Ever wish you could see more of the phenomenal artistic detail in Tod and Bob? Want to enjoy the soundtrack in all its uncompressed glory? Well now you can, because Tod and Bob has made its debut on YouTube and Vimeo! Markedly less popular than Dragonfist, Tod and Bob combines the visual eyesore of stick figures with the cumbersomeness of reading subtitles in a bad movie.

Episode 1: World-Famous Pilot

Episode 2: The Wrath of Boss

Episode 3: An Unjust Office Policy

Episode 4: Convicting Evidence

Episode 5: Marketing Strategy

It’s back. Finally. Due to certain unforeseen freak disasters such as my car’s front passenger rim literally erupting in flames, I have been unable to attain my original goal of one nonsensical stick-person animation per week. I say this because I’m not mature enough to take responsibility for being unable to animate a mouthless businessman eating a sandwich. It’s difficult. But here it is anyway. Complete with M. Night Shyamalan twist.

Budget upgraded! New characters!

You like courtroom dramas? You like it when one dude nails another dude with a biting, screamed, and convicting remark? No? Well, do you like dudes? This week’s long-belated episode of the continuing Tod and Bob saga is for you.

Yes, this is the sort of thought-provoking question you can expect no answers to.

Don’t look at me like that. I know I missed publishing this episode last Monday, but my car got impounded for unknown reasons. I never asked why because I didn’t want to complicate matters. Complications tend to arise when the police discover that you’ve been driving without a valid driver’s license for four months. Their eyes grow like giant, moist chicken breasts. Ripe for the saucing. And roasting on an open flame.

Why did I not have a license? Because the impenetrably stringent legal system at the Iowa DMV states that an Iowa driver’s insurance card is not sufficient evidence for proving that you actually live in Iowa. So what does qualify as proof? A check from an Iowa employer. It’s a shame that I’m working for people in Nevada, North Dakota, and California at the moment. So without a license, I couldn’t change the plates to my name when I bought the car last year, which means the only person who could get it out of the pound was the previous owner, who graciously helped me free my vehicle.

Then, after narrowly dodging a ticket in that situation, I was pulled over for expired registration and got ticketed on the way home, while narrowly avoiding a night in jail. So if this chain of escape-followed-by-ironic-recapture holds up, it means that when I go to pay this most recent ticket I will be pulled over again and actually spend a night in jail, where I will narrowly escape being assaulted by a fellow prisoner. And so, friends, this ongoing war between me and irony itself is why episode three of “Tod and Bob” is being posted this Monday rather than last.

At the end of this season, Bob’s chair will be auctioned off on eBay for charity.

Your brief weekly dose of the completely inane is here. Episode two of Tod and Bob is now up at www.TodandBob.com. Watch, love, and send it to all of your many friends who enjoy watching stick figures text message about mustaches.

A screenshot from “The Wrath of Boss”.

After spending so much time on fairly serious projects, I’ve decided to begin a small outlet for brief, light-hearted, lo-fi animation. Earlier this week I posted a link to an episode of Tod and Bob and now the full site has launched at www.TodandBob.com.

Behold the high-brow humor of Tod and Bob.

As a brief break from a long run of fairly serious projects, I’ve begun creating a lo-fi animated series called Tod and Bob. The format is based on having a comic strip with timed panel changes and music. It’s actually based on a comic strip that Andrew Carter, Bradford Johnson and I all wrote many years ago when I was in high school, called Tom and Bob. Tom’s name has since been changed to “Tod” in order to avoid confusion with the “Tom and Bob” radio show. There’s about seven episodes in the pipeline right now, so be sure to check back for more.

Tod offers Bob some Nub Munch cereal.