Today I'm going to tell you the story of Egg. Once upon a time, in the summer of 2010, I was at a birthday party, and we were all sitting around in our sleeping bags. Some of them were playing video games. My friend Joey and I were drawing cartoons.Joey drew a funny looking circle-shaped character with a feather hat. I drew him a little friend. The we drew a scientist, a giant robot, a construction worker, a police officer, and a Mafia group. They were all egg-shaped, so we called it "Egg".
Soon, I began drawing Egg comics in a lined notebook. The comics were random, silly, and usually pretty dark. (There's a one-pager where a two-man band make music with rocks, and the Mafia guy ends up shooting them because he doesn't like "rock music". In fact, my birthday card for Joey was entitled "How to Make Fried Eggs". You can imagine what the rest was like).
I wrote a lot of stories in there, and I liked them, but I still can't explain why they were in a lined notebook; it wasn't very professional, nor would I be able to ink them, so I called them "rough drafts", even though they were just as well-drawn as one of my final drafts might have been.
Joey didn't really make any Egg comics. We would occasionally design new characters together, but I was the only one writing the stories. As Joey slowly abandoned the comic, I grew closer and closer to my little Egg friends.
Then one day I created the spin-off webcomic Sheldon Yolks Private Eye, about a detective Egg who tried to find food-stealing criminal Gary Fudge. The comic was drawn on Microsoft Paint, and it was basically an experiment to see how good a comic I could make using a mouse and a simple computer program. I ended the comic in early summer 2011 (without finishing the story). I still like the story, but it needs an ending. Maybe someday it will see an ending!
I don't really make Egg comics anymore, but I just thought I'd tell you all their story. I still like reading them, and maybe, some day, I'll revisit the little guys and create some new adventures.