Offside
(Anything Box - Carmen)

As a kid, I grew up loving comics. My favourites were X-Men, X-Factor, Spiderman and Wolverine. I used to spend my lunches at the comic store, buying the latest comics for $1.50. In fact, I still have some of those comics lying around my room. They're still in good condition as I kept them in plastic covers with cardboard backs.

I remember reading the comics carefully, making sure not to crease any pages. Occasionally I would try and draw some of the characters in the comics and pretend I was Stan Lee, Todd McFarlane or Rob Liefeld. To be honest though, I was more like Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the South Park artists.

I eventually grew out of the comic collecting fad but I still love comics. I don't think that will ever change.

As you know, I've been working with a few friends on a fantasy sports website (www.fantasymoneyball.com) over the past year. It's been a pretty tough and busy year but we've been doing things that we enjoy. We finally launched our website back in September and we've been continuing to improve the site by fixing bugs and adding more content to it.

About a month ago Spooner and I came up with an idea of adding a comic to our site similar to the one you see on Penny Arcade. As luck would have it, Sonia's sister's bf, Garvey, was an animator and sports fan. We asked him to join our team and we started writing out some cartoon scripts that were sports related. Here are the fruits of our loins...err...labour.

Offside

Who would've thought that one day I'd have a hand in producing a comic?

So far we've been really happy with the work. As with most comics, there's going to be a period of growth as Garvey starts to understand the personalities of our characters and our humour.

As for the content, we've had a bit of butting of heads with some of our group in terms of what they think our audience wants to see. We've stayed on the PC/conservative side to appease everyone but look for us to push the envelope a little and get edgier with our material. After all, we're not PC and I would think that we are a prime example of our own target audience.

If you've got some time, take a look at the comic and let me know what you think. I'd loved to hear some input.

Seniorita and the Care Bear stare.



Medusa looking for a little fried chicken lovin.



Ignore the whoopee, Scott actually wanted to go as a giant foreskin.



Jo-jo and Sarah stopping by the party after their work shift on Jarvis & Church.

The rest of the pictures can be seen here...

http://flickr.com/photos/28362622@N00/sets/72157594362895854/