He's went through a railroad of changes since he was first created. At first he was a man that wore a mask to hide his identity. Would stop crime and beat the living tar out of his enemies. That changed with time and here is how he came to be.
The Smiley Guy.
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Seeing his face is a distubing site. He does not fit into what society would deem normal. He is the stranger in the stange land. Alien. The only thing that could make him smile is the twisted shoelace stitched into his face. These are all the things I've told people for years what he's all about. When I created him in high school I thought of what people would call me when they would first meet me. They would say "Man, You're a Real Smiley Guy". Then the idea of some one wearing a mask with nothing more than a smile entered my mind. Better yet, what if all he could do was smile.....because it was stuck on his face, or stitched. I had the concept and ran with it. The first Smiley Guy story was done for my high school paper "The Palo Verde Post" the editor really like my art and though it would be cool to put a comic in it. I started with the " The Dark Roach" a comedy or satire of sorts about a Roach that dresses as a bat.(Dude, I know it was lame...but I was my first published work!) After that was done. I wanted to try a Super-hero strip! The Smiley Guy was born. He was an avenger of the night, and crime was going to pay for it's trespass against humanity by any means available. It 
was done, and it was printed....The Name at the title was totally messed up they called him " The Crazy Smiley Wacky Guy" and it was drawn by Eric Shock. Now, it's cool to have something printed and draw for your high school paper, but seriously, messing up your name after you've been drawing thing for that paper for two years. Anyway, after It came out I was Excited more than anything I've ever done in my life. My art teacher, saw the strip and told me it was to violent for a school paper. I gave up on drawing anything for the paper again. (In those day's I took critques of my work very emotional) I continued the Smiley Guy in my sketchbook, and on printer paper did a short 2-page story with a guy, but that was about it for the Smiley Guy, I had him in a few art projects where he battled Maim, but then, time change and the world around you does the same. Smiley when into a folder and rarely showed his head. He also popped up in Random Panels a small comic I worked on with a few guys in Tucson that was short lived and ultimately feel apart. Afte
r doing some time with a book that never saw the lite, besides an ashcan, and me drawin the story that keep changing and getting altered to the point that I quit.(Tribal Force) I decided it was time I did my own thing. I dug up all my old characters and created a few new ones. Smiley guy got dusted off, repolished, and reintroduced. He was an Alien from a distant world. His world was take over by an opposing culture, and he left it to find a new life, a new world. That world was Earth, and the year was 1939.(This is also the year of the begining of the Golden Age of Comics) Upon his arrival to earth his ship was destroyed. He left his ship in an escape pod, and being in space so long it developed into a comet. He crashes to the earth and finds himself with greater powers than that of his home world. His structure is plant-based so he grows strong with the sun, the rain, and produces oxygen from his skin. He has a healing abilities and he can see at night as well as you or I see in the day. He learns about earth through radio and telepathy. (He has eyes, but no mouth) He reads about heroes in comics and finds that this must be Earth's Myth of our gods, and using this as a platform becomes a hero. One he arises, other follow. He fights in WW2, and returns home only to find it a darker place. Years go by and he finds himself, as bum in an alley. He does not age in the sense of how we age, so, to most he is immortal. He wakes up to find a gang member want him out of the alley, and pulls a knife. He has taken himself out of the public eye because he find the more he does to make the world better the worst the world become.....He is cut from one side of his face to the other. Leaving him a smile. His reation is to stop the cretin, and thinks about how much time he has lost with the time he abandoned his new world. He stitches his face with a shoe string from an old boot. So, he will never forget what he must do for this world. With new found vigue he becomes the Smiley Guy. With that, the smiley guy becomes Dobson City's Hero.
was done, and it was printed....The Name at the title was totally messed up they called him " The Crazy Smiley Wacky Guy" and it was drawn by Eric Shock. Now, it's cool to have something printed and draw for your high school paper, but seriously, messing up your name after you've been drawing thing for that paper for two years. Anyway, after It came out I was Excited more than anything I've ever done in my life. My art teacher, saw the strip and told me it was to violent for a school paper. I gave up on drawing anything for the paper again. (In those day's I took critques of my work very emotional) I continued the Smiley Guy in my sketchbook, and on printer paper did a short 2-page story with a guy, but that was about it for the Smiley Guy, I had him in a few art projects where he battled Maim, but then, time change and the world around you does the same. Smiley when into a folder and rarely showed his head. He also popped up in Random Panels a small comic I worked on with a few guys in Tucson that was short lived and ultimately feel apart. Afte
r doing some time with a book that never saw the lite, besides an ashcan, and me drawin the story that keep changing and getting altered to the point that I quit.(Tribal Force) I decided it was time I did my own thing. I dug up all my old characters and created a few new ones. Smiley guy got dusted off, repolished, and reintroduced. He was an Alien from a distant world. His world was take over by an opposing culture, and he left it to find a new life, a new world. That world was Earth, and the year was 1939.(This is also the year of the begining of the Golden Age of Comics) Upon his arrival to earth his ship was destroyed. He left his ship in an escape pod, and being in space so long it developed into a comet. He crashes to the earth and finds himself with greater powers than that of his home world. His structure is plant-based so he grows strong with the sun, the rain, and produces oxygen from his skin. He has a healing abilities and he can see at night as well as you or I see in the day. He learns about earth through radio and telepathy. (He has eyes, but no mouth) He reads about heroes in comics and finds that this must be Earth's Myth of our gods, and using this as a platform becomes a hero. One he arises, other follow. He fights in WW2, and returns home only to find it a darker place. Years go by and he finds himself, as bum in an alley. He does not age in the sense of how we age, so, to most he is immortal. He wakes up to find a gang member want him out of the alley, and pulls a knife. He has taken himself out of the public eye because he find the more he does to make the world better the worst the world become.....He is cut from one side of his face to the other. Leaving him a smile. His reation is to stop the cretin, and thinks about how much time he has lost with the time he abandoned his new world. He stitches his face with a shoe string from an old boot. So, he will never forget what he must do for this world. With new found vigue he becomes the Smiley Guy. With that, the smiley guy becomes Dobson City's Hero. With Ash-
Tray Comics #5 and #6 I return The Smiley Guy to his hero roots with "The Case of the Smiley Guy" it is set in the 1960's the year of the silver age of comics.
Tray Comics #5 and #6 I return The Smiley Guy to his hero roots with "The Case of the Smiley Guy" it is set in the 1960's the year of the silver age of comics.Smiley will be brought into future issues of Ash-Tray Comics with the continuing story of The Bald Avenger.
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