Larry Bogus

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the very early 2000s Benjamin Lee Blankenship - now known throughout the fiction world as B. L. Blankenship drew a comic strip about his father Larry Blankenship and entitled it and the protagonist Larry Bogus. Nearly 2 decades later after his father asked him to & fully funded the comic - a full-length 24-page comic book about the maniac depressive disordered character and his everyday antics. It was sincerely nice of him to fund this comic - the hook that went along with the funds was that it be a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Larry Bogus</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> comic. While dictating that Larry then began to accost his wife (i.e. B. L.'s mother) while she was sitting right there for nearly an hour - exclaiming how everything is always her fault and never his & things of that nature. Stylistically something like this might be most similar to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mad Magazine's Monroe</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>King of The Hill</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aqua Teen Hunger Force</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Daria</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> or something like that.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>B. L. Blankenship said of this that it is the absolute easiest thing that he could write - because he'd live around it for so many years. Frankly if a television network read this they may want to base a Roseanne-type sitcom off of it or something - though it may be a bit closer to the fictitious television show </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Psycho Dad</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> - that was </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Al Bundy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'s favorite program to watch on </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Married with Children</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Many of the characters look a bit different than they do in real life & others were purposely not put in this out of respect for them. Jonelle & the writer himself - (renowned fiction/horror author) B. L. Blankenship aka the Reverend Benjamin Lee Blankenship aka (Southern Gospel Music Z-List Celebrity Lyricist etc.) BEN*JAM - kinda had to be in it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As always B. L. would rather put out more products at reasonable prices than do crowdfunding. In late 2023 he began writing & putting out comic books. There are plenty more planned to come out through 2025 - including his HELLFIRE series which is on the back cover of this. If his comics do well enough to actually make money or a comic book publisher hires him for work - that'll be counted as a win. Either way he says that he plans to have fun making them in the meantime.</span></p><p><br></p>