Graphic Novels

The Novel Pepe, in graphic novel format

A series of feature length cartoons that can will amuse everyone including non-English speakers and illiterate people.

I got the idea as I was teaching English to private students. I scrawled the cartoons on A4 sheets of paper with a pencil, had the students look at the cartoon and tell me the story in English. It worked pretty well. Later, I inked them in, scanned them, and touched them up a bit. Here are some of my best ones. ESL teachers may find these useful...

A brief synopsis of the Bible in light of the Kingdom of God, in comic book format. What exactly is the Kingdom of God? How does one get in? This crash course in Theology draws from both Christian and Jewish sources. The Happy Kingdom grew out of Robby's desire to find a simple way to impart the basics of the Christian faith to people with absolutely no background in the Bible.

An amusing remix of a well known parable. The younger of two sons wants his share of the inheritance. He then goes off to Far Country, where he becomes a yuppy, living life in the fast lane, and investing in pork belly futures. Its the pork bellies that get him in the end.