The Chickaboogie All-Stars was a comic strip I did in high school. Appearing on the last page of the the Lee High Times, at the time it was the only continuously running comic for any high school in the state. I also made three comic books... they weren't published, just passed around my classes. (In fact the first comic book came before the strip was put in the paper.) The All-Stars was a misfit professional sports team. Though they were usually shown playing football, they also played other sports depending on the season. They got five cents a game, and the team owner's box was a 55-gallon drum on the sideline. Having grown up on Mad, I was constantly parodying real sports figures and slipping them into the strip. So the All-Stars were always running into Coward Hardsell, Frank Goofard, Dick Buttkiss, Joe Nameless and the like.
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Camel Lot appeared in LifeLink, the weekly publication that was passed out at Oasis United Methodist Church in Tucson, Arizona. That's right, my church had a comic strip in the bulletin. The church's catch-phrase was "This ain't you granny's church", and they weren't kidding. I drew the strip, and it was usually written by Dawn Crews; though I did a couple myself. And sometimes the entire LifeLink staff got involved in the writing. We came up with a family of camels, since the church's name was Oasis and we lived in the desert. As you would expect from a church comic, there was always a spiritual and/or social message in each comic. For example, some of them dealt with a family of llamas that moved into the all-camel neighborhood. Camel Lot ended when we moved to Florida. Oasis has since changed its name to Mosaic, so a family of camels doesn't really fit any more anyway. But it was a lot of fun, and I think many people enjoyed having a comic in their bulletin every Sunday. |
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