• Site Relaunch

    I launched JAQrabbit Tales on Labor Day 2014, posting short comix tales inspired (to varying degrees) by my own life. For several years I posted new material every week, but as time and money (to hire guest artists) became harder to come by, I haven’t been able to keep up with that. For a while…

  • Tantalus

    Tantalus

    Tantalus was a character in Greek mythology, who sinned against the Olympians. His greatest offense was to test their omniscience by tricking them into eating his own son by cutting him up and adding him to a stew. For this, he was condemned to spend eternity standing in a pool of water, with a fruit-bearing…

  • Party’s Over

    Party’s Over

    This Tale is a years-later follow-up to “Party Boy”, and maybe I should have re-posted it directly after that. (I didn’t get around to drawing it until a number of years after “Boy”.)

  • Fountain

    Fountain

    This one is partly an Art History meta reference. “Fountain” is the name of a piece by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp, who was “taking the piss” (as the British say) about the whole idea of ART. He parodied the tradition of public sculptural fountains by taking a discarded urinal, putting on its side, and calling…

  • Road Triptych

    Road Triptych

    This brief tale is a guest piece by my collaborator, fuck buddy, and former housemate Zlatan Marić, inspired by an all-night drive across the state.

  • On Call

    On Call

    It occurs to me that this Tale depends a bit on familiarity with some of the other Tales involving “Sir” to fully understand. That’s a hazard of the format here, I suppose. He can most charitably described as an abusive control freak, and this is probably one of the milder examples of that.

  • Party  Boy

    Party Boy

    Jason gets drunk at a house party, and hits on a guy who turns out to be… not quite what he thought.

  • All in the Family

    All in the Family

    You meet some interesting people in the queer community.

  • Breakfast

    Breakfast

    The beginning of a great personal and working relationship.

  • Working for Tips

    Working for Tips

    I don’t officially have work experience as a waiter.

  • Glory

    Glory

    Yes, there was a time in my youth when I cut my hair super-short. It didn’t last very long, and this was kinda the aftermath of that situation all going… bad.

  • Vibe

    Vibe

    Back in the bygone days of “mail order”, Jason buys a toy. Not a “girls toy” or a “boys toy”… but an adult toy!