Author: Matty Boy

A bilious and vitriolic cartoonist living in Atlanta, who pines for the days of great fantasy comics. You know, before everything was a corporate icon, and before cartoons looked like advertising for breakfast cereals.
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#4

September 27, 2009

NOTES

  • First appearance of Cornelius’s biological father Thurburt, and his stepmother Kaandra
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#3

September 20, 2009

NOTES

  • Mr. Hoarke is based on Emil Jannings from The Last Laugh (German, 1924)
  • The Spunks apparently like to force Mr. Hoarke to read to them
  • The “deprecated textbook room” in Corny’s new school is notoriously untidy
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#2

September 13, 2009

NOTES

  • Spunks (panel 1): Seth, Fibs, Puke; (2) Seth and Marfa; (3) Laquifa
  • Corny’s new school is known for its gang problems and unusually deep toilets
  • Corny’s sweater-vest is based on Martin Lickert’s from 200 Motels
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#1

September 6, 2009

NOTES

  • First appearance of Cornelius Crispin Coddler
  • Cornelius probably sounds like Adrian Edmondson
  • The football jock in panel 4 was meant to be voiced by Patrice O’Neal (1969-2011)
  • The gang in the last panel is called “The Spunks” and is based on Jack Black’s gang from NeverEnding Story III (1994)