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Here's something I did for Hartford Connecticut's one-time #1 rock station, 106.9 WCCC! For a few years in the early '00s, before the station was sold to a Christian Music syndicate (ARGH!) in 2014, I was once an on-air intern (they called me "Kroeger"). I was also hired to draw monthly-ish comics for ads for the station, appearing in local CT newspapers (the Hartford Advocate and Journal Inquirer). This is literally the only time I was a by-gosh newspaper-published cartoonist, other than when Barfman appeared in the UCONN newspaper a dozen years earlier. |
WCCC Comic Archives
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The first toon was made just for fun. I was interning at WCCC and was hoping to land the ad cartoon gig (took a year, but it happened). |
Christmas edition; made as a gift to the station. It was on their website for a li'l while. |
Another gift, this time for V.D. Picozzi hated it; it never even made the WCCC webpage! |
09/16/03 The first of three 'trial toons,' so the station could finally decide to use me or not (they did!). This one's a Halloween offering featuring swollen and exploding heads. |
09/16/03 The toons were to appear in the Sports Section, so I tried my hand at sports humor. |
09/16/03 Here's this toon's color version which was the first to get printed in the J.I.! |
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My actual first effort for the J.I. Not surprisingly, Picozzi went with the one with the bunnies. |
I seriously bust on Rhino in this one. |
A little Superbowl humor. Very little. |
I pull funny poopie out of my bum-bum. When did I eat peanuts? |
J.I. readers get rewarded a delicious $106 prize. |
Featuring Picozzi's bearded mother and Rube being even less intelligent than usual. |
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They didn't give me much to go on with this episode. This'll teach 'em. |
Atkin's Diet humor. |
This is unpublished; made solely for Rhino. Don't YOU wish you were my friend? |
My first creative "thing" that I've done after sitting on my broken-legged ass for around a month. |
Halloween 2004 Halloween fun with the Three Unwise Men. The station went with this Mike Karolyi version instead. |
Thanksgiving 2004 Get stuffed with turkey and free money from The Rock! |
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I was originally gonna draw all 50 (approx.) employees, but they wouldn't all fit. :-p |
New to the show are Miss Klonk and Holden Johnson! Rube's gone bye-bye...we'll miss him! |
Yep, there really is a Leprechaun interning for WCCC... |
Spring, 2005 Re-tooling of the Holiday comic for this 8x11 ad (later revised, but I like this version!) |
May 7, 2005 I'll freely admit it; I just wanted to draw Rhino with an afro. |
May 26, 2005 This was 90% written by Picozzi. The 10% proved really challenging. |
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& Win! June 4, 2005 Wouldn't you rather be in Cancun than Connecticut? Here's the first version of this toon. |
Sept. 9, 2005 Look at me, already ripping off jokes from old unpublished toons! |
Oct. 8, 2005 A rare appearance by elusive daytime DJ Mike Karolyi. |
Lance Christian! Nov. 5, 2005 Sebastian's coming back to WCCC in January! |
Dec. 10, 2005 Santa and Picozzi could be twins! |
Dec. 25, 2005 The big annual group-shot comic! Updated 3/29/06 for this full-page Hardford Advocate ad! |
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May 13, 2006 Wow, five months since a WCCC comic. Had to put boobies in there for the occasion. |
June 6, 2006 The last panel was deemed "too egghead," so it ended up your basic "no more decaf" gag for print. I like this version better. |
Sept. 1, 2006 Holden came out looking a bit Stimpy-like in this one. |
Nov. 4th, 2006 An idea "borrowed" from Seinfeld... |
Dec. 25, 2006 Headhots on Holiday cards. What could be simpler? I can think of a lot of things, since this comic took over 20 hours to produce... |
Jan. 17, 2007 Picozzi had *nothing* for me to go on except, "do something with bacon." Hey man, that's all I need. |
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May 13, 2007 A little commentary on how far gasoline can take you now versus 50 years ago (and versus 50 years from now!). |
Sept. 25, 2007 Still givin' away that free gas, but what if it was Helium? |
Nov. 8, 2007 With all these gas-related promos, and with the holiday season upon us, a beef log gag was inevitable. |
Christmas, 2007 An ever-increasing staff (not that kind) at the Rock means no room for little else but floating heads for holiday group shots. Or at best, heads on hooks. |
Jan. 22, 2008 Eat donuts, talk wiff your mouff full, and freak out, man. |
V.D., 2008 The emotional side of Picozzi (or lack thereof) is revealed this Valentine's Day. |
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April 19, 2008 Celebrating springtime with the God-given glory of free cash. Hooray! |
May 10, 2008 Another quality contest from The Rock, this time giving away lots of free gas. So naturally, I gave Picozzi lots of gas. |
Christmas, 2008 Super-realistic portraits of every single employee (49 total!) went into the grandaddy of all WCCC Holiday comics this year! |
Christmas, 2009 After a long, slow year for WCCC with no budget for comic ads (including a holiday comic), I re-purposed last year's caricatures with this holiday-themed lampoon of their website. |
Copyright © 2002 - 2009 David C. Lovelace