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About Me

I've done cartoons professionally for 15 years, for places like NICKELODEON (the magazine) and worked on and off in animation. My main vehicle is a comic called MAGIC WHISTLE. (The eleventh issue should be out now. Pages that are eventually in it are in color and can be seen at Web Comics Nation .) There's artwork here too but once in a while it doesn't show up, so I thought I'd let you know it's there just in case.
By all rights, myspace/magicwhistle without "the" should be mine, but possession is 9/10 of the law. The data I've provided (most of which I just took from a competing friend-meeting web page I haven't looked at in almost 3 years) implies I like comedy, but overall I don't think to myself "I'm going to do some laughing now!". When I was in Los Angeles I was one of the 5% of residents who didn't drive. That's still the case. Trust me, you wouldn't want me to. If you're not familiar with my cartoons, google me, or see this week's newest strip , or buy some of my art . It speaks for me better than I can (and by buying some, you'll be helping pay my rent), yet whatever impression of me you get will still be wrong. I am self-contradictory in many ways, yet it all makes sense in my head. I'm not as grouchy as I sound.
Really.
If anyone asks me questions that have the answers here, I'll assume you didn't read this and not reply anyway. The beginning of magicwhistle.com is mostly up and running now. Click on the covers of my comics and you can buy them.
Consider this page and that a work in progress while I figure out this electronical thing that I should have mastered in the twentieth century.
Again, I'm not as grouchy as I sound, even if I think the world would be a better place if everybody would do what I say.
Here's an example of my animation .

My Interests

Wanting to know if the asswipe that gave me a virus that sent fake bulletins under my name is the same as the fuckface who replaced my home page with a fake one that links to 'myspacemonk.com' and the dickhead who erased what I had written under "Movies", "Television", and "Books"

I'd like to meet:

People who make lists to impress people. It's not that I don't want to meet people through here, it's just that I wasn't expecting this to seemingly be a meat market and to get messages like "Dude U R so fukked up! Me too!". Imagine going to a party and 100 people you don't know approach you as soon as you walk in the door, and many don't even know that Reagan was President. Also remember I graduated high school 20 years ago plus the whole legal thing. I have enough problems without entrapment being added to them. The general public already thinks Myspace is a haven for pedophilia and there's no need to prove them right. More power to those who meet partners through this, though. Anyone wanting to reach me for reasons other than adding me to your friends can write me directly at [email protected] (sorry you have to type it in. Complete strangers can be my friends (provided they're of legal age) if they give me a dollar in advance through Paypal and agree that I can say that's what they did. If you don't know me but give any clue you know OF me, I'm not talking about you. Even if you're in the majority who thinks there's a man in the sky that's dictator of Earth. Same with people I haven't talked to in years, friends of friends, and people who saw me on the street once. If you're not one of those people, however, I'm not here to be a shill for your project and will ignore you accordingly. Not that you'll notice since you obviously didn't read this in the first place. You also have to be a real person and not a web-cam girl or made up as an ad for something. It has nothing to do with your appearance, orientation, or anything other than you being unknown to me. And try not to get hacked and let bogus messages supposedly from you get sent out. It's pretty annoying. Do not take it personally if you've been rejected by me. If you feel I did so wrongly, try again. Maybe you were just in between the junk mails that I frequently delete without reading.

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V3.6 !

Music:

nonsense psychedelia, mutant E-Z listening, cartoon scores, movie soundtracks, western swing, chicken shack boogie, misunderstandings of counterculture of the time, mostly stuff that predates my birth.

I'm one of those people who hates everything but when asked what kind of music I like I say "all kinds".

Movies:

The Producers, Dr. Strangelove, Forbidden Zone, Screwballs, Lord Love a Duck, Clockwork Orange, Shaolin Soccer, Skidoo, Duck Soup, Lolita, Happiness, The Party, It's a Gift, Bad Ronald, Rushmore, Sullivan's Travels, Freaks, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Television:

Mr. Show, Get a Life, Sesame Street, Oz, Simpsons, The Naked Cosmos, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the 'Uncle Goopy' bit from Your Show of Shows (RIP Howard Morris), Wonder Showzen except for the cartoons and when they bother homeless people, SpongeBob (I got an Emmy nomination for my writing on it in 2003 thank you)

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Breakfast of Champions, Babyhip, Extraordinary Delusions and the Popular Madness of Crowds, Seduction of the Innocent, things with 'of' in the title, The National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody, and as you can probably tell from my profile, too many comics

Heroes:

your mother

My Blog

Aren’t you too old to be watching cartoons?

I've been reading 'Schulz' by David Michaelis, and I was visibly reading it at work, when someone said the above to me. This is wrong in many ways, but I'm used to this condescension and resigned long...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:18:00 PST

lookalikes

There. Now I'm going to jerk off to the singles ads...or the sports drink ad if that's what shows up. ...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:33:00 PST

my latest failed experiment, part 2

About a year ago, I wrote a screed about how I think religion is bogus and on a par with belief in Bigfoot or Elvis sightings. How the main difference between Christianity and Scientology is ...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:50:00 PST

The Salieris of popular culture

That's a term I came up with to describe my continuing fascination with also-ran aspects of mass media. "Schlock" isn't quite the word as I don't like things because they're "so bad they're good", and...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:21:00 PST

20th year HS reunion: So I went

Even though everyone I know told me to avoid it, including my parents, I went to my high school reunion anyway. I had no idea what to expect, but overall it was a positive experience. I was given...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:16:00 PST

back from MoCCA

I just realized this is the first convention where I met people I already knew through here, which I can't decide is good or bad. If you're one of those people and reading this, then I just ...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:57:00 PST

sooeee pigs!

There was this kid I knew that I was friends with that I realized early on was bad news. I grew up in a town full of children that were like Nelson on 'The Simpsons' and even they all steered clear o...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:20:00 PST

my latest failed experiment

I've been an atheist all my life for the same reasons as a child as now. I've always felt religion is on a par with palm-reading or belief in Santa Claus and society should give it the same legitimac...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:01:00 PST

Frank Novak

So I was at the drugstore waiting on line and the guy in front of me says "Hey, Chief, can't you read the sign? It says stand behind the tape! This is private!" For the record, technically I was in fr...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:25:00 PST

my theory about Bush

I think his whole presidency was orchestrated by his father so he'd look good by comparison. Remember how his father was President a few years ago? The only reason he was elected was because Reagan co...
Posted by Sam Henderson on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST