About

Just what is going on here?
In one of the many suburb cities of San Fransisco, there lies a little liberal art college called Thorton College of the Arts. Close by there’s a nice little house owned by a well-off family who has converted the house into a boardinghouse, named after their ancestors: McAuliffe Boardinghouse.

Enter Patricia Ronalds. Ron is a jaded young aspiring-author of a platypus that came up north with a chip on her shoulder. Often bitter, usually snarky, sometimes even egotistical about her own intelligence after a childhood of teasing by her peers for her looks and her geekdom, she may not come off as the most appealing person on campus.

Then there’s her only friend: a naive blue bird-looking camerabot named Lillian Dakota who isn’t exactly what she appears to be. Normally shy and quiet, often choosing to hide than rather step out and say exactly what she thinks (yes, thinks) for fear of being persecuted, the cynical platypus is often the only person she shows her true, often rather curious colours to. Standing as a lone fully intelligent, emotional, and creative inorganic being among a world of ignorant organisms, there’s hints that she hasn’t had the best life before she came to Thorton. While it seems like Ron may destroy her innocence with her influence on Lillian, fact still remains that she is a true friend to the lonely being.

They’re joined by the other inhabitants of the boardinghouse they live in. Josh Brinkley is the rather inept son of the owners who watches the place as he himself attends college, and Sydney Brindisi the just your local poetic arrogant angst-kitty. Then there’s a full campus of your typical reckless college students and a rather eccentric faculty, all adding to the fact that what we have a concoction for chaos.

Who is doing this and why?
AntiSocial Commentary is a project of SA Ferrell, aspiring artist, writer, and all around weird person. The comic was started out as an occasional solution to boredom and a way to channel her rather OCD-like compulsion to draw, and became a major project to try to go out and tell a story she’s been developing for several years now.

SA Ferrell has been drawing comics almost as long as she has been drawing, a habit which goes back to the first grade. None of them were all that good, of course, but you have to forgive budding elementary school comic artists for thinking they’re hot stuff. AntiSocial Commentary itself is a re-work of her first webcomic, Anxiety Cafe, which was done for a year at the young, raw ages of 13-14 years old. Oy, it was bad.

She has always been obsessed with certain science fiction elements such as robots, and fantasy, and what inspired her to draw was a combination of classic animation such as Warner Bros. cartoons and their descendants such as Animaniacs, Taz-Mania, and the good Nicktoons. Hence all the toony critters that tend to appear in her work. Animation has always been an interest with her, and foolishly, she still aspires to perhaps one day be some sort of story artist for an animation studio.

Living in a time where newspaper comics might as well not be there at all and the most popular webcomics are based off of computer and video game humour, the creator just wants to hold out one of the webcomic artists whose humour is based off of the character’s personalities and the situations they’re thrown in. And considering how deep these character and their world’s development have gone, there will be greater dimensions shown later on as the plot advances.

When is this updated?
While I try my best to keep it updated regularly, I have a life that often throws tons of crap at me so I can’t say I really succeed at keeping the updates regular. If it makes up for anything, with every downturn I have and the more doubt I have about being able to keep up I always come back with more devotion to the project.