Grab Bag Media: a blog of cartoons, design, and process by Charles Riffenburg IV

Posts tagged ‘ups’

Dumbstruck: “Behind The Counter”

  • Posted: February 13, 2012 at 11:30 am
  • Category: dumbstruck

Dumbstruck: December 18, 2009

I have a bunch of great comics from December 2009 coming down the pipe for you soon. My family is always a great source of comic strip humor. As always, click the above image to view full-size.

Dumbstruck: “Selective Hearing”

  • Posted: January 23, 2012 at 12:38 am
  • Category: dumbstruck

Dumbstruck: October 9, 2009

New comic Monday. Boom.

Dumbstruck: “All In The Eyes”

  • Posted: January 16, 2012 at 12:05 am
  • Category: dumbstruck

Dumbstruck: November 9, 2009

Another week, another blast-from-the-past comic about Myles, this one from November 9, 2009. Seeing a pattern emerge? Enjoy!

(As always, click the image above to get a full-size version.)

Dumbstruck: “Myles’ Not-So-Inner Monologue”

  • Posted: January 10, 2012 at 12:28 am
  • Category: dumbstruck

Dumbstruck: September 9, 2009

One of my New Years resolutions has been to finally get to work on finishing my comics and publishing them as a book, so here I go! I spent an hour trying to figure out the best way to do this before I finally decided that the easiest way would be to just start at the beginning. Not the very beginning, cuz that’s a while ago. Just the beginning of the notebook I have with my notes on potential strips. My last notebook. Yes, I’ve got a bunch.

The very first undrawn entry in the book was this one from 2009. I was very busy at the time between theatre, an internship, and working at this new UPS Store; so busy that I opted to just not introduce Myles, despite having a lot of material from him and his way with the lady customers. So here you go: an apt introduction to Myles.

A Conclusion of Sorts

  • Posted: December 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm
  • Category: dumbstruck

It’s been a long, long time since I had the free time to draw comics, despite my desire to do so. However, I think I’ve managed to clear my schedule enough to begin work on my compilation book(s) early next year. I have long said that since Dumbstruck began with the first major incursion into Iraq, thus beginning the Iraq War, that it would end with the war as well. And while I have not been actively drawing any of strips ever since our big troop pull out last year, I thought it fitting to put together an ending comic for the official end of the war. It’s been a long time coming. I had fun doing this retrospective, and it’s rekindled by desire to put all these strips together into a proper home.

The text might be a little small, so click the image below for the full-size comic.

Dumbstruck: Nine Years of Change