The Planet Joey characters rock out on stage — Peanuts style — to a holiday jingle being played by Joey and Herb. The gang is so full of holiday cheer in fact, that it seems to be seeping into Gaston’s dark soul…
Tag Archives: Gaston
Villain Hideout
That sound you hear is the fourth wall shattering as we get a peek at Gaston and Mimi’s secret hideout, presumably in Cold Springs, Manitoba. It’s also a reminder to comic book characters everywhere to always be kind to your cartoonist.
Soaking Wet
Joey is back home – warm and dry after his disastrous first day as the new Cold Spring Clipper Newspaper Delivery Associate – breaking down the eventful morning with Herb. Elsewhere in town, two customers aren’t thrilled about receiving only a (very wet) portion of the paper.
Gotta Find That Kid
Mimi is right – the halfwitted cartoonist (that’s me!) is indeed shutting down this storyline soon – so the pressure is on our sinister searchers to find the kid in the yellow helmet who delivered that dastardly punch, as per the boss’ orders… Joey seems to have successfully evaded everyone thus far – not only Gaston and Mimi, but the kid with the glasses as well, seen here icing is face.
A Local Recruit?
We catch up with the two sinister spectators – Gaston Malade and Mimi Dangereux – after a bit of a post-game kerfuffle has broken out, thanks to Joey. Gaston is thrilled that there is finally some violence on the ice to capture his attention while Joey seems to have made quite an impression on the mysterious Cyrus Belgrave. As for Mimi, she’s trying to figure out how exactly it is that Belgrave seems to have his own private feed from *checks notes* the Cold Springs Arena…
My Kind of Scoundrel
We catch up with our resident ne’er-do-wells in the Cold Springs Arena, enjoying the Canadian minor hockey experience: mediocre hockey and sub-par food and beverages. As expected, Gaston has taken a shining to the kid with the glasses…
A Little Entertainment
We find ourselves catching up with the resident villains of our humble strip – Gaston Malade and Mimi Dangereux – and find out that they have indeed been stationed in northern Manitoba by evil mastermind Cyrus Belgrave to work on some sort of top-secret project… And not just anywhere in northern Manitoba, but good ol’ Cold Springs. In fact, they’re headed toward the arena where a red-headed kid takes to the ice, representing said town for the first time. Cue the foreboding music…
Merry Christmas!
We’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! To all of our readers, thank you for your support in 2020 and best wishes for 2021!
Rapscallions
It’s been awhile, so let’s see what Mimi Dangereux and Gaston Malade are up to. Oh. Come on guys, leave our narrator alone or you’re grounded for a few more weeks! Also: anytime you can use the word ‘rapscallion‘ in a comic, you just have to, right?
It’s All About You, Joey
Well, we’ve come to the end of our run of six promotional comics and there you have it: Joey and Herb don’t sound so confident about the longevity of this thing. Don’t take their word for it, however. Next, we go back to the beginning with the storyline ‘Destination: Cold Springs’, where we catch up to Joey and his family en route to Cold Springs, Manitoba…
Bring on the Nukes!
Gaston has reached the end of his rope here. He really, really, really wants to destroy this comic strip. Thank goodness Mimi is able to talk some sense into him and hey, a Beetle Bailey reference for the old folks out there!
Whiteout
As an homage to the days of comics being printed on good ol’ newsprint, our villains have now run the gamut of ways to sabotage this thing: fire, India ink and now it’s been revealed that Gaston had asked the artist – me – for whiteout. Remember that stuff? Also known as ‘correction fluid’ and by the brand name Liquid Paper, it was pretty darn toxic so I opted to go with the other kind of whiteout we have here in Canada…
Lousy Cartoon Physics
If this strip was indeed printed in a newspaper, dumping a large bottle of India ink on it would be a surefire way to destroy it. As it turns out, a closed comic panel will allow a gas to pass through it, but not a liquid. Who knew?
Ridiculous Sized
In yet another homage to the comic strips of yesteryear, Gaston has moved on to Plan B: India ink. Mimi seems to have her doubts about this strategy, but the bigger question is: where did Gaston get such a large bottle of ink? And where did Joey and Herb find a fire extinguisher that quickly?
We’re on Fire!
Here it is, officially the first Planet Joey comic released into the public domain! Gaston is hell bent on sabotaging the new strip with fire (forgetting that he’s in it), which… seems like an ineffective way to ruin a webcomic. Imagine that you’ve travelled back in time and you’re reading this in a newspaper and it makes more sense. This is the first of six promotional strips featuring our heroes + villains we’re running to launch Planet Joey. Please feel free to share and/or engage in the comments section below! Trivia: This exact strip was originally drawn in the spring of 2003 almost exactly as you see it here. Over the years, it’s been re-drawn a few times as character designs and my inking styles and methods changed, but it has essentially existed for 17+ years waiting for this day.