A Waste of Time

A Waste of Time is a collective series of strips, sketchbook pages, whatever, but they’re intended to add up to a story and sort of an autobiography.  I’m the rabbit.  When I started posting things to this website, there weren’t many of them on here yet, so it seemed alright to just have everything all tossed up and you could kinda leaf through it.  At this point, though, there’s enough content that, to understand the current strip, you might not want to immediately go through the entire archive to deduce backstory, and, even if you do want to read everything, there’s not much of a reason that it all has to be read in order.  For those reasons, I’ve organized things into clearer groups, and I’m making this page to explain what the groups are.

I’m giving a brief description of each storyline or category, and the link in the title of each will take you to the first comic in that series, if you want to go through ‘em in order.

Boy From Santa Cruz-  These comics are the story of a dating relationship I had last year.  I started by posting sketches I had done from life of the boy in question, and as the story progressed those drawings formed the backbone of the story of what went on between us.

Rickets and Prester- The ongoing story of the romantic relationship between the teddy bear in my comics, Prester, and the robot, Rickets.  In my life, I’ve seen so many stories of star-crossed relationships between born again, recovering alcoholic teddy bears and broken robots, I felt that it was my civic duty to tell this story and bring it to light.

Marching to “The City”- So far, I’ve only posted the first page of this story and some associated drawings, but I think when it’s all up here, which should be soon, it’ll flesh out the backstory of my robot character, Rickets, and some of the craziness of these comics will start to make a whole lot more sense.  Or maybe less.  My grip on reality has been the subject of some speculation.

Roll With It- A story based on a night I had a few years ago in which, feeling self destructive for reasons still not entirely clear for me, I ended up doing cocaine, ecstasy, K, two twinks, and who knows what else.  Hilarity totally ensued.

Porn Addicted- A storyline from last year, mostly about the rabbit watching too much pornography.  As if there’s anything wrong with that.

Hot Mess- A comic I did around 2009 about my life at the time.  Seems I drank too much, couldn’t get my financial shit together, and made a lot of stupid decisions.  Glad I’ve outgrown that.

Swine Flu- A storyline from a couple years ago which introduced Prester, and was the beginning of his romantic entanglement with Rickets.

Interview With the Author- An interview I did with myself a while back to answer some questions people might have about the comics.  It didn’t really answer much of anything.  Or maybe it did.  Maybe it depends on what the questions were.