Ty’s art began to flourish and he continually worked on the character development. There are a lot of
stories we’d start, and as he’d get better we would have to start them again. Moe went from a big heroic guy, to a square jawed guy,
and finally to the more normal guy he is now. Ty experimented from very cartoony to pretty detailed realistic stuff. He originally
emulated his influences from Bob Burden and Ben Edlund, evantually coming up with his own style and finally started to settle in on
Moe and his universe.
Our early mini-comics tended to have insane stories that revolved around my obsession with everyday pop culture, such as pies,
robots, giant monsters and CHiP’S. How is that different than now, you may ask? Let’s just say that now my stories make sense.
Notice that Moe went from having a long face, to a short face, to his current stoic mug.
When we started self-publishing The Odd Adventure-Zine, it was hard at first to sell the book through a distributor. Ty and I
would routinely sell out of books at conventions when we could show people what it was all about. We stuck it out for 4 issues
before Slave Labor Graphics became our publisher. |
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A panel from an OAZ1 "Frozen Smiles."
(circa 1997) |
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