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The Story Behind StickBobRight now, you are probably asking yourself, A long time ago (mid 80's) I became aware of an amazing art form (stick figures) and was entranced by their beauty (simplicity and ability to draw them). So I occasionally dabbled in the sacred (probably not) art (and I'm lying about dabbling in it, except for a few things I had to do for school when I had to draw people) and dreamed of becoming a prestigious stick-artist (now I'm just making this up as I go along). But I always thought that a comic with stick figures saying witty things would be quite funny if done right (now this part is true). And I expressed this to a suitemate of mine at school by the name of James, a freshman while I was a sophomore at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and he blurted out the lines, "Hey fatty, your weiner is showing." So I quickly walked over to the whiteboard on my dorm room door and hastily, and quite crappily, drew the first StickBob comic. I showed it to my friends, and they got a good laugh out of it (not really). So I decided to draw it on computer. I decided to create some more StickBobs, but I thought it would be funny if I just erased the wording and kept the cells the same. So I did this, and then would transfer them to computer. After I drew the first few, I decided to start a page for StickBob. And StickBob was born... I used this format for the original 9 StickBobs (see Classic StickBob), and then left the original StickBob page as it is now. It is now frozen in time. Suddenly, I got the urge to revive StickBob and do him a whole knew format: Make it look cool (I hope), use some Flash, and make it a little interactive. Why I make you click on cells:I think a lot is lost in comics when you accidentally (or purposely) read the cells in the wrong order. Online, you can actually prevent this from happening. So I said, "why not prevent this from happening?" I think it preserves the joke a lot better, and makes the comic funnier than if you see it all at once. To my knowledge, I am the first to do this (although I bet someone else has done this before, but maybe not) and I like this idea.Well, the rest of this site is pretty self-explanatory, so enjoy. And feel free to e-mail me at:
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