y2cl Presents: Commentary Tracks is a series in which I present to you, in order, the strips for each of my web-comics…with commentary on them to give you a little back story. Initially I did this in 2015, but only released 4 issues then promptly stopped. For now (October 2024 is when I’m writing this. Hopefully I remember to update this text when it changes)
Date Range of Strips: July 9, 2004 – March 31, 2008.
This is the first issue for AVGS in what I think will be a ten issue run that showcases the accidental comic series AVGS. How is it an accidental comic series? you ask. Let me explain.
When I started y2cl I didn’t plan on doing any side comics. Shortly into it I was contacted by a website Divine Nation and asked to do a weekly strip there, as well as illustrate some short stories. That created y2cl-weekly and ran for 8 weeks then the website folded.
Throughout the first few years of making web-comics I would always end up doing some strips that just didn’t fit in to y2cl. Back then I just posted them like it was a normal strip.
Fast forward to 2008 when decided I would start up some side web-comics like Inanimate, SGT Blinky, and Jonly Nonly. In doing this I created AVGS officially, then went back and pulled all the strips out of y2cl that didn’t fit into this. I did the same thing when I created TH3 Comics, pulling out all the ones about my family.
I hope you enjoy this journey into the random parts of my mind.
Date Range of Strips: May 2, 2008 – December 30, 2008.
Book two fother muckers.
This issue has my infamous short run from 2008 called
Political Alternatives where I show you eight alternative
political parties you can join if you’re tired of the two we have here in the USA. The downside is most of them are not in this country. But you could always move.
Also included in this amazing issue is a ten part series of three of the characters from y2cl being turned into sugar cookies. I can feel you’re excitement from here.
There’s also some other things in here, but not much.
Enjoy!
Date Range of Strips: December 7, 2008 – October 7, 2009.
Three down, several more to go. I know initially I estimated there would be ten issues of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks for AVGS. As I go through them, I’m not sure if that’s accurate. It’s hard to tell cause there is no consistency to the strip size. So it’s all just a guess. There might be seven more issues. there might be five or ten. I dunno man. Math is hard.
In this issue you are treated with my Watchmen:
Rorschach’s Lost Journal Entires parody series I did, and more guest strips than you could possibly want. I don’t think this has all the guest strips I did, but it does have all I did up until October 2009.
And because I’m such a giving person, I treat you to some old band artwork in the footnotes when I run out of things to say. I know, me run out of things to say? It happens. And when it does I do what I always do. Go random.
I’d like to thank all the creators whose work I parody in this issue for allowing me the opportunity to play in their sandboxes… and not suing me.
k, thnx, byyeeeeeeee.
Date Range of Strips: October 31, 2009 – May 20, 2011.
This issue sure is a treat. No, really. I mean that! You get an MLK tribute, a coke snorting snowman, the greatest
Christmas poem ever, some terrible art from my youth, and I teach you a math lessons.
Christmas poem ever, some terrible art from my youth, and I teach you a math lessons.
Wait, where are you going?
Come back!
Date Range of Strips: January 17, 2011 – December 24, 2015.
I guess I wasn’t posting a lot to AVGS during this time frame, since they all fit in the confines of 24 pages.
I wonder how many more issues of this there will be? should we math it out?
- 159 strips left.
- 36 half page strips. 34/2=17
- 49 third page strips. 49/3=16.3
- 74 full page strips. 74/1=74
- 17+16.3+74=107.3 Pages
- 107.3/23=4.6 issues
- Round up, 5 issues.
This is assuming the third page strips I can easily fit three on a page while keeping them readable.
if not, then it will change.
So we are looking at at least 5 more issues, which I think is close to my original estimate of 10. Let’s see… this is issue 5 and if I add 5 more issues, then that’s…10! yay!
Date Range of Strips: January 11, 2016 – May 29, 2016.
Welcome to the sixth issue of y2cl Presents commentary Tracks for AVGS! This one takes us into 2016. There’s a lot of old garbage in here… I shouldn’t call them garbage. They are older things I did that I released under AVGS over this year to kinda show off my creative journey. And now they are here for you to enjoy.
In the fine pages of this issue you will be treated to Bill Swift and Bilbo, you’ll meet Joe and Bigatora Spotapoo, and you’ll meet your new favorite caterpillar, Corky. Oh yeah, you will also have my amazing work for Legends Magazine Online grade your opticals.
I should write more here, but there isn’t much more to say.
Shipople.
~J
Date Range of Strips: November 11, 2015 – November 6, 2016.
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“What? why didn’t you lead with that, Jeef!” Blinky yelled out looking down at LT. Lopez who was no longer bleeding.
“I’m feel much better now, sir.” Lopez got to his feet and brushed off the dirt that was on him, the blood had disappeared
Jeff, Blinky, and Lt Lopez loaded in Blinky’s Jeep and headed back home. Lopez needed his flea treatment.
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Confused by what that is? You’ll figure it as you read through this issue.
This one is kinda special. in 2016 I used this website called Witty Comics to make a series of comics about a dipshit named Jeef. There is a book out called Jeef is a stupid name where you can see a better formated version of these adventures. In the vein of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks this issue contains all 49 strips made in the Jeef series.
Oh, I also introduce you to all my pets.
Enjoy!
J (not Jeef)
Date Range of Strips: April 24, 2016 – August 6, 2016.
Eight issue of AVGS? who’d a thunk that would happen.
This issue treats you to some ninjas (more than one), six pages of Bigatoraspotapoob (a comic strip that just couldn’t), Billy and Mary (a tragedy told in limericks),
And some completely random shit just so it feels right.
I don’t have a lot to say about htis issue more than this and the commentary, so here’s a photo I took of two beetles humping.
Enjoy!
~J
Date Range of Strips: July 11, 2016 – April 24, 2016.
Issue nine here will be a little different that our normal y2cl presents Commentary Tracks for AVGS. Typically these issues have been a collection of random shit I posted on the web-site under the name avgs as the only connecting point.
Well, this one is only eighteen pages instead of the normal twenty four. why is that you ask? Cause I worked on a story called Caitlin vs Jenny back in 2003 with a friend of mine and we ended up making an eighteen page story and finishing it up through sketch layouts.
In 2016 I took those sketch layouts and the script and put together the story as is to share it with everyone. In this issue you get to go back through it with me as I make commentary on each page, and see how much I really forgot everything about this story. So we get to experience it together!
I DO THINK I WILL RE-WRITE THIS THING AND GET IT FINISHED. WHAT DO YOU THINK? (why am I yelling?)
~J
Date Range of Strips: August 8, 2016 – September 11, 2017.
The tenth and final issue of y2cl presents Commentary Tracks: AVGS! Are you excited to get to this point? or sad that it’s about to be over? I’m a little of both.
In this issue you get to read some song lyrics from when I was 14 years old. Two separate Rough Sketch Ideas for comics I was doing the art for in 2003 that I never finished. (they are trash.) As well as the normal random shit you come to expect from AVGS.
so what’s next now that this is done?
Oh sweety baby, I ain’t done. I still have all or y2cl to create Commentary Tracks for. I also have y2cl-Daily to do. I had completely forgotten about y2cl-daily in regards to it being a part of this series, but it makes sense. So that’s another 1,000 pages to make books out of.
holy fuck.
Should we do the math?
y2cl – 642 strips
y2cl-daily – 398 strips
1040 total strips.
y2cl-daily – 398 strips
1040 total strips.
642 / 23 = 27.9 round to 28
398 / 23 = 17.3 round to 18
28 + 18 = 46
An estimated forty six more issues in the y2cl Presents: Commentary Tracks series….
Date Range of Strips: April 25, 2009 – February 28, 2010.
I have this habit of making people comic book artists without them really wanting to be. Just like I did with my Kaylie on Jonly Nonly, my brother in law Mike Gordon was roped into this series unwillingly.
You see, Mike is an amazing artist and prop maker. He draws these amazing cartoons that I always loved and one day I was like “Dude, let me take those and make a webcomic out of them!” He was reluctant at first, but in the end I won.
Furry Animal Mayhem became one of the most popular comics while it was a web-comics. Why? Because furries. It got listed on a few furry sites and people would come to the website like gangbusters. It was short lived, since it relied on Mike to draw new stuff for me to make jokes around.
Love, J Horsley III, esquire.
How did we get here?
How did we cross that line?
And who writes this stuff?
I don’t know, all I do know is I started these cartoons kinda for myself, and just jokes between the family.
John has twisted it just a bit further. Hope you all enjoy them and are not to offended . Hopefully I can do some more with John in the future.
Mike Gordon
P.S. – The original title of the series was Furry Animal Magic, but we wanted a change.
So bring on the Mayhem.
Date Range of Strips: January 10, 2010 – December 18, 2016.
Damn, I can hardly believe we are at the second issue featuring strips from Furry Animal Mayhem. This is the last book for this comic strip, though there is talks of releasing a coloring book with Mike’s art in it.
This issue features the epic bunny saga, some holiday strips, and a few from the last issue that have been updated to look more awesomoer. Yes, I’m using that as a word, deal with it. I had always planned on this being a much larger series using Mike’s art, since there’s so much more he’s done that I could use to make comics. Hmmm… Maybe this isn’t the end…
Fun side story for you. Back in 2009 I was building out a network of web-comics on y2cl.net, all part of the y2cl-verse. You’ve probably heard me refer to that before, but essentially it’s the universe in which all my comics exists. The universe of insanity, I suppose. There was a pretty decent list of comics that I had within this little universe. y2cl, Inanimate, Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic, The Skit and Skat Show, Fuzzy Memory, AVGS, Furry Animal Magic (the original name of this series), For the Reels (by Joe and Jon Garcia), Charlie Chin By Lloyd Fleck, and Animal House: A Furry Animal Magic Joint (by M.K. Wood and me). The last one was a very adult series that took place in a house, that was very much akin to Big Brother, but with furries. Larry T. Cob was going to be a recurring character in it as well. We did four strips introducing 4 of the characters, the fifth strip was going to introduce Larry but then we stopped cause M.K. got busy with other projects. What? you want to see then? You’ll have to pick up this issue to see it.
Date Range of Strips: August 20, 2008 – August 24, 2015.
I’ve wanted to release this book for awhile, but didn’t know how. Let me correct that, not this book exactly. This series. I’d always planned (that’s a lie, I planned since 2015 when I released the first y2cl Presents book) to print this series in that series. Well, I only did three issues of that volume then got distracted.
In late 2022 when I started writing and creating a lot (and got on adhd meds) I had no plans on resurrecting this series and writing commentary for all my old web-comics. But then I got 20 issues of y2cl-daily done, 26 issues of The Funny Twenty, 25 issues of Jonly Nonly, a couple singles, and 3 novellas done.
I thought “I should re-start the y2cl Presents series and go through all the web-comics and present them with commentary cause the people want that, right?” It was at that point I decided ”I should talk to Josh and we should do a Fuzzy Memory one.”
And now we have this book.
Date Range of Strips: October 31, 2008 – August 31, 2009.
Thank you so much for picking up this book. Wether you bought it, borrowed it or stole it, I’m glad you are here reading it,
What you hold in your hands is a collection of comic strips from a webcomic I launched in 2008. It spawned from my love of Andrew Schnorr’s The Elderly Apple. That as well as the old saying “Pot calling the kettle black”. Only the pot is a pot leaf.
This book was originally released in 2015 and was a hot mess. This one has updated commentary, cleaned up pages, and is overall just better. First in this series of commentary track issues I’m releasing going over the different web-comics I made from 2003 – 2016.
Enjoy!
Date Range of Strips: August 18, 2009 – January 20, 2010.
Welcome to the seventh issues of y2cl-presents Commentary Tracks! And to the SECOND collection of the Inanimate web-comic!
You might be asking yourself ‘How many more of these for Inanimate could there possible be?’
Well, let’s do some math and figure it out!
There’s 177 strips left.
We put 2 per page.
we do 24 pages per issue.
subtract 1 page for the Jonly intro.
So that gives us:
(177/2)/(24-1) = 3.847826086956522
Round that up and looks like we’ve got for
ourselves four more issues of y2cl-Presents
Commentary Tracks for Inanimate!
That means when I eventually collect all of these into the ultimate y2cl-presents commentary tracks for Inanimate the web-comic omnibus (working title) it will be 144 pages, plus any bonus stuff I put in. Groovy.
And with all that being said, I hope you enjoy this second issue of me making commentary on the Inanimate Web-Comic. A series no one asked for, but you all get anyway!
Date Range of Strips: January 19, 2010 – November 25, 2010.
In the intro to the last Inanimate issue we talked about how many of these would be left for this series and we did some math. We determined that we had four more issues of Commentary Tracks for Inanimate.
Well, I found some more strips I forgot about and turns out we are in store for four more issues after this one. A total of seven for this comic strip in this series. That means when this is all done we can eventually release a collected volume with all of them and it will have 168 pages!
`In this issue you will get to meet Pot’s cousin, Clover, learn more about Sword and Pen. There’s some other shit too, but I’ll let you just read it and find out. I should put something clever here to end out this intro…shipople.
Date Range of Strips: November 16, 2010 – December 25, 2013.
Man, the fourth issue of
y2cl presents: Commentary Tracks – Inanimate
Are you as excited as I am? 18 issues into this
insane series, and 4 into the Inanimate web-comic. Anyone wanna take bets on home many issues y2cl P Resents will end up being? There has to be a finite end to it, right? It’s just me taking my old web-comics and putting commentary on them and formatting them into issues at 24 pages each.
As it sits right now this is issue 18 and I have out to issue 27 mapped. I’ve also been talking with Greg and decided to (wait, did I talk about this in a previous intro? I don’t know…if I did you will get to read it again… with new-ish words) create a
special Commentary Track series specifically for my old main comics y2cl.
You know how much I like to play the math game on these intros and see how many issues there are, so let’s do that!
There’s 590 strips in y2cl.
Only a handful are strip sized, most are full pages. For the sake of argument well say there’s 550 ages of comics, some will have more than one strip.
550 pages.
we do 24 pages per issue.
subtract 1 page for the Jonly intro.
Oh, I’m out of room. See the back cover for the rest.
Date Range of Strips: August 25, 2015 – April 3, 2016.
I’ll say sorry now. The commentary, and some of the strips, get a little political and preachy. Greg’s favorite type of humor. I don’t know what came over me, it all just sorta poured out as I was typing. I spent pretty much no time actually talking about this issue, or this series. Just kinda went off… We also have some commentary guest stars on the later pages, so that’s fun.
Want to hear something interesting? No? too bad. In chapter five of Jonly Nonly, CHARACTERS FROM INANIMATE AND SERGEANT BLINKY GET INTEGRATED INTO THE NONLY UNIVERSE AS HUMANOID CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THEMSELVES. HOW DOES THIS WORK? I DUNNO, YOU’LL HAVE TO READ THEM AND FIND OUT!
“WHEN WILL THEY BE OUT? I MUST READ THEM!” YOU ASK.
I don’t know. It’s March 2024 as I write this (no idea when this will be released) and I have the scripts all written for them. The artist JB is
currently on issue 18, which is part of chapter four. So he’s close.
So you have that to look forward too. Fun right?
Enjoy this shit show!
~J
Date Range of Strips: April 8, 2016 – August 2, 2016.
This issue is weird. The cast of inanimate take over the commentary and kick me out.
Date Range of Strips: December 2, 2016 – January 1, 2017.
Inanimate was a web-comic from October 31, 2008 through January 1, 2017. We released 276 Strips of those 8 years, 2 months, and 1 days. On average thats:
34 strips per year
2.8 Strips per month
Breaking it down by year:
2008: 9 strips
2009: 77 strips
2010: 57 strips
2011: 23 strips
2012: 0 strips
2013: 12 strips
2014: 0 strips
2015: 21 strips
2016: 76 strips
2017: 1 strip
Math is fun.
Date Range of Strips: March 15, 2009 – February 20, 2010.
This issue was initially 32 pages and contained three strips per page. there are print versions out there of that. After much thinking, and learning how to make these fucking things, I re-did them all to put only TWO strips per page. This means everything is freaking readable.
There’s also some updated commentary, but mostly it’s the same.
Holy crap it’s already issue 2! Seems like just yesterday issue 1 was released and we all reveled in how amazing it was! As you can see, y2cl presents gives you a different type of comic in each issue! this time around we meet Sergeant Blinky and his
This comic is created with photos, filters, lights and tasteless bad jokes. Also, some alcohol gets thrown into the mix while
creating these.
Date Range of Strips: February 27, 2010 – February 22, 2012.
A second book featuring Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic! You know, I can’t remember how I came up with the name for this series. I think Blinky was a play on my old City of Heroes characters Mr. Pinky-Poo and MRs. Pinky-poo (which was already a play on my friend Dylan’s Everquest character Rinky-Poo Cuddly Chops).
Side note real fast. My two eldest boys, Kodi and Jakob, have both been using the Mr Pinky-Poo moniker online as their username in some form forever. It think its awesome. I wonder if anyone I used to play with sees their name and thinks its me.
How many more issues of y2cl-Presents Commentary Tracks for Blinky will there be? Just like the issue with Inanimate let’s do the math!
There’s 95 strips left.
We put 2 per page.
we do 24 pages per issue.
subtract 1 page for the Jonly intro.
So that gives us:
(95/2)/(24-1) = 2.065217391304348
Round that up and looks like we for ourselves two more issues of y2cl-Presents Commentary Tracks for Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic!
There’s also a story based series with these characters in the works.
Date Range of Strips: January 30, 2013 – May 4, 2016.
The third book collecting Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic! Excitement levels to the maximum!
Before I started making these commentary books, in my mind all the later Blinky strips were crap. Rushed garbage that wasn’t funny. So I never really pulled form them for The Funny Twenty. Up until now (March, 2024. Issue 26 of The Funny Twenty has been completed) I’ve mainly pulled from strips before 2013.
I’m not saying this book is the best thing I’ve ever created, cause it’s not. But what I am saying is there’s a lot of really funny strips in here. Look at me, using my intro page to give myself some attaboys!
What else do you get in this issue? Well, you get two pages from the 2015 24 hour Comics Day Special I did. You meet Jackson the War Beta, and you learn some fun history facts.
I hope you enjoy this issue and can’t wait to see you in the next one. Well, I won’t see you…comics can’t see.
~J (The guy who can’t stop commenting on his own shit)
Date Range of Strips: September 29, 2016 – December 28, 2016.
Welcome to The final issue of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks for Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic! If you pick up all four of the Blinky issues, or picked up the collected volume you now have the ability to read all 187 comics and get the entire Blinky story!
Exciting, right?
I will note here that these four issues do not include every Blinky strip made from it’s launch in 2009 to it’s cancellation in 2016. Due to space and page requirements the two pages from the 24 hour Comics Day Special 2016 that I did not include in this book, but you can see them in either Jonly Nonly #6 – The Search for Jeffers or y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks – Jonly Nonly Book 6.
My daughters and I have been talking recently about a Blinky revival. How cool would that be? All New Blinky comics by a creator team of me, Saidey, and Tegan?! I’m sure Jack would want to join it as well. Only think is might have to change the tone of the series a little, at least on the jokes they are a part of.
Enjoy! Let me know if you want more?!
~ J
Date Range of Strips: July 23, 2008 – May 7, 2010.
Greg, I want this page to have a conversation between Gregenstien and Jonly. Here are Jonly’s parts, you write Gregenstiens parts.
Jonly: Aren’t you excited, Gregenstien?
Gregenstien:
Jonly: It’s the 56th comic you’ve edited of mine!
Jonly: And that’s not counting the three novellas! Gregenstien:
Jonly: Well that’s rude, I didn’t think it was that bad. Gregenstien:
Jonly: Can we just get on with it? I’m gonna go over there and try not to cry.
Gregenstien:
Date Range of Strips: January13, 2010 – September 26, 2015.
At this point I’ve released so much Jonly Nonly that when I put this together it was like memory lane and I could see all the little connections I used in the Jonly Nonly comics series.
I know it’s confusing. Let me explain.
This series, y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks, takes my old web-comics and presents them to you (almost) untouched with commentary.
The Jonly Nonly comic series is more of a regular comic series that uses the web-comics as a base, but is migrated into sequential format, has a ‘story’, and lots of new stuff. It’s also a continuing story releasing new issues a few times a year.
‘How many more of these for Jonly?’
Let’s do the math!!
There’s 170 strips left.
We put 2 per page.
we do 24 pages per issue.
subtract 1 page for the Jonly intro.
So that gives us:
(170/2)/(24-1) = 3.695952173913043
Round that up and looks like we for ourselves four more issues of y2cl-Presents Commentary Tracks for Jonly Nonly!
Now 48 of those pages re from 25 hour Comics Day that have been re-purposed into Jonly Nonly #4 and #8. So well see if I present them in this series un touched, cause those issues re heavily edited.
Anyway, enjoy this issue!
Date Range of Strips: October 3, 2015 – October 6, 2015.
This book is the 24 Hour Comics Day special from 2015.
Complete in it’s original form and with commentary. I was, and still am, pretty proud of this. While it’s not really a 24 page comic with a story. It is a 24 page comic that I did in four days! I know, once your done you will say “yeah, I can tell this was completely done in four days” And that’s ok.
Because of this book I was able to make Jonly Nonly #4 – Story Time With Jonly which lifts a lot from this to create a new story.
And like I said on one of the pages in this book, the best way to learn is to do it. This book taught me a lot about setting up pages for print. Before this I hadn’t really done that. Not for a real comic book. I’d done some stuff with an 8×10 formatted book, but it was garbage and rushed (shocker, I know).
I’m seriously contemplating doing 24 hour Comics Day this year (2024) and seeing what I can do now that I’ve got over sixty comics under my belt. I guess if I decide to do it, you’ll know.
Date Range of Strips: October 7, 2015 – March 9, 2016.
The fourth y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks for Jonly Nonly! Are you ready to learn all the behind the scenes secrets of these strips? I Promise I only spent a little bit of time talking about Superman this time.
This issue takes you from October 7, 2015 (my Grandpa Lefty’s 92nd birthday. if he was alive that is.) through March 9. 2016 (the day after my son Jakob’s 10th birthday). Dammit me! That’s a great idea! In the intro of all of these to put the date range of strips that it contains for you! Fuck me. (Future me here, I went back and did that.) Well, if you’re reading this and I went back and added that then you’ll know it wasn’t until the twenty first issue I had that idea. If I didn’t do that then you know I… uhh… didn’t do that. (I did)
Do you like Star Wars? Well, if you do you are in for a treat! I spent way too many pages talking about Star Wars. A franchise I’m not even a big fan of. I like it, but it’s not my favorite. Why did I dedicate eleven pages of this issue (and the entirety of Jonly Nonly #5 – A Nonly Far, Far Away) To a franchise I only kinda like? Well, that’s the joke.
Everyone loves Star Wars and I’m kinda like Wouldn’t it be hilarious if I dedicated so much of this to that? Completely not realizing it would require me to research the lore so I could try and make them good.
Whatever.
We also introduce you to a new character, Earf. He was pretty much added to the Star Wars stuff, but worked himself into being a main character.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: January 2, 2016 – August 3, 2016.
There’s a lot of photos in this here issue of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks: Jonly Nonly. We start out with something I actually wanted to do more of, Jonly Nonly LIVE! that is essentally me convincing all the people these characters are loosly based on to pose for pictures with me and make comics. I got Jeff to do it once… then I talked to my socks.
We go on a magical education ride within these pages too. I promise you that you will walk away with new knowledge that you did not have prior to reading this issue.
I won’t waste more of your valuable time. I’ll let you jump into the issue and enjoy it. Maybe Greg will write something below, who knows.
~j
Date Range of Strips: October 1, 2016 – October 1, 2016.
This one all takes palce on October 1, 2016. Takes palce? That’s wrong. Was made on is more accurate. This is the 2016 24 Hour Comics Day that was used for Jonly Nonly #8 – The Search for Jeffers. Though this one is (mostly) un-edited and that one has massive edits. Enjoy!
Date Range of Strips: August 10, 2016 – December 28, 2016.
The final issue of the y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks series with Jonly Nonly! Can you believe it? I hardly can.
Jonly Nonly was a web-comic from July 23, 2008 through December 28, 2016. We released 240 Strips of those 8 years, 5 months, and 5 days.
On average thats:
30 strips per year
2.4 Strips per month
Breaking it down by year:
2008: 4 strips
2009: 17 strips
2010: 23 strips
2011: 10 strips
2012:2 strips
2013: 19 strips
2014: 0 strips
2015: 63 strips
2016: 102 strips
Look at that consistency there! Man that’s awesome, go me! What the hell was I doing in 2014 where I didn’t post a single Jonly Nonly? Hmm…I was 32, Jack was a year old…I don’t think I had back surgery that year. I dunno, did I post any comics in 2014? I should look… I’ll be back! Nothing for Inanimate. Nothing for Blinky. Ohh! I did post some in 2014! But only for AVGS and TH3 Comics.
Date Range of Strips: August 13, 2004 – July 2, 2016.
This one time I had an idea to steal artwork from other comics and re-write the text. it was GENIUS!
All I had to do was ask permission to the creators so they knew I was doing it and have them sign off on my version of their work.
In this issue you will get my versions of some pages from Alternative Conversations, On the Grind, Goo From Another Dimension, and Torchlite Lullaby. You’ll get my artwork over the lyrics of Sorry and I want to take you out for Ice Cream from Nerf Herder. You’ll learn about a neat pirate. There’s some garbage about Jimmie.
I’m not sure how many more Commentary Track issues there will be for Stolen Ideas, but I think at least 1 or 2.
Enjoy!
~J
Date Range of Strips: January 30, 2010 – October 22, 2015.
Ahh, the second commentary tracks issue for Stolen Ideas. A series where I take the hard work of other creators, modify it and make dick jokes over it. Or, apparently, a bunch of jokes about brunch.
This one I offer you something I little different, and dare I say special? I give you the epic 11 page tale of Alex at the Skateboard Olympics, by Diego Cruz. I will not give you anymore information on this, as I don’t want to ruin it for you. Just understand that it’s an emotional wild ride that we will take together.
You’ll also get me re-writing some pages from Gecko, Talking Boxes, Ruex, Elsewhere, and Princess Chroma. All neat-o burrito web-comics you should check out.
Enjoy this issue. I think there’s one more Stolen Ideas commentary track issue coming…
Date Range of Strips: January 4, 2016 – April 11, 2016.
It’s a third issue of your favorite commentary track series where I take other peoples work and make it… different. I wont say better, cause that’s subjective.
In this one you get all of my y3cl-ish series in all it’s glory. Why would I parody my own series? You’ll have to read the commentary below each page to find out.
There are also three pages from a series called M9 Girls, that I couldn’t for the life if me tell you what it’s really about. And we end this one out with a few guest comics I did for other strips.
Man, I wanna do more Stolen Ideas…
At the end of this book you also get some old Guest Comics I did, as well as the first two in the Goo From Another Dimension ones I showed you back in the first Stolen Ideas Commentary Tracks.
I hope you enjoy this one, it was pretty fun to make.
~your favorite ADHD nightmare creation, J.
Date Range of Strips: January 1, 2016 – January 23, 2016.
I struggled for years on how I wanted to release this series. When I started this insane idea of a hand drawn, hand lettered, and (eventually) a hand colored daily comic strip, I honesty did not expect to do it for as long as I did. hell, I still release new ones sometimes on Instagram.
Originally I was going to just release one giant book with all of them manga sized. No commentary, no context, just a giant book. Then I thought “no, release them standard comic size but put 4 on each page.” I even completed about twenty pages in this format. I did not like it.
So I let it sit for years. Fast forward to 2024 I was putting together issues of The Funny Twenty and figured it out. I would release the y2cl-daily series under themed issues. So I put together twenty issues of that Manga sized. In all my series I try to plan on how to release single issues and how I can collect them in a trade as well. For y2cl-daily I thought I’ll collect them with commentary into a trade, so there’s something extra.
Then I revisited a series I started in 2015, y2cl Presents. Taking my various web-comic series and presenting them with commentary. So here we are. a y2cl presents Commentary Tracks series with the y2cl-daily strips in release order with commentary.
Enjoy!
~J
Date Range of Strips: January 24, 2016 – February 15, 2016.
The second issue of y2cl presents commentary tracks for y2cl-daily! This issue contains all the strips from January 24 – February 15, 2016!
This issue will cover some intereting topics like politics, anxiety,
Depression, and introduce you to fan favorite you might be an asshole if…! I don’t have a lot to say, so let’s just jump into it!
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: February 16, 2016 – March 9, 2009.
Issue three of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks for y2cl-Daily. this issue has all the strips from February, 16 – March 9 2016. I actually started coloring the strips in this time frame using colored pencils. Will it last? If you know me then you already know the answer to this question.
There is also a lengthy section in the commentary discussing some characters from y2cl that don’t ever appear in this series. at least I don’t think they do. Why would I dedicate so much time to that? I dunno, felt like the time and place to do it. Probably not but too late now. Unless Greg tells me I have to cut it all out when he edits this. Please don’t.
In the infamous words of… someone in the 90’s.
Love, peace, and chicken grease.
~J
(oh snap, I looked it up an and it’s from the 1997 classic movie the Pest starring John Leguizamo. I love that movie.)
Date Range of Strips: March 10, 2016 – April 1, 2011.
As if there wasn’t already enough awesomeness in this series, I introduced a new sub-series called Cover Swipes where I take classic comic covers and re-create them with my y2cl characters. Neat huh? In this issue you get homages to Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, Amazing Fantasy #15, and Wolverine #8.
Most of the strips in this one are in color, actually, let me check. All but two are in color. and one of those is a pencil comic by my daughter Saidey.
I do regret to inform you that there is another slight rant about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (still the dumbest title ever, and I like long titles.) I keep it as short as possible, but you have been warned.
Ok, I’m going to go clean my garage out. That is not a euphemism.
~J
Come back!
Date Range of Strips: April 24, 2016 – April 24, 2016.
April 2 through April 24, 2016 all contain within the walls of this book. We got some more amazing Cover Swipes in here. Which ones? let me tell you!
- Action Comics #252 by Curt Swan (1059) – first of Supergirl & Metallo
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 by Eastman and Liard (1084) – First TMNT
- Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #98 by Curt Swan (1966) – Jimmy marries a gorilla
- House of secrets #92 by Bernie Wrightson (1971) – First Swamp Thing
- Archie #1 by Bob Montana (1942) – First issue of Archie
- DC Super Stars #7 by Jim Apparo (1976) – Aquaman rides a dolphin
Good stuff!
Oh yeah, there’s also some stuff on anxiety and depression just in case you were having to much fun.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: April 25, 2016 – May 17, 2016.
Issue freakin’ six! This one gets us from April 25 through May 17, 2016. We got some pretty cool stuff in here. some more Cover Swipes in this one.
We got:
- Flash #123 by Carmine Infantino (1961) – First Golden age / Silver age flash cross over
- Star Wars #1 by Howard Chaykin (1977) – first issue
- Green Lantern #85 by Neal Adams (1971) – Drug awareness issue
I also do my first call to the comments where I take ideas from the fans and draw them out. While putting this one together I found seven pages fully inked and lettered for a Bigatoraspotapoo comic I forgot about! What’s a Bigatorapsotatpoo? you ask? I talked about him in AVGS, but basically he’s a Ninja that does things. Maybe I’ll make an issue for that….
Anyway…enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: June 13, 2016 – June 23, 2016.
We are seven issues in, and this one holds all the y2cl-Daily strips from May 18 through June 23, 2016! As we have for the last few issues, we have some dope as fuck cover swipes.
- Batman #66 by Lee Schwartz (1951) – This issue has the amazing line by the Joker “So! They laugh at my boner, will they?? I’ll show them! I’ll show them how many boners the Joker can make!”
- Betty and Me #16 by Dan Decarlo (1968) – classic “beat off three guys” cover.
Just those two this time. There is also a pretty handy guide to How to not Rape on the last page. Some tooth ache shit, a note from Kaylie and other amazing shit. So sit back, crack open a drink, and dig in!
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: June 9, 2016 – June 27, 2016.
June 9 through June 27, 2016 is contained within the walls of this issue. What does that mean for you? simple. It means you get to walk down memory lane into my kind during these 23 days. Find out about my crazy long
commute, marvel at some non-sense trends I band wagoned on to.
There’s only one cover swipe in this one, but it’s awesome.
The Incredible Hulk #340 by Todd McFarlane (1987) – Hulk vs Wolverine classic cover
I hope you enjoy this one. WE are half way thought 2016 for these, so I think was are over the hump of issues? I dunno. Maybe not.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: June 28, 2016 – July 18, 2016.
Book freakin’ nine! This one takes us from June 28 through July 18, 2016. We got a few double post days on this one, and even a triple post day! There are only Two Cover swipes in this one.,
- Fantastic Four #1 by Jack Kirby (1961) – First Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Invisible Woman, Human Torch (Johnny Storm), and Doctor Doom.
- X-Men #1 by Jack Kirby (1963) – First Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Marvel Girl, and Magneto.
This one is a little shy on the social justice, but never fret my friends, it is still there. We also have not one but two celebrity cameos!
Well I’m out, gonna go make issue ten!
enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: July 19, 2016 – August 5, 2016.
Issue ten takes us from July 19 through August 5, 2016. There are no Cover swipes in this one. #sadpanda. This issue does include the entire of the History of the y2cl-Verse sub story. As with most things, I got bored and moved on.
Enjoy
~j
Date Range of Strips: July 19, 2016 – August 5, 2016.
Issue eleven gets us from August 6 through August 23, 2016. There are a few double and triple posting days in this one, which is always fun. the Suicide Squad movie came out during this time and I dedicated eleven strips to it. I mostly just wanted to try and draw all my characters as the members of the team in their first appearances, cause that sounded fun.
We only have one cover swipe in this one.
Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Bolland (1988) – classic Alan Moore story about the Joker’s possible origin.
This one ends on some political nonsense that was fun to work through. Gets a little soap boxy, but I’m sure you’re used to that by now.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: August 24, 2016 – September 14, 2016.
Book twelve takes us from August 24 through September 14, 2016.
Lots of random shit here mixed in with some political nonsense. I don’t have a lot to say right now so I’m not goig to force it. I’ll just save this, let Greg edit it and maybe write more later.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: September 15, 2016 – October 14, 2016.
Thirteen issues, and this one takes us from September 15 through October 14, 2016. This also marks the first time I missed a day! I still wish I would have just done the strips and not missed them. Too late now. .
You do get the epic saga of Alberto and the Whale in this one. That little story I should have made a lot longer, looking back at it. oh well. The next issue will finish 2016 then we can move on to other years! ain’t you excited!
Whelp, I’m off
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: October 24, 2016 – December 6, 2016.
Technically speaking, this is the final issue of y2cl Presents Commentary Tracks for y2cl-Daily in it’s epic 2016 run. Did I reach my goal of one strip per day for a whole year? You’ll have to read to the end to find out.
(spoilers, I don’t)
In the next issue there are some things that I did release in this time frame as a y2cl-Daily comic, but they are not really from it so they don’t count. I am including them in the next one cause I feel like it.
This issue takes use from October 24 through December 6, 2016. As you can tell, I really slacked off on the y2cl-Daily comics there at the end of the year. Oh well. If you pick up the y2cl.net 2016 Yearbook you might learn why. Or you’ll learn why if you read this, I forget if I wrote about it.
Enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: August 2, 2018 – December 20, 2022.
Our fifteenth book for this insane series. This one takes us from August 2, 2016 through December 20, 2022. wow, such time frame.
Yeah I only did thirteen in 2018 then stopped.
Why?
I dunno, I was busy being a Podcast superstar with Spoiler Country. My ADHD went crazy on Podcasting and I was doing:
- Spoiler Country (main show with Kenric)
- y2cl Radio (me talking to myself about stuff)
- Haphazard Adventures (Show with Kaylie talking about life and stuff)
- The Super Awesome Sisters Show! (my daughters show I helped with)
Spoiler Country was releasing three or more shows per week by it self. So yeah, podcasts kinda took up my life for a few years. more on that later.This issue is a lot of random stuff, but introduces you to JT for real this time, and follows me into my 40’s cause I’m fucking old. (not really, I’m awesome, shut up. ) Enjoy!`j
Date Range of Strips: December 21, 2022 – January 12, 2023.
Whoa boy, who wants to learn more about the history of the y2cl-verse? What? I already did that over in the solo y2cl-Daily series? This is true, but this one has commentary!
This issue has all the strips from December 21, 2022 through January 12, 2023. The second time I tried to bring this series back…At least it lasted more than thirteen strips like my 2018 attempt. How much longer did I keep this up? *looks* oh, shit. Looks like I made three more then stopped for a year.
Uhhh, you hear about that Drake and Kendrick Lemar beef? that sure was fun.
enjoy!
~j
Date Range of Strips: January 13, 2023 – February 16, 2024.
Hey! this is the first book that contains strips from the same year that I’m making the book! How about that?! this contains comics from January 13, 2023 through February 16, 2024.
We also have a new Cover Swipe, finally.
- X-Men #11 by Jim Lee (1992) – Modern classic cover.
In a few pages you are treated to the most amazing of poems. I promise you’ve never read one like this before. I do have to warn you though, later in the book I get a little preachy about some political nonsense.
This issue does end in a way I have not done before in one of these. It’s a two page special sneak preview of a book…that’s already out.
I’ll give you a heads up for the next issue…it gets a little soap boxy on the current tech job market.
Enjoy!
~J
Date Range of Strips: November 27, 2009 – April 26, 2011.
For the Reels was probably the best movie parodying web-comic that ever existed. I’m not just saying that cause I knew the creators and spent some time working on the series in a hosting and mocking stand point. I legit love this series. I hope I can convince Joe and Jon to let me put together some issues with the actual comics from the series.
What you get here is a series of Behind the Scenes comics that were made. Some by Joe, most of them by me. This series started as a way for Joe and Jon to talk to the audience. It ended as a way for me to call Joe out for being late on releasing a comic and make super inappropriate jokes and both our expenses.
I hope you enjoy this one, and I hope you are able to check out For The Reels in print (again) some day.
~That one guy that stretches himself too thin.
Date Range of Strips: April 9, 2010 – December 20, 2016.
PD Comics, or Public Domain Comics for long, a
concept I had while putting together SGT Blinky and looking up public domain images I could use I thought ‘why not a whole series that just uses publis domain artwork?” and this, PD Comics was born.
PP Comics was a web-comic from April 9, 2010 through
December 20, 2016. We released 50 Strips of those 6 years, 8 months, and 11 days. On average thats:
8.3 strips per year
.825 Strips per month
Breaking it down by year:
2010: 3 strips
2011: 0 strips
2012:0 strips
2013: 3 strips
2014: 0 strips
2015: 1 strips
2016: 43 strips
Date Range of Strips: December 4, 2008 – November 26, 2015.
What’s this? A kid friendly comic? This wont last. And clearly it doesn’t cause you only get 16 pages of strips, then you get 3 pages of scripts. Ha! Strips and Scripts. Not sure why that made me laugh, but it rhymes and that’s funny to me.
You’ll notice this is the very first book I’ve ever released that doesn’t have the 18+ warning on the cover. Hopefully this confuses people, in both directions. Fans of my normal work will pick this up thinking it’s a funny animal comic with dirty jokes and be sadly mistaken. New readers starting with this book will love it then get some of the other comics, thinking it’s similar to this one (like Furry Animal Mayhem) and get shocked into tears.
Either way, the lolz are all mine.
Enjoy!
~ The Man Without A Name (The Third).