Ow, My Crotch!

#16 illustrated by Alana Brown

2006-03-19T12:54:00.000-05:00

So I send Alana an instant message on production day asking if she could draw 3 panels of a guy being attacked by a raccoon. The result was the best looking comic ever, and I think one of the funniest.

#15, by Tony Reaves

2006-02-16T02:53:00.000-05:00

I can't get enough of self-referential humor. I played long songs during my radio show so I could draw this. Yeah, it came out looking like shit, but the joke stayed intact.

#14 by Tony Reaves

2006-02-16T02:48:00.000-05:00

Here's one I drew myself for deadline. It's based on a story John has about a guy who threatened to clean someone's clock- "literally." The guy was an idiot, I guess, and didn't realize what 'literally' meant or something. I thought it would be funny to have a service that cleans clocks in both senses of the word, and John said it would suck if they messed up the work order.

And now you know how comics are made.

#13, illustrated by Alana Brown

2006-02-16T02:43:00.000-05:00

The "more cowbell" joke was Alana's. Some people liked it more than the comic's punchline. I think the writing is about average for this comic.

#12 by John Enkosky, illustrated by Adrianne Hess

2006-02-16T02:34:00.000-05:00

Another relic from my "couldn't think of anything funny" days. John gave me a good joke I couldn't turn down, and Adrianne added a great visual joke with the rocket taking off behind NASA, as if that's just routine there. She also came up with the word "isolated," which makes them a lot more science-like.

#11 by Jason Unterreiner

2006-02-16T02:29:00.000-05:00

I'd thought about doing a continuation of Alana's, so when Jason brought me the idea I figured what the hell. Now OMC has a recurring character.

#10 by Tony Reaves: OMC goes political

2006-01-24T00:22:00.000-05:00

Fart jokes are the best. Just farting can be a joke in itself. I found fart jokes in two Honors reads my freshman year: The Inferno and The Golden Ass.

I'll be getting artists again- don't worry.

#9, by me, Tony Reaves

2006-01-20T16:44:00.000-05:00

Randy Cummings did a bunch of last-minute editing. For the better?

The 3rd frame is terrible- serves me right for drawing with pen.

#7, illustrated by Alana Brown

2006-01-20T16:42:00.000-05:00

I wrote this the day the very first strip was published- it took a while to come to life.

#8 by me, Tony Reaves

2006-01-16T01:54:00.000-05:00

Randy still hasn't sent me #7, so I'll post that one later. Putting my name in the title might seem unnecessary, but because of blogspot's massive internet presence, the top Google matches for the name of every artist is Ow, My Crotch. Except Mark, of course, but he was a giant.

So when I search for my name, I want OMC to be the top hit, not a country musician or a computer programmer.

#6, "illustrated" by L. G.

2005-12-10T01:43:00.000-05:00

I wrote this and the comic Alicia wrote on the same day, so they both deal with flatulence as a theme.

#5, illustrated by Jason Unterreiner

2005-12-01T14:36:00.000-05:00

I like this comic almost as much as the first one. This is great. I'm so happy with it.

#4, Illustrated by Alicia Mullins

2005-11-21T13:52:00.000-05:00

This is my least favorite joke so far, but the art is great. In retrospect, I shouldn't have gone with the close-up for the second panel. The click and loudspeaker would have been enough, and that way the missile panel would have stood out more. But I really like how Alicia drew this. This was exactly, exactly what I wanted. She offered to make them Care Bears, which I was unsure about, then she realized Care Bears don't have fingers. So it all worked out.

Third one, illustrated by Jason Unterreiner

2005-11-17T14:49:00.000-05:00

Jason drew this one the other night. See the hat? That means he wasn't drawing me. Also: I love the way the he drew the dinosaur. I was definitely thinking of his style when I wrote this.

One time, me and Jason interviewed Against Me!- I didn't talk much but it was a good time.

Second comic, all by Mark Seiler

2005-11-14T12:05:00.000-05:00

Mark made this over the weekend. I like it a lot. This isn't just my comic, and I'd like to give the other creators access to this blog to post and edit. Kiernan's working on #3, and I just gave Jason a storyboard for #4, so OMC! is moving right along. Anyone else who wants to collaborate should leave a reply. The goal of this is to get something into the Maine Campus that might actually make people laugh. Buy Mark's record!!!

First comic, illustrated by Alana Brown

2005-11-11T16:55:00.000-05:00

I got Randy's original scan that he used in the paper. I plan to just keep using Randy's scans from here in.