About Jordy's Jungle

Comic strips and blogs! What fun! You'll find several strips, presently Apples and Orbifolds and High Ultitude. Apples and Orbifolds draws inspiration from my days as a math grad student, High Ultitude from playing Ultimate frisbee.

I drew about 60 Apples and Orbifolds cartoons and 14 High Ultitude cartoons from 1998 to 2002. I'll be publishing these on the site over the next few months. I expect to create some new content that I'll start publishing as well.

Apples and Orbifolds

During my many years of graduate school, a vision kept recurring, a burned out n-th year grad student showing a spunky new first year grad student around the department. There was something funny about that, of that I was sure, but a punchline didn't appear until Grant Galbraith (a fellow grad student at that time) and I started some serious brainstorming. (Grant can be really funny:) After nudging ideas around for a while, a strip was storyboarded by the Spring of 1998. Drawing it was the next step. As the artist, I got to work. The result of my first effort (of which we were quite pleased) took this form However, with further reflection, more was desired. Several months later, armed with a full arsenal of cartoonist tools (brushes, nib pens, india ink, etc. ETC!!!), Ed's First Day was produced.

A Little History

The first dozen strips ran in the UW Daily (at the University of Washington, Seattle) under the name Grad Allusions during the Fall quarter of 1998. Ed's First Day debuted September 30, 1998. Those dozen strips were put on the web under the name Padelkord Hall in March of 1999. (That seemed kind of clever, the actual math department at the University of Washington is in Padelford Hall). The current title is Apples and Orbifolds.

High Ultitude

Cartoons about Ultimate Frisbee - my favorite sport! I made a few cartoons for the UPA once (now named USA) and someone put a few cartoons on T-shirts for a tournament. In addition to the 14 from 2002, I have a few strips I haven't inked yet!

Jordy & Perry

As the years separated me from grad school, I found myself drawing cartoons about Jordy (he's tall like me) and then created another character that he interacts with Perry (the little Pterodactyl on the home page). These will make there way to the site at some point - a spin off cartoon from Apples and Orbifolds.

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