Bips McCallister

@hoomph.bsky.social

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There are a lot of comics out there, thanks for taking some time to look at mine :) patreon.com/hoomph inprnt.com/gallery/hoomph/

Behind a “Free Balloon Rides!” sign, a person gets into the basket of a balloon. A person in a suit unhooks a tether and waves. The balloon is now very high in the air but is attached to the ground by another tether. The person in the suit on the ground yells up to the person in the balloon. In place of words the word balloon just contains an image of binoculars. Now the viewpoint changes to be in the balloon with the person. They are looking through binoculars down at the person on the ground. It seems like they are holding another sign but it is too small to see. The view changes again to be what the person looking through the binoculars sees. The person in the suit is holding a sign that says “$1000 Balloon Landings“.
Photo of a shirt that reads, “Easy Does It” in large text and “But Do It” in smaller text
One oblong character says to another, “Wow, you have a really long nose!” The other oblong character does appear to have a nose that is much longer than that of the first character. Suddenly, a mouth appears above what was assumed to be the nose of the second character and it says, “That’s not my nose—but thanks!” We now jump to a person drawn in a very different style with puppets on each hand. The puppets are the characters from the first two panels. The person says, “God I’m so lonely” We now jump to a hand drawing this comic. A word bubble coming from off the page says, “God I’m so lonely”
A smiling cute creature shaped like a sphere enters frame saying, “Hey kids! Let’s learn our ABC’s”. There is a blue door in the distance. Text at top of frame: “A is for…”. A large letter A appears through the door saying, “AIR POLLUTION”. Sphere creature is still smiling. Zoomed in closer on creature and door. Text at top of frame, but slightly cut off: “B is for…“. A large letter B saying “BIODIVERSITY LOSS” is attempting to enter through the door but is being pushed back in by the sphere creature. The sphere creature is still smiling but there are several beads of sweat visible on its brow. Zoomed in even closer on creature and door. No text at top of frame is visible. The sphere creature is visibly struggling to keep the door closed. It's still smiling but the expression is pained and it is sweating profusely. No letter is visible but it can be heard through the door saying, “CLIMATE CHAN—” before the letters get cut off.
Two cords are lying in bed. One has a male plug, the other a female plug. The male plug says, “Wow, that was GREAT!” The two cords lie in silence. The male plug sighs. The covers on the bed are now drawn back to reveal it is not actually two separate cords, but a single extension cord with two ends. The cord says, “God I’m so lonely”
Photo of three different sized prints of my comic The Last Goodbye
My dog’s pee in snow in the shape of a heart
Black and white panel of a group of fours in a room. Standing in an open doorway is a differently-shaped four. A caption reads, “Who invited him?” We now zoom out to reveal the first panel was actually a black and white photograph. It is framed and hanging on a wall. There is a blue rectangular shape in front of it. We zoom out again to reveal there are two fours standing in front of the photo. One is the closed four shape in red, the other is the open four shape in blue. The red four says, “Why do we still keep this awful picture around?” We zoom out again to reveal two small, child fours on the ground playing with blocks. They are purple and their shape is somewhere between the adult fours. A caption reads, “Because it reminds me how far we’ve come.”
Two faces smiling at each other, each wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 1980. The same faces, still smiling but now wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 1990. The face on the left is now gone, only the face on the right remains. Its smile is gone and its expressions looks a little sad. It is wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 2000. The face is still alone. Expression still sad. It now has a few wrinkles by its mouth. It is wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 2010. The face is still alone. Expression still sad. It now has a few more wrinkles next to its eyes. It is wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 2020. The face is still alone. Expression still sad. It has even more wrinkles. Some under its eyes, another by its mouth. It is wearing New Year’s Eve glasses for the year 2030. In place of the face, there is now just a grave alone on a small hill. Panning over, it is revealed the grave is not alone after all, but right next to another identical grave. Zooming out reveals the two graves alone on a small patch of grass. Above them float two ghosts. They are holding hands and smiling.
Drawing of some refrigerators in a grocery store. The center one contains a bunch of milk cartons, with one slightly highlighted in the exact center. Text below reads, “Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the department Not a creature was stirring, Except for one carton.”
Drawing of a milk carton. Title reads, “The Christmas Milk”
Title panel “Sonic at Sonic” that consists of “Sonic” in the style of the Sonic the Hedgehog logo, the @ symbol, and “Sonic” in the style of the Sonic fast food chain logo. Sonic, looking a little tired, is sitting at a table and speaking into a microphone, “Hi welcome to Sonic may I plz take your order” A grinning Dr. Robotnik is sitting in a car at the drive thru speaker, “Hello! Yes, may I have a large order of onion RINGS?” Close up of Sonic looking very sad. Tears are welling up in his eyes and some mucus is starting to drip from his nose. Sonic is now shoveling a large amount of onion rings into a container. A person silhouetted against some bright light yells, “SONIC LOOK OUT!” Sonic, with a worried expression on his face, is holding the onion rings and awkwardly trying to avoid hitting a Moto Bug. The screen from the video game when Sonic gets hit and the rings fly everywhere only this time the rings are the onion rings.
Three different colored blobs float together in a group. The blue blob has a very sad expression and says, “I’m sad”.
Two silly people standing next to each other. Person one pushes person two. Person two has fallen over and is sitting on the ground. Person two pushes person one back. Person one has now fallen over and is sitting on the ground, looking a bit sad. Close up of person one’s face, this time looking very very sad, with tears welling up in their eyes.
It's been over 33 years since I lost my dad to cancer. I was 12. This so wonderfully captures what I felt then, and how I still continue to process goodbyes. I'd never realized that was what I was doing until I read this. You have given me so much peace and brought an understanding I didn't even realize I was missing. This is maybe the most comforting thing I've ever seen. Thank you.
Hand holding a photo of four figures standing close together. Text reads, “You died on a Tuesday night”.
A jolly looking Santa Claus says, “Mary Christmas”. A person asleep on a table has “ZZZZ” emanating from them. A silhouette of Santa, now furious, yells, “MARY, CHRISTMAS!!!” The person asleep on the table now springs awake and mumbles, “wha”. She has a name tag that reads, “Mary”. Her eyes grow wide as she notices something. There is a desk calendar showing the day to be Nov 1.
Sketchy drawing of a house. Text in messy lettering reads, “There once was a house”. There is now a small person standing next to the house with his arm raised. Text reads, “And inside lived a man”. The small person now has a question mark above his head. Text reads, “Wait, no that’s not him”. A huge creature the size of the entire house has now lifted the roof and reaches out toward the small person. Text reads, “Ah… there he is”.
Car drives up to what looks like a diner or restaurant. Person walks up to door and we see that name of the restaurant is “Breakfast & Lunch”. Person walks in. Sign reads, “Please seat yourself”. Person sits down at a booth and sees a menu on table. Person opens menu to read two meal options. Under a Breakfast heading there is “Meat Omlet” and under a Lunch heading there is “Meat Sanwich”. The person lowers menu to see a large man wearing nothing but a greasy apron standing in the shadows. The person says, “Oh, hello there… Um… I guess I’ll have the meat omelet please.” The large man replies, “No eggs.”
Photo of a bottle cap with the text “The winds of change approach.” printed on it
The title reads, “Super Moves” in large block letters. The first super move is called “Inverted Knee Drop” and shows a wrestler attacking a nondescript figure. The wrestler is dressed in typical luchador attire with a mask, pants, gloves and boots. The figure’s arms are flailing about and its mouth is open in pain. The move shows the wrestler slamming down on the figure similar to a normal knee drop but the wrestler’s legs are bent the wrong way. The next move is called “Chin Press” and shows the wrestler lifting the figure above his head with only his chin. The next move is called “Armpit Lasers” and shows the wrestler blasting the figure with an energy beam emanating from his armpits. The next move is called “Figure-4 Leg Blast” and shows the wrestler on the ground with his legs angled up toward the figure. His legs are crossed in a way that resembles the number 4 and he is kicking the figure in the crotch. The next move is called “Jumping Front Toe Flick” and shows the wrestler doing what looks like a jumping kick but only his big toe is flicking the figure in the face. The last move is called “Groin Poke”. The wrestler is on one knee and is lightly poking the figure in the groin. The figure is looking down at the wrestler, no longer in pain. It just seems confused.
One cartoony bunny says to another, “Why do you always wear gloves??” As the other starts to take a glove off it says, “Ya know what I’ve never taken them off befor—” The bunny reveals its hand, which is drawn in a very different, non-cartoony, sketchy style. The first bunny looks very surprised and the one who’s hand it is looks very troubled and is sweating.
A solved Rubik’s cube standing in front of a mirror with a reflection of an unsolved cube
A bar chart titled “Mean Fingers” with a Y axis ranging from Not Mean to Very Mean and an X axis containing bars for Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring, and Pinky. Thumb is very low. Index and Ring are about a third of the way up. Pinky is slightly lower than Index and Ring. Middle goes all the way up to the top of the chart.
Person driving in a car sees a deer crossing sign by the side of the road. Suddenly, a deer leaps out of nowhere in almost the same position as the depiction on the sign. The person in the car is terrified and begins to swerve. The deer, now emanating a rainbow trail and stars behind it, flies up into the sky. The person has crashed their car against a tree.
The word Epilogue written in four groups of 2 letters each, resembling Adobe app icons
Screenshot of a fake splash screen for Adobe Illustrator containing my Ai comic as the artwork
An angry person holding a “no AI” sign yells, “AI art sucks!!” There is another person in the background but it’s unclear what they’re doing. We now pan over to the person in the background to reveal it’s a anthropomorphized Adobe Illustrator. They look very sad.
Photo of a bat that was living under my parents AC unit
Photo of me holding a piece of paper with the title panel of my holes comic printed on it
The person turns back around. The title at bottom reads, “Cool Dude” with subtitle, “Sorry… how’s this”. The person says, “Close enough”.
The person turns to look at the caption and says, “Dude what the hell“. The title at bottom reads, “Asshole” with subtitle, “…”.