Imp celebrates 200 strips today!

I can’t believe I have created 200 strips already but my push to finish the beginning story of Imp bumped up the count so close to 200 that it just happened this week!

I found this sketch I did years ago when I first thought of Imp as a comic character. The sketch was drawn on a piece of junk mail at my Aunt’s house. Remember artists…keep those old sketches! It is fun to look back at how your characters and your art progresses over time. See how far Imp has come! I never thought I would have 200 comics. It doesn’t seem like a lot now!

Now you are probably wondering what the devil happened to Imp falling through the living room floor…well you will find out in the next few strips next week. Until then…happy webcomic reading.

Earth Day is coming up and to get into the spirit (even though every day should be Earth Day) I made this humorous little shirt logo. I have nothing against print comics (after all that is how I feel in love with comic strips to begin with) but as we rethink our role in the balance of life and reevaluate our presence on this delicate blue planet, we should consider the environment before doing any activity (including printing anything on paper). Our resources will become scarcer as time continues and each action we take will have greater meaning than the last.

The reading webcomics t-shirt is available in organic, american grown cotton (see options at Imp’s store) and comes in a variety of sizes and styles. The organic options are provided in the spirit of the environmental message so wear them proudly! Make Drew proud!

Looks like Disney was the inspiration for animal coloring these days!

I found this cow in a field and low and behold the usual spotted markings of a dairy cow were there but looking more closely…do they resemble the head shape of a particular mouse we all know and love??!! Could it be that Mickey Mouse christened this cow with his special emblem? He would be so lucky. So, I whipped out my iPhone and snapped a picture of the lucky cow so all could see his special black markings that remind me of the Mouse. What’s next…a donald the duck dog?

To continue the spirit of Earth Day (April 22, 2009) I have added this blog addition about plastic bags. Why are plastic bags bad for the bay? Well as Imp has observed plastic bags are hazardous to devils! Or ANY critter for that matter. Not to mention polluting our waterways. In fact, approximately one million plastic bags pollute San Francisco Bay each year. Trash in the Bay flows into the ocean to join the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating island of trash estimated at twice the size of Texas where plastic particles are more abundant than plankton.

Did you know?
Up to 90% of floating debris is plastic, which never biodegrades.
Plastic trash has entangled, suffocated, or poisoned at least 267 known animal species worldwide.
A study found an average of three pieces of trash along every foot of streams leading to San Francisco Bay – half of which is plastic.
1.37 million plastic bags were removed from coastal areas worldwide on just one day.

What can you do to stop the addition to plastic bags???
For starters…go to this the Save the Bay campaign website called The Bag vs. The Bay and learn about ways you can help your community to stop using plastic bags. Watch their video about plastic in the oceans (posted above). It is very well done and gets the message across in a creative way.