My great-grandmother used to have this poster. I always found it cheerful and inspirational. But run through the twisted cartoon blender of Jean Floch's "The Creeps," it's downright ridiculous.
Here's the official description of "The Creeps," which debuted on GoComics just this week:
A feel-good comic about two unnamed characters and their delightful journeys through universally hilarious themes like hatred, misery, uncontrollable rage, disease and rash, delusion, agoraphobia, paranoia, jealousy, greed, bitterness, binge eating, slothfulness, and death, lots and lots of death; also, deformity, flatulence, boogers, nosebleeds, bowel movements, and the eating of unappetizing things.
My co-editor Reed Jackson remembers seeing "The Creeps" (then called "Oopiloo") as a submission when he worked United Features. "It immediately stood out," he says. "In the tradition of such '90s gross-out greats as "Beavis and Butthead," "Ren & Stimpy" and "My Little Pony, "The Creeps" chronicles the unsavory adventures of two misfits as they extrude their way through life's soft underbelly. It answers the age-old question of 'What would happen if the Garbage Pail kids grew up?' "
Check out more examples each day right here on GoComics.
I was misquoted above. I actually said, "Leave me the heck alone! I'm trying to watch "My Little Pony"!
Posted by: Reed Jackson | February 22, 2013 at 04:29 PM