Stories:Leech Comics by C3PO: MS Paint Comics

Author:  Charles Dickson
I've drawn pages and pages of Leech Comics, but sadly they, along with a big poster that I did, have all been packed away into storage. Yes, with caps, Leech Comics. The story that I did (in pencil on lined paper) in high school featured a Les Miserab -style story in which a leech named Harold finds himself marooned on Earth for some reason. (He was a crew member of a spaceship that crashed trying to abduct a cow, that's what it was) In the comic, which had at least a couple of issues, he goes from town to town trying to find jobs and make a life for himself, until a fairly evil Vygis shows up hunting him and dealing tragedy into his new life and he is forced to flee and repeat the cycle. Years after I graduated high school, leeches were used as avatars on my little corner of the Wunderland Weekly News, where I kept up a fairly reliable stream of webcomic reviews in the early aughts. When I got too busy to do even that much, I downshifted further and did a handful of single-panel comics in MS Paint, an example shown below and two others in the comments. In my own comics, even the crappy MS Paint ones, I took great pains to depict leeches as hands that you never saw the end of the arm of, so as to leave it unclear if there was the rest of a person down there, or *something else*. This was obviously different from how Vygis did it. My leeches all have the obnoxious but slightly stupid personality that was sort of the ANSI Standard Leech. In the first comic they're just mocking me, complete with a Vygtastic nickname. In the second comic you can see the ones in the back attached to my sister's insurance card, draining it. In the third one they've somehow infested a game of Katamari Damacy.
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