About Maximum Whimsy

'Sup peoples. Okay, so this is the deal. Maximum Whimsy is a series of one-panel non-sequitirs drawn in plain pencil on plain 3x5" index cards, often with no idea in mind and no care used whatsoever. There's a story behind that shit.

You've read Toothpaste for Dinner and xckd right? Well this is that kind of 'comic.' But instead of those guys, it's me doing it. Now, the story stretches back to April 2007 when I was floundering at an artist table at Kawaii Kon, Hawaii's piddly-ass tiny anime convention which has only been around for like three years. The downside to living in an island paradise (read: rainy wasteland that whores itself out to mainlanders for its meager pay) is that nobody actually lives here, so we can't have big parties. Nobody is taking a plane here to see our tiny convention. Anyways, my table was sucking royally and I was bored, so I started cutting printer paper into sixths and doodling idiotic crap on it, then laid them out in a pile and sold 'em for a dime each.

Guess what happened!!!! The crap-a-doodles sold better than the prints that I had worked hard on and paid good cash money to have printed. Isn't that the greatest blow an artist can take? The things you work hard on and have meaning to you are overlooked in favor of a cheap gag that you barely care about? Anyways, it worked. Didn't make up for the price of the booth, or the prints, or the fact that someone stole my damn DS when my back was turned. But, y'know. SOMEONE out there likes my sense of humor, and also my sense of cheapness.

The downside of this was that this jokes that sold well and got me attention are now scattered to the wind. I don't want to reproduce things that I sold off as unique (my integrity is worth ten cents, apparently) and I can't remember most of them anyways. So THIS time, I'm making doodles in advanced, scanning them, and archiving them here for all to gawk at. When Kawaii Kon comes around again I'll still be selling them for a dime. But this way, I have them saved, and I can build a sense of continuity between pictures if I find it amusing (and I do).

This is so totally NOT my aspiration in life. I'm not banking on one of my jokes being a huge success and earning me a lucrative T-shirt empire like other webcomics. If you want to see my more 'important' work, try poking around my other comic and my blog.