Please check out standard-design.com for my online graphic design portfolio,
or tompappalardo.com for all of my comics, radio, and other misc. projects.
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FORTY-3: The Official Massachusetts College of Art (MASSART) Comic JournalFrom 1992 to 1994, I was the editor of this fine, lo-fi school-funded collection. It was nightmarish and sort of fun. The name FORTY-3 apparently lived on for at least a short while after I left... maybe the incoming freshmen didn't realize that I'd made up the name and thought it was some thing "official", I dunno. The five issues I put out included contributions from Mister Reusch, Paul Alix, Jack Purcell, Matt Smith, and lots of dudes submitting under assumed names. As for my personal contributions to the issues, I had a recurring storyline comic called Bughouse (later renamed to BUGHAUS after some dude put out a "real" comic called BugHouse). It was a long sci-fi humor thing that was a continuation of my contributions to the previous incarnation of the MassArt comic anthology, Don't Shoot It's Only Comics, helmed by Jef Taylor. Hell, even then I was referring back to earlier work, as the main character was a variation on a character I'd been drawing in high school. I think I still have all of the original bristol boards of this terrible-looking but occasionally funny comic. Hopefully - though I apparently feel that everything I've ever drawn is worthy of a retrospective collection - I pray that I will never be tempted to reprint BUGHAUS in a retrospective collection. I could not draw for poo, and I ended up reusing the three funny jokes anyway. If you found this page via Google, you are weird. - Tom (The Artist Formerly Known as Goat) |
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ISSUE 1 This is the issue that picks up where DON'T SHOOT, IT'S ONLY COMICS does not leave off. |
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ISSUE 1-and-a-half This is the issue where I learned that a Smith-Corona electric typewriter is a fine, fine typesetting tool. |
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ISSUE #X This is the issue where I realized how small the talent pool was, despite being at an "art school". |
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Issue with no name, apparently This is the issue where I realized I would never have a career in politics. |
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ISSUE SNIFF This is the issue where I officially quit in the letter-from-the-editor. |
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