User:Matthew Thurber/sandbox

Mr Colostomy is a talking horse character created by Matthew Thurber in circa 1998. The character of Mr Colostomy appeared for the first time as a disembodied voice in a series of homemade VHS tapes produced by Thurber in the late 1990s. Mr. Colostomy later was reincarnated as a talking horse for the comic Easter Special in 2002, a collaboration with Rebecca Bird. He appeared in the self published comic Mining the Moon (issues 1 and 2). He appeared in anthology comic Kramers Ergot 6, in 2007. He was also a reoccurring character in Thurber's 1-800-MICE which appeared as a serialized comic between 2007 and 2010, and was collected into a graphic novel published by PictureBox in 2011. Mr. Colostomy appears as the host of the "Bloody Fingerprints Mystery Novel Club" in Mystery Colostomy, a video made by Thurber as part of Moon Tube, a series of narrative videos made in one day each, as part of the 28 Days Residency in New York. In July 2014, a play version of Mining the Moon was produced at the Brick Theater's Comics Book Theater festival. It had four performances. The role of Mr. Colostomy was performed by Leah Wishnia. Other cast members included Ric Royer, Austin English, Rebecca Bird, Laura Perez-Harris, and Raven Burnett. Mr. Colostomy appears in Thurber's Art Comic series, which was collected into a graphic novel by Drawn and Quarterly in 2018, as an investigative reporter for Artforum. Beginning in 2016, Thurber started to post a "daily strip"on Instagram with the title Mr Colostomy. Thurber drew most of these strips in public spaces such as coffee shops, with no pre-planning or editing. In his daily strip appearance, Mr Colostomy is a detective investigating art crimes, frequently accompanied by Groomfiend, the talking mouse from 1-800-MICE. The comic strips were posted almost daily until 2018. They were collected in three self-published zines: Mr Colostomy 1, Mr Colostomy 2, and The Gargoyle Carvers. A graphic novel collecting Mr Colostomy comic strips was published in March 2022 by Drawn and Quarterly. Mr Colostomy's name appears with english punctuation, that is, no period after the "Mr", in order to convey the concept that his story is endless.