I used to have to mow the lawn almost every weekend for my $5/week allowance. I was also mowing some neighbors' yards for $5 each as well - all going toward my Pac-Man fund.

This comic deals with the dangers of lawn mowing and having a sadistic father.

This one's real quick and simple - 6 frames and the beating is in the 5th. I think my Mom left the house for work one day and it inspired me to draw this one.

I was going to college in 1987 and living with my parents. I am not embarassed!

My stepdad was in the Korean War. 'Nuff said.

Okay, I haven't said enough. Actually, my stepdad never talked about his time in the war so I just had to imagine what it would have been like to be fed up with listening to war stories.

While working at Softdisk, Mike Maynard was working on a French Language Tutor program (uh...yeah, most of Softdisk's software was wide-open ass).

Anyway, Mike had some beta testers check out the program and when he got their feedback he thought it was all bullshit and wanted to harm them.

Instead, I took it out on Melvin for him.

I think I was told one too many times to clean my room. This is my favorite Melvin of all - so hilarious!

You'll see that I love to write "DIRTY!" in these comics - Melvin's always having to clean stuff up!

Basically, I wanted to create the most disgusting Melvin I could think of... and this is the one. And I just had to have it take place at Softdisk, just to top it off.

For once on this oxygen orb we call Earth, a petition actually WORKED! For over a year people have begged for this comic -and now it's here! Get it while it's hot! (in his mouth)

This was drawn during the break dancing craze of the early 80's and I could not STAND the guys at school who were break dancing everywhere... this was my revenge on them, in the guise of Melvin!

This one is actually titled Melvin VS Pop, but that's basically what every Melvin is anyway - and this one deals with a serious topic : SMOKING.

Okay, so I didn't deal with it seriously. Heh. Basically, my ENTIRE reason for drawing this comic was to see how fast I could demolish Melvin... it only took 10 frames!

Man, October was the month for drawing Melvins back in 1984, eh?

I used to ride a Mongoose BMX for several years - I loved that damn bike! Then some a-hole stole it when I was at an arcade in Roseville, CA. The arcade was called Video Bob's.

Anyway, here's what would happen if Melvin showed his dad some BMX stunts...

Occasionally I had my friends come up with Melvin ideas, so that could explain why this one's a little weak.

I usually go for really hardcore, brutal destruction of Melvin, like dismemberment, head splitting, leg snapping... that sort of thing.

Man, Melvin should just not ever talk back to his dad. But I make sure he never learns.