Back in 1998 to 2000, when I was an upperclassman at Mission San Jose High School, I drew a monthly comic strip for The Smoke Signal. (I was also the graphic artist and then the Special Feature editor, but I think more people cared about the comic.) It was called Mission Man, and it was about … Mission Man!
I’m not exactly sure what Mission Man was (is?) or why he was there. He was kinda-sorta the school mascot, but not really. MSJ’s mascot was and still is the warrior, but the logo was a Native American Indian. After the Natives complained, students voted to have the logo become Mission Peak, Fremont’s pathetic little mountain. But Mission Man was always around, apparently to be kidnapped by other schools in those awful homecoming skits.
Anyway, when I was asked to do the comic for the paper, I decided to make him the main character. But rather than making him this mysterious guy who embodied MSJ’s school spirit (ugh), I made him this skinny, goofy, complete loser who everybody could laugh at. No I didn’t base his character on me!
Here are the first two strips.
I’m glad I kept these image files because I have no idea where the original drawings went. I’ll post more another day.
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