As a child I was extremely interested in comic strips, so much so that in the junior high schools I attended in Redwood City I created three that ran as serials in the student newspapers. Links to reduced sample pages of each strip are provided below.

Discus and Africus ran in 14 parts in the McKinley Trojan during the 1972-73 school year at McKinley Junior High School (as it then was). As the school mascot at that time was a Trojan warrior, so was the strip’s protagonist. The feature was intended to continue during the following school year, but I changed schools, so the remainder of the story (finished and existing as raw art) was never published. Part 12 is reproduced here.

Ferd and Charley ran in eight parts in the Redeemer Brave during the 1973-74 school year at Redeemer Lutheran School. This time around I ignored the school mascot of the time (an Indian) in favor of two spiders. The story and art were better, but does not scan well due to the poorer reproductive process by which the paper was published. Part 8, page 1 is reproduced here.

Grok ran in three parts in Newsline, the newsletter of Redeemer Lutheran Church’s youth group, during the summer and fall of 1974. The appearance of a cave man strip in a religious publication did not, as far as I know, bother anybody. Part 3 is reproduced here.