Slithering right along…
Sssnakes mini-comics have a looong history, but here is a quick synopsis. This is a comic strip I’ve returned to repeatedly over the past decades. Previous strips have been published in Roctober and Reglar Wiglar. I’ve drawn and redrawn various versions many times.
At one point, Sly and Steven (the stars of Sssnakes!) lay dormant for many years, but their most recent incarnation is a series of 5.5 x 3-inch mini-comics. I’m currently working on issue 5 which I hope to have completed in the fall of 2024.
For now, four issues of these minis are available. Each issue features a different color cardstock. I print them on an inkjet printer, fold them, and staple them. Order a Snakes! Case and get all four issues in a handpainted box.
Sssnakes #1
In the debut issue of this hand-made minicomic, Sly and Steven star in “It’s All Greeks to Me,” “The Nature of the Beast,” “Higher Aspirations,” “Fashizzle,” and “Waiting for Godot (with apologies to Samuel Beckett.)”
Sssnakes #2
Your pals, Sly and Steven, are back in the second issue of this bright orange, but still slithery, minicomic. This time these nerdy reptiles star in such adventures as “Just Say No,” “The Evolutions of Sly and Steven,” “Cactus Juice,” “Snakes on a Plane”, and “Tired, Tired, Tired.”
Sssnakes #3
Sly and Steven return for the big mini #3 where they appear in such comic strips as “Out of Gas,” “A Prickly Pair,” “Steven Meets a Bully,” and “Sly & The Reptiles.”
Sssnakes #4
This issue of Sssnakes sees our heroes Sly and Steven demonstrating snake locomotion (“Do the Locomotion with Me”), talkin’ ’bout love (“We Be Long Together”) almost getting into a fight (“Fight Club’), visiting Merry Old England (“Pub Grub”) and channeling the Bard (“Channeling Shakespeare”).
Sssnakes Case
Get all four issues of Sssnakes! in a hand-decorated box. Each one is different and includes all four issues of the mini-comic plus a RoosterCow pin and a slithery snake* friend of your very own.
Four issues of a 5.5 x 3 in, printed with inkjet printer with color cardstock cover, stapled. Gift box is 6 x 4 x 2-in white corrugated cardboard.
If you think Sssnakes mini-comics and this Snakes Case! is cool, wait until you see Chris Auman’s Famous Frog Boxes. Oh, yeah, had ALWAYS read Reglar Wiglar!