Wil Smith words and pictures

Wil grew up in a small town in upstate New York, battling the popular nomenclature of a then hit TV show starring a raucus, African-American funnyman. Like any commonly heckled teenager, Wil retreated to his pencils, pens and comic books for escape from the general mundanity of high school stupidity. After graduation (and the apparent drop in the "Fresh Prince's" popularity in lieu of more serious material,) Wil ventured west to the chilled city of Minneapolis to persue a career as a comic book artist. It was here that the first inklings of Marty Tanenger started to surface. He drank himself stupid and dropped out by the end of his first semester. But like they say, "live and learn." While down, but certainly not out, Wil continued his artistic aspirations under the radar and out of the jurisdiction of an educational institution, and it was while employed at a soon to be defunct record store that the first three paneled incarnation of Marty Tanenger came to fruition. These early templates were buried, while Wil attempted to persue more serious stories (involving the Apocalypse, brought on by mankind's ambition to create life in a God-like forum. Heavy... I know.) It wasn't until 2003 and the boredom instigated by a rather obnoxious day job gave rise to the FIRST actual Marty Tanenger Tale. The early version of THIS strip started it all. Muttering the words, "This would make a cool webcomic," Wil felt somewhat accomplished for the first time since receiving his college acceptance letter. This moment was quickly overshadowed by the rest of the workday. Several more strips were conceived (consisting mostly of the "Blast off the Future" storyline,) but never posted and the Tanenger Tales were lost for several years. Four jobs and three and a half years later, with some forced motivation from friends and co-workers (namely Cait Hinek, for the most part,) Wil dusted off the old "Tales" archive, inked them up, and posted them for all to see. The rest, is history. Wait... that WAS the history. TO THE FUTURE!!

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