And that’s how you set up a silly joke.

Hopefully this will eventually turn into something useful for this blog.

I have several back-logged sketches for comics, but I’ve been busy and I’m trying to actually think about story-lines and what makes a comic funny ha ha rather than just funny “eh.”

Don’t worry. The comic is still unfunny.

So, I present this guy:

If I were to turn him into a comic, what would be happening? What would he be saying? Let me know in the comments.

Also, he appears on ’skineart, so if you like him, please favorite him there!

Major Toht was the name of the character in Raiders of the Lost Ark whose face melts at the end. He was played by Ronald Lacey who was cast in the part because he reminded Spielberg of Peter Lorre. All this is according to Wikipedia, so who knows? But when I drew this guy, I thought, “That looks like Major Toht… or his son. Major Toht wouldn’t wear that outfit.”

Here’s the pencil sketch version, pre-inking.

My friend, Eliot, says that he looks like a “Bollywood Bill Cosby” promoting his new film Ghost Dad. I think he looks like a thinner Glick. As if Glick were the replacement for Jared Fogle in all those Subway ads. Have you ever noticed that Jared still looks fat. I mean looking at him, something about him looks like it is supposed to be fat or it was fat or it still is fat but because of the Subway corporation capturing Doctor Who, locking him in a dungeon, and surgically installing the Tardis in a special magical Subway that Jared ate, now all his fatness is contained in a body much smaller than should be able to hold it, due to a wormhole displacement that you humans can’t really understand, so why should we Time Lords bother explaining?

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I have two masters degrees: a Master of the Arts in English Studies and a Master of Philosophy (which is what they give someone who doesn’t bother to write a dissertation at the doctoral level) in English. The focus for the second degree was modern literature and literary criticism, which means, basically, that I read a lot of philosophy and a lot of lit critics who thought they were philosophers.

It took me two post-graduate degrees to figure out that the majority of these words that everyone studies so diligently are largely wastes of time… like this comic!

I promise one of these days, this comic will start being funny. Right now, it’s in its early somber creation phase.

Here’s the related reading for today’s comic.

I drew a stool. Then a mouse hole. Then the guy on the right. Then the guy on the left. Are those helmets on their heads? Are they French clowns? I have no idea. I’m underwhelmed by it all. How about you?

There’s these two muffins sitting in an oven.

The first muffin turns to the second muffin and says, “Damn, it’s hot in here!”

Here’s some related reading on the muffin joke.

Related reading for today’s comic.

Check it out. My first two panel comic. Huzzah! I drew this on my Nintendo DS, using Colors!. Video of me sketching this guy after the break.

Here’s the video of the sketch on Seesmic:

Here it is on Flickr:

I thought about adding more text to this, but thought it worked the way it is, so I left it.

Sketched with my Lamy Scribble 185 on my Moleskine Sketchbook. The Scribble is a great leadholder. It’s nicely weighted and fits in my hand nicely.

While you wait, I decided to do some more doodling on my DS. Here it is on Seesmic:

Here it is on Flickr: