My Bunch and Me

By one of my another complain, someone on DeviantArt wrote me that I didn't given enough credits for my older artstyle, whom that featuring most of time the OCs Furries of old. The past year was a real roller-coaster of growth and changes, like witnessed that my father suffering of a heart attack, (Thankfully, he's in better shape now by be smoking-free.) the Israël-Hamas conflict that date since last October 7th, the many strikes in schools and health from a current government who took many pains to swallow the many difficulties with the Northvolt battery factory (Before the site is made) or the ineptness of society from people who become annoying posers and act like as all their lifetime have to be a generic Reality TV or Tiktok story. Many normal people are left behind by a young generation when their only motives in life is to be stuck on their phones.

So does looking of the very first My Bunch and Me strip page from March 2021. It was the begins of Christine onto a series of mishaps. Based of what I looked on this place for seek inspiration, my past stories seems to have lacked humor in there. In the later gags, this is been like a slice-of-life in its own with an actual backstory, like the inclusion of cousin Suzie at their roomate. Unfortunately, I having to cancelled the whole thing last year by be rather underwhelmed of what's still going on in this medium. The Anthro community is more nerve-wrecking than it was before. All I seen from them are people who enjoy better to drawn repetitive characters designs than actually took a place to caricatures. That is the best way for us to make away of the formulaic characters styles like the way Disney and company handling their business in for decades.

Like you probably known this, the gags pages structure is something that went out of style in 2024 at an age when most fans demand about is the reason why they exists. Think of the Jean Roba series Boule & Bill at an example of this motif. These one-pages gags were periodically build like a long story to be fit on an book or for seek continuity. In the older Roba versions, some of them featuring depictions of topical that still concern the society of today, like racism, pollution in beachs and lakes, kids been hooligans or the place of womens in society. Roba was one of the greatest masters in this medium at that time, and I never stopped to read his work back then. It's only later, in the Post-Dupuis era, that his pacing and gags started to be ridiculously time-wasting. I guess it goes with age, but everything after Roba left his pens is muchly too friendly, without any adults substance that make the former Roba stuffs a joy to read and look. Laurent Verron given a big disservice to the characters his mentor has based of his own son and dog in its depressingly twelve-years to run the series. The current version took from Jean Bastide and Mes Cop's co-creator Christophe Cazenove is only marginally better, even when the characters now all looked out like little kids!

The fact that these gags could existed reminds a lot of the way Instagram and others promote lots of webcomics I don't know that exists, but are so interchangeable and looked all the same, on a time the artform become like something that came from the elites. Because as far as I've known, too much comics series, even the webcomics ones, does with many problems, like a constant lack of focus and too much exposition by not given the time to audience to look of what they read and then, figure it out. Make characters mouthpieces is never a good thing because they ended to be their own people, by become talking heads instead. By tells about things that we supposedly already know. This same factor happened on too many "serious" action series like on the 2012s season two of Young Justice, so much that one blogger have put part of these complains.

My Bunch and Me, at the time it was made, was like a result of the way the Christine Livingstone-Jonas character evolved by post-Pandemic time. She been a sport girl, (But I rarely drawn her do sports thing) she own her own scooter. She has an anormal growth size as older. Gotten a job at the dude Ranch instead to be a spy for her mother. (Not that exciting in 2024) And the more I fully developped the Lydia Goulet character, the more, her many traits were belong to the vixen-fox girl. The late fad is seen her wearing a black beret, which sounds to preventing me the dangers to utilizing A.I. tools by rehearsal, at the time we'll known that the overconsumption of this technology makes tons of carbon been utilized. We never have to underestimate science, especially not when it's our survival in this planet that are in cause.

But looking of these late results and the launch of my Lydia's Manga story, I have no way to thrown back backwards with my old Furries. Such characters have the premise to last only few years and no more. I've spending the past fifteen years of my life drawn the same Christine character over and over, and that have took me many years to take it down. For such of a mascot and heroine, it would be more better and recognizable if I known how to drawn anything correctly first.

At the end, My Bunch and Me was a footnote in my artistic achievement, and its ending run was part that the Christine line of series started to bogged down. It's often best to make end to such inarguable lovable characters than just trying to killing them in pointless revivals like it does happening to me with the vixen-fox girl in the past year.