OT: MET grad student cartoonist from the mid eighties?

[Tommaker]

Does anyone remember who that was and/or what might have happened to him? The strip featured a moose whose antlers used to contort into different shapes depending on the conversation. They were always running down to the Levee to give blood for beer money/spring break etc.

 

[StateStreet123]

Does anyone remember who that was and/or what might have happened to him? The strip featured a moose whose antlers used to contort into different shapes depending on the conversation. They were always running down to the Levee to give blood for beer money/spring break etc.

The comic strip was called "Locomotives". Written by grad student Bob Peterson.

"It may say everything that you need to know about this comic strip that Bob Peterson is now an academy award nominated screenwriter at Pixar - of course, aren't all Purdue mechanical engineering grads? If you were at Purdue in the 80's, you don't need me to tell you that this was the main reason to pick up the Exponent for 2 years. I can't suggest anyone who wasn't there during that time will get much of the humor, since it is very topical, but this remains one of the funniest comics ever produced. Ok, maybe Calvin and Hobbes was better, but Bill Watterson was getting paid and wasn't working on a thesis at the time."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Peterson_(filmmaker)

also: do a google search on the following for the amazon feature quoted above:
Boilercoaster-84-86-exponents-motives-cartoon

 

[Courthouse Carp]

Does anyone remember who that was and/or what might have happened to him? The strip featured a moose whose antlers used to contort into different shapes depending on the conversation. They were always running down to the Levee to give blood for beer money/spring break etc.

Yeah, he wrote/illustrated Loco Motives in the Exponent: http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Peterson
The guy was/is very talented!

The following comic (of today) isn't Bob Peterson related, but thought I'd post it here now, as it was a recent topic on the b-ball forum:

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis

 

[IronChefBBQ]

I remember an Exponent comic in mid-90s with a main character named Joe...

 

[Tommaker]

The comic strip was called "Locomotives". Written by grad student Bob Peterson.

"It may say everything that you need to know about this comic strip that Bob Peterson is now an academy award nominated screenwriter at Pixar - of course, aren't all Purdue mechanical engineering grads? If you were at Purdue in the 80's, you don't need me to tell you that this was the main reason to pick up the Exponent for 2 years. I can't suggest anyone who wasn't there during that time will get much of the humor, since it is very topical, but this remains one of the funniest comics ever produced. Ok, maybe Calvin and Hobbes was better, but Bill Watterson was getting paid and wasn't working on a thesis at the time."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Peterson_(filmmaker)

also: do a google search on the following for the amazon feature quoted above:
Boilercoaster-84-86-exponents-motives-cartoon

That's it! Thanks. The Purdue calendar has some cartoons on it and that's what jogged the memory circuits.

 

[Purdue4Life]

Yeah, he wrote/illustrated Loco Motives in the Exponent: http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Peterson
The guy was/is very talented!

The following comic (of today) isn't Bob Peterson related, but thought I'd post it here now, as it was a recent topic on the b-ball forum:

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis

I thought comics were supposed to be funny.

 

[Courthouse Carp]

I thought comics were supposed to be funny.

I guess you never read Mary Worth.