145. The Last Post

This is the last post I will be adding to comicsbywill. It's time for a more professional site that I can better use in my search for jobs and opportunities. Fear not, I am still publishing The Sun Also Shines on the Moronic. It's now located here.
This is an example of the new direction I'm taking the strip. On this blog, it reads as number 145. At its new home, 'Artwork by Will,' it will be number 001. I'm starting the whole thing over one more time. I've learned a lot in the past two years - about comics, about art and about life in general - all of which, I hope, will help me take 'Artwork' (and eventually a home site just for The Sun Also Shines), into the professional realm.  Please subscribe to my new blog (you can sign up for email too!). I promise to be a much better web master for this one and provide a more constant flow of updates. So keep checking the new blog!  Thanks to my select group of fans! Here's to hoping your numbers swell with the new blog.  Peace!

Will

144. Hawkgirl Strikes Back

I finally made time for another comic. It'll be appearing in Ka Leo's Nightlife Guide tomorrow. Sneak peak!

Ronald McDonald eats horses

Originally to accompany an opinions article about the food industry. appearing later tonight on kaleo.org. Link to follow soon.

Uncle Sam Eats Babies

Originally to accompany an opinions article about the poverty gap in America that will appear on kaleo.org Thursday night. Link to follow soon.

John Boehner's Original Tea Party Recipe

I guess it's pretty obvious by now that I don't care for Boehner. Here's how he and the republican leadership created a monster they can no longer control: the Tea Party.

143: A Meaningful Dialogue at the State Capitol

So here's what's been happening.  State of Hawaii is trying to pay its bills and is stripping everything to find out where it absentmindedly left those million dollar lumps of money lying around.  Unfortunately for UH, some of those lumps have been in use in order to run the Chartered Student Organizations (CSOs), which include such unimportant things as student government, the radio station and Ka Leo, the campus newspaper.  As of now, thanks to a general outcry by anyone motivated enough to submit testimony , the main offender, Senate Bill 120, has been stripped of language that covers the CSO special and revolving fund.  Yay! But there are more bills in the House that still do basically the same thing as the original SB120 did. For more info, visit:
http://www.kaleo.org/multimedia/two-down-three-to-go-1.2477918
Which explains some of the bills still on the table, as well as:
http://www.kaleo.org/news/senate-bill-120-aims-to-gut-uh-and-state-funds-1.2461912
http://www.kaleo.org/news/uh-state-officials-testify-against-senate-bill-120-1.2466920
http://www.kaleo.org/opinions/save-our-school-oppose-senate-bill-120-1.2461939
Which explain some of the history behind this issue.

Peace.

142. The Long and Grinding Road

First comic of the new year is about road paving.  Hope you enjoy it.

Verdict on The iBorg

Well the results are in, apparently, and my comic won! Except that it didn't win any of the top three awards. It won one of the other "almost there" awards.  I get $20 out of it though.  And the comic should be appearing on Student Affairs' web site at some other time.

Extra, extra, Batman revealed to be Bruce Wayne!

Funny story about this one, I made it awhile ago for the December 6th issue of Ka Leo.  The day after, I saw the news about Assange being accused of rape.  Unintentional new levels of depth have been discovered!
Also, Batman is Bruce Wayne.  Sorry.

141: The iBorg

A very special "The Sun Also Shines on the Moronic" that has been submitted to the annual Student Affairs College Cartoon Contest.

Holy balls! There's a monetary prize for the three best comics! Sweet!

Theme for the contest is: "Technology and Campus Life."

They have the same theme every year.  Usually I hate doing technology related cartoons.  Technology is usually cool, not stupid.  Stupid things are easier to make cartoons about.

This year, I received inspiration for this comic, but I only received it a short while ago.  The deadline for the competition is today; Friday the 10th (it's still Friday in Honolulu).  I submitted this cartoon 30 minutes ago.  Talk about cutting it close.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it! (Don't sue me, Steve, fucking, Jobs).

Obesity ruins armed forces recruitment

"An ever-growing portion of America's 17 to 24 year-olds, about 75 percent, is simply ineligible or unavailable to serve for a variety of reasons, above all, health and weight requirements in an age of spiraling childhood obesity."


- Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, United States of America

Art as more than mere aesthetics

Artist profile: Sanit Khewhok

By Will Caron
Editor in Chief

Published: Monday, November 8, 2010 Ka Leo O Hawaii

Without civilization, artists would be nothing more than hunter-gatherers. With that in mind, it is important for artists to use their skills to benefit society. At least, that's what Sanit Khewhok, the 11th recipient of the Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, says.

"If you're living in society, I think [being political] is important. Otherwise would it be useful if art didn't serve [a purpose]?" said Khewhok at our interview outside of the Kahala Whole Foods.

"If we have senses, you cannot avoid what we call art," said Khewhok.

Video Coverage of the Hawaii elections now available

Ka Leo O Hawaii may have made history this past Tuesday night by being the first team to partner with the Student Video and Film Association (SVFA) and send camera crews to both gubernatorial candidate's headquarters to document the evening.

It is now available at the Ka Leo website:
http://www.kaleo.org/multimedia/video/hawai-i-election-coverage-2010-1.2395517

The Puppet Master and his Toy - also, an article for your perusal

Caught in the quagmire: the life and times of a despondent democrat

The hazy fun of summer is a great recipe for forgetting what happened in the 1st Congressional District last semester, but if you think back hard enough, the picture should come in to focus.

The Democrats, divided between Democratic Party-bred Colleen Hanabusa, and the more centrist, independent Ed Case, managed to defeat themselves in a special election, and let Republican Charles Djou waltz right into the position.

Tomorrow, the Democrats, with help of their constituents, have another chance to defeat Djou in the general election. All we have to do is check the little box next to ‘Hanabusa.' But should we?

140. For You, Our Review of Paranormal Activity 2

This is a completely true story in every single aspect possible.
The movie features a haunted poopy, the movie is, itself, a heaping pile of poopy, my short friend Jane does have rabbit ears, I am actually ginger and Davin is, in fact, an ogre - though a very refined one.  Additionally, the Maniacal Mime Mob did, actually, sit behind us in the theater.

The Unballad of Tad the Sad

My contribution to the Halloween special. It'll be out in Ka Leo tomorrow, but here's your sneak peek.  Enjoy!

Preview of "The Unballad of Tad the Sad"

Gothic Whimsies and Dangerous Doodles is a new "Buried Alive" production that'll feature little short comics with humerus and simultaneously terrifying dialog that would make Edward Gorey roll over in his grave.
This is a preview for the first of those aforementioned comics: "The Unballad of Tad the Sad" which will come out in Ka Leo on October 29th.
I will be posting it online on October 28th however, so check back that night for an early showing!

Warriors vs The Nevada Wolf-pack

Graphic I did for this Friday's issue of Ka Leo O Hawai'i to accompany a story about the UH Warriors hoping to defeat the Nevada Wolf-pack.

The Masked Donor

Cover illustration for tomorrow's Ka Leo O Hawai'i (Oct. 11, 2010).  Accompanies an article about the John A. Burns School of Medicine receiving a million dollar donation from a source that wished to remain anonymous to the public.

Objection!!

Cover illustration for Ka Leo O Hawai‘i, September 13th, 2010 issue.
Accompanies a story on the City Prosecutors race that happened that day on campus at UH Manoa.