My even older comic strip, "Tree" (Patreon)

From 2005-2007, I did a comic strip called "Tree." I drew this strip right before I drew Stewart. Here are some samples.

"Tree" was about a sarcastic, slightly dim pine tree, named Tree, who worked at Starbucks and hung with his two best friends, Wyatt and Claire. (I put Claire in the Stewart strip because I liked her character and thought she'd be a good love interest for a bison.)

"Tree" and "Stewart" had similar "fish out of water" themes - both main characters were trying to live with humans and both weren't the sharpest tools in the shed. 

One syndicate editor loved Tree and thought it was original, but he told me it was too weird for newspaper syndication. 

I loved drawing Stewart, but Tree was my favorite.