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Labrats

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About Me

Labrats is a comic strip about two rat friends- Ray & Smitty- and their adventures in working at an animal testing facility.

Created & written by Doug Turchyn and illustrated by Pete Maher. © 2006-2008 Doug Turchyn & Pete Maher.

Visit the Official Labrats Comic Website at www.labratscomic.com

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My Interests

Art, cartoons, comics, sleeping, video games, Xbox 360, anything Halo related, preparing for the inevitable robot apocalypse. Goodbye Pepsi Vanilla, your yumminess will not be forgotten. :(

I'd like to meet:

Fellow cartoonists, artists, friends, and anyone interested in contacting us.

Music:

Varies greatly depending on what I'm doing while listening- from movie soundtracks to metal to mainstream. Biohazard, Crowbar, Propain, Killswitch Engage, Iced Earth, Disturbed, Dog Eat Dog, The Cure, The Smiths, The Crystal Method, Graeme Revell, John Debney, Marty O'Donnell, Nine Inch Nails, The Doors. . . I could go on and on.

Movies:

Star Wars (originals), Rebel Without a Cause, Out of Towners (original), Fight Club, Office Space, Grandma's Boy, Ghost Dog, Baseketball, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Spider-Man 1 & 2, Shrek, Friday, The Iron Giant, Lilo & Stitch, (Disney's) Beauty & the Beast, Freddy vs Jason, The Wedding Singer, Blade.

Television:

Discovery Channel's Planet Earth, anything on Discovery Channel HD Theater, The Monster Channel, The Kung Fu Channel, Comedy Central, [adult swim], Six Feet Under, Sopranos, 24, The Office, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Family Guy, Metalocalypse, The Venture Bros., Drake & Josh (don't ask), Cops, and almost any "true crime" type of show, such as Cold Case Files, FBI Files, American Justice, etc.

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, The Killer Inside Me, The Dark Knight Returns, The Watchmen, Sin City, anything by Evan Dorkin, Get Fuzzy, Brooklyn Dreams, Calvin & Hobbes.

Heroes:

Walt Disney, Charles Schultz, Bill Watterson.

My Blog

Happy 2nd Birthday, Labrats!

Labrats turns 2 years old today- April 18th 2008. Happy Birthday Ray & Smitty!
Posted by Labrats on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:05:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 4/14/08

Hey gang,We posted a new Labrats strip today. You can view it here in our MySpace photos, or as a larger scan over at our website, www.labratscomic.com.Doug & I have been working on a couple Labrats r...
Posted by Labrats on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:55:00 PST

MySpace links & other stuff

Hey gang,I noticed MySpace has disabled direct links in an effort to combat spam & phishing, and I understand that. However, for some reason the link to our merchandise page at CafePress was blocked.F...
Posted by Labrats on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:38:00 PST

Mailed submission packets today (2/27/08)

Hey gang,Today I printed the submission packets and mailed them out. Kinkos did a nice, quick job and I'm pretty happy with how they looked. Then I came home, stuffed the envelopes and got to the post...
Posted by Labrats on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:27:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 2/18/08

Hey everyone!We've posted a new strip today. If you feel like viewing it, it's here in our MySpace photos, while there's a larger scan of it over at our website www.labratscomic.com.This is strip num...
Posted by Labrats on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 2/8/08

Happy Friday everyone!There's a new Labrats strip up- you can view it here in our Photos section of our MySpace page, or view a larger scan over at our website www.labratscomic.com.We are now one stri...
Posted by Labrats on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:04:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 2/1/08

Hey everyone,We've posted a brand new strip today, it's here in our MySpace photos if you feel like checking it out. There's also a larger scan of it over on our website www.labratscomic.com.We'd also...
Posted by Labrats on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:49:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 1/1/08 (Happy New Year!)

Happy New Year everyone!We here at Labrats would like to wish you and yours a very safe, healthy & prosperous new year. From Ray, Smitty, Doug & I, best wishes!We've posted a brand new strip today, if...
Posted by Labrats on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST

New Labrats Strip for 12/25/07 (Merry Christmas!)

Merry Christmas, everyone!We've posted a brand new strip today, it located here in our MySpace pictures and also a larger scan is at our website, www.labratscomic.com.Have a great day, everyone!-Pete...
Posted by Labrats on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:45:00 PST

Labrats Online Store now open!

Just in time for Christmas (2008) we've opened our online store through CafePress. I've placed a test order of a white sweatshirt, blue t-shirt and stein and I think they came out pretty nice. The ste...
Posted by Labrats on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:41:00 PST