Since 1996, I’ve been writing and drawing Kokopelli and Company, an almost-monthly one-pager for Muse, a magazine aimed at 9-to-15 year olds. In the strip, new, updated Muses for the Modern World try to dodge the trickster’s practical jokes. I’m afraid you won’t find any samples online, but you can check out the magazine’s unofficial fan page to see what the kids are thinking.

 

Raw Materials

Peter is a devious, manipulative, power-mad geek with an Adonis face half-hidden by hair. Arnold is a relentlessly rational geek who regards his beloved Jill’s complete indifference to him as a logic puzzle to be solved. Jill, a greedy geek, is not unfeeling: she loves all dollars equally. Leila is our moral geek, whose socially responsible impulses evaporate around Peter on account of his looks. They’re the Raw Materials, in hot and geeky pursuit of whatever it is they pursue. The strip was born online at Discovery Tech, where you can find 18 installments. It has since moved to Simple-Talk and SQLServerCentral, two jolly sites for database administrators.