This required some digging, but here’s my first drawing of Dumbing of Age Robin and Leslie, which I believe I drew while at Animefest in Dallas last year, the week or so before Dumbing of Age premiered. So this drawing’s almost exactly one year old!
I finally get to, you know, show it, now that somebody’s out of the bag.
Robin in today’s DoA is drawn from my memory of this sketch, and so I’d forgotten that I’d drawn her with her hair down and had given her Shortpacked! Congresswoman Robin’s dress shirt and tie. Eh, no big. I like what I ended up with.
Here’s an overlay of Shortpacked! and Dumbing of Age’s traffic (visitors), running from Dumbing of Age’s beginning in September 2010 through today. DoA is the steadily-climbing reddish line, obviously, while Shortpacked! is that damned green plateau, the one that’s been increasingly left in the dust this fall.
Most of the traffic spikes are days I’ve done guest strips for Questionable Content, but the biggest spike, apparently my biggest traffic ever in all my fifteen years, was on September 26, 2011. This is information I didn’t really grasp solidly until putting this thing together.
Since I first drew Ultra Car on April 3, 1987, that means it’s her 30th birthday! So for this month’s second Patreon bonus strip, I’ve replicated a scene from the Ultra Car crossover episode of Dexter & Monkey Master over at the Dumbing of Age Patreon.
Is that Obama or a generic “Mr. President?”
Since D&MM and Ultra Car are directly tied to DoA’s history, the sliding timescale would probably affect the show, and President Obama would eventually become President Cheeto.
And would that change the entire show’s tone from “We have to save the President!” to “We have to save the President, I guess…?”
Unless, of course, the creators just ignore President Dumpfire to piss him off.
It can be either Obama or Generic Black Male President. The latter is more likely as years accumulate.
We have a new addition to A Guy’s Best DoA Commissions Ever. Sidekick Edition! And, yes, one of them is feathered, as science intended.
The other ones in the series are collected below.
(and don’t forget that Dumbing of Age book 1 is now available on Comixology!)
And this is Sierra, formerly known as “Tootsi” from Mandy’s Squad 48. She’s a carefree hippie who has questionable fashion sense and believes in free-range feet. She’ll have a larger footprint (so to speak) in Dumbing of Age than Mandy, as she’s the roommate of one of the principle characters.
Of Squad 48 redesigns for DoA, I still have Grace, “Guns,” and Marcie to go. Gotta fill those hallways with more people! I’m tired of drawing Agatha, Mary, and Roz on rotation.
You can now buy a set of the Dumbing of Age pin-up post cards sold at SDCC in the SP!/DoA store!
You can see online versions of the pin-ups here: http://itswalky.deviantart.com/gallery/37947681
$15K DOA BOOK 2 <— funded
$20K SATURDAY UPDATES UNLOCKED <—funded, starting immediately
$27K ROOMIES! BOOK 2 in black and white <—funded
$32K ROOMIES! BOOK 2 with color Sundays <—aaalllmost there
$42K SUNDAY UPDATES UNLOCKED
$75K multi-page sensuous encounter between canon couple rendered tastefully, for backers only
re: the $75K stretch goal: Kickstarter has a policy against “pornographic materials.” But, like, Smut Peddler was a Kickstarter. So let’s at least write it in nicer words, as I have done? And stand to the side, whistling innocently?
Sometimes during the mandatory exiles from drawing Dumbing of Age I impose on myself in between storylines, I still find excuses to draw DoA stuff anyway because I’m an insane workaholic, so here’s character art of Becky because she never got any.
Since Dumbing of Age centers mostly on Joyce and her dormmates, I end up drawing the guys’ wing of the dorm a lot less and need fewer dude extras. But it doesn’t hurt to have a few extra dudes waiting in the wings anyway.
So here’s Brian and Jim. Back in It’s Walky!, they were part of Squad 135, which also included Daisy and Beef, who’ve already shown up in DoA. The fifth member, Bloodrose was never seen as part of an ill-executed running gag. You will still never see her because I really don’t care about Bloodrose.
But Brian and Jim. Yayyyyy. they’re not iinnterresstinggggg
Joyce this time. Had the sketch sitting around for a while and I have things to do— which means, “hey, why not draw fanart instead?”
Read Dumbing of Age, by David Willis.
okay it needs to be winter now in doa so joyce can wear that coat
i’ve decided
unpretty
