The scans are pretty bad because they were scanned over a decade ago using a poor scanner. I can't locate the originals right now, so until I do, these will have to suffice.

I also doodled some Far Side type panels. Some of them preceded The Far Side by a few years. I had that bizarre sense of humour even before Gary Larson came on the scene. When these were done, I was living with two fellow students and close friends in an apartment building called Rankin Towers, so I called these The Rankin File. The observant will notice the signature on this series reads: Garfield Warn. The computer I did all of my assignments on at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where I was doing a Computer Science degree, was called Garfield, and when a user misbehaved on the system, he was placed in a Warn shell from which he could do nothing until he reported to the System Administrator who would have a few words with the user to let him know why he had been placed in that shell. The coincidence was that at the time there was a Provincial Cabinet Minister named Garfield Warren. My nom de plume comes from those two things at the same time.

You may notice some of the cartoons involve psychology and philosophy. I did a couple of philosophy and psychology classes at MUN and you can see they sunk in. Lucky for me, however, I never let the classes sink in too deeply. The most disturbed people I met at MUN were Philosophy or Psychology majors. Not for me! I hung out with the English majors where the fun was.

The Rankin File panels above were printed in The Muse, the student newspaper for Memorial University of Newfoundland. The ones below are sketches or other panels I did that were never published. Some are just sketches, others are finished works.

I also played with the strip format again, using short characters I had created.

All content of these pages © Sean Huxter.