RARE PHOTOS: Comics featuring necromancer and his roommate bonebagcomics | Vintage Vibes

My name is Ryan Roberts and I have lived in Texas most of my life. I have three great kids and a wonderful wife that supports my love for cartoons and comics. Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I loved watching things like The Ghostbusters - I loved the wacky designs they created for their ghosts. I was always drawing at school when I should have been paying attention to my teachers. All my homework came with doodles in the margins.

From childhood, I always knew I wanted to be an artist (in one form or another). I have worked as a freelance artist for quite some time and in that time I have come up with many stories, jokes, and works of art.

When I was a small child I was inspired by the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips (created by Bill Watterson). They were dynamic and full of colorful characters. The lines between imagination and reality were mercurial and sometimes interchangeable. As I grew older I found inspiration in other things like Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Tales from the Cryptkeeper" (the cartoon series from the '90s). I wanted to make something that was as equally childish and maybe a little spooky.

Bonebag Comics was inspired by the Adventures of Sam and Max Freelance Police (created by Steve Purcell). They were random and zany and their witty dialogue was top-notch. I wanted my characters to be just a couple of ne'er-do-wells who had the hearts of warriors and the souls of slackers.

My comics are a release valve for the small stresses that pop up in life. When I don't draw, I feel like a house plant slowly dying of thirst. The best part is when I write down a joke or an idea for a comic and see how it turns out.

The Bonebag comics is my way of keeping a promise to my inner child "that even if I were to become a grown-up I would keep loving comics and cartoons and still find the joy in drawing characters from my imagination". Fun FACT: the name "Bonebag" I took from the Casper Movie. I loved the snide nicknames the Ghostly Trio gave to the living characters a lot.