Marc’s ‘Pinkerton’ Guest Strip!

Hey boys and girls! It’s guest strip week over at one of our favorite webcomics, Pinkerton by Mike Witmer, and today’s guest strip is by none other than our very own Marc Lapierre! Marc did a fabulous, fully-colored homage to the Fab Four featuring the fuzzy inhabitants of Pinkerton National Park! So far, the comments section for Marc’s guest turn has been lit up with lots of glowing praise for his work, and rightly so! Click on the panel below to see the full version of Marc’s “very clean” Pinkerton guest strip!

Boxcar Astronaut #74 & Complete Heterochromia!

Updated 08/10 at 1:15PM

Hey kids! Well, if all goes according to plan this should be the last blog post here and the last Boxcar strip featured on our main page. Next Sunday, when Boxcar Astronaut #75 hits, you should be looking at an all new Boxcar Astronaut website created with ComicPress that features the strip and the blog all in one convenient location for your viewing pleasure! This blog will remain here to act as an archive for those of you who want to read about all the old strips. Hopefully, things will go smoothly for us. Cross your fingers!

This week, we wrap up Caveman’s birthday party with the weirdest and funniest clown ever! Marc and I were discussing this final strip and came up with the concept of the party being a bore and needing something to liven it up. Marc mentioned the boys “hiring” a clown and immediately the same thing popped into both of our heads…Robot! It’s a great visual that made for a nice ending to the party. I also love the characters with their pointy party hats on; to me funny headwear is always comedy gold!

This just in: Marc has started his very own sketch blog called Complete Heterochromia (read the blog description to learn what that is), which will feature his awesome non-Boxcar related artwork. Stuff like this illustration of baby Kal-El and his Mommy and Daddy!

See you next week for Boxcar Astronaut #75 (wow!), and the new site launch!

Boxcar Astronaut #73

Hello all! This will be a short and sweet blog this week as tweaks to the new and improved BoxcarAstronaut.Com continue. As things stand right now, we hope to launch the fully-functioning ComicPress improvements on August 17, which will mark the milestone 75th Boxcar strip. The site will have a clean new look, be much less cluttered, and have vastly improved functionality; including the ability for you guys to post comments, view full archives, and subscribe via RSS feeds.

This week we continue with Caveman’s birthday party as the boys present ol’ Cavie with a staple of kiddie birthday parties: a delicious, candy-filled pinata! Of course, after a brief demo, Caveman bashes the poor thing out of sight like a Big Papi home run! (and I hear our friendly neighborhood Boxcar artist actually did some photo reference from actual baseball players for the final panel. Neat!). We hope you enjoyed it, and be sure to come back next week for the conclusion of Caeveman’s birthday party. See? I told you this was gonna be a short one!