Welcome to PDX Pirates DA page.
This comic is drawn by me, Taylor, for you to enjoy. I have drawn comics for a long time, and have read them for even longer. Lemme give you a brief synopsis of the history of my past comics:
Stick Figa Steve: A parody to my own life and interactions as a bi-polar stick figure, I made this comic strip to pass the time in sophomore biology. It was briefly a webcomic done on a crappy geocities hosted page, and recieved a great deal of page views. Unfortunately, the only character's name that was changed was my own, and some people became upset at me for an incident involving a trash compactor. Shortly, thereafter, my parents and I were called into the counselors office to discuss handing me over to the state because I did not seem to have grown up well under the supervision of my parents. I love my parents very much, and they love me. As my parents denied the request, the only other option was expulsion (I had to prior suspensions before then). That ended Stick Figa Steve.
The Pope: Another stick figure comic strip, but this time I decided not to use myself. Instead, I poked fun a religion and politics by creating The Pope, a strip that runs along the premise that John Paul was bitten by a radioactive lamb, died of cancer, and was sent back to earth by God to fight in his name. The comic had a great deal of success with my friends, but was never up to par with anyone else, granted that I was tredding on such a touchy subject.
The Pope v.2: I got accepted into a small private school and was particularly focusing on art for my only reason to be alive. I started The Pope up again, but it was no longer a stick figure comic. This time, it took on the role as a more traditional superhero comic, with art that was on more serious and darker line. Frankly, I got sick of it because I hate drawing anatomically correct figures, and the detail levels became rediculously tedious.
Andrew - The Spookiest Goth Kid, Ever: I have a bad habit of loitering downtown, and an even worse habit of making fun of passer by's. Inevitably, I got to know the regulars. There was this total Hot Topic, posterpunk, mall goth kid named Andrew. He was the epitome of ignorant anti-conformism. He had the audacity to tell me he was going to beat me up for my boots, so I made a comic all about him. He no longer showed his face downtown.
The Pope v.3: I went back to the more traditional premise of the humorous pope comic, but made it no longer into a strip. Now it was going to be a full length graphic novel drawn on a less serious scale than version 2. It became particularly boring as realized that the plot line ran along the same tangible curve, so gave up, because no one seemed to be terribly interested.
Ted: After I got accepted to do a part-time job as an editorial comic artist in an activist newspaper, I got invited to add my own strip into it. Thusly, I created Ted. Ted is a comic about the Grim Reaper (aka Ted), who gets outsourced from his job and is forever doomed to to work in cubicles. The comic was poorly drawn for my satisfaction, and had an even shittier plotline. I was thouroughly pleased at how much I was getting paid to produce crap.
The Everything Boy: When Ted became boring, I started a new comic called The Everything Boy. The Everything Boy was dark, cynical, and outright crude/depressing in humor. It was probably the creepiest darkest comic I had ever drawn. The premise was that a new child moved into town and must fit into a new school. The school and other school-children play ignorance as The Everything Boy unleashes the horrible truths of the world during intervals of show and tell. This ends up shocking the class and dissenchanting the dreams of all the students. I stopped doing the comic because I felt that it was to poor of a premise for such beautiful artwork.
PDX Pirates: Having stayed up for hours on end, reading everysingle Penny-Arcade issue I could get my hands on, a lightbulb turned on above my head. I decided to revive and revamp Stick Figa Steve, however, not make it as crude, and eliminate stick figures. PDX Pirates is another parody to my more recent life, and with that said, I don't have as many inside jokes in it. The art is no longer hand drawn unless I need to incorporate a new character or specific prop. Instead, I use vectored shapes to create the characters, each body part on a different layer so I can pose them doing whatever I please. I have written down many strip ideas, and plan on pushing this comic for a long time, my dream being that it will become a semi-popular web comic. The issues are produced as often as I can. I don't plan on staying on deviantART, however, I'm using it temporarily to launch it in the web comic community. I hope you enjoy and keep watching.
Thank you
Taylor "Twiggy" R.
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