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Brian Bear

Cartoonist/Animator/Illustrator
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Jinx and Garadrobe

This here is Jinx and Garadrobe. Garadrobe is a dragon who performs magic shows, jester acts, and musical numbers with his silent undead partner, Jinx. Together they travel across the kingdom looking for gigs. They have a history of evil clientele: performing for evil wizards, malevolent generals and such. After getting canned from their latest roast (the Dark Lord doesn’t have a very high sense of humor about himself), they’ve “expanded” to street shows and birthday parties for the local villagers, even if their macabre sense of humor doesn’t gel very well with their new audience.

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Paula Carnage

Paula Carnage (yes that is her real name) is a real nice gal. She’s perky, positive, and passionate. Unfortunately, she's just inherited a new job from her recently deceased father: professional super villain! Not wanting to let her father’s legacy die, Paula begrudgingly tries to learn the finer points of super villainy from her new assistant, Jeft. Much to his annoyance though, she’s just too darn nice!

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DEBUG

Inspired by the video games of my youth, where sci-fi technology co-exists with magical powers for some reason, DEBUG follows a trio of insects as they protect their suburban backyard home from evil-doers. Melony, the magic practicing june bug and Darter, the tech wizard dragonfly, pal around with Peri, a cockroach looking for his own special talent.

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Swamp Hags

Three generations of swamp hags. The daughter in the middle takes things a little too dramatically.

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Crawdad and Mudbug

Meet Crawdad: a good ol’ boy crayfish living deep in the Appalachian mountains. With his friends Rusty the jackalope, Emmit the ram, and Vidalia the eagle, they search the mountainside for Bigfoot, Fur-Bearing Trouts, Hodags, Mothman, and other Cryptozoological creatures. Between hunts, Crawdad spends time with his son, Mudbug, and tells stories of these exciting (if idiotic) adventures.

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Bell Hop Girls

A line up of female bell hop characters. I tried to make each one’s personality stand out in their body language.

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Loogie Lobster

Inspired by the screwball cartoon characters of decades past, Loogie Lobster makes wise of all sorts of fisherman, sailors, seafood chefs, documentary directors and hungry pirate mermaids that get in his way.

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Kaiju Mike

The son of Kevin Kong and Gina Zilla, Mike is a young giant monster learning to protect the universe from older, meaner, giant-er monsters.

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Otto Maton

With his backpack of tools and programming for advanced home repair, Otto Maton serves as the super of his resident robot apartment, though he shows an interest in repairing his fellow robot tenants as well.

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