Speaking of Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist, how did that begin?
It began with a doodle. I still keep a photocopy of that original drawing on my wall as reference. It was just a drawing of a big guy with no nose and an underbite holding a baseball bat and beside him was this pissed-off looking penguin. I drew it in the summer of ’98 and I still remember working on that sketch as I sat on the sidewalk outside the San Diego Comic Con. I later put it on my website (where it can still be found). I played with ideas for the characters a few times but didn’t really get anywhere until an online friend approached me, asking if I wanted to turn them into a webcomic for a new company called 3rd Millenium Comics. In addition to Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist, this company was producing a few webcomics by comics writer James Hudnall. That went well and I was even getting paid… until they closed up shop. I don’t really blame them. They spent a lot of money and the webcomics just weren’t being made fast enough. By the time 3MC folded, I had already quit my animatio
