Casey is the host of Flying Saucers Are Swell. Casey loves flying saucers so much, he started a campaign on the “social libraries” to celebrate and indulge his interests in all things UFO and weird news related. His passion for flying saucers is only rivaled by his annoyance with his own wife, Judy.

The goal with Casey’s comics is to get the feeling that he comes directly out of an old Flying Saucer magazine from the 1950’s. Something you dug up out of the back of an old file cabinet somewhere.

Casey also posts regularly on Instagram with info from old royalty free 1950’s Saucer magazines as well as features giving his take on famous flying saucer cases!

Casey also loves old science fiction movies—especially ones that have flying saucers! Casey does bi-weekly reviews of old movies on Tumblr that give his thoughts and a featured cocktail recipe.

Oranges Are Funny! started as a meta-joke within a mockumentary movie that took on a life of its own. The idea was to make something that was the worst idea for a comic ever, and it ended up becoming something very funny for somewhat unknown reasons. I kept drawing them as a joke blog in character for a while and eventually decided to collect some of my favorites into a self-published book. If you are interested, you can find more info and a link to the book here.

Fleas on Flick was my first dive into comic strip storytelling and my first webcomic. It was all drawn on paper by hand at first and scanned into the computer. The character was born on a scrap of paper while I was working in a box office, and it gave me the idea of using him as a comic strip character. 

While the characters were lovable and enjoyed a modest online following, the work of consistently writing and drawing a strip for a niche market already cornered by several other strips (Get Fuzzy, Garfield, Mutts, etc.) was grueling. Eventually, I became burnt out on my friends Flick, Francis, and Dee-dee, but unlike real pets, I never really have to say goodbye to these guys.

Tennis Ball was Flick's best friend and one of the more unique characters in the strip. His voice basically represented the anxieties of Flick, but also the truths he'd rather not acknowledge about himself from time to time.

The cornerstone of Francis' character was that his gifted intelligence made him terrible at being just a regular cat. It caused him difficulty on a regular basis, and all that frustration usually ended up being taken out on poor Flick in the form of cruel pranks.

Dee-dee quickly became one of my favorite characters to write in this strip. I am not exactly sure what made the character charming for me other than because, unlike the other characters, he/she (I could never decide which) was not fed by an owner or trapped in a fence. Therefore, Dee-dee had a no nonsense reaction to everything. If someone did not like it, he/she could just fly away after all.

Ants were regular visitors to Flick's food bowl outside. (Something my poor outdoor dog had to deal with when I was growing up.) This comic got an editor's pick on the site I was publishing on which made me pretty happy.

One of my favorite inspirations from Calvin and Hobbes was using poetry with comics. Here are a couple of my attempts to do the same with Flick.

I no longer have the entire series online to share, but I may compile them in a book someday the way I did with the much easier to write and draw, Oranges Are Funny.

13 West Magonia is a story in progress I have been writing for a graphic novel. These are images are concept art I made for Chapter 1.