Mister Sausage
BY ERIC FONG

I really don't know what to say here. What better way to convey this information than by bullet points?!? (I've been in business school for too long).
  • My name is Eric.
  • Here's My Blog.
  • I'm Chinese.
  • I'm 24.
  • I'm going to UH and I'm graduating in like, a week.
  • I've been drinking lots of beer lately because my girl and I broke up.
  • I think it's making me fat. Otherwise I'm really skinny.
  • I work at UH and at Sharper Image.
  • Crowds make me nervous.
  • Why the hell am I working retail if crowds make me nervous?
  • This isn't a list any more.
  • Someone help me.
  • I'm serious.
  • Oh crap I think it's too late.

Mister Sausage was the name of my comic strip that ran in the Ka Leo O Hawaii; the college newspaper for the University of Hawaii. I drew for the paper for about six or seven years; my first comics were called "Hi", "AAB", "Mad Circles", and a few others until I decided that I liked the name "Mister Sausage". The name came about while my friends and I were hanging out one day. Actually, a lot of my ideas come out from conversations I have with my friends, because I hang out with some pretty whack people.

The comic centers around a band of friends who just live their lives. The four main characters are two guys, a talking bird, and a talking sausage (named Mister Sausage, who the comic is named after). Together (or hell, even separately), these friends live their lives, overcome obstacles, tackle questions of philosophy, and get dissed by fake bitches.

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Cast:

Eric (or Ryan) ... okay, so I messed up. I named him Ryan for a semester, and then started naming him Eric. Any way, he's probably the main character of the comic. Most of the strips seem to center around him.

People say that when I draw him, I'm drawing myself. The truth is - I didn't look like him at first. I created the character, and then happened to cut my hair short about a year later.. then I started to look like him. Sick, isn't it? 		Mister Sausage - whom the comic strip is named after. Mister Sausage is a talking sausage. Don't ask me what kind of sausage, I really don't know my sausages too well; I'd say he's one of those European sausages. He's not a vegetarian sausage, either. Those are for the sick and confused.

Mister Sausage is the all around sage and voice of reason that we all have in our lives. He used to have a brother, who disavowed the family name, taking on the name "Mister Hot Dog" but was killed by Mister Sausage out of vengeance.

Why doesn't he have arms or legs? Because he's a sausage, damn it. Weren't you paying attention?
Unnamed Character - This character is supposed to be a human, not an insect or an alien. When I first started drawing for the paper, I really couldn't draw (I still can't!). So I decided to draw a stick man with hair and big eyes. And so I have this character.

As the comic strip developed, and as I learned to draw, I decided to still keep this character. Basically, he's the well-meaning friend that you sometimes wish you never had (or at least, had to be seen in public with!) 		The Bird - or sometimes called, Mister Bird. He was the other main character in my first strips (along with the unnamed stickman). The bird was just as easy to draw, but everyone liked the bird and his cocky attitude (get it? cocky?), so I kept him around.

Carrying forth the antagonistic voice to Mister Sausage, the bird represents the voice of passion and reckless abandon. The bird is male, and has a bastard son somewhere (he flew into the zoo one day and humped an ostrich).