I’m following Kentcer’s lead on this one. Back in elementary school, over several grades, two of my best friends and I thought we’d write a book about knights, castles, and dragons, as well as illustrate it ourselves. I think we started it in Grade 2. One of my friends moved to another school soon after, so it quickly became a two man job. Thankfully, it ended once we lost most of our imagination and started ripping off Robert Asprin.

It’s written in pencil, so it’s a little smudged and faint in some places, but it’s neat to see how our penmanship changed (or didn’t) over time. In a later grade, I even tried to correct some of the grammar (hence the blue ink).

Enjoy.

Update: There’s also a similar blue notebook packed away somewhere of comic strips I used to draw as a kid. One set was a spoof of the Justice League of America, but in a similar vein to Spider-Ham which I called the ALI, the Animal League International. The other set of strips was kind of a rip off of Ziggy called Crazy Charlie and His Dog Auto (I didn’t know how to spell Otto at the time).

Update: Sweet! I just remembered where I put them and found them. Apparently, we thought Dragonland was going to take off, because there’s a whole other Hillroy notebook here that was never used, but has “Dragonland: Book II” written on the cover. I also wrote a “Spy Guide Book” in another Hillroy notebook, and wrote my own issue of a newspaper with rubber stencils and an ink pad. Found my stickerbook, too. I have got to get these scanned!

Update: Note to self, so I can find them again later: They’re in with my old D&D stuff.