment in the middle frame. |
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Mr. X
1/93
| Basically
showing Mr.X always being watched; in his bed, on stage playing
the accordion, walking under the lamp post, and now it's you...
while he tries to sleep. |
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Mr. X
2/93
| Mr. X's
goldfish dies, so he tries to take his life several more times.
Then he takes a walk to the cemetery and sleeps at a gravestone...
wishing.
His
dream you can interpret for you |
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Mr. X
2/93
| A cold
and lonely Mr. X fails again at his repeated attempts.
He
goes shopping.. but for what? A mousetrap and a book. The
book is titled "box of mud".
That's
it. |
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X
93
| In 1993
my brothers and I put out a series of Mr. X comics to promote
Crisis™. This was one of the stories that I drew for the
book.
Mr.X
is dreaming of playing his accordion on stage. When he wakes,
he's standing on his bed playing the pillow. He collapses,
hitting his head on the bedpost, and his dream continues in
an altered state. |
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HELLCAT
93
| Another
strip for the book was "HELLCAT".
We
come upon Mr. X trying to control a screaming cat. The phone
rings, but if he lets go he's doomed. Kicking the phone off
the hook he pleads for help. Then an idea! Put cat into trash
can with masonry block on top. The cat senses the horror and
bites down hard! |
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HELLCAT
part 2
93
| At the
trash can, Mr. X realizes that to put the lid on he has to let
go. Overcome with panic, he runs screaming to the swimming pool.
He hurls the cat into the deep end and, like a torpedo, the
cat shoots to the bottom.
"Run
away" Mr. X thinks. There's a rumble and finally an explosion
from the pool.
We are all doomed. |
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