ANYTHING COMICS

In 2016, I got really experimental on Facebook, inviting friends and followers to direct me to "Draw Anything." As many as a dozen of these suggestions by all the would-be "guest writers" would somehow, miraculously, get incorporated in a given comic, either as a major part of the action, or relegated to being a minor background detail. It required crazy amounts of inventiveness making it all work somehow, but I rose to the challenge for twelve installments. This archive page includes them all, and also includes the suggestions given for each drawing!
I thought briefly about charging five bucks per suggestion, but didn't want to lock myself into this project for too long, since it was mostly devised as a fun art experiment.

EPISODE 1
First installment features ideas from M.B. ("rasta hat with long dreadlocks"), T. Flanders ("happy face beads"), B. Pickett ("blood"), D. LePage ("3 aardvarks wearing zoot suits skateboarding down Avon Mountain"), Jonny S. ("spider people"), and F. Thomas ("flies").

EPISODE 2
Rrequests by E. Dellinger ("a banana man"), B. Wilson ("pic of all U.S. Presidents"), M. Johnson ("T-2000 made of Lego, in pool of liquid nitrogen, with 7 dicks"), M.J. Miskin ("an oud"), and Kathleen O. ("Cockass!").

EPISODE 3
Here's the third installment, with ideas from Harry H. ("skeletons"), Jerry M. ("an angry tarantula with Trump's combover"), Danny Z. (a baby's arm holding an apple"), Tony K. ("an ass-hat"), Dale M. ("a butcher's diagram showing where bacon is on a human"), and Richard A. ("Abe Lincoln riding a pegascorn")!

EPISODE 4
Marvel in amazement as I gleefully depict M.B.'s somewhat dark request ("Courtney Love with her head blown off and 'JUSTICE HATES LIARS' splattered in blood on the wall behind her"), while brazenly knitting in other requests by Richard A. ("Witches of Eastwick"), Casey G. ("an atonal baked ham"), Kevin R. ("armadillo with a mustache"), and Doug W. ("Snow White and the Seven Presidential Candidates").

EPISODE 5
Dana N. finally gets to see what "NUMBERSLAW" might mean, and four-time A.C. champ M.B. returns with another classic suggestion ("Tongues N' Noses"). We've also got Jonny S. returning for another crazy offering ("a monkey named Banjo in a diaper playing a banjo"), with newcomers Brian M. ("the Beatles escaping an angry cupcake by climbing the Eiffel Tower"), and my own mother J.P.L. ("politically correct dwarves with appropriate new names").

EPISODE 6
Suggestions by Michael N. ("Batman v. Superman v. Retarded Animal Babies"), Steve L. ("The Last Supper with R.A.B."), M.B. ("mancakes"), Anna H. ("a squid doing the limbo"), Jay B. ("a breath"), Carl C.("Lena Dunham getting a Tiger Uppercut by Sagat from Street Fighter"), and Rob R. ("my family portrait").

EPISODE 7
This one's got madcap suggestions by James V.("a bohemian pirhana that is afraid of water and obsessed with Shakira"), M.B. ("demon duck baby"), Daryll P. ("Dr. Tarantula assisting a giant orange frog recovering from being frozen in a block of ice"), Dara D. ("a spork man"), Christine J. ("my child checking out choo choos and geese at the park"), and Bill F. ("the Veil Between Worlds being torn asunder by speech balloons").

EPISODE 8
This time out we've got crazy stuff coming from Greg I. ("cat butler"), Jeff S. ("Batman in 'BVS' armor"), Richard A. ("Rube a.k.a. Scott A. sitting on a cactus"), Kevin R. ("Hilary Duff waitressing at Cracker Barrel"), Henry B.("Hillary Clinton dressed as Salacious Crumb getting zapped by R2-D2"), and D. LePage ("sasquatch in a tutu playing tennis with Dennis Rodman").

EPISODE 9
This time around we've got weird and wonderful suggestions from Douglas S. ("who is the worst New England bad weather driver"), Jon S. ("winning scratch ticket scratching itself"), Andy C. ("choosing between one horse-sized duck and 100 duck-sized horses"), Harold H. ("octopus replaced with a nonopus"), and M.B. ("Dexter serving Tom Thumb Soup").

EPISODE 10
For this comic we heard from Marc D. ("a robot and a clown locked in a furious struggle"), Richard A.("Octo-pie"), Jayne P. ("a panda putting on pantyhose"), Mark C. ("a buff raccoon eating kitty litter"), and Christina B. ("a dog wearing high heels and a cat in a leather jacket and an eye patch").

EPISODE 11
Suggestions: Amy P. ("a dragon vying with a jellyfish for dominion"), Jay B. ("Prince vs. Jesus in a 1-on-1 basketball game"), Jayne P. ("a Herd of Umlauts"), Drew N. ("role-playing board games"), Xeth F. ("circles"), M.B. ("the creator of Anything Comics worshiping Puffed Rice cereal while watching Dexter in a Purple Rain shower"), Angelo S. ("I have an extensive project in mind, no budget but lots of exposure"), Scott Little ("wind"), Bill H. ("unemployment"), and Mike M. ("two white rats being caught by their owner in the act of paying his Minimoog").

EPISODE 12
Suggestions from "guest writers" this time come from Michael W. ("potato chip sandwiches"), Dara D. ("keytar crazy unicorn"), Rob G. ("ramen noodle monster"), Bill F. ("neckties coming alive and strangling everyone wearing them"), Steve L. ("a blind car salesman on his first day of work"), Richard A. ("security porpoises"), Bill W. ("Crosby, Stills & Nash being confused with the Greatful Dead"), Emily L. ("Paula Dean riding an ostrich"), Xeth F. ("giant mole singing an opera"), Tony K. ("banana wearing a sombrero and pistolas"), Eric T. ("keep it sanitary"), and Bill H.("blood").