BARK & GRILL

The neighborhood critters flock to the Bark & Grill to discuss whatever neighborhood critters discuss. Whether it’s a Boston Terrier talking about UFOs, or a tabby cat angry over the males in her life, they’re all chatting it over at the Bark & Grill.

Bark & Grill is a comic strip I developed for syndication. It’s interesting to note that this comic was 1. not meant for anything other than a fun, little side project, and 2. basically an extension of my comic Pubbies.

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Below are the strips I sent off for syndication. I realize they’re not of standard size and, if you’re curious as to why, I’ll give more details at the tail end of this page.

1. Mortality
2. White Hat
3. Dumbest
4. Bluebird
5. Rush
6. Robotics
7. Ghost
8. A Book
9. Butts
10. Alternative Outlets
11. Spanish Prisoner
12. Rejection
13. King James
14. Vampire
15. Augmented
16. Future Headache
17. Esoteric
18. Zombies
19. Wanda
20. Lydia & Lani
21. Pug and Puck
22. Fake News
23. Tunnel
24. Eye
25. History
26. Lasers
27. Sea Monkey
28. Snails
29. Guilt
30. Magic
31. Monk
32. Stoic
33. Gypsy
34. Gummy Teeth
35. Moral Compass
36. Twin
37. Simulation
38. Jam
39. Old Fashioned

As promised, here’s the reason why I have not sized this comic in a standard newspaper comic strip size.

I had decided to start drawing comics again after a long hiatus. I thought it might be fun to make them in a square format, so that I could post them on Instagram. I had some Bristol board, 14″ X 17″ which I could cut in half to be 8.5″ X 14″. I thought it would be best to trim that down to a standard 8.5″ X 11″ in case I wanted to keep them in a portfolio of sorts. That left a little trimming of 8.5″ X 3″. I stacked those on the side of my desk, not wanting to toss them.

When I worked at MAD Magazine, Sergio Aragonés would submit his Marginals on these little slips of paper. I thought that was a good use of little strips of paper.

I used these little strips of paper to draw a simple comic (as mentioned above). I didn’t measure anything out, just drew them up.

This is the first one I did.

I figured that, if a syndicate wanted to pick me up, they would ask me to redo them in a standard format. No syndicate has picked it up… yet. 🙂

If I decide to continue with this property down the line, I’ll do them in a standard format. Until then, here they are, in all their not-so-standard glory.