The New Adventures of Scrappy Doo: The Later Years follows the crazy post-retirement adventures of world-renowned detective Scrapinold Dooington and a host of other memorable characters.
At SIGGRAPH '96, Microsoft introduced the world to Microsoft Comic Chat (relevant paper) (download link), capable of transforming any mundane IRC chat session into an expertly crafted comic! (For example, this image was outputted after connecting to #xkcd on irc.foonetic.net.) Eleven years later, Mr. Squad and myself came to the conclusion that our college's newspaper would greatly benefit from the addition of a comic by us. After finding Microsoft Comic Chat, we determined that it could serve as an ideal tool to achieve just such an end.
We thus created the first issue (pictured right),
in which we see the original versions of both Scrapinold himself,
and the hipster guy (incidentally, the other mainstay, Prof. Cheese, has no equivalent in
Comic Chat.) However, the comic (and a second issue)
were ignored by the editor of the comics section, who had apparently decided that his own poorly
drawn pencil sketches were more important than replying to emails. Nonetheless, with the next
academic year came a new
editor—one who actually replied to emails! However, this editor didn't like the
prefabricated appearance of the comic, and so the submission was tragically rejected.
Not to be deterred, however, we created a hand-drawn version of the comic, with the same basic premise and characters. Unlike its predecessor, it was actually printed! After the 1 year run of the printed comic, it continues as a webcomic. Scrapinold has even been immortalized on the College of New Jersey campus, in brick form!
