NORMAN® COMICS

In a few months, I will be the proud owner of one of these bad boys… Lambretta Lambro.

BUSINESS CARD FLASH-BACK.

While working on some drawings, I came across my old business cards… In order:

1.) NORMAN’s (I made this business card when I was 12 years old, and sold t-shirts that I silkscreened myself to local skate-shops, and used it to try to get my comic strip syndicated at the age of 12. You’d be surprised how many people and legit business connects i got in the 4th grade, when I decided, that I was GOING to be a SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER CARTOONIST, and that was that!

2.)Aaron Gombar, Cartoonist. (I made this card on  really cool translucent vellum, when I was living in San Francisco and going to the SF ART INSTITUTE… I was 18, and took this photo in the Presidio, on the beach, with the Golden Gate bridge behind me… I loved this memory… I think this card got me more action with the ladies than it did actual business doing artwork. But I still loved it.

3.)Aaron Gombar, Creative Director at Tip Tops Of America, Inc. … This was actually the last “real” job I had last year. That was, until I nodded out about four too many times during the morning meeting and my boss discovered I was a drug addict. He gave me a chance to “get help,” but I was more into going into my dimly lit office, blasting music and working on illustrator and goofing off, having my friends and girlfriend at the time call up just to mess with my secretaries. Yeah, I had TWO secretaries, and a salary job… but methadone and sniffing lines of OxyContin off my desk all day long were more important to me at the time. I regret throwing that job down the drain. Oh well… You live and you learn. And the business card was pretty gay too. I had less than four hours to do it, and get it to the boss… So it came out rushed like this… And the back saying was “kid friendly,” and really lame sounding because that was the target audience that the company focused on…But yeah… there will be a new card to add to the list soon. I’m not done yet, crumbs! <3

NORMAN® Character Profile: THE GURU©

The Guru is Norman’s elusive garage-dwelling Neighbor, Dan. He is known around the neighborhood as “The Guru,” because the chain-smoking conspiracy theorist spends hours counseling Norman and his friends for free in his garage that he has turned into a post-apocalyptic survival den. He is an extremely sarcastic pessimist who lives on a  steady diet of Cigarettes, Vitamin Water, Vicodin and Valium. To him… everything is a “scheme” concocted by “Them” trying to hold us down and is constantly talking about the end of the world. He hates cheaply made Chinese products, and “The System.” He likes mowing his lawn, listening to Christian music, feeding the local squirrels and is constantly trying to find ways to defeat “Murphy” and “His Law.” He is wise, all knowing, and in general… the nicest dude Norman Knows. Somehow, he is always ending up nude on his roof surrounded by police scanners and binoculars, but has no idea how he got there. He spends his free time dumpster diving for copper and aluminum, and building squirrel habitats.  (By the way… That little oval shaped thing to the left of the first picture is the ACTUAL signature of the ever-elusive GURU©.) 

This was going to be used for the second issue of VOLCOMICS®… I made the first issue (with a single gag of a suicidal frosty the snowman… (see image below.) But, yeah, sorry Mike… I was way too out of my mind to submit it in time… I don’t even know if they’re still doing VOLCOMICS®, but if they are… I’m most definitely hitting up Mr. AHO to let him know that NORMAN® wants back in. haha!