Reeder Rabbit is on hiatus! For now you can buy one of these purdy little books of death, or you check out Unconscious Ink, my other project that is active.

Anyway, I’ve been tweeting about a “secret project” for that past few weeks that was really stressing me out… Well here it is! My very first comic book. I’m really excited about it. It is available at the TNP Store as of this week… Here’s the little blurb about it:

“This zany first edition is a collection of comic strips from Reeder Rabbit by Joenis Norac. All strips were chosen by the readers as their favorites from the years 2006-2008. The comics vary from remastered versions to the classic versions, including some goofy guest strips and other scraps for your dining pleasure! There are 30 comics in total on 28 pages. The first 25 sold are on high quality, 80lb gloss paper, so be sure to get yours right away! There are only 100 copies available in the first edition; the 75 after the first 25 handsome looking 20lb premium paper. In case you were wondering, all the stories in Reeder Rabbit are true. Well… as true as any fictitious comic about cartoon rabbits can be.”

BUY IT HERE:

Also, In case you didn’t already know, you can see what else I’m doing here at this website: ArtisticDoom.com, or follow me at my twitter. I wont be stopping my art any time soon, so all the purchases of this book will help me considerably. Oh yeah, all the books are hand signed with personal notes to you guys for buy them!

Wouldn’t it be funny to kill yourself over something really stupid and insignificant like this?

I didn’t make many changes to this one but i wasn’t fully satisfied with certain things in the original. i really cleaned up the art on the bottom panel a lot, when i first drew it i wasn’t really sure how to make a background look good… i think I’ve better establish what it should like now.. wouldn’t you say? Original

anyway, enjoy!

PS… IAN R. TAYLOR sent an AWESOME Guest Strip this WeEk! CHECK IT OUTTTTT!

See more of his stuff HERE!!!

Did this commercial ever really piss anyone else off like it pissed me off? It was so aggravating i literally at times wanted to blow my brains out…several times. The one thing they did right is the fact that i don’t think i will EVER forget that commercial or their brand name…though, I’ve never cared to even see what it is that they were selling. Some sort of reliever creme? I’ll tell you what relieves my headaches. A gun, through the eyeball up into my frontal and out my parietal lobe. Instant relief. DEAD ON.

Original: Shoot Here!

Well i must say, i can’t believe that its already November. The holiday season just started up and that means holiday web comics everwhere! This is one of the few I’ve ever done. I’m rarely thinking about holiday jokes when the time comes up.. probably cos its a busy time of the year.

With 2009 on its way and the hopes that i can get Anhedonia Blue ready by the end of it, i thought I’d really embellish on the fact that this girl i drew in this original 2007 release, was actually a precursor to the main character in Anhedonia, Eydis. It wasn’t until the other day that i really noticed that she looked almost exactly like her! So i took a bit of artistic liberty with the old dead girl and made her resemble a bit more of the way I’m hoping Eydis will look in the final product.

Anyway, Happy Holiday ya’ll and I’ll see you next week.

Originalized

Honestly, i hate when this happens. I’m the type of guy that sees food and before i really think about it, I’m probably already eating it…well.. unless it has something like mayo on it and i can tell… but that’s a whole other story. Have you ever experienced a food that was so good you could explode? Or taken a drug that makes you explode?! It’s so good, it sucks.

This is my PSA on drugs: DON’T EAT EM OR YOU WILL EXPLODE!

Anyway, this comic was completely redrawn from scratch. The one redeeming factor about the original, in my opinion, was that tge creature that Coney sees when he looks at Reeder was so crazy looking. When i drew this back when, it was the first time i explored drawing odd things that don’t make much sense. Now that I’ve spent the last year i or so drawing Unconscious Ink’s i think that now i was able to give the Creature Reeder more character; hence why i redid this one at this point of time. Once i sketched out the new creature i felt like i wanted to have a little bit more fun with Coney’s face, which in turn made me realize that this comic wasn’t funny in the first place. So that is why this comic’s new twist is as extreme as i took it. I felt it should be different enough then the original yet continue the recurring theme in Reeder; death.

Originator: click it, CLICK IT!

Alright kids… class is in session…

Have you ever thought about the Kool-aid man, i mean REALLY thought about him? I mean really, this man of Aid who is so cool he can spell cool with a “K”. This man, is a menace to society! He destroys shit constantly for the sake of being “kool!” He claims to be a beverage that aids people… sounds like he’s been spiked if he’s give any aid to anyone… and of course again, another childhood cartoon character who gives his many joyful gives to the youth; drugs!

To further this rant, fuckers made of glass… there is realistically no way a glass object could plow through a wall of brick, wood, and dry wall. i mean COME ON KIDS! REALLY!?! Next time you see a man made of glass, push his ass with a force of which you feel will project him through the closes wall available and see if he survives.

Either way, i love this guy. OOOOHHH YEAH!

[This comic is nothing like the original: look at crap ]

While sitting in Biology class back in college my teach was going on and on about natural selection and i stopped paying attention. This is what came of that.

This version of this issue of Reeder doesn’t have any “improvements,” other than the fact that i dropped the stupid joke and i made the bloody section a bit more gruesome. Since a very common theme in Reeder Rabbit is death, i felt that i should go back and actually make the death more the center of attention. Why may you ask, am i so obsessed with death?!? It’s because i find the only way to not get depressed about the inevitable is to just laugh it off; the simple fact is we are all gonna die, even stupid cute animals.

Here’s the original: view the suck

…i also think the sun is a sinister guy.

First off, i want to say that the concept behind this comic came from a friend of mine, Austin Reeder, who helped me start the Reeder Rabbit comic in the first place. If it wasn’t for him, my renewed interest in art and new found love for web based and regular comic books may have never been born. So Austin, i take this opportunity to thank you… but this is the last time i will be doing that. Ever!!!!

Anyway, when Austin and I were throwing this concept back and fourth back then i love the idea and tried to draw it as best as i could. When i say best as i could, i lie, i spent 20 mins max on a really crappy tablet pc that lagged so bad that i could barely draw it. At that time i didn’t really take this comic all that serious though, so i didn’t really care much. Though the artist part of me never felt like i succeeded in drawing a decent piece; honestly i failed at it when i look at the orignal. The last cell where Coney is dead wasn’t nearly as dramatic as i envisioned it and it didn’t really show what i wanted it to show about the way i see war.

I wanted to make two points with this. One, when you see recuiters at school, the incentives of which they pose to you are often aren’t worth the risk. For instance, in my opinion, when they offer to pay for you school, it my mind the only thing i can think is “yeah, if i make it back alive.” The positions and other things they promise you (as i hear from people who’ve enlisted) you never get. And two, In a time where we’ve been in a stupid war in the Middle East, where we’ve as a society been wasting our time, money, resources and the lives of the people involved i think this war (or most wars for that matter) is pointless. It just proves to me the power of the media and patriotic manipulation. I hate the media’s negative usage to twisted the whole thing to seem like a good idea. War is never a good option, but the media seemed to have a way of making everything seem like we should do it.

I DIDN’T like Bush.

Here’s the original suck version: here

Since the day that i wrote this comic a while back its always made me laugh and today when i was doing the final touch ups on the blood i was listening to the Death Note Soundtrack; nothing can give you more of a lust for blood then that!

Anyway, I’m sure a lot of us know what its like to go through the process of trying to choose the right college. Finding the degree that fits your needs and interests can be a pain in the ass, and even when you find one close to what you want in the end it may or may not be what you end up wanting to do in the end. For instance, my psych degree, though it was useful to some extent, finding a job in psychology that i like is rare and in any case what I’ve wanted to be my whole life is an artist. So here i am trying to this after college and writing comic about college.

The timing for this comic couldn’t be any more appropriate. Now that I’ve moved to Seattle I’m struggling to find some sort of balance between getting a job that i don’t want and finding a school that i can afford while working at that job.

Original. Man the original of this really didn’t do the bloody potato justice.

A New Beginning:

You may be wondering why this is called “The Best of… Reeder Rabbit Remastered,” and why this first comic is one you’ve already seen before. The answer is simple. The people who have followed Reeder Rabbit since 2006, when it first started, probably know that I’ve never been content with the style of the comic; the art was always lacking in my opinion. In the past two years, especially the last 5months, my artistic style and understanding of the digital medium have evolved. Now that i feel comfortable with Adobe Photoshop, my tablet and coloring, i feel that i can finally do this comic the justice it deserved from the beginning.

So what does this mean? I haven’t fully decided the extent of this new project; how long it will run and how many of the original 69 comic’s i will redo is up in the air, but i think about 30 of them are defiantly in. I will more then likely be posting on Tuesdays! If you have any recommendations please feel free to comment here and tell me which you’d like to see! This is as much for you guys as it is for me. Oh, and don’t worry, i will still be posting inklings every Thursday.

To view what i call the “classic” versions click the classic button up top; feel free to laugh at how bad they are.

Spirit Animal:

Spirit Animal has always been one of my favorite comics I’ve drawn. The primary reason being, it was the first time i ever attempted doing a cartoony facial expression; which you can see on Coney’s face in the second cell. I never felt that this comic was as funny as it was in my mind because the original drawing was really sloppy. I think now that it’s in color you can now see that the butterfly is “pretty” which is something that makes this funny to me, its cute things are usually the last thing you’d ever expect to eat your face. original