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Paintball Comic Strip

Here is another of my Psychedelic Squirrels paintball comic strips. Every paintball team I have ever played for has had their own way of identifying and passing the most critical information for a field or match. Over time some “bunker” names have become universal. If someone says  “the snake”, “dog house” and “Dorito” everyone knows which bunkers they are talking about, whether or not you have ever played the field.

Why have those names become universal? Heck if I know, but it probably has to do with the ease by which the name relays the shape and therefore it is easy to identify.

Back to the Paintball Comic

There is more than ten years between the last Psychedelic Squirrels paintball comic I posted and this one, you might have noticed many changes. Some of those obvious changes are that it is much simpler, which allows me to create them faster, everyone is wearing a full mask and goggles, and the colors are BRIGHT.

I actually spent quite a bit of time redesigning all of the characters to be easier to identify no matter how small I drew them, which meant making them simpler, and eliminating unimportant detail, which makes it faster to draw… Oh and I made it more legible… I always thought the old ones were hard to read.

Will there be another Paintball Comic?

I leave that up to you. I am not sure if I will continue doing this paintball comic, it takes a lot of my time, but I really do enjoy coming up with them, so who knows, maybe I will just create them as time allows, unless you talk me into creating them more often.

My Paintball Comic Strip

Way back in the days of Yore, what ever that means, I had a paintball comic strip. And Before that I had a wildly successful regular comic strip. Well it was successful in that it ran in a few different papers daily, so maybe not wildly, or even truly successful, but it didn’t suck. Anyways that other comic strip was called Cold Coffee and was about a group of college kids who worked for a local coffee shop. I created the paintball Comic as a spin off from that. Only one character ever made the transition between the two worlds. Jamma, wasn’t the main character of the main strip, he was just a friend, a bit part.

About this Paintball Comic Strip

I always wanted a master to teach me the game of paintball, someone like Mr Miagi from Karate Kid to guide me through the game. Since I never had that mentor, I decided Jamma will in the paintball comic strip.

Why did Jamma and no other characters make the transition to the paintball comic strip? He was the only one crazy enough for the world I envisioned. Jamma always came into Cold Coffee as the over anxious fall guy, he fit this new strip well.

I introduce everyone to Griz, the old veteran paintball player, with wisdom and skill beyond measure. Of course Jamma will try his inner calm at every turn. I wanted to play off of these two characters, but over time everything changed including the name. Eventually the Paintball Comic Strip was renamed Psychedelic Squirrels.

More Paintball Comic Strips

White Board By Doc, the king of Paintball comic strips.
Psychedelic Squirrels Paintball Comic Strip at theFunniez.com

My First Paintball Gun

Unlike Jamma I bought my first paintball gun before I had ever played the game. Heck, if it hadn’t been for finding that Nel Spot 007 at the Army Surplus store back in 1989, I would not have even heard of paintball.

But I remember the day I bought my first Autococker. And I didn’t buy some base model, no I went for Deluxe and bought the Bob Long Signature Series. It was green and yellow, reminded me of a dragon, so I named it Penelope… Yes I named my paintball marker!

But like Jamma, and I’d guess many paintball players, I thought the marker would make me great, after all, every great player I knew had a great paintball gun. And Just like Jamma, the first game with it taught me a valuable lesson, it is not the marker but the man (or woman).

Here Jamma tries to get redemption after the mishap of his first game. Rushing in boldly, he charges with reckless abandon into the unknown.

By this paintball comic strip I was starting to get who Jamma really was, and what I was realizing was he, was, me. Kind of.

I hate to sit and wait, I want to go get the other team. Shoot shoot, kill kill!

Sometimes that back fires.

Oh yeah, sorry for reposting the strip about Jamma’s first game. I have been putting them at my web comic site thefunniez.com as well, and had not posted the previous strip yet, so I assumed I had not posted it here either.

In this episode of Psychedelic Squirrels Jamma finally gets out on the field for his first game of paintball.

I would love to hear the story of your first game of paintball, and if okay with you, the best from the audience I will turn into comic strips with my new batch of characters.

So if you are interested leave a comment with your story, I might just make you famous.

A paintball comic strip needs to progress through it’s life the same way a paintball player does. In these strips my characters are being developed at the same pace as the new player is learning the game. So this is the first game of our hero Jamma.

Everyone’s first game of paintball is different, as unique as the people who play it. This is Jamma’s first game.

As you can tell from the change to a new main character, I was already beginning to evolve the strip in new directions.

I’ve always wanted to yell “Eat Gelatin Encapsulated Death, Whimpering Fiends!” while doing a run through in paintball, but the moment has thus far eluded me.

Sorry I missed posting another of the paintball comic strips on saturday, we finally had a break in the 19 straight days of rain, so I had to get outside while it lasted. Now it is raining again, joy to the world… Yes it is June, why do you ask?

This particular strip is based on a real event. We stopped to pick up a friend of mine, pretty early in the morning and he was wearing boxers and a sweatshirt as he took his gear out to the car. And I thought I was bad in the morning.

Yesterday I posted the very first paintball comic strip I ever created, and as promised here is the next one. I will also be posting them at The Funniez along with my other comic strips like Multicampers which is about a bunch of airsoft players and a soon to be published comic strip “Roadie”, the story about a guy, his dog and a neurotic squirrel. Hell I might even post all of the old Cold Coffee comics and the Distemperment strips.

I think there is only one more paintball related strip with this character, then I switched over to a younger guy, just getting into the game, named Jamma. However this character comes back from time to time as the overbearing pro wanna be, big mouth putz. I have not been able to track down all of the Squirrel strips only the first dozen or so.

A Bonanza of Paintball Comic Strips!

Wow it is amazing what you can find when digging back through ancient zip drives. This paintball comic strip has appeared under several different names, because my self syndicated strip that had run in several daily newspapers was named Cold Coffee, so for a brief time I called the paintball strip the same. Then it was Cold Coffee – Psychedelic Squirrels and finally just Psychedelic Squirrels.

These strips represent the very first few I ever created specifically for paintball, as you can tell from the general lack of masks, just goggles (Which was common in the early days of paintball) they were created almost 20 years ago.

I am not the best person at keeping around my old work, in fact I usually hate seeing it. Every day I get better and it is often painful to look back at stuff I created years ago. However I did really enjoy creating this strip, SO it is with great joy, that I stumbled across these comic strips and now bring them back to the world wide web!

This first strip, re-released in 2010 was originally created in 1992, it very well might be the first paintball strip ever released via the web, but I am not sure on that point.

I will be re-publishing each of the other strips I found over the next couple of days.