About

Most of what's written here is going to be very similar to any other webcomic's "About" section. Like most people that do this, I always wanted to be a cartoonist.

My first comic premiered in 1989. Everyone in my fourth grade class had to start a business for our mini-society project. I decided to start a newspaper — partially so I could control the media (evil laugh), but mainly so I could have my own comic. I started doing comics again for my high school paper, and continued in college: you can still find The Misadventures of Chester T. Vanguard in the Daily Titan archives.

After college I didn't have a creative outlet, but I really enjoyed the growing webcomic world. Then I realized, "Hey, this could be my creative outlet" — and OneBigWord was born. First as a Flash experiment, then a color strip, then a daily drawing.

This site is the archive of all of it — the comics, the band recordings, and the trip photos — rebuilt in 2026 from the original files. The full original site lives on in the git history.

— Jason