Welcome to our little sordid story

There were many ideas before Banks and the gang of Barkeater Lake. There was horrible this thing called Planet Bruce back in 1993, which I drew to scale on huge sheets of newsprint. I could barely write back then and the artwork was pre-school, at best. After Bruce, I remember ideas ranging from a rip off of Calvin, to a rip off of the Li'l Rascals and something involving two sanitation engineers.

All submitted and regularly rejected from the syndicates.

Things were different in newspaper comics, back then... The Internet was in its infancy and it was still possible to make a better-than-average living as a syndication cartoonist. So it was a dream - A dream I pursued with blind perseverance. I was dumb, full of confidence and riddled with allergies. It was a magical time.

But I digress.

This is blog is not about those early years before Barkeater Lake. Those are fodder for my daily 4-hour hypnotic therapy sessions. No, this blog is about the road to Banks, Chuck, Delores and more beer and bacon than is recommended by four out of five doctors. This is about the history of Barkeater Lake.

So, sit back and enjoy a decade's worth of art, triumph, failure, compromise and whisky. I'll try and update a couple times a week with something new, so check back often.

Cheers, Beers and Bacon!

- Corey "Fake Rockstar" Pandolph