David Willis

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David Willis Biography

Web cartoonist best known for his series of interconnected webcomics. These consist of “Roomies!”, “It’s Walky!”, “Shortpacked!”, and “Dumbing of Age.”

He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While there, he published his first comic, “Roomies!”, in 1997 in the student newspaper. He first began designing web based comics in 1999, when he first published “Roomies!” as one.

He created “It’s Walky!” after discontinuing “Roomies!”, while still maintaining a select few characters from the latter. He founded the label Blank Label Comics in 2005. He has discontinued this online label, but continued via a new series, “Shortpacked!”, which ran from 2005-2015. He created “Dumbing of Age” in 2010, and as of 2015, is posted daily.

He was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana.

He cites “Calvin & Hobbes”, and creator Bill Watterson, as his favorite comic and comic artist, respectively.

David M Willis (born April 3, 1979) is an American web cartoonist currently living in Columbus, Ohio. He is best known for his interconnected series of webcomics Roomies!, It’s Walky!, Shortpacked!, and Dumbing of Age. Willis is also known online for his chatrooms and forums including “ItsWalky”. KUTV in Salt Lake City calls him a satirist who is “a little bit edgy.”

Roomies! is a webcomic by Willis starring the college adventures of two roommates, Danny and Joe. It ran from September 8, 1997, to December 20, 1999. Originally a daily comic published in the Indiana University student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, it was turned into a web comic in early 1999. It is a mix of daily gag strips and short stories, with the stories drifting towards more serious topics as the comic progressed.

It’s Walky! was the direct continuation of Roomies!. The debut of It’s Walky! is considered to have been on December 25, 1999, but the switch between the two was not instantaneous; science fiction elements had crept into the college environment of Roomies! long before, and the webcomic featured storylines from both for a while. A few characters from Roomies! became main characters in It’s Walky!, and the remaining protagonists later made it into the cast as secondary characters.

Shortpacked! is a webcomic by Willis set in a toy store. It is part of the Blank Label Comics family. After putting an end to his successful webcomic It’s Walky!, Willis decided to turn Shortpacked!, his autobiographical comic, into a new title. Premiering on January 17, 2005, the strip is based in the same universe as It’s Walky! and Roomies!, and features two side characters from the previous comic, Robin and Mike. The primary inspiration behind Shortpacked was Willis’ own experiences working retail at Toys “R” Us.

It’s Walky was followed by Shortpacked!, which was part of the same continuity but with an entirely different focus: the daily lives of a toy store’s employees, including (oddly) SEMME veterans Mike and Robin. Donation-based It’s Walky! epilogue strips ($100 for each strip) run by popular demand eventually led into, and were replaced by, a direct sequel called Joyce & Walky!, which started on August 1, 2005, and ended on May 17, 2015. It was subscription only. In the meantime, Willis had left Keenspot on May 19, 2005, to found Blank Label Comics.

More recently, after he finished It’s Walky!, David Willis restarted Roomies! as a daily gag strip, appearing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It was also published as part of the Keenspot comic page in the Turlock, California newspaper, the Turlock Journal. Roomies! ended again on May 19, 2005, when David Willis left Keenspot to found Blank Label Comics.

Previously featured at Keenspot with the comic of It’s Walky! and the first months of Shortpacked!, Willis left to co-found Blank Label Comics in 2005. After Blank Label Comics was discontinued, he has continued his online presence at Shortpacked!, which has archives back to January 2005.

A Shortpacked! strip also appeared weekly on toynewsi.com, Toy News International’s website, for 250 installments from August 20, 2006, until July 31, 2011.

The shape-shifting robot franchise Transformers appears frequently in Willis’ work. He was an administrator on Teletraan I, the Transformers Wiki from 2006 to 2008, when he facilitated a move from Wikia to its own site at tfwiki.net. Willis eventually became involved in official licensed Transformers artwork for Fun Publications’ Transformers Collector’s Club, particularly the regular club magazine feature Recordicons.

Shortpacked! has also lampooned mainstream comic strips such as Luann and Funky Winkerbean. Shortpacked! showed 16-year-old Luann bragging about having large breasts and even depicted Luann giving the middle finger to Blondie. The parody of Funky Winkerbean showed Les Moore and his girlfriend Cayla Williams (the two got married in Willis’ strip) having sex while a ghostly Lisa Moore (Les’ late wife, who died in 2007 from cancer) watched over them in approval, and in another panel, the resulting baby, who looked like Lisa, was ghostly in appearance.

On September 19, 2008, Willis proposed to his girlfriend of four years, Maggie Weidner, in that day’s episode of Shortpacked!. She accepted with a cartoon posted in the Shortpacked! blog. On September 21, 2009, Willis posted their wedding program. Their twin boys, Chase Alexander and Zachary Dashiel, were born on December 3, 2015.

David Willis announced at AnimeFest 2010 that his newest project is titled Dumbing of Age, a return to the setting of the original Roomies! comic, Indiana University, with a melange of characters from Roomies!, It’s Walky!, and Shortpacked!. The strip debuted September 10, 2010, and updates daily. The series is a reboot using older characters but in a newer universe. The setting and plot of Dumbing of Age are quite different from most of Willis’s previous comics, though the characters return with mostly identical personalities and similar histories up to the end of their high school years. Dumbing of Age regularly features references to It’s Walky! and Shortpacked! by featuring the story of Head Alien and Monkey Master as an independent comic and cable series of which the characters Walky, Dorothy, and Joyce are fans. Willis also offers a regularly updated set of pornographic comics involving the characters via Slipshine. As of March 2015, Dumbing of Age is Willis’s most popular webcomic, with a readership that is around three times that of Shortpacked!, at around 220,000 page views a day.

On January 17, 2014, the series’ ninth anniversary, Willis announced that he planned to conclude the Shortpacked! storyline over the following year, and would cease regular updates to the comic on its tenth anniversary. Shortpacked! accordingly ceased regular updates on January 17, 2015.

Roomies! was succeeded by It’s Walky!, a science fiction adventure comedy comic set in the same universe. The main cast of It’s Walky! included some continuing characters from Roomies! — in particular Joyce, Danny’s former stalker — and by the end most of the major characters from Roomies! had made appearances.

In 2015, Willis and his wife launched It’s Pregnancy!, a Tumblr comic about the birth of Joyce and Walky’s son, in concert with the Willis couple’s pregnancy.

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