Hooray for the Weekender!
A series of editorial comics that shipped with humor articles for the Weekend section of the Nothern Star.
These ran around 2004 to 2005 during my graduate studies in pursuit of an MFA from Northern Illinois University.
Weekender
Fashion Statements of 2005 | View Work
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
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: A new school year is upon us and therefore a crushing wave of college aged debauchery comes with it.
Created: September 1st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: Is your dorm-appointed roommate actually a dirty commie bastard looking to turn DeKalb into a dirty hammer and sickle hellscape state?
Created: September 1st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Nothing worse than old school PDAs showing PDA.
Created: September 8th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: What would some tasty home cooking do for a nutrition deprived college kid when the clock strikes Beer:30?
Created: September 8th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: A LITERAL Animal House.
Created: September 14th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: Another game of Relationship!
Created: September 14th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Cheaters never prosper.
Created: September 21st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: Have an injured friend managing a bum leg? Why not cast them, without their consent, in your upcoming Christmas play as Tiny Tim?
“Hurricane Fighting Robo-Ferret”
Created: September 21st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Kaijus to the rescue!
Created: September 29th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: A taboo subject.
Created: October 6th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: B-Movies.
Created: October 12th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: Just a little three finger discount, ROOMIE.
Created: October 12th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Weddings, X-Files and Alien Babies.
Created: October 20th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: You're blocking the way Ma'am.
Created: October 20th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Canadian Geese pandemic.
Created: October 27th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Pregnancy.
Created: November 11th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: The lonely professors dragging out class dismissal.
Created: November 11th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: The Alex Mack Tapes.
Created: November 10th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: So long prequel Star Wars.
Created: November 10th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Holiday Sodas.
Created: November 16th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: The stinky roommate and loofa toting ninjas.
Created: November 16th, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Brayton revisits some weird dreams.
Created: Decmber 1st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
Struppendous Advice: Blue in pop culture.
Created: Decmber 1st, 2005 | Role: Illustrator
The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: Cheese and Pencils.
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.