Comic Update: Sean Rose Indie Reviews

Well that didn't work out so well did it??

This one took me a while to format. I wasn't happy with it for a while! But I think it turned out presentable.

But man I know I say this every update but I gotta do some things to this blog. Things change-related. Maybe a new banner? More updates?? WE'LL SEE

Comic Update: A Sean Rose Comic-Review

ohohoho hey there you go

More comics to come, i'm sure

Comic Update: Talkin' Sean

and a bonus comic why not



this is all i do now

Comic Update: More Doodles

Reviews reviews?? Yeah yeah. Expect a couple more this week.

UNTIL THEN enjoy some silly music doodles I drudged up once again.

Here's another Mike Love:



Some Fall Out Boy:



A sequel to that Sufjan Stevens doodle from last time:



And EVERYBODY's favorite Sgt. Pepper's knockoffs:



Thanks to Steve Winchell for help with that last one. More to come I'm sure.

Comic Update: Tom Petty Comics #6

And BLAM, here she is! The conclusion to last week's Tom Petty Comics plot is HERE. For GOOD. So you can READ IT. DAMN.

Enjoy:



Will Tom Petty comics return next week?? Shit, I don't know. But for now we can bask in the glory of the entire six-part saga.

So that's it. But a review is gonna come, folks. I can feel it in my soul.

It's Back: Tom Petty Comics #5

Argh!! Where are those reviews?? Sean Rose has failed his own blog. What is going on.

I don't really have an excuse for my lack of updates. Working on comics, schoolwork, and flat-out laziness have prevented me from writing some classic album writups. And those are not good excuses!! Ah well.

Either way, during my inexplicable absence, cartoonist Stephen Winchell decided to pick up my slack and create some BRAND-SPAKIN'-NEW "Tom Petty Comics"!! Yes that's right! Remember those? Well, if you do, you will realize that we have not seen a Tom Petty Comic since early September. If you don't, well hey, you can read them all right here! Dang!

Last time we left Mr. Petty, he had just re-enacted the crucifixion of Christ, interrupting sessions for his classic record Full Moon Fever once again and distressing collaborator and confidant Jeff Lynne. How will this tale unfold? Find out below!



Wait what? A cliffhanger?? Does that mean there will be yet ANOTHER Tom Petty Comic next week??? Guess we'll have to wait to find out.

Until then maybe I'll actually use this blog to post my OWN work for a change. Hah! We'll see how that pans out.

Weekend Doodles, Vol. 1

So do I have a review for you this week? No. (Two reviews? DOUBLE no, you idiot!!) I have had a phenomenally shitty week in terms of schooling, and I am still in the process of getting over the same cold that everybody else on campus seems to have (from apparently sharing each other's phlegm in some nasty way that I don't feel like going into). So all I have been doing is doodling comics about musicians. HEYO!

You all wanna read them, right? My dumb little comics about musicians? Yes, yes you do. Because you all think that I am supremely talented.

Here's a little Oasis:



And some of our favorite Beach Boy:



And the ALWAYS well-dressed Mr. Stevens:



Have a nice Sunday, everybody.

Comic Update: The Return of Kelsey Grammer

A year ago I decided to thrust myself upon UConn's Daily Campus comics page with Kelsey Grammer, a poorly drawn, awkwardly overwritten gag comic featuring a bunch of talking emoticons. I got sick of writing it after one semester, and after a summer of mulling about I decided that I needed to make a less shitty, more narcissistic comic - hence, Based on a True Sean Rose was born and I never looked back.

UNTIL NOW.

I don't know why I got the urge to make a few more Kelsey Grammer comics. Boredom, I guess, was the main reason. And then there was Stephen Winchell, KG's lone hardcore fan, who begged me to make more at any given opportunity. Either way, they are here.





If you are curious, you can read all the old Kelsey Grammers in this handy-dandy Facebook album. They are kind of embarrassing for me to read right now, because they pretty much chronicle the painstaking process of me learning how to draw. And as such, they also show how little I have learned in a year!! Damn.

Hourly Comics: A Great Adventure

So in case you were not aware this Sunday was Hourly Comics Day, during which many funny and prominent web cartoonists decided to put their balls on the line and draw a HILARIOUS comic about their lives for every hour they were awake. And I decided to give it a go! So I will post them here and you can decide if it was a gigantic waste of my time or not. Either way I had fun!

Talented dudes like John Campbell (who came up with this whole "hourly comics" concept) and KC Green have taken it upon themselves to make these comics during the entire month of January, which is pretty CRAZY if you ask me. Doing just one day is tough enough!! God bless them.

Either way, here they be.

Yet Another Comic Update: George Harrison

Yeah yeah I know. Haven't done a review in a while. Call it the "holiday break blues."

Until then, there's this.



Cloud 9 is actually an OK album. So maybe that second comic is kind of mean?

HAPPY FIRST POST OF 2009, AHOY!!

Comic Update: "Paul Carrack"

Yes indeed, you must read this comic to understand this new one! Ah-ha!

Anyways, here she be.



Two reasons to make a comic like this:

1) I figured these "Hill Comics" worked as a trilogy.
2) This song has been stuck in my head all week.

Oh, and here's a nigh-illegible "bonus" for you fools silly enough to read it:



God Bless Us, Everyone.

Comic Update: "A Sean Rose Situation"

Just a little slice of FUN I whipped up to ease the wait between REQUESTED REVIEWS!! (trust me, another one is coming soon... one you might not expect!!)

But here's a comic:



I fooled around with some grey coloring, just to see if it would make things look a little less crappy. The coloring reminds me of Pictures For Sad Children, for whatever reason. I think it came out alright?? YOU DECIDE, NOBLE READERS.

A Comic Update Once More: "Sean Rose Receives a Visitor"

oh no here we go AGEN



It's a sequel to this comic, and if this post is still new you can probably just read it by scrolling down ya lazy bumm.

oh and a bonus extra comik for YOU



what a whackee situation!!

have a fun finals week, folks.

Another Comic Update: "Sean Rose Wikipedia Adventures #1"

oh no, writer's block! so I threw up another comic!!




sorry for the awful scanning job. dem's the breaks with a scanner/printer from hp.

real update commin' on soon, I promise.

Comic Update: "Sean Rose Ponders"

whipped up in lieu of a real update

what fun!!

Wonderful Wurld of Webcomixx: KC Green

if you don't find this funny maybe we shouldn't be friends

I'd like to take more time to discuss my favorite webcomics in this blog, because there are so, so many that I like that I would feel guilty not talking about them. Especially considering that I read them and enjoy them every day. Oh sure, I'm all to quick to start bitching all over webcomics I can't stand, and admittedly I still feel there's a lot of crappy comics out there. But dems the internet brakes.

And of course, as I will always say, it is much more enjoyable to talk about things I like than things I don't like. Hence, Mr. KC Green.

KC Green is a very talented cartoonist. I guess that's an easy way of summing him up. Here's another: KC Green seems like the sort of cartoonist that was custom-made for me to enjoy. For starters he has a very sharp, yet very goofy sense of humor that I am instinctively drawn to - for every comic he makes about Euclid, he'll make another about pouring an ant farm on a fat man's honey-smeared ass. He makes some choice "nerd humor" references - Portal, Sailor Moon and stray internet jokes have weeded themselves into his works at various points - but he never hammers them into your head obnoxiously, like far too many webcomics out there. He employs a healthy dose of meta-humor into his work (most notably in his autobio comic Horribleville), but it's never any of that staring-at-the-reader "HOLY SHIT I'M IN A WEBCOMIC! BREAKIN' DAT FOURTH WALL!!" bullshit used by lesser artists. And as much as I enjoy the so-called "whackiness" of his art style (which to me looks somewhat inspired by John K. or Shmorky), Mr. Green has good sense not to overdo things. He makes visual strips with a serious flair, but he doesn't overload your senses with super-nutty faces or characters doing HA-WHACKYYY things.

What it comes down to, though, is that there is a real underlying sweetness permeating throughout Mr. Green's work - despite many of his comics being filled with bizarro violence or rampant negativity, they're all relatable in some way. Take this Horribleville strip, for example; yes, it features Mr. Green slicing his throat open and splattering his mangled body onto the windshield of a schoolbus full of children, but beyond the horrifying violence there's that sweet, sad desire to be remembered in some way. KC has something of a famously self-deprecating personality, one that shows often in Horribleville and many of his other comics. Which might be why he's grounded enough not to make himself look like a high-and-mighty prick in his comics - drawing yourself in a comic is kind of a risky thing to do, and he pulls it off well.

Aww jeez.

Listen, I'll be honest here. I am very jealous of KC Green. The guy is my age (maybe a LITTLE older, but born in '87 so that's enough for me) and he is prodigiously talented at what he does. Since I started working on an autobio comic for my campus newspaper, I have often become embarrassed with my work just by thinking, "Jesus KC Green would make this idea much funnier." And yet his humility matches his talent; if you ever catch him perusing the Something Awful forums or read his Twitter, you will find that he is a very nice guy and is, unfortunately, very hard on himself. This comes through in his work all the time, and maybe this is what drives him to make so many goddamned comics.

My message to Mr. Green - YOU ARE A BRILLIANT MAN. I, Sean Rose, famed internet music/bullshit blogger, am incredibly jealous of you. Please keep making comics.

If you want to dip into Mr. Green's work, the aforementioned Horribleville would probably be your best bet, as it's a great window into his personality. Alternately, if you like your comics short and sweet, you should check out his daily three-panel strip Gun Show, featuring some of the absolute funniest so-called "mini-comics" I've probably ever read (if you like that buttfuckin' comic I featured at the top of the page, you should dig the rest). He also runs a custom comic service, so if you throw a few bucks his way you can have your very own KC Green comic! And YOU can suggest the theme!! Ain't that great??

I have an idea about a guy that is actually sexually excited by Atari porn. Whenever I have a decent amount of money, I'll probably throw some KC's way. Because whatever comic I get back from him is pretty much 99% guaranteed to be funny. (%1 not because maybe he'll be tired or something.)

A Few Words On Bob Druwing

Bob Druwing's glorious Tim and Eric debut.

I have no idea why I find Bob Druwing so fascinating. Before the third season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, I had never seen his face before in my entire life. Not even once. Now he is a new obsession. Of all the bizarre Z-list regulars Tim and Eric love to parade out, salt-n-pepper haired Mr. Druwing stands out to me.

I don't know. He seems like a perfectly normal human being as opposed to a bizarre, ugly failure, which might be why he stands out in the Tim and Eric universe; compared to David Liebe Hart the failed puppeteer, James Quall the failed comedian, or Ron Austar the failed... uhh, something (children's performer?), Bob Druwing just seems like a nice, trim, middle-aged man. With a funny mustache.

...well, OK, maybe he's kind of a failure. If his website is any indication, he's something of a Jack-Of-All-Trades: screen actor, voice-over actor, musician, cartoonist, you name it. And considering that the most prominent roles he's received have been bit parts on Tim and Eric, I guess we can safely say that he hasn't quite succeeded in any of these fields. Adding a bit to his "pathetic" tally is his bizarrely transfixing performance of a song he presumably wrote, "I Wanna Be In Love," posted in Tim and Eric's "DannyMothers" Youtube account to promote their first season DVD. (So I guess he's a failed rock 'n roller?)



But calling Mr. Druwing pathetic would not be doing him justice. And it would be pretty mean, too! From the looks of his video resume (yes, I searched for Bob Druwing on youtube), he seems to be a pretty competent actor. He also finally got a prominent role in Tim and Eric's season 3 finale, credited as "Lindsey Porch" and singing the hilariously creepy (and oddly Jens Lekman-esque) "I Can Wait," which has to be one of my favorite Tim and Eric songs ever. (Sing along with me now: "No, they can't call it raaaape / if she concedes her body to meeee!")

Where else can you get your Druwing fix? Well, he's also in the new Tim and Eric Ben Folds video, popping in-and-out of the drum kit. And, according to his website, he just wrapped up filming for Tim and Eric's fourth season. So thankfully, we will be seeing more of Mr. Druwing.

And yet, I still don't know why I love Bob Druwing so. Why not Ron Stark? Or that lady that play's Casey's mom? Or Richard Dunn?? (Okay I do love Richard Dunn to death, but I digress.) These questions will never have answers. As long as I can hear Mr. Druwing - a seemingly normal and on-the-level type of guy - sing a song about masturbating in his car, I will be satisfied.

And you know what, "I Wanna Be In Love"'s been stuck in my head for days. No joke.

Comics Update: "Tom Petty Comics #4"

Hey folks. I'm here to offer up my deepest, deepest apologies to those waiting for your Tom Petty Comixxx fix this Sunday night. I have no excuse for this late update. I had the comic, and I didn't update.

Why?? Well maybe I'm just jealous of Mr. Winchell's unrelenting talent. Often I feel that Mr. Petty himself chose him as some kind of creative conduit, sending him these beautiful stories of heroic altruism. And I kind of wish he'd chosen me. If only I could draw.

Either way, here's your comic:



You heard it here first, folks: this "Tom Petty" guy is gonna be a big deal someday.

Comics Update: "Tom Petty Comics #3"

What? Oh? I'm sorry, I almost forgot! It's time for another fantastic TOM PETTY COMICCCC.

Good message for the all your young-adult fans out there, Tommy. But when will you finally finish your classic track "Free Fallin'"? Mr. Lynne can't wait all day!! Guess we'll all have to find out next Sunday!

Oh, and to tide you over on the Great Sean Rose Comixxx front, here's another stupid little doodle I did, "4Chan Time Traveler":

Comics Update: "Tom Petty Comics #2" plus an Extra Bonus Sean Rose Comic

Well folks, I screwed up. In my last comics update I kinda-sorta jumped the gun on Stephen Winchell's intentions for the Tom Petty comic, claiming - in a moment of cursed hubris - that he intended his comics to be a precursor to a planned Traveling Wilburys strip. Oh, what a fool I am. Here's his clarification:

"Anyway, I figured I'd clarify this because Sean in his not-so-subtle way maybe missed the point a little bit (and ruined a bit of the motive by making it so fucking clear)

My logic is this:
-I like Sean's blog
-Only his friends seem to read it despite its frequent and insightful updates
-People like comics

So I figured I'd draw a comic for his blog, and hopefully that would get people that don't know him from Milford/UConn to come and read the other stuff. Which is why I said I'd do a limited engagement (10 Tom Petty Comics)to see if it actually worked.

So that's what I'm all about"

Asshole.

Anyway. Here's Tom Petty Comic #2. Don't get any ideas. It's just a silly little comic.



Of course you might ask me - "Hey Sean, aren't you a great comics creator as well?" Well, yes. I am. And since I'm a little bit tired of Mr. Winchell stealing the spotlight from me - in my own blog - I figured it was time to bring out the big guns and show off some of my own treasured works.

So here's one of mine, selected with special care from the Sean Rose Archives. A classic for the ages. Big 'Ol Dick.



Yeah, had to censor it. It's just too edgy. If you wanna see the real thing, here ya go. It's not work safe, so as hard as it may be, you will have to resist putting it up next to Dilbert in your office cubicle. I'm so sorry.

Have a good night, folks.