Milk & Cheese: Unused "Generic Comic" Notes

This is what a lot of M&C comic springboards looked like. I just wrote brief notes about what would happen or what they would say, there was usually no drawing required. If there's a visual joke involved, then I'd do a very fast sketch of it to jog my memory or lock down a detail. There wasn't much of a process for M&C, I had an idea, made some notes, and worked up the pages. Sometimes I didn't have time to make notes, as in the case of many Deadline two-pagers, where the deadline was tight and I had to take in the time for the art to be shipped to the UK via Federal Express (back when it was Federal Express).

Regarding the mention of a cold opening for Space Ghost -- I don't know if this idea was first generated for M&C or for Space Ghost. I remember wanting to do a cold opening -- which is when you have a bit that precedes the opening credits, usually something that has noting to do with the episode. Just some oddball business. Anyway, I wanted to have a cold opening where Space Ghost, Zorak and Moltar just yelled descriptive text at one another, phrases that boiled the show's interactions into generic terms: "Insult", "Huffy retort", "Non sequitor", "Random pop culture reference", "Act of violence", etc. I don't think I ever tried to use it in a Space Ghost script.

Anyway, you can tell how old this idea is, because even if it was late in our tenure on SGC2C, it would mean I wrote this in the late 90's. I just unearthed a pile of files that were buried under boxes in my studio closet, and the top files were unused M&C springboards, layouts and scripts (I found a strip idea that I actually typed up, something I don't ever remember doing -- most layouts were just scribbled notes on typing paper -- back when most people still called it typing paper). I must have had some interest in doing this as a one-pager, because I had a folder for it with two pages of notes. I only made separate folders for springboards/notes I thought had a real possibility of being worked up into a comic.

I have to go through these files and do something with them. Most of them are just scribbles and words, they're not original art or of any worth as "originals", I just need to have the material on record in case I ever need it. Maybe I'll just scan them, post anything of interest, and toss the paper notes. A lot of them are too dated to use as a comic, but they all have little bits of business or jokes that can be salvaged. For commissions or pin-ups, perhaps a future strip (one can always hope). These old files take up a decent amount of space, they're unwieldy and I rarely ever look at them. I don't want to just throw them out, but it's not like this is archival quality stuff anyone would want preserved.

All I know is that it's overwhelming and a little sad to look at a hundred or so pages of unused notes for the guys. Where does the comic book time go?