A Cartoonist's First 1,000 Crappy Pages... 

Amazing stuff Ed. Rest In Peace

RIP Eddie. The part where he hides his parents address is bizarre considering how they go doxxed during that whole mess.

Sad to watch RIP Ed

Rest Easy ED your gona be missed.

This is pretty great to see Ed just leveling up so quickly in those early years. Puttin' in work! And it's really neat to hear about the influences from the comics you found but also from your folks too. My Mom hooked up the allowance and rides to Kmart, Hastings, and Walden Books. She let me stay up late during weekends and the summer, how else would I have seen Ninja Scroll on the commercial bumps for MTV's Cartoon Sushi, or Aeon Flux? She let me monopolize the TV on Saturday mornings, and I found Akira on Saturday Anime. Of course, she wasn't really aware of the violence in those things and maybe it'd been different for lil' Mike, but she bought me the pencils and the notebooks and even a nice desk to draw B-17s or Hokusai-like landscapes with a traced Smaug from an ad in Dragon Magazine while I listened, loudly, to Metallica. Once, I was almost forbidden from watching Beavis and Butthead because I wouldn't stop laughing like Butthead in the Kmart we were in. Pretty embarrassing for her in retrospect! Single mom with a middle part bowl cut butthead kid, c'mon maaaan! Recently she found one of my drawings, framed it and sent it to me as a gift for my 36th birthday. It's 90's boy nonsense, a big muscle dude like Pitt with a mohawk, Spawn eyes, Legion of Doom spiked shoulders, and a minigun arm with a clip and ammo belt blasting off page, because drawing hands is hard so it's that or a chainsaw with Rat Fink flaming exhausts. She didn't really limit my influences and only encouraged me then, and even now, that gift is meant to encourage me to get back to it, after all those years and very limited skill. So this kind of video demonstrating practice, process, and technique is just really cool to civilians like me. And that's why I liked this rad video! Thanks for sharing!

that was sweet...would like to see jim's 1,000 crappy pages next!

"You keep in touch with any of--" "FUCK NO!"

2:05 - man, that is scary how he knew...

Ed was like me, we both grew up in the 80s-90s and both loved to sketch comics. The only difference is, he had some real talent.

Favorite episode i've seen so far. Awesome!

Interesting to see how complete your process was from such an early age.

Good God almighty, I'm 27 trying to make my own comic and the progression is insane, his stuff from 95 if better than what I can do now

It is so great to see the leaps and bounds you make as a young cartoonist. Little by little you start to see your strengths and influences emerge as your own drawing "style" and signature look. Super inspiring and fun episode!

man, this might be my favorite video on this channel yet, I absolutely love seeing early art from cartoonists I love. this or the DKR videos, great work dudes.

This is great! I always wanted to grab my comic from when I was a kid and show them on the internet somehow. I'll have to make my own vid like this too!

Kayfabe forever!

Wow! What a journey! Thank you very much for sharing it! Brilliant!

What a great video! Loved it Ed! Waiting for YOURS now, Jim!

Wish I had had your confidence and dedication at that age. Doing my best to make catch up strides nowadays.

So important to show the learning process and the progress you make if you keep working at it. Especially for young artists.

7:04 His character points with the middle finger too! 😂

Really dig this video, one of my favourite things about the Bone Art Book was seeing Jeff Smith's childhood drawings of all the Bone cousins. So this was a treat!

Inspiring stuff Ed, what a journey!

Man! Those grays and cross hatching are insane to me at the point I'm at right now. You put in so much work (obviously). This inspires me to work harder at it man! Thanks!

"I'm too cute to get hacked to pieces" ~~~ wow, epic sluglines at 13

This is an awesome share guys! You guys are killing it!

Thanks for sharing this stuff. It's great to see that everyone has to start somewhere. Producing bad stuff is very discouraging for a lot of artists. Seeing this will be important for a slew of young artists.

Thanks a ton for posting this vid! I'm immediately about to go through my old work and flip through it for the nostalgia. It's always nice to remind yourself how far you've come. We're going to need to see Jim's old work next... just sayin'.

Great video, very inspirational.

This made my week

Thanks for sharing. Pretty cool to see your progression over those early years.

Ed, I don't draw comics anymore, but this brings me back! So many Miller-pages, especially Daredevil. I became an artist instead, and let me tell you, there are easily 10+ years of shitty sculptures to cringe at. But you have to put the work in. Your channel is the best!

Thank you both for sharing so much.

So cool to see this stuff. I think we need a young JR episode now too!... Crazy timing, I just found a pile of my old comics at my ma's house the other week. Some stuff I didn't even remember until I saw it again.

Oh my god i never kept my stuff, that´s beautyfull guys thank you for sharing this with me.

Thank you, Ed. I loved this! :)

Hey totally random thing but I was watching the new season of On My Block on Netflix and on episode 4 there was a street angel poster on the wall of one of the character's bedrooms. Anyways this was a great episode, very inspiring, imma try to make my own short story this weekend because of this episode thanks for the inspiration.

"That's a dude poopin' off a roof."

I had that Swamp Thing assignment in my first year!

This was awesome. The grind paid off, but a grind nonetheless

I too have a "Sin City" art style 12 page story, you are correct, we all do!

You guys are my radio station.

Impressive the level of improvement we see from Ed. Hard to believe that all those printed comics came out within one year. Proof that hard work and dedication pays off. I think it's awesome that at such an early age Ed knew what he wanted to be and was so focused and driven to actually accomplish it. It doesn't seem as though Jim has documented his early works as much as Ed, but I would love to see something similar from him.

Cool video!!! Awesome to see the journey

On the quest to get through my first 1000. Thank you for the battery. 🔋

LOL @ the Nise letters and Mook tag on that Batman splash. NSF is ubiquitous in PA.

This was such a pleasure to watch.

I'm 42 and still have moments where I can't sleep because I had a great art moment.

Indeed bro your dad was right on that one

I have used lined notebooks for sketching for almost 30 years. Most of my sketches are with a ballpoint pen.

That improvement was fast

Your Megazord looks like Wolverine lol

Jim’s turn!!

this is so cool

This was awesome! Super inspiring. Time to put in work!!

gotta see jims!

Willy wagner 😂😂😂😂

@46:23 Half right, Chuck Dukowski.

ed's the man