If you are visiting my comic for the first time, I’d like to welcome you and offer a bit of an explanation to what’s going on here.
If you are one of the people who visited this place in the old days of the hand-cranked HTML site, I’d like to welcome you back and hopefully answer some of your questions too.
Jumbodeluxe is a domain name I started back in 2002 as an experiment to post my comics and other web-friendly projects, and generally to teach myself web design.
jumbodeluxe.com circa 2003
I came up with the name because around that time I was making comic strips about an elephant named Jumbo Jones. They were feverish, thrilling adventure stories which I had drawn in my sketchbook with little regard for continuity or logic.
I felt like ran the idea into the ground; and since discovered that there were people who had taken their story about a crime-fighting elephant in a much more sophisticated direction.
Over the past year, I’ve had an intense urge to draw a sustained series of comics like the ones I enjoyed as a kid and incorporating other weird obsessions I had as a youngster. After several months of preparation and fiddling with WordPress, I am now ready to show you the results.
Future blog posts will address these questions…
- What are some of the childhood obsessions and comics which inspired this?
- What are some of the current webcomics which inspired me to work on this?
- Did I draw this on a computer or what?
…and many more, so if you have any questions about my comic, or even my favorite music or what I ate for lunch, please post them here!
Thanks for reading,
Adrian
