Helpful Spider
Spring | View Work
Created: June 2023 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider noticed the weather has warmed up and is ready to be helpful for the rest of the year!
Created: January 2023 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is on the ready in case things get weird, which they probably will, so yeah.
Created: August 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is can't believe it's August already either! In any case he's manning your back to school list and making sure you have all your supplies!
Created: July 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Repost! Helpful Spider is here to remind you to have a happy and safe 4th of July!
Created: May 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is clearing the way so you can have a nice Spring bike ride!
Created: May 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is here with his Mom, and they both think you are doing a great job!
Created: April 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is adding some last artistic touches to a few eggs for the Easter Bunny!
Created: March 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is making sure you get the last of the minty delicious seasonal shake you love!
Created: March 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is clearing out the remnants of winter from your gutters to keep you safe!
Created: December 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is getting supplies together for whatever goes down in '22!
Created: November 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is keeping watch so no other spiders or critters get into your place for the Winter!
“St Patrick's Day Helpful Spider”
Created: March 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is bringing you luck! Happy St Patrick's Day!
Created: February 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is putting in the work to usher in Spring!
Created: February 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider knows the power of discount chocolate.
Created: February 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider with some energy-saving Dad energy.
Created: February 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is making the sidewalks safe.
Created: September 2020 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider holding down that socially distanced spot.
Created: 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider spins a web to send Winter a message.
Created: 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider wonders if it's warm enough to be helpful again.
Created: 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider guards his bounty of pumpkin spice.
Created: 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is wishing you a happy and safe St Patrick's Day!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is decorating your tree while you're shopping!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider suggests eating to your heart's content.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider teamed up with other Helpful Spiders to lockdown waiver wire trades.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is ringing in Autumn on a pumpkin with a coffee.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is doing some covert sabotage!
“Box of tissues for your tears”
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is ready to dry your tears from your sub-par fantasy start!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is manning the grill the final days of Summer!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is scouting your fantasy draft prospects!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is getting the full humid hair effect!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Oh can it be? A thirteenth day of the month landing on a Friday? The Helpful Spider isn't here to scare you, just to remind you that it's Friday the 13th!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, The Helpful Spider hopes that this May the 4th is with you, always!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
What a game! Also though, that game made for a late night! The Helpful Spider is brewing coffee after a long night of playoff hockey!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Hidden eggs on Easter can always be trick to find! The Helpful Spider is pointing out the spot where the Easter eggs and candy is at!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
The birds are chirping! The plants and trees have finally begin to bud! Winter is over! Helpful Spider is celebrating the second day of Spring!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
All the wind and rain of the Winter and Spring has made for some dirty windows! The Helpful Spider is cleaning windows so you can enjoy the sun!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
It's been four years already?! The Helpful Spider is wishing a big big Happy Birthday to all the Leap Year babies! You're all grows up!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
The Helpful Spider knows about the snowy Winters of the Midwest all too well and is hoping you get groceries before the big Chicago snowstorm!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
What a great American tradition! The Helpful Spider is here to get patriotic and decked out in red, white and blue celebrating Presidents Day!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Despite the ups and downs all season, and the agony, The Helpful Spider is always here to help root for your team and thinks your team is still #1!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Busy with getting things in order for the holidays? The Helpful Spider is wrapping your gifts so you can spend more time with your friends and family!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is working on that level that is giving you trouble!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is your shoulder bird if you become a pirate!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is cleaning your camera lens so you can tak great selfies!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is keeping your spot free and has popcorn ready for you for the big game!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is manning the rake and tending to the lawn!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is reminding you it's a cold one and to keep warm!
“Remember your hat and gloves”
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
It's cold out there! You're gonna need your mittens and stocking cap to keep warm and toasty! The Helpful Spider gathered them to remind you to dress warm!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Some of the bravest knights aren't necessarily the largest, so here's the Helpful Spider is guarding your lunch with his wee sword so no one eats it!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
The consummate chef and maker of tasty and flavorful salsas and dips, the Helpful Spider is making his world famous guacamole!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Christmas gift giving and shopping season can be a grind! What to buy your friends and relatives? Helpful Spider is getting a head start on your shopping!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
This isn't goodbye, just a little intermission and a see-you-later. The Helpful Spider is saying goodbye for a few but will be back before you know it!
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Football season is always made better with fantasy football, and it's better when you're roster is good. Helpful Spider is helping with your roster moves.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Crank up the burning love! The Helpful Spider is jamming the tunes of his favorite artist, the one and only Elvis, the King's birthday.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Always thinking ahead of your long commutes, the Helpful Spider is driving your car when you're not, listening for weird noises and keeping it in tune.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Dibs has to be THE dumbest past time of Chicago's Winters, regardless, the Helpful Spider is calling dibs on your cleared out parking spot.
Created: 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Unfortunately, no one lives forever, even the friendly Helpful Spider. Even so, he vows to stay helpful even after he's gone and turn into a spider angel!
Created: July 4th, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
RED, WHITE and BLUE. Fireworks! Grilling! Hot dogs! Burgers! Helpful Spider is celebrating the birth of AMERICA! Land of the free, home of the brave!
Mondays are the worst
Monday Comic
Just a weekly comic I started celebrating everyone's least favorite day of the week.
Created: June, 2025 | Role: Illustrator
It's a hot one out and another scorcher today. You hot? Well the creatures of the forest are too! Bring them in and cool off to a movie or something.
Created: July, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
Always keep your head on a swivel when amongst the geese of CANADA.
Created: February, 2023 | Role: Illustrator
That last cold snap really cashed my hands out to oblivion.
Comics about a wonderful future gal pal
Dear Future Girlfriend
Another weekly comic that started as a series of smart-assed Facebook posts and grew into a comic!
Created: October 8th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Aint no smash dancing like the smashing of pumpkins, smash dancing.
“Chainsaw alarm clock (Repost)”
Created: October 4th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
You'll make sure I'm up for work on time, albeit with an accelerated heartbeat, during cool weather sleepy season.
Created: July 17th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
If it doesn't work out, we'll at least have this in common, forever.
A helpful little arachnid
Helpful Spider
Always helpful!
Created: June 2023 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider noticed the weather has warmed up and is ready to be helpful for the rest of the year!
Created: January 2023 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is on the ready in case things get weird, which they probably will, so yeah.
Created: August 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Helpful Spider is can't believe it's August already either! In any case he's manning your back to school list and making sure you have all your supplies!
Comics usually on Thursdays
The Thursday Treat
Ongoing comics that are sometimes funny, of various amounts of panels, subject manner, and typically on Thursdays, but not on a more fun day like Friday.
Created: September 28th, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Can the taco not only be a great delivery vehicle for meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream, but also a wildly un-aerodynamic car?
Created: July 6th, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
A tale of a TRex drummer that has a mean heavy and menacing kickdrum style, but lacks a bit with rhythms on the hi-hat and snare.
Created: February 5th, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
The Thursday Treat is a well of knowledge of helpful, albeit questionable, tips on keeping yourself warm during a frigid Winter.
Comics for the Weekend(er)
Weekender
Comics that were created to compliment articles of the Weekend section of the Nothern Star during the Fall semester of 2005.
Created: August 25th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
From Struppendous Advice: Sure-fire fashion statements of 2005, and you, and a roll of duct tape.
Created: August 25th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
From Struppendous Advice: Sure-fire fashion statements of 2005, and you, and a roll of duct tape.
Created: November 10th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
From Struppendous Advice: Sure-fire fashion statements of 2005, and you, and a roll of duct tape.