TmsT Vintage Archive

Grandy02's Site > TmsT Vintage Archive

Main Page

Welcome to the TmsT Vintage Archive! Enjoy your stay.

Important Notice

Before you continue, please read the following:

The TmsT Vintage Archive includes non-family-friendly content, such as violence, gore, profanity, consumption of hallucinogens, adult themes, and political incorrectness. There are also pieces without any such content, but the other ones come with it.
While this site features a lot of content created by Andrew "TmsT" Kepple, including his partially mirrored former web presences, it is not maintained by him. It is a TmsT fansite.
If there is any content you would like to use, don't ask me, I didn't create it. Ask Andrew. But if you happen to have one of the many "lost" works, such as a missing Goodbye, Cruel World! episode, spotted an error or just would like to tell your opinion, feel free to contact me.

page top 🔺

Introduction

Andrew Kepple (www.TooMuchSpareTime.org) is a varied artist from New Zealand (Aotearoa), known for his work as an animator, cartoonist, composer, musician, and game creator, among other skills. By September 1999, then 19 years old, he started to use the label TooMuchSpareTime, abbreviated TmsT, for his creations, which also acts as a screenname of Andrew. Other handles include TheOddKepple, King Sluggy and Smorgasboredom.

At the TmsT Vintage Archive, you can find hundreds of works by Andrew that were made available online between 1999 and 2007, or at least created by 2007, the year when he graduated from the Freelance Animation School and officially became a professional animator. The site is not intended to contain every single piece posted by him during said timespan. It primarily focuses on the TmsT comics and cartoons (the non-Flash kind), and in that case, I included almost everything I found. Flash animations that are not among those available on Albino Blacksheep and Newgrounds can also be found here, as well as other content.

I first learned about TmsT on the Public Commander Keen Forum (PCKF), more specifically its now-defunct ezboard incarnation (2000–2007), where Andrew was among the most productive members. In 2021, I asked him whether I could add his available Commander Keen-related works to the then upcoming fanart section of the PCKF Archive, a site intended to gather content by PCKF members and other fans of the classic computer games.

Most of the TmsT web presences (not counting Andrew's content on ABS and NG) that were launched between 1999 and 2004 went offline by 2009. Fortunately, the Internet Archive and other archives preserved large parts of them before that happened. While I scanned said archives for Commmander Keen-related content, I came accross a lot of other nice stuff, and thought that it would be neat to have a dedicated place for the other pieces, too. Finding specific content was often rather complicated, with one having to switch around between all those URLs and snapshots and – in the case of GeoCities – multiple archives. And many times it was just another disappointing broken image.

One day, I decided to make the TmsT Vintage Archive so that there would finally be an easy way to access the ancient TmsT artifacts. The project turned out to be much bigger than I had expected, but I was very pleased when it was done.

page top 🔺

Legend

Below the name of almost every work, you will see at least one of these little icons, which are links. This is what they mean:

– I took the vast majority of files from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Click on the icon to view the page where the work in question is either embedded or linked to. In a few cases, the archived page includes a broken image or dead link instead because the file could only be retrieved via a different URL.
– The separate GeoCities archives named OoCities.org and GeoCities.ws have some TmsT-related content that the Wayback Machine lacks, which is why you will sometimes encounter links to these sites instead. Note that both of them use ads, unlike the Wayback Machine.
– This icon indicates that the archived page or an excerpt of it has been mirrored on shikadi.net. A mirror of a mirror, so to speak. In most cases, the thumbnails lead to the same URL as the icon, given it's there, but there are exceptions.
– A link to an archived page on NY00123's Selected Strife Contents, or to the main page of the latter. This icon is primarily seen in the "Chasm & Strife" section.
– The link leads you to a page that is not part of one the archives mentioned above, but is still online.
– Only relevant for Flash works. Click for direct download of an SWF file rather than viewing a page with the embedded file.

The date above a work's name refers to its public release on the Internet, according to my knowledge. Some were created years before Andrew posted them, while others first appeared in printed media. I don't guarantee that the dates are correct. They most commonly relate to New Zeland time, but some might not.

page top 🔺

Banner & Background

The characters seen in the banner are the members of the Cheesy Family, taken from a Goodbye, Cruel World! episode titled "The Story So Far". I rearranged things, drew a speech bubble intended to resemble those used in Andrew's comics of the time, and added the logo.

For the background, I used nine characters from different TmsT works. From left to right, top to bottom:

Post-Ironic Pig from the third page of the Post-Ironic Pig episode "Post Ironic-Pig In Love".
Noel Lemming from the Goodbye, Cruel World! episode "Noel Interrupted".
Leon Lemming from the Goodbye, Cruel World! episode "Tasteless Cartoonfomercial".
Janie from the first episode of Kids These Days.
King Sluggy from the final part of "Duke Millionaire", a Sluggy comic on This Strife.
Tony the Toenail from the 2002 TmsT main menu.
Mulletboy from the Mulletboy Flash animation "Frogged".
Ignatius the Incinerator from artwork showing Iggy holding his Canterbury Card.
Dodgy Duck from the loading screen of the Flash animation Ignatius versus Dodgy.

I took inspiration from certain backgrounds created by Andrew for This Strife, but made it monochrome so that it's both more "vintage" and less distracting.

page top 🔺

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to:

Andrew "TmsT" Kepple, for giving his approval. And for creating almost every piece found here in the first place, of course.
Adam "Malvineous" Nielsen, for hosting. Since more than a decade, when also counting the PCKF Archive.
NY00123, for gathering Strife-hosted TmsT content long before the idea for this site was born, and for adding TmsT works prepared by me to his site.
The people behind Wayback Machine and other web archivists, for saving tons of stuff that would otherwise have been lost now. About 1800 files were used to build the TmsT Vintage Archive.
PCKF members KeenRush and Levellass, for backing up certain TmsT pictures.

page top 🔺

Sections

The more than 500 pieces of the TmsT Vintage Archive are spread over the following 18 sections:

The Pokémorons Zone – When Pikachu goes bad.
Post-Ironic Pig – Retro-style cartoons set in modern times.
20th-Century Flashbacks – Blasts from the past century.
Mulletboy – A goof's animated adventures.
Goodbye, Cruel World! – About two contrary lemmings and other wacky people.
Chasm & Strife – Computer game characters as you never saw them before.
Scapegoat – Blatant paraody of Stargate SG-1.
UC Student Diary 2004 – A duck tells the truth about uni.
Iggy the Dragon – Through the university year with a dragon.
Kids These Days – Title says it all.
Other Comics – More classics for your amusement.
Freelance Animation School – Andrew on the way to his diploma.
Caricature Gallery – Caricatures of past and present (now past, too).
Self-Caricatures & Photos – The artist himself in pictures.
Flash Animations – What's not on Albino Blacksheep and Newgrounds (mostly).
Live-Action Films – Crazy homemade movies.
Music – MIDI and MP3 files.
More Stuff – The grand finale.

page top 🔺