With Halloween right around the corner, I thought the time was right for a zombie sketch. Instead of drawing your average, everyday random zombies, I thought it would be fun to turn some of my favorite webcomic characters into Romero-esque stumbling undead creatures. In this sketch you’ll find representatives from 10 different webcomics. I would have loved to have drawn more, but my paper was only so big.

We have Space Pig from Brock Heasley’s SuperFogeys, Bill from David Reddick’s Legend of Bill, Steve from Mike Witmer’s Pinkerton, Imy from Irma Eriksson’s Imy (of course), Bob from Krishna Sadasivam’s PC Weenies, Zorphbert from Dawn Griffin’s Zorphbert & Fred, Clovis from Lucas Turnbloom’s Imagine This, Chippy from John Sanford’s Chippy & Loopus, Carl from Matt Forcum’s Robot Beach, and the little tiny guy is Bug from Adam Huber’s Bug.

I really hope the creators of these fine comics don’t mind my zombification of their babies. This drawing is intended as both a love letter and a thank you note to these artists whom I admire. They each set the bar real high in their own ways and inspire me to keep Spooky Doofus going.

Pinkerton is one of my favorite comics on the web. For my money, creator Mike Witmer writes some of the best dialog of any comic out there today. I’m not sure from what part of the brain Mike pulls  the snappy banter his characters like utter on a regular basis, but I’m jealous.  Characters like Buckley the rodent eating fox or Tucker the alcoholic divorced rabbit make for one entertaining wacky fun time.

A couple of years ago, when Mike was taking some time off to hit the sauce… um… take a vacation, I submitted this guest strip. It’s a parody of A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles first motion picture. I’m a huge Beatles fan, so it seemed only natural to put Mike’s Furry Four in place of the Fab Four. If you haven’t seen the film, this strip spoofs one of the first scenes where we are introduced to Paul McCartney’s grandfather.