comics Archives - Matthew Bey

Ingmar Bergman Memorial Comic

M. Bey — Sun, 27 May 2012 01:32:15 +0000

This comic would have been topical if I had actually produced it within a couple of years of Ingmar Bergman’s passing.

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Pizza Robots #5

M. Bey — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:26:46 +0000

Here we are, episode five, the final installment of the Pizza Robots saga (unless there’s a huge outpouring of people caring, which I don’t anticipate), where we discover the whole point of the previous episodes, and sketch out the outline of a future narrative that will never be.

Is this sexist? You tell me.

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Pizza Robots #4

M. Bey — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:20:42 +0000

This is pretty much a narratively interstitial episode where the Pizza Robots comment on the only thing in their universe.

I had in my mind that the pizza cruiser was an ordinary pizza delivery vehicle, but super-large. But looking at it now, it looks more like the delivery car is about actual size, and the pizza robots are just the size of normal pizzas.

Also, did you catch the bit with the beam? That’s a pun.

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Pizza Robots #3

M. Bey — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:13:39 +0000

After two episodes of tedious world-building we finally get some of that robot on food-mutant violence that we’ve been waiting for.

Now that we have a better view of the pizza robots themselves, we can see the outlines of the characters they will probably never become. You can differentiate them by the differing robot-antenna design as well as the differing pizza toppings. Supreme of course has all the available toppings. That’s what makes him a leader. Meanwhile, Meat Lover has a lot of meat toppings and is ostensibly female, which you can tell because of the eyelashes. I think I had planned an unrealized subplot about her coming out as a cross-dressing robot. Then, Peppy, the pepperoni pizza, is the undisciplined clown of the operation.

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Pizza Robots #2

M. Bey — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:58:45 +0000

So remember how the Circle and Almost Circle comics took a dumb premise and ran with it? That’s kinda what’s going on here. That’s why there’s not only were-fries, but were-curly-fries too.

A couple of points about this that bear mentioning. You will notice that the landscape is identical to that from Circle and Almost Circle. It’s just a randomly tilting horizon line with some skulls and a cow to let you know that it’s post apocalyptic.

Also, looking at it now, the dialogue balloon differentiation between the “robot voice” jagged line and the “communicator voice” jagged balloon box seems pretty inane.

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Pizza Robots #1

M. Bey — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:57:47 +0000

I’m not sure why I originally thought this would be a good idea. Perhaps I had some inclination that this would be a great idea for a syndicated cartoon for teens, because if there’s two things that teens like, it’s pizza and robots, so putting the two of them together ought to be an awesome start for some comic characters, right?

The comics are formatted to fit the pages of Space Squid, but I don’t think that any of these actually made it into an issue, and you know how low the standards of Space Squid are. So that’s got to tell you something.

Also, you can tell this takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape because of the skulls and the talking french fries. Sorry, I think those are were-fries, but that’s world building for another comic strip.

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So Circle and Almost Circle Walk into a Bar…

M. Bey — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:49:44 +0000

Because I like you, I’m not going to make you sit through a different post for every one of these comics. For some reason, I went down to the photocopy shop, and ran off a bunch of actual sheets of paper and inked in different dialogue for each template. Even at the time it would have been easier to use a digital alternative. And why the kangaroo? Because every joke needs a kangaroo if you ask me.

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Circle and Almost Circle #17

M. Bey — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:41:39 +0000

And so, by inserting Circle into the myths of Sisyphus,Tantalus, and Ixion, I have completely used up any shred of humor that one could possibly glean from the concept of ‘circle.’

Now, stay tuned for more Circle and Almost Circle comics that are so devoid of humor that they’re essentially anti-humor. It’s eleven variations on the ‘joke’ that starts with “So Circle and Almost Circle walk into a bar . . .”

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Circle and Almost Circle #16

M. Bey — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:35:21 +0000

I’m not certain if Circle is venturing into the underworld in an Orpheistic quest to find peace for his suffocated love, or if it’s just an extension of my classical obsessions at the time. There wasn’t enough space in the CAC panels to do actual plot exposition. Plus I was working to deconstruct that whole rational narrative thing. Because I thought nonsense was fun.

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Circle and Almost Circle #15

M. Bey — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:32:02 +0000

Here we come back to Heraclitus, since I was pretty obsessed with that at the time. Is the last line a pun on “Hiroshima Mon Amour?” I guess not. I think in my mind, at the time of drawing this, it made sense.

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