Dapper Cat Comics #21 - "T Has Long Hair"

I love my long hair but... it gets into everything!! The above scene happens with uncomfortable frequency.

Dapper Cat Comics #19 - "Subway attractions"

In this comic we also see that the artist doesn't really know how to draw the faces of babies. But seriously, this man on the subway had a crazy-large watch.

Dapper Cat Comics #18 - "Being a Grown-up"

Sometimes, I'm good at capturing the likeness of another. Other times... well, we just don't speak of those times. I'm so sorry, E.

Dapper Cat Comics #17 - "T-boarding"

Hey peeps! I'm living in New York City now with E and the rest of the Apartment Jones crew. It's been one week. So far, I like it. It's overwhelming, fascinating, beautiful and disgusting. Ah, people. Anyway, today I want to learn how to skateboard because my four other roommates all love to travel by longboard. I'm still partial to scooters, but I'm slowly learning here.

Dapper Cat Comics #15 - "Hanana Love"

I wanted the banana comic to have a happy ending. I think this also neatly depicts my relationship with E--bizarre and awkward but we complement each other well, resulting in cute.

Dapper Cat Comics #12 - "Hairball"

Oh yeah... I had this plan thing to do regular webcomics. Well, this was a spur of a moment comic, flaws in abundance. But I like it.

Just sayin'

First week of school passed. It might be a bit heavy, but I will find time for comics and such. I actually have lots of scripts and ideas written down. And two comics unfinished. One that I don't know how I want to color (I think I have a terrible eye for matching colors), and another that just isn't scanned or colored. I think I'll resume activity on my Tegaki blog. I can do some of the simpler comics there.

Also, I've added links to the right here; you can check out my other places on the web. Some need updating but yeah.

By the way, I'm in NYC... again. Surprise visit. E freaked. It was awesome.

Dapper Cat Comics #10 - "Felix vs. Viva Piñata"

Eh, working in Crayola colored pencils... I'm very pleased with the layout, at least. The drawings are messy, but I find it kind of endearing.

I'm terribly off schedule. NYC was hectic (but good), then I had to waste a day on the bus coming back. Never... again... Anyway, now I have less than a week before traveling again. Back to college with me!

Dapper Cat Comics #9 - "Rob the Tank #1"

We all love the WiiFit here at Apartment Jones.

Dapper Cat Comics #8 - "Cuddle Complications #1"

Ah, yes... We are quite goofy late at night. I have another Cuddle Complications in mind... featuring my hair. I have a lot of it.

Also, this is far far from an accurate representation of E's room. Not enough books, posters, random knick-knacks. And their apartment is really twisty.

Dapper Cat Comics #7 - "Flying In"

Because I am extending my stay in NYC, I will be returning to the regular schedule, more or less. These next few/many comics will be directly or indirectly based on the people and events of Apartment Jones, home of Tryptich, Sarif Sound, and N. Tepp Enterprises. Also, yay for a return to traditional means! I am without my computer and tablet, so I am mooching pens from E.

Dapper Cat Comics #6 - "Diaeresis"

One of the very rare moments I can think up a pun, it's a nerdy English joke. A diaeresis (which has multiple variant spellings) is when a diacritic mark, or ¨, is used to indicate when a vowel is pronounced separately, such as in the word "naïve."

Meanwhile I keep changing the tag for these comics. The blog url is very long. I need my website up, dangit!

Also, I'm going to be in New York City visiting E from December 30th to January 6th, so updates might become irregular or sparse.

Who is Felix Stripes?

No new comic today. Instead, some background on Felix Stripes.

Felix came about back in 2006 strictly as a visual design. No background or personality; he was simply a ridiculously long-limbed man in striped tights. To the right is the very first drawing ever of this visual character. During this early era, Felix was very tall, very skinny, and very bendy. He had no definite character yet, so I played around with him as an aesthetic, made a few more envelope designs and briefly attempted that 100 art themes challenge thing.

It wasn't until the summer that I started to add more depth to Felix. He became known as Felix Stripes, a surname he picked for himself (more recently I also add the middle name "Alabaster"). He quickly became a character of quirks. He loved color obsessively, but he would never wear any. Felix would wear strictly black and white, always with a top hat, and always keeping his eyes concealed. To the left is an early but classic Felix depiction, showing both his love for colors, and his surrealist nature (Fun fact!: I made it while at Ikasucon '06 in Cincinnati, my first and so far only convention. It was also the first ever Felix cosplay!!). So at this point, I had an idea of what Felix was like, but I still didn't know what to do with him or where to put him. He didn't belong in my massive high fantasy universe, but putting him into any one of my smaller stories just didn't seem like it would do him justice.

However! It did not take long before I finally pulled him out of concept limbo. Together with my dear friend Ari Sweet we formed the Color Bandits, which consisted of my Felix, and her old character Jax, the marionette. The basic idea as you can guess from their name was that these two monochromatic fiends stole colors for their own enjoyment. We wanted to play them up as the absurd anti-heroes. We never really developed a plot, but we drew lots of goofy drawings of them. As of right now, the Color Bandits project, which we intended to become a graphic novel or few, hasn't gone much further. Hopefully we will fix that soon. At the very least, I have some webcomics planned that features the Felix and Jax.

Ah, let's see, what next... Well, Fall '06 I began college, which made most creative endeavors come to a stop or a slow drag. I still continued pouring more love into Felix though. He became more and more a concept than just a single character. He became a multipurpose character, in fact! He wasn't just Felix Stripes the Color Bandit. There was also Felix my muse, Felix Alabaster Stripes the D&D bard/charismatic hero, Mr. Stripes the eerie pied piper, and most recently Felix Stripes the Only, as seen in E. Silva's DCC-inspired stories.

Felix became my symbol of creativity, the self-realized individual, the undying inner child. For once, I had a character in whom I poured meaning and expression. I suppose one could say I fell in love with him, haha. Felix embraces the world in ways I try to but can never grasp for long. He brings refreshing perspectives of even the most mundane subjects, and through him I want to inspire others to do the same. Never be bored! The world is overflowing with creativity just waiting to be hugged!

Another noteworthy character to note in the context of Felix is Deddrie Demeter, the maniacal, violent gentleman of one Rebekah Groper. Check her out on deviantART and at the official Deddrie website! So to end this rambling blog entry, I'll leave you with "The Great Bubble Mishap!" (This is also serving as filler because I have fallen behind on comic writing, so I have also fallen behind on creating comics. I hope my few readers aren't too devestated).

P.S-- For more of my Felix art, go here and for related fan art, go here. Everyone loves Felix! =)