Scrapper

My first cartoon character was called Scrapper. He was named after a friend of mine whose nickname was, oddly enough, Scrapper. I forget why we called him that (the human, not the cartoon). The cartoon character I created was a chicken ... thing. Here's a quick sketch. I first created him back in high school, and yet I can whip out a sketch today (some 25+ years later).

He was my Opus (Bloom County being the strip of choice at the time). I can still draw a passable Opus to this day, as well. The itch to create a cartoon was strong and so I created one. I drew and wrote a couple dozen strips of Scrapper, very crudely drawn and written. My mom even took them to the local small-town newspaper where it was rejected, of course. If I remember correctly they told me to work on my backgrounds. I think my response was just to be pissed. After awhile I became bored, ran out of ideas, whatever, and stopped producing the strip.

I still have all of the strips around somewhere. If I find them I'll scan in one and show you. But trust me, they were not good.