Attack of the Sneeze!

"Sinus: The Revenge", "Night of The Hay Fever", "When noses twitch" - these would probably be the only kinds of horror movies I could handle.
I hope this above scenario happens to everyone who wants to jump out and scare me.

I'M NOT REALLY SHOUTING!

I DO PONDER ABOUT SILLY STUFF LIKE THIS. I REMEMBER READING THAT IT'S BAD E-ETIQUETTE TO WRITE EMAILS IN ALL CAPS. THEN I NOTICED MY ARCHIE COMICS AND FEW OTHER COMICS WHOSE SCRIPTING WAS ALL IN CAPS AND I REALISED THAT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM AS YELLING CONSTANTLY. BUT RIGHT NOW IT PROBABLY SEEMS LIKE I AM SHOUTING ALL OF THIS. INTERESTING HUH?

Shark vs. Penguin

Penguins have comic potential, don't they? They could almost be as good as squirrels. This is just a random comic... no point or purpose.

Shark Tag

This is just a random comic. I don't even know if the shark in it is my usual shark. I saw the question "What would you do if you were stranded on an island and find sharks swimming all around you?" on Facebook and thought that it would be funny if this happened.
I also had a few alternate last panels. Please pick whichever one you like.

Or how about this one? The sharks were probably having a wine and cheese party. You'd never know.

The inevitable question

This seems to be quite true. When I mentioned "profile photo", did you instantly think of Facebook or what? 

Eye biting sea-rats!

The origin for the random idea behind today's comic is from a couple of our friends who decided to play a prank. They texted me saying that one of them went swimming and got bitten on the eye by a rat. Now, I fell for this prank (and got slightly worried) because the said friends are highly capable of swimming in rat-infested waters. However, picturing the event caused me to crack up and sparked off a comic idea. This is what one of the texts said: "My eyeball is out of my skull and is in a rat's mouth running down the beach! aaah" (at this point I probably should have known that this was all in jest). How could I have not come up with this? If I were a bit more "Happy tree friend-ish", I'd have made it a bit more graphic but no.

Shark Acting Classes

Like most silly ideas, this one was inspired by my sister. We were watching some cheesy shark attack movie (can't remember which one) and she said "These sharks can't act properly at all.... why can't they go for some drama classes?". 

Its shark is worse than its bite

The two panels were meant to be independent of each other. It makes sense either way, I guess... as far as sense goes.
It probably looks like The Shark ate the dog. But I assure you it didn't.
If I ever get my own dog, that's the kind of "beware" sign I'll put up.

Sharks & Sarees: The new fad

This was done for a friend who owns this cool saree shop, The Silkworm Boutique. I promised to do a comic and then was stuck with wondering how on Earth I'd combine sharks and sarees. The answer is simple: just combine them. 

Since sarees have to be colourful, I had to colour it in. I picked a common combination - mustard & red. Obviously it's a good thing I didn't go into the saree designing business. After I coloured in the saree, everything else looked pale. 

ps - My intuos makes drawing so much easier except when it comes to the human. I really dislike drawing humans. 

pps - I usually spell it as "sari" but only when I searched for "saree" did I find some great reference images. 

Strawberry de-seeding

I'm not one to crave fruits ever. Even though I do like mangoes, berries and apples (sometimes), I never bother buying any. Whenever my dad thinks I ought to be getting some fruit in my system, he cuts them up and de-seeds them and hands them to me (yes, I'm very spoilt when it comes to fruit). When I learnt that all those tiny eyes on the outside of strawberries were their seeds, I wanted to get him to de-seed those. But it is probably the one fruit he can't stand so he wouldn't even listen when I said "so... about those strawberries...".  

Until we meet Facebook to Facebook

I do love forbidden cake. 

This strip was probably done just for the "Facebook to Facebook" line. Also, I can't make up my mind if I'm needy for some web communication or could not have less of it. 

Once upon a time sharks and humans coexisted peacefully

Once upon a time there lived a princess and she had a magical hourglass that could...
See? Those stories are way more interesting than the usual rubbish I write under each post. Some fairy tales are a bit annoying but it's nice to get an occasional dose of fantasy. I'm also really enjoying the new TV show "Once upon a time".

ps - Maybe mermaids existed once upon a time and then sharks ate them all.

To do: Make Bucket list

Here's one that I drew about a month ago and then got too busy to do put it up. It may be cheesy and stupid but I still find the "to-do list" vs "bucket list" idea chuckle-worthy. I should probably do an actual bucket list one sometime.

Nightmares and Dream-escapes

As much as great dreams make sleep so much more peaceful, one eventually has to wake up. Every time I have a good dream and I'm woken up, it makes me feel irritable to wake up to reality. But in bad dreams, you can actually tell yourself not to worry because once you wake up all of this will be fine.

I had a very strange, sort of bad dream last night. There were these annoying strangers who invited themselves along on an adventure I was on. They even assumed they were going to stay with me in my ancient castle like accommodation. I remember telling myself that they were not real and that they won't be there when I wake up. I had no idea I was this anti-social and inhospitable!
That left me feeling a bit disturbed. I guess.

I don't care, Robert!

 

 

I found this dialogue scribbled in my notebook - I have no idea what I was thinking at the time I wrote it and couldn't remember what the context was or who the characters were. But I thought it was quite funny so I tried to recreate the idea the best I could. Robert had to be a human and had to be a boy. I don't know who he is. Maybe I am yet to meet him. Poor Robert.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I actually do have thoughts like this while getting a head massage. I already have one big dent in my head but that's not that interesting anymore. I do love head, neck & shoulder massages though!

Fun Shark Fact: Sharks have full cartilaginous skeletons!

Sharks - we transport prophets better!

My old Reader's Digest book on Sharks had this bit under chapters on history/myth and I remembered it all of a sudden. I have nothing against whales - they're quite nice, especially orcas. But they're not sharks ;) (And not just in the animal classification way).

The importance of social networking sites

Did you know that some people check their email, text inbox and facebook notifications about 60 times in a minute? It seems like they do.
And apparently, the people you facebook/text the most are the ones you see the most*. So, you're not really keeping in touch with the rest but social networking sites make you feel like you are.
There's a parallel universe scene to this strip which will be up soon.

* Of course, none of this applies to my beaver, cat and other creature friends.

ps - Hopefully my white-paper type title will get me some professor-type audiences. 

Dear Penpal,remember me? muahahaha.

While visiting a friend recently, she showed me some old "Target" magazines and I remembered how much we enjoyed it back then when we didn't really have many young peoples' magazines to choose from. I also remember that they had penpal columns through which I had a few penpals from across the country. It was so exciting to get letters from friends even though you'd never met them.
Then we realised that there is NO way we'd give out our home addresses in a public forum like that these days. Somewhere between then and now, the world became less innocent & safe and more cynical and predatory. While human nature probably hasn't changed much, I see how much more widespread evil has become and thereby increasing paranoia everywhere! It's a shame that penpals have become obsolete or that e-pals/facebook pals isn't really a replacement.

ps - The human has shoes in frame 2 but not in frame one because this is happening later. That's why.

Psychologically untested

I'm one of those unlucky people that always gets stopped by those annoying sales people. My cousin said it's because I have one of "those" faces. I guess she meant sweet and friendly. Not gullible. Anyway, I usually say no and walk away. Sometimes, they convince you enough to stop. Every now and then you end up buying something. I bought this eyeliner recently but it was a well-known brand, not one of those shady kiosk ones. And the sales lady simply had to add "ophthalmologically tested" to her sales pitch. Yeah, one would assume that eye liner would be tested by ophthalmologists. Anyway, my eyes did not react as wonderfully as claimed and it got me thinking that these "tested" products hardly tell us the results of those tests.