About Big Hit Comics

What is Big Hit Comics? A comic book company that believes comics should be fun! That humor comics should be humorous, hero comics should be heroic, and a good time should be had by all! So far it consists mostly of me, Mike Jones, Jr. as chief creator, doing art, writing, graphic design, and etc. You can find out all you want to know about both Star Quack and Omni-Men at their respective websites linked above. Below you can see other comics-centric activities of mine over the years.

Red River Valley Museum in Vernon Texas: While doing design work for this museum's display area, I somehow convinced the powers-that-be that they needed a comic book for their gift shop relaying the many interesting historic tales of the region.

Lost In Space: (or; "The One That Got Away; Twice!") I’ve been trying to get a gig with Will Robinson and crew since 1991, with no luck. Innovation Comics gave me a 3-page tryout script, but never responded to my submission. I later saw that they had decided to go with a painted style, but that their monster looked a great deal like mine! In 2015 another close brush came when the Famous Monsters of Filmland people were going to do an LIS mini-series. They seemed enraptured by my older Innovation samples, even calling me on the phone to praise my efforts, but after I submitted new pages, their interest fell flat. I never understood the dramatic shift, particularly when I saw the art from the first artist they ended up using (before Val Mayerik, who did a great job).

Sue Nami: Around the year 2000, my old college roommate, Alan Davy, (who is an English professor and great humorist/cartoonist himself) and I decided to try a syndicated comic strip submission called Sue Nami, featuring a girl who was a pure force of nature. We placed in an Andrews McMeel Syndicate contest, but got no further with our submissions.

Muhammad Ali: The black-and-white comics boom was still going on somewhat in the 1990's. I snagged an assignment for a biography of Muhammad Ali for All Pro Sports Comics. Unfortunately, the black-and-white boom ended and the company folded before I could finish it (but I did anyway).

Louisiana Tech University: While in the graphic design MFA program, I was producing comics whenever I could. Not only was Star Quack birthed there, but I produced the strip Bea Bayou for North Central Louisiana Style Magazine, as well as my first attempt at a superhero comic book, The Locust. It was done as part of my MFA thesis on Visual Storytelling, and you can see I was trying on Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's approach for size.

Côte d'Ivoire: In the mid 80's after college, I did a two-year missionary stint in Ivory Coast, West Africa. My assignment was to use my design and illustration skills for French-language Bible Study materials for Francophone West Africa.

Glider Rider Magazine: My first professional design job after college! I worked there in Chattanooga doing mostly graphics, but also wheedled my way into some of their illustration assignments.

East Tennessee State University:

I co-created, with my English-major roommate (and now college professor) Alan Davy, my first regular feature for public consumption, The Dorm Troopers, enforcers of dormitory regulations. You did NOT want to get on their bad side! After Alan graduated I still had a year left and did a humor strip called Buc Country (we were the Buccaneers), inspired by both Bloom County and Peanuts.

What does the future of Big Hit Comics hold? I’ve got lots more that I want to do, including more humor comics concepts, children’s books about dinosaurs, and my own serious sci-fi comic book series. Can I get it all done? Of course not! But hopefully you will be excited to see just how much of it all eventually comes to fruition! Let me know what you think of the work so far and stay tuned!

About the Author

Mike Jones, Jr. spent a typical cartoonist’s childhood rendering big feet and noses in crayon, thinking this was a marketable skill, but learned differently upon reaching adulthood. With no outlets in sight for his exaggerated scrawls, “Graphic Design” became the vocation-to-the-rescue. Jones commenced producing logos, posters, ads and publications, with nary a duck or dinosaur among them (which you can see at mikejonesjr.net). Then followed a career of college teaching in which design skills were imparted to the next generation for nearly 30 years, during which Jones drew his big noses “on the side.” But an early retirement has graciously allowed him to focus on these absurdist graphic pursuits full-time!

Mike Jones, Jr., doing research for a crayon-generated epic. This was much easier in 1967, when dinosaurs were allowed to roam freely in Winn-Dixie parking lots.

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Red River Valley Museum in Vernon Texas: While doing design work for this museum's display area, I somehow convinced the powers-that-be that they needed a comic book for their gift shop relaying the many interesting historic tales of the region.

Muhammad Ali: The black-and-white comics boom was still going on somewhat in the 1990's. I snagged an assignment for a biography of Muhammad Ali for All Pro Sports Comics. Unfortunately, the black-and-white boom ended and the company folded before I could finish it (but I did anyway).

Côte d'Ivoire: In the mid 80's after college, I did a two-year missionary stint in Ivory Coast, West Africa. My assignment was to use my design and illustration skills for French-language Bible Study materials for Francophone West Africa.

Glider Rider Magazine: My first professional design job after college! I worked there in Chattanooga doing mostly graphics, but also wheedled my way into some of their illustration assignments.

Red River Valley Museum in Vernon Texas: While doing design work for this museum's display area, I somehow convinced the powers-that-be that they needed a comic book for their gift shop relaying the many interesting historic tales of the region.

​​Muhammad Ali: The black-and-white comics boom was still going on somewhat in the 1990's. I snagged an assignment for a biography of Muhammad Ali for All Pro Sports Comics. Unfortunately, the black-and-white boom ended and the company folded before I could finish it (but I did anyway).

Côte d'Ivoire: In the mid 80's after college, I did a two-year missionary stint in Ivory Coast, West Africa. My assignment was to use my design and illustration skills for French-language Bible Study materials for Francophone West Africa.

Glider Rider Magazine: My first professional design job after college! I worked there in Chattanooga doing mostly graphics, but also wheedled my way into some of their illustration assignments.

Muhammad Ali: The black-and-white comics boom was still going on somewhat in the 1990's. I snagged an assignment for a biography of Muhammad Ali for All Pro Sports Comics. Unfortunately, the black-and-white boom ended and the company folded before I could finish it (but I did anyway).