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Your one-stop shop for the finest in "Shuttle Comics," "The Clag and Teflon Show," and "Tales of BG".
These are the originals--accept no substitutions!!
The Clag and Teflon Show
Stalled on Memory Lane
Mad about Ads
Me Shirt, T-Shirt
The Light of Day
If Cats Were Money
From Sticks to Bones
Constant Bickering
Clag and Teflon: The Pilot Episode
Tales of BG
Kris Gets Shot
Shuttle Comics
The Trial of Enisign Welsher
Uninvited Guests
Revenge of the Kiosk
September 99 Update! Teflon's latest show can be seen at this link for TEFLON'S JAPAN. Its wild! Its crazy! Its hi-tech! Teflon has a show on NHK, its a dream come true! So now, this old page of ROM Comix is at its end folks. Yes, they'll be no more laugh a minute installments of the "Clag and Teflon Show". But, you can still see Clag and Alex on Tef's show, the whole gang is there in Japan! Thank god for advanced technology, particularly Tef's PC camera. Well, its been great. The gang has evolved from primitive handdrawn 'toons on stationary in China to index card comics on the web, to color index comics on the web, and now to handdrawn/video comics with live television and real location backgrounds. Wow, what's next? Soon the boys will step right into your living room and sing and dance for your pleasure.

OK, what about the Critters project, right? Well, its finished, its been self-published and mailed to various select clients, and it was a smash hit! In fact, its so good I'm not gonna put it on the web, for fear of getting ripped off.

So get back to that link and see Teflon's premiere episode of "Teflon's Japan."

MARCH 99 UPDATE: Yeah, the Critters project is finished and on paper (as in old timey print form). When will it be released on our little site here? Unknown. Negotiations are still in progress, the Critters project is a blockbuster, and ROM is holding his fire until he sees the whites of their eyes.
Stalled on Memory Lane is the newest episode of the Clag and Teflon Show. And whoa! Hold on to yer hats, cowboys and cowgirls, but the days of the stick bodies are gone! Due to the influx of revenues after the debut of banner ads, we at "Heads on Bods" Productions (formally "Heads on Sticks") can now afford burly 3-d bodies for our characters. Of course, those pasty-faced ghouls in the art department are having a hard time adjusting to a more demanding drawing environment, so we welcome your cooperation while we get the kinks out. During this "transitional period" you might notice that the character bodies are rather stiff and zombie-like, but let us assure you that in no time at all you'll be rubbing your eyes and swearing that you're looking at photos of actual people.
NEW! Mad About Ads is the newest episode of the Clag and Teflon Show. Hate those banner ads that plaster every web page from here to eternity? Well, here's a healthy dose of revenge!
NEW! Me Shirt, T-Shirt is a new episode of the Clag and Teflon Show. In what is a preview of things to come, the cast of the show put on t-shirts and assume a more human-like form. Yes, the stick era of body-drawing is coming to a close, and soon our show will leap into a new era of full-body drawing. Be prepared!
NEW! The Light of Day is a new episode of the Clag and Teflon Show. To enhance the shock of the last panel we filmed it in Terrorvision, a patented process that uses special dilithium "scary lenses" on the Panaflex cameras and a unique dying process on the film stock to enhance the blood-red end of the spectrum, so brace yourselves for a little taste of horror!
NEW! If Cats Were Money is a new member of our growing line of Comic Quickies on the Clag and Teflon Show. Please note that no cats were hurt in the filming of this episode, and that a licensed member of the Humane Society of Burbank, California was on the set at all times.
NEW! From Sticks to Bones is a new episode of the Clag and Teflon Show! And see the results of the latest technical advance: drawing with colored pencils! Yes, I got tired of using MSPaint and trying to fill blank spaces in the scanned images with various colors. My scanner picks up very faint grey smudges on the index cards, so the backgrounds were never "empty," and so I'd have to go back and carefully erase around the characters in order to fill areas with color. Well, forget that! I bought some colored pencils at Jusco here in Niigata, and now the whole process is a lot easier, plus I can create pencil-stroke texturing. OK, enough shop talk, see the show!
Check out "Kris Gets Shot," the latest in the Tales of BG Series. These somewhat true-to-life stories of action, adventure, and mystery are set in a small college town in Ohio that, beneath its benign appearance of normalcy, positively writhes with intrigue, suspense, and unfathomable events of a most peculiar nature! "Kris Gets Shot"is the first in what will be a continuing series of shocking revelations of the dark, and slightly damp, underbelly of middle America...or at least of stuff that happened to me. And, all episodes star your favorite characters: Alex, Clag, Welsher, Claire, and myself, and sometimes Tair. Trivia fans note: This is where the move is made from handlettering to typed-script in rounded boxes.
Intertwined with the Tales of BG are the episodes of the "Clag and Teflon Show." These shows deal with the philosophical and existential puzzles that confront a group of ordinary cartoon characters in search of a story. The pilot episode, "The Clag and Teflon Show," is still available. The second episode, "Constant Bickering," is also online. It's here that I made the leap from drawing on regular paper to using index cards, and also where full-color comics first appear, thanks to MSPaint.
Finally, for those fans of the good old black-and-white days of crude drawings on thin paper, we have the ones that started it all, the Shuttle Comics. Drawn in China under unusual conditions of isolation and personal growth, these classics of yesterday date back to the early 90's, before I had a computer or could even put up a blank web page. Lovingly scanned in greyscale tones for complete authenticity, and even bearing the Shandong University letterhead on the paper they were drawn on, the Shuttle Comics were the birthplace of Teflon, Clag, Alex, Tair, and Hulie. A mixture of real events within a Star Trek-like fantasy world, the Shuttle Comics are presented here on full-page scans with the look and feel of authentic handtooled leather...no, that's the Time-Life series, "The Old West." Remember that? I've seen them for real, and they're about as leather-like as cheap brown vinyl, no surprise there. But, I digress....The episodes still remaining in my possession are here, such as "The Trial of Enisgn Welsher," "Revenge of the Kiosk," and, perhaps Clag's favorite, "Uninvited Guests." There are several lost episodes not on this site, including a good one about Alex that I lost, although Alex has the original, or at least I gave it to him several years ago...as for him still having it, well, let's just say that he never answers my email, or Clag's. And, I may have drawn some other episodes that I've forgotten about, but if I find them I'll put 'em online lickety-split!
Questions or comments? Catch any misspellings? (Misspelled words on websites are a pet peeve of mine, so if I've got any let me know!) Irritated by my pseudo-advertising lingo, smarmy delivery, or "legend in my own mind" attitude? Not sure what "smarmy" means? Email me! Really, go ahead, email me with your witticisms, devastating comebacks, punchy one-liners, carefully chosen bon mots, left-handed compliments, or better yet, boundless admiration! Think I can't draw worth a hoot? Hah! I think so too, so where does that leave you? Anyway, here I am.

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