I believe that the actual conversation involved a little robot behind the lense. Either which way, it was a long time ago and my son had learned not to believe everything his older brother says.
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So, your friendly neighborhood cartoonist is trying out the “hand written” font in today’s comic. I’ve always been conscientious of my handwriting, but I’m thinking it might add to the overall feel of the comic. Either which way, I’d love to read some of your thoughts on the change. Thanks for staying with Mangled Stare all these years. We loves ya!
Who would have thought that the greatest Mexican treat and the wholesome comfort of cereal could come together? It must be delicious, right?
Now that all of the Staple commissions are caught up, we have time to make with the funny! YAY, COMICS!
Staplegator belongs to the fine folks over at Staple, of course.
It was one thing her mother knew that Papi just COULD NOT (or is that WOULD NOT?) teach.
The old method of asking for “Papi’s Little Helpers” is long lost. It’s a bitter-sweet reality.
Coqui may not be eloquent in his manners, but his help still remains invaluable.
Someone care to get him an ice pack?
Praise like that is unequaled, really.
With the kids long since out of diapers… THIS Latino sees no need to willingly subject himself to the messiness of hunting. I prefer my meals professionally cleaned and wrapped and waiting for me on my grocer’s shelves, thank you. A virtual hunt is just fine with me. ^_^
Oh, sweet girls don’t all start off sweet. Love your daughters!
Baby Girl is a bit too much like Papi. I’m the first to admit it.
Ahoy, faithful readers! Mangled Studios hopes you had a wonderful holiday season and we wish you a very Chewy new year!
“…when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.”- Once-ler
A thousand pardons for the sporadic updates, amigos and amigas! Is everyone ready for the holidays? WE are!
He just sat there and ATE the whole salad! You… you just had to be there.
And this is only with TWO females in the house…
In case you haven’t noticed, the convention season took a humongous bite out of our comic time at Mangled Studios. We hope you can find it in your heart to forgive the Mighty Mangler and continue enjoying Mangulario antics! Thanks for reading our little comic.
The Mighty Mangler will be attending Austin Comic Con at booth 2418! Come by and for a caricature of your punnum and lots of other art! We hope to see you there!
Slight hiatus while I get caught up on commission work. Thanks for understanding! Back next Tuesday, October 16th.
The newest print, available in the Mangled Store. Just $3, and that includes shipping!
“Fill up and you don’t have to pay!”
That’s my girl.
We’re pretty anti-bully in this house. Douglas Rubio, tell your dad that the Mangler will be patrolling the playground from now on.
The call from the principal was not a pleasant one.
She doesn’t really scream like that on the first day of school… it’s a much softer voice.
It is possible that Little Man may have gotten that from the patriarch of the Mangulario clan. This cannot be confirmed or challenged, though. >.>
Click on the “Store” button up top and have a look! Prints are just $3, which includes shipping charges!
Lori is my coloring assistant. She does a great job, every time! If not for her, my comic would probably never get updated. Huge thanks go out to Bartholomew Klick for this awesome story he put forth. We even got a new character out of the deal! ^_^
Fear the children. Always fear the children.
In light of the current story arc, provided by the ever talented Bartholomew Klick of Ramen Empire, we thought we’d show what Mangler might look like if he were launched into space with a giant catapult designed to feed the Mangler the Chipotle burritos he requires to maintain his pique physique. ^_^
Bartholomew really hit on something with this burritopult. It must be built. It must.
Ramen Empire requires a home in your browser’s “Favorite List.” Go on… get it done. ^_^
They get distracted pretty easily. Bartholomew wrote up the mini-Manglers pretty spot on. Have you been over to Ramen Empire, yet? You should be over there, adding it to your favorite list. ^_^
Well, I’m just glad I don’t answer the phones for this ‘MOON’ company. Heck, I’m happy to be off the phones, completely.
Part 2 of 5 is now ready for your enjoyment. This page actually had me laughing, quite literally, out loud. Bartholomew Klick really made a fun story to draw. You can have a further laugh over at Bartholomew’s comic, Ramen Empire. Be sure to check it out!
You can thank Bartholomew Klick (BLAM) of Ramen Empire for penning this hilarious script! We’ve been toying around with the idea of sending Mangler out on an adventure and Bartholomew Klick (Blam)delivered a great story arc that made me laugh. Check out Bartholomew’s comic and enjoy the story!
We bought it anyway. Fighting to keep from biting it has taught me a lot of self control. ^_^
I had such high hopes for this wallet, too…
That’s Lori; teaching the kids the value of entrepreneurship.
We figured that running around in Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations would be enough to satiate Lori’s idea of visiting Italy. No good.
In celebration (and preparation) of STRIP this weekend, I have put together a new print of one of my favorite games; Assassin’s Creed. This is a Mangled Stare representation of Altair Ibn-La’Ahad and copies will be available at my booth, so be sure to stop by, say “hello”, and pick up some art!
She’s really that in to her onions.
How many times have you placed your head underwater and taken a deep sniff?
To all loud things must come the end.
My children are truly born in the digital age.
Really, as long as I’m groomed, I’m a happy Papa Bear. Oh, and fed. Gotta remember to feed the bear.
We have always known that time moves ever forward. We scoffed at our parents’ use of eight-track tapes and marveled at their use of vinyl to listen to music. The cycle has come back around as our children do the same thing when we explain how mp3 players are still a relatively new technology and that I used to talk to their mother using a telephone with a cord. Lori doesn’t appreciate the loss of her analogy upon our millennium daughter.
I wanted to take a moment to ruffle my feathers and show off a recent commission I did. I had so much fun making this image, I couldn’t help but strut a bit.
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The kids now the importance of washing the can out before using it as a cheap pool.
Seated next to us, at Project: Comic Con, was Kenneth Rocafort, the accomplished comic artist and cool Puerto Rican. His sister, Jessica, was onsite with him and both were incredibly friendly while we were at the con.
The oldest MiniMangler, just after winning 2nd place at the Project: Comic Con cosplay contest. The ever fun Taffeta Darling was one of the presiding judges over the contest.
This is what the Mangled Studios table looks like when we go to a show, as the case of June 9-10 at Project: Comic Con.
The real deal is in the details. I always wonder where the kids picked that “loop hole” mentality from…
Chewing is overrated… except when savoring a burrito from Chipotle. That’s the only time a slow, bovine-like chew is encouraged.
To be fair: Lori passed Home Ec. This is partially what is so confusing, now. @_@
I’m pushing the heck out of this project because it needs to be done. I have been fighting to complete a big project like this for a very long time and we’re almost done. Please consider pledging to the cause. On the right, you’ll find a link to the Kickstarter project that is designed to help bring about the printing, advertisement, and completion of the first Mangled Tales Book: Pedro’s Story. Every pledge level will garner you a reward, from a screen saver to commissioned artwork. I hope you are as eager to read the story as I am to tell it. Tell a friend!
I’m not sure what other comics you read, but I’d love to know who you think these characters might be. I had an idea for a comic and thought I’d put it together as a guest comic for one of my favorite reads. Couple that with the fact that my entire family was incapacitated with a nasty bout of The Evil Stomach Flu of 2012 (c), and there’s a recipe for missed comics. We’re all feeling much better, now, if you don’t count that nasty little knot in the pit of our guts.
I’m not sure what other comics you read, but I’d love to know who you think these characters might be. I had an idea for a comic and thought I’d put it together as a guest comic for one of my favorite reads. Couple that with the fact that my entire family was incapacitated with a nasty bout of The Evil Stomach Flu of 2012 (c), and there’s a recipe for missed comics. We’re all feeling much better, now.
I’m the same way when we have arroz amarillo con habichuelas. ^_^
Yar! Oi don’t need no stinkin’ day in Septemm’r t’git me poireht action goin’!
So, it can be said, with some confidence, that I usually win the game.
I had some time during a substituting gig last week to sketch up this Mangler. I think it might be fun to paint on canvas at some point.
He really comes up with some of the most brilliant ideas. The problem is ensuring that the churros are warm when you pluck them. Good call, boy. ^_^
Sometimes, she can just read that little girl’s body language. It doesn’t really take much.
Last painting of the set, I promise. I got a job as an art entertainer/instructor for a paint and sip studio and have rediscovered my inner-painter. Your favorite Mangler will be teaching folks how to paint, while they get tipsy. Sounds like a win/win situation, to me. Here’s another one of the paintings I did over the course of the week.
So, I’ve started painting again. I got a job as an art entertainer/instructor for a paint and sip studio and have rediscovered my inner-painter. Your favorite Mangler will be teaching folks how to paint, while they get tipsy. Sounds like a win/win situation, to me. Here’s another one of the paintings I did over the course of the week.
So, I’ve started painting again. I got a job as an art entertainer/instructor for a paint and sip studio and have rediscovered my inner-painter. Your favorite Mangler will be teaching folks how to paint, while they get tipsy. Sounds like a win/win situation, to me. Here’s one of the paintings I did over the course of the last week.
It is important to note that, while I was growing up, the soul-patch was an important step into manhood. I watched my father and brothers sport their soul-patches and knew that the day would come when I would join this fraternity. Now that I am a member, the house knows that the patch is never going anywhere.
Also, I would like to make the trip out to Project: Comic-Con and to do so, will need to up the commission output. To that end I have installed a nifty commission button to the right of this blog with a handy-dandy meter in a cute shape of the state where this shindig will be taking place. Please help us fill it as this will also count as a bit of a summer adventure/vacation for the kiddos. Click away and get your very own Mangled Commission (c) for just $25! You can even ask for a rare MiniMangler piece, as I understand my children wish to contribute to the cause. We appreciate you reading our comic and if you can’t afford a commission, pass the message along, please! Until the next update, Mangled Minions… hasta! ^_^
You know, sometimes she takes it a little too far.
I don’t know WHAT she’s saying when that thing is on. Really!
She’s the sexiest snuffleupagus inna WORLD!
Sleeping next to the love of one’s life for 16 years has an effect on that person. Remove enough air from the room and the subject will suffocate.
It’s really all about timing the smart-alec remarks for JUST the right moments.
She says that I’m rude for not being considerate of the fact that she was up for hours with the rain while I slept through it and then snored when she was trying to go back to sleep. I must be punished.
Here is another sample from the graphic novel that is still in production. You might be asking who this fella is… but I won’t tell! You’ll have to wait until the story is done. ^_-
You may or may not be aware that I am working with my good friend Sean O’Connor to bring you an epic tale. This will be a graphic novel with a single, stand alone story that will exist within the Mangulario Universe (c). We have been peddling this idea for some years and it wasn’t until very recently that I found the time to really commit to finishing this project. For your viewing pleasure, I would like to share this little tidbit from page 30 of this awesome story. Enjoy!
We’re just thankful when those surges arrive. ^_^
It’s when they start parroting what we tell them that the cute just starts to melt away, ya know?
Table 51 is where there’s gonna be some mangling going on! Hope to see you there!
If you’re not tropical, there is a strong likelihood that you will not be an avid fan of malta. In fact, 95% of my non-Latin friends can’t stand the stuff. I grew up drinking Malta Goya and my children fell in love with it when I introduced them to it. My eldest will actively point it out when we walk down the “ethnic” aisle at the grocery store. I’ve been told that Malta India is the better malta, but I don’t recall ever trying it. I need to go on a malta quest.
What happens while asleep doesn’t count. But it’s still funny.
The ill feelings towards Valentine’s day seems to be starting younger and younger these days.
This was an actual conversation heard in my kitchen. Donuts are a pretty hot commodity in this household… but aren’t they such in most houses? ^_^
Lori: “Donuts are a TREAT.”
A good friend recently asked for a commission where three of her favorite characters provided some assistance. If I did my job right, any of you fans of these respected shows/movies will recognize the gentlemen providing this service without looking at the tags below.
I hold true that her husband needs equal representation that will be a commission for another day. >_<
One must always reevaluate one’s priorities; it keeps one strong in self-assurances.
I couldn’t even reach the drawing at that point.
Coqui’s been pleading for another one shot comic. He can really be a pest when he wants to be.
I imagine that, to my children, “Latino” and “Hispanic” are just synonyms for “Mexican.” It’s a hurt I can’t thoroughly describe. I keep telling them they’re Puerto Rican, but then my father-in-law comes along and jacks all that up. ^_^
It’s just not that pretty when you try to write your name on mirrors.
It catches up to me at some point… never fails.
Lori doesn’t like to be left out during wish-time.
She can be a bit aggressive. Santa gets no preferential treatment.
Sometimes it’s just more fun to sit back and let the party start.
My son has had a resurgance in his obsession with all things Bat-Man. He asked to post his most recent drawing and, with the overflow of work from my temporary day job impeding any hope for draw-time, I proudly agreed. I have been asked to mention that his art work is always for sale and you can purchase any work from the store under the “Mini Manglers” art button. ^_^
It’s not what he says as much as the way he says it.
I’ll bet he even heard the low growling as that bit of opera escaped, too.
You thought the last couple of comics were just a laugh, huh? Not in my house. Lori is really THAT in to the Twilight Saga. If you see her standing in line for the midnight screening, tell her to make sure she has lots of napkins… you know… for the drool. -_-
Just a little higher and we’ve got a bull’s eye, right on the nose!
It’s all over my house as the movie creeps closer.
Don’t you hate when you’re interrupted? I know I do.
I was quite proud of how this came out. Thought I’d share it with you folks.
Like we don’t already have enough pets with the frog and the kids… another one?
My most recent completion of another solar lap resulted in this comic’s delay. No charge for that. >_<
So, running a bit behind in the Thursday comic. You still get to enjoy your second Mangled Stare for the week. Who loves ya?
You ever had one of those goldfish that just wouldn’t stay put? Or breathe air? Or mutate with some new-fangled vitamin and try to kick your butt? Yeah, me too!
Ya know, in our own defense, Lori’s enchiladas are too awesome NOT to gobble down, but to skip chewing them would be a disservice. I always used to say, quite jokingly, that when we had kids, they would eat pernil con arroz y habichuelas one day and enchiladas or tacos the next. Oh, how I have eaten my words… those delicious, delicious words…
Sometimes, you can’t just sit down and take care of business. This is the next chapter in my son’s original story.
I introduce the first Mangled Stare story arc written by my eldest MiniMangler. Enjoy!
If you’re wondering, just hop over to youtube and search for “Breaking Dawn Theatrical Trailer 2011.” You’ll see why Lori was frothing at the mouth… that is if you haven’t already seen it, of course. And if you haven’t, what sort of Twilight fan are YOU?! I’m just saying…
If the kids would just stop moving my DS, we wouldn’t have this problem.
Yup. Sometimes, men get moody and when we do, that’s what I call it.
We’re working on teaching him nationalities and dialects. I always thought Buzz’ Spanish sounded very proper, like my grandmother’s.
Sometimes Lori likes to share the home made gifts. Made deep down inside.
Lori can really kick some heinie when she makes those salads! It’s really one of her best recipes… besides chocolate milk… and eggs… and her meatloaf! Mmmmm… meatloaf… ^_^’
Now, it’s best when you play THIS song while viewing today’s comic filler. It’s what inspired me to draw what you see.
Every once and a while, Mama and Papi need a little date time, especially with school starting back up. Once the school year begins, time becomes the enemy.
The way we see it, there’s less mess to have to clean up, this way and feeding it is a snap.
Sometimes, that green thumb needs just a little support.
It should be no surprise that my wife is a Twilight fanatic. We even took a trip to Forks, WA and stayed in the Jacob Cabin on the actual Quileute Reservation for Spring Break, this year. It even sparked the creation of THIS piece.
She must get that literal nature from her mother. At least, that’s what we tell the neighbors, and by “we” I mean “I.”
We’ll be set up at table 32 at STRIP: Webcomic Expo this Saturday. Come out and pick up a copy of book 5, a print, or a Tshirt. Naturally, I’ll be doing commissions and my MiniManglers will have artwork to sell. We hope to see you there!
They really should have kept it kind. Now the city will pay…
We’re going to STRIP:Webcomic Expo in Plano next weekend and if you’re in the area, the clan and I would love to see ya! We’ll also need gas/food money, so if you’d like a family portrait or any other sort of commission you can find a now active Swag button in the Store, where you can purchase a commission and help fund the Mangled Mission (c) to get me drawing full time, alla time. ^_^ Come get your commissions and your own original Mangled Art. ^_-
Turns out the grocery store doesn’t make empty threats. They meant it when they said they’d name an emergency code after Mrs.Mangulario’s husband. >_<‘
Turns out the grocery store doesn’t make empty threats. They meant it when they said they’d name an emergency code after Mrs.Mangulario’s husband. >_<‘ *edit= Had to fix colors to maintain consistency*
The true Sith are the workers who would interrupt a training session as important as this…
A properly pampered woman really has no need to leave the home, in my experience. I make pretty epic sammiches, really.
Nothing says brotherly love like sharing strange smells.
It’s a creative method of ending calls.
The hair tufts were really just a final humilation she cast upon him. Little girls can be quite vindictive, I’ve found.
People always seem to underestimate even the smallest of the Mangulario clan.
Is that Edward James Olmos, looking through my artwork? Why, yes, yes it is. ^_^
My son is in to Batman, at the moment, and wanted to draw Poison Ivy and color her in Photoshop (like his Papi). My little artist – PRIDE-
You can’t leave Papi alone at the Princess Ball… it makes Papi feel creepy.
I mean, come on, we live in Texas. This isn’t really an uncommon sight. ^_^
Baby-girl is tough when it counts. That doesn’t always make it the right time… but she’s working on it.
It’s possible to be pretty and be a Mangler. I should know.
What? More commission work? Well, naturally… Mangler needs to feed his babies. Enjoy this piece I did for a buddy from work… hurray for Star Wars themed commissions!
Equal opportunity, right? I believe that a woman has every right to cut the grass that a man has. It’s cruel of men to think that women are incapable of such manual labor. Join me in fighting for women’s rights to join in the physical labor thought meant for men only!
This was a little joke Lori and I threw together while watching my younger son eagerly wrap a cinnamon roll at a pizza buffet last weekend.
No one told her to put her finger into his food to begin with. What was she thinking, really?
Little Lynda actually called it quite correct. Only the truest of true love smells like Chipotle.
A good belch will amplify the heartbeat of the belcher. Captured the feel of that in this comic, I think. ^_-
In case you wonderful people were wondering, what you see above is part of the reason there has been no comics for the last week. I’d decided that it was high time my family and I had a vacation and to that end a road trip was planned and successfully executed. In case if you are unable to determine by the above picture, our destination was Seattle, WA. We drove cross-country over the course of two and a half days and spent last week there. It was a lovely vacation. We had a fantastic time with “extended” family. ^_^
Today’s comic was guest written by my good friend, Sean O’Connor. Thanks for the laugh, Sean!
Sometimes they want to venture into independence. My little man is experimenting with becoming a cook. He has a few hurdles to overcome… like gravity… but we’ll keep working on it with him.
Papas = potatoes in spanish. This free spanish lesson is brought to you by Taco Shack breakfast tacos. They’re pretty yummy… and close. (That’s a hint for Mi Madre’s to open a location on the north side of town.)
