I like this one with the several short stories all being tied together. I’ll try to do more like it.
Location: Camp Cornhusker
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In-Tents Character Building
Here is the second entry for SR:Baloney! I’m sure this won’t be my only camp story.
I liked the idea of imagining showing my future kids the camp, and I may return to that type of storytelling. It took me a bit to figure out how to jump between the past and the future, but I think using the italics worked well.
The “staining with colorful language” is a thing I’ve had in my head since at least high school, but I never managed to get it into any of my work…until now!
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I Survived the Camp Cornhusker Bug Out
Okay, so today’s SR: Scouting isn’t exactly a comic, but it is something I designed for Scouts. I have been attending Camp Cornhusker for 18 years (which, among other things, inspired certain comics) and have been on staff for 12 years. Yet, without fail, there is a new experience waiting for me every year. This year, one of those new experiences happened to be a camp-wide evacuation. We had major storms coming into the area (and a surprising amount of advance notice!) and the decision was made to move camp to Humboldt-Table-Rock-Steinauer (HTRS) High School, located about 11 miles north, for the night. Good thing too, as we had a tornado within a mile of camp that night! The whole operation went remarkably smoothly; the camp leadership and the Scouts themselves deserve a lot of credit for making this happen so effectively. The Scoutmasters approached the camp leadership about getting commemorative T-shirts for the first known evacuation, so I volunteered to head that up and came up with this design (not my first time designing a T-shirt; maybe I could turn this into a business if I had time…). If you come down to camp next year, watch for these shirts! Also, all proceeds from these shirts will go toward constructing a storm shelter on the camp property.
The camp was featured on the news; you can check it out here.
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The Ordeal
Happy birthday to me! Because it’s my birthday, you get to see a comic that was previously lost! Remember how, in the last SR:Scouting from 2010, it was originally published in Golden Sun Lodge’s newsletter? Well, I had made a second one and sent it in, but it was never published. I had held off on posting it online until the Sundial was issued, and by the time the newsletter had come out sans comic, I had forgotten about it. When I was making May’s SR:Scouting comic, I happened to come across this file and decided to bring it back from the depths of my hard drive.
Since it is my birthday, you know what I’d really like? Lots of new readers! I wouldn’t say no to fan art, either. 😉
