gallusrostromegalus:

vampireapologist:

when I was a little kid (we’re talking 6 or 7 years old) I was REALLY into The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes and we owned like every The Far Side collection in print so by 2nd grade I was determined to be a cartoonist but my sense of humor was pretty warped and from time to time my “art” would draw (arguably justified) scrutiny from my elementary teachers but none so much as this piece that I tried to recreate a few months back in my childhood art style for full effect

I don’t remember getting in too much trouble over this one, but I also don’t remember it getting the praise I KNEW it deserved and if you ask me, this is still pretty hilarious coming from the hand of a 7 year old. If these are directly taken from Gary Larson, I don’t know, but I really remember thinking these up myself.

This one was captioned “Katie’s fun day at the pond comes to an abrupt end.”

Who is Katie? I have no idea. Where did I learn the word “abrupt?” Probably Calvin and Hobbes. The original version of this is actually framed in my uncle’s kitchen; he and my dad were my biggest fans.

There was another instance where my teacher asked us to illustrate our favorite part of an earlier field trip, and I drew us having lunch at the McDonald’s playground, and while everything else was in good order, there happened to be a skeleton buried in the ball pit.

“Why is there a skeleton in the ball pit” people would ask.

2nd grade me shrugged, “stayed in there too long.”

AAAAAAAAHHH I LOVED ALL THOSE COMICS AS A KID AND GOT IN SO MUCH DAMN TROUBLE DRAWING CARTOONS TOO.  

I love your “Biggest splash”. That’s delightfully Maccabre.

My favorite ancient gallus comic was the page covered entirely in black marker and crayon called “Cat by Helen Keller”.  

My regular teacher grounded me at recess for that one but Mrs. Krants the art teacher fell out of her chair laughing and paid me five whole dollars for it.