Frog and Toad Meet Mr. Bump
Back in elementary school, we had access to a cheap, simple book publishing process; we would write and draw our stories, and the librarian would laminate the pages, punch holes and apply plastic binding. Some of my fondest school memories involved churning out story after story and seemingly having them immortalized in real book form.
Cut to the modern era, where I have been collecting old childhood artwork as Apple Cow fodder (turns out I'm still making those???). During one of these scanning sessions, I came across one of my old books.
Then I discovered this book was actually an early attempt at crossover fanfiction and told the story of Frog and Toad meeting Mr. Bump!
So I've decided to treat this a little differently than Apple Cow. Not only because the characters are protected under copyright law (and I've never created webcomics primarily featuring copyrighted characters), but also because, as a completed work, I felt a more appropriate (and entertaining) action would be to release it in its entirety to an unsuspecting Internet.
I'll probably eventually add the pages to Dot Matrix for archival purposes, but for the time being I've created a Tumblr blog dedicated to this project. Tune in to Frog and Toad Meet Mr. Bump for weekly page uploads and hopefully humorous commentary as I delve into the creative mind of my nine-year-old self!
Cut to the modern era, where I have been collecting old childhood artwork as Apple Cow fodder (turns out I'm still making those???). During one of these scanning sessions, I came across one of my old books.
Then I discovered this book was actually an early attempt at crossover fanfiction and told the story of Frog and Toad meeting Mr. Bump!
So I've decided to treat this a little differently than Apple Cow. Not only because the characters are protected under copyright law (and I've never created webcomics primarily featuring copyrighted characters), but also because, as a completed work, I felt a more appropriate (and entertaining) action would be to release it in its entirety to an unsuspecting Internet.
I'll probably eventually add the pages to Dot Matrix for archival purposes, but for the time being I've created a Tumblr blog dedicated to this project. Tune in to Frog and Toad Meet Mr. Bump for weekly page uploads and hopefully humorous commentary as I delve into the creative mind of my nine-year-old self!
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Are you going to be notifying us of updates here as well? I'm terribly bad at keeping track of tumblrs.
Here's Mr. Bump in animated form:
(click the page to see the blog post)
(same goes for all future pages too)
This means Frog and Toad Meet Mr. Bump will probably be the only webcomic I've ever released 100% on schedule on time.
How did they even get crossed over anyway? They're wrapped around him!
The bandage shown on this page is likely an example so you know what to look for.
Special sneak peek! Because it's easier to make this post at night than at work tomorrow morning.
DILEMMA!!!
Except that there's totally one now so it doesn't matter.
And stick with the story. It takes some INTERESTING TURNS (I've read it all) (and also wrote it I guess).