The Rejects

For every comic I publish on this site, there are a handful which don’t make the cut because they are not funny or too weird, too depressing or are just a poop joke. I have provided a few of my rejected rough sketches on this page for your enjoyment or bafflement. Follow me down the unfiltered rabbit hole of my brain…

New Year's Alternative 1: Although Buni generally has bad luck, I try not to inflict gratuitous pain on him. Besides, I'm pretty sure the New Year's ball drop joke has been done before.

New Year's Alternative 2: I think this is how most people experience New Year's.

New Year's Alternative 3: Although 2011 was a difficult year, it doesn't necessarily deserve a shiv in the back. However, I do like the idea of stumbling across a dead body, only to find a cherub baby walking away.

New Year's Alternative 4: This one is perhaps too violent of an ending for 2011. But I like the idea of a panicked and hunted Old Man Time coming to your door knowing that his time is coming to an end.

Although this comic is meant to show the aftermath of Buni innocently eating a gingerbread cookie, it makes Buni look evil, especially because some people mistake the gingerbread cookie that he is eating as a baby gingerbread cookie. It is actually an adult gingerbread cookie if you must know.

 

This is just an old-fashioned poop joke.

 

A stork dropping a baby bundle doesn't sit well with some people. I've reworked it a couple times to make the reader think that the bundle is carrying a baby, but then have a last panel showing that it's just the stork's garbage or lunch, but that just waters it down. Go big or go home.

 

I've done a couple versions of Buni volunteering for a magic trick only to have it end horribly wrong, but I haven't been able to nail it yet. Something is there, but it's just not quite there yet. Sometimes I may come up with an idea, pass on it, then a year later I'll think of the same premise, but with a slightly different twist that finally makes it good enough to publish.

 

This is an example of a comic that is just random. I like the teddy bear casually sipping his coffee, ignoring Buni's tragedy of being on fire. But there's not enough information about why Buni is on fire. It's amusing, but are we any closer to understanding humanity or our place in the universe? I think not.

 

This is essentially a fart joke and probably doesn't make much sense to anybody else. But I like it. I'm not sure if it's because Buni is trying to explain to his doctor that spiders do indeed fart, or that the spider fart caused such ocular damage that he has to wear an eye patch. On the razor thin edge of what's funny or not to the outside world, I fear this may fall on the confusing unfunny side.