TrevorCopter: A Sexy Life

I've been finding that TrevorCopter is a great place for a lot of my abandoned projects to find a new home. The idea of Trevor having an evil twin brother comes from a short film idea about my friends' fake band, No Buffalo. Teddy the Bear has been around for 20 years, never finding a narrative story to fit into (but was the star of the single panel comic I did in college). But this sketch brings together TWO different stories into one.

A future comic (in more than one way) I've come up with is called A Copter in Time (the title is an homage to the book A Wrinkle in Time). TrevorCopter is brought hundreds of years into the future and finds that he is a cultural deity, a legend unparalleled. He is brought into that future by the characters featured below: Nano, Deacon, and Boopsie. Nano is from an old comic I did in junior high called Crossed Wires, a half-baked science story. Deacon and Boopsie are the second male and female leads of my epic play, Mike Eynon: A Sexy Life, which I wrote in college. They are from a future where Mike Eynon, slacker college student, is worshiped. Think Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Anyway, I love when old ideas are able to find a new home. Most of the time, you find out that this was meant to be their home all along.

Bar Room Sketch

As you could probably guess, I have a lot of story ideas. Executing those story ideas is one thing, but I have A LOT of stories to tell, especially with TrevorCopter. You can't tell from this sketch, but this is part of possibly the most epic TC storyline I've thought of so far. But its also a funny little idea too. Enjoy.

Trevor settles into the hard life of a working man.

Around the World in 80 Strips: 1

I have this sketch of Story 4, Around the World in 80 Strips, that I did a while ago. Wanted to share it.
(And forgive the the lined paper and scratched out words)

TrevorCopter: REBIRTH

I got fired two months ago.

That's not the point of this post, but it is what started a return to TrevorCopter. Since the new year started, I unofficially set TC aside. I focused on doing a weekly strip for the CSULA newspaper and, when I got around to it, online comics for Restoring Truthiness and The Best Damn Nerd Show.

But then, I got fired. And over the past two months, I have been re-evaluating my life goals. One of those is pursuing comics and, specifically, TrevorCopter. The weekend after I was let go, I went to Rite-Aid and got a little notebook. That Friday afternoon, I sat down at a Starbucks and started drawing TC characters. After a few pages, I decided that I would dedicate this notebook solely to TrevorCopter. No non-TC Teddy cartoons or A@L ideas, just Trevor, The Copter and adventure. Since June 15th, the cast has expanded to nearly 40 characters (Main Cast, recurring and one-offs) and over 60 story ideas, with the first 6 (starting with the ever-in-production "The Deadly Introductions," which has now been fully planned out) forming the foundation of the world and taking on the name "Welcome Aboard!"

"Welcome Aboard!" will consist of the follow story lines:

The Deadly Introductions

The first story that brings TrevorCopter out of retirement to save President Rubester's dog

The Trevor Gala

Following TrevorCopter's triumphant return, a gala is held in his honor and everyone attends (except Trevor, who completely forgets about it)

Exotic Locale Love Story

Trevor, The Copter and Teddy are invited to the Mediterranean villa of Antoine, The Copter's creator. There, Teddy and The Copter begin their friendship and Trevor falls in love.

Around the World in 80 Strips

Trevor and eccentric billionaire Wallaby J. Cinnamon go one of their pre-planned "gentlemen adventures:" a balloon race around the world.

The TrevorCopter Flim-Flam

TrevorCopter returns to his hometown, Ruby Cove, and discovers that evil businessman, Lucar Scorpio, has purchased nearly the whole town. Trevor and the gang pull an elaborate con to take it back.

TreyCopter

Trevor's evil twin brother, Trey, takes it upon himself to destroy Trevor by turning everyone against him.

Over these stories, we'll meet Trevor's family: his dad Dr. Jerry, his mom Robo-Becky, his butler Teddy the Bear, younger sister, Cait, and his evil twin brother, Trey. We'll meet his loves: the mysterious Ava Kyle, the charming Lana Watson, professional socialite Debbie, and his (possible) true love, Mallory. And of course, we'll meet his allies (Agent Hawke and his brother Sheriff Hawke; Antoine, The Copter's creator; The Rubester, President of the United States; Wallaby J. Cinnamon, eccentric billionaire I. Ian Iverson III, Editor of The Ruby News Day; Parker Johnson, photographer with a secret and Peanut Jim, mayor of Ruby Cove, Trevor's hometown) and his enemies (Dr. Neil Monkey, The Vice President, Lucar Scorpio, StanCopter and a few more unknown adversaries).

Working in this notebook made me realize the true potential of TrevorCopter. I'm glad that I started the strip when I did (which was over a year ago now), but also glad that I didn't work through it. Even now, I look at the incompleteness of the 22 strips on this site and know that it was going in a completely different direction, one that would not have been able to bring these ideas and characters to life. The world needed to sit while it grew into something much bigger than it was going to be a year ago. My art needed to catch up to be able to capture the light spirit of this world.

And with that, I wanted to share some sketches from the notebook. This is the first peak into the new world of TrevorCopter.

Agent Hawke

  

Trevor and CopterTrevor

Trevor as The Crow

Trevor's dad, Dr. Jerry

I. Ian Iverson III., Editor of The Ruby News Day

(Princess) Mallory

Trevor's mom, Robo-Becky

Spider Hero: MENACE

The Vice President and his assistant, Matilda

Col. Hawke, Head of ARMOR

Lana Watson begins a press conference

Spider Hero being a menace

The lovely Ava Kyle and her companion, Luann the Bear

Parker Johnson, photographer for The Ruby News Day and Spider Hero, public menace 

The Copter Brigade (Clockwise from top left: Francoise, Trevor, StanCopter, Cait)

Teddy and Trevor perform a daring act

The Rubester and Teddy the Bear

Teddy gets caught eating a cake

Teddy, Ava and Lana lounging at The Trevor Pool

Trevor as Ronald McDonald

Trey

So, I'll ask again. Stay tuned, Copter Crew.

We shall fly again...

Edited comics

Not too different, but I have decided to give little captions to introduce characters to the strip.

Strip 22

Strips 20 & 21

Sorry. Work is crazy and I completely spaced on posting yesterday, so to make up for that, here are strips 20 and 21. Its as if it never happened!

STRIP 20

STRIP 21

Strip 19

Welcome back. We find our heroes, the duo known as TrevorCopter, on their way to FBI HQ to start their investigation into the kidnapping of the Rubester's dog, Old Chester.

Relaunch!

Guess what, Shayne and Dave Rick? We're coming back! TrevorCopter, the hilarious adventure strip starring a lovable cast of colorful characters and dastardly rogues, is returning on January 9th.

To add a little bit of collateral to that claim, here are some re-done strips from the past, altered and/or re-drawn to better capture the world I am trying to build here. A few more will follow before the strip begins again. Enjoy and I will see you in the NEW YEAR!

NEW STRIP 8 (Original)

NEW STIP 17 (Original)



Strip 18

Strip 17

Strip 16

Technical mix up kept me from hitting the promised day of Teusday for the return after the long weekend, but now, we are back to our show

Tiny Break

I know that I just got over the HUGE break from moving, but we are going to have a short break this weekend because my sister is getting married and I will be unable to post til Tuesday morning. If you have ever been to a Reece wedding, you would completely understand. So, I will see you on the other side of this weekend. And when we return, more new characters will be teased and we will be getting our first looks into the dynamics of the TrevorCopter relationship (SPOILER - Its basically like Knight Rider.)

Strip 15

Strip 14

Strip 13 and theme

Have you seen Misfits? Oh man, it is awesome! It’s on Hulu Anyway, I have decided that TrevorCopter needs a great theme song like James Bond. So, the theme to the first arc, The Deadly Introductions, is the theme from Misfits. Until I can come up with an original composition for a theme for TrevorCopter, I will have to co-opt songs that someone else used first. Enjoy the strip and the theme. It’s pretty awesome that the London riots are playing over the music.

Strip 12

Strip 11

Hello. We welcome you back to our regularly scheduled programming. And enjoy the new, non-dated, titles!

Strip 10 8/25

Almost back up to speed... Just in time for the drama to hit!

Strip 9 8/23

Almost back. Caught a lucky break with this one and I should be able to get TrevorCopter back to the regular schedule by next week. Stay tuned, but enjoy Strip 9!