| This Really Happened |
[May. 24th, 2009|11:51 am] |
Here are some pictures from my trip to Oklahoma for Mashley's graduation. It was actually a really good time, and my sister is pretty great.
11:10am, morning after graduation. Mashley walks in to Mom's house. I said, "Ashley did you even go to bed last night?" She paused. "Well, I woke up."
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| Re-re-re-re-re-re-starting Wigu |
[May. 20th, 2009|03:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  scared | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Music From the Motion Picture "Ghostbusters 2" | ] |
I'm doing Wigu comics again! Sorry I have been so terrible at this making comics thing. It is tough sometimes being a Internet Businessman.
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I am flying to Oklahoma this weekend for my sister's graduation. Gonna wear a baseball cap and sunglasses the whole time. |
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| Skeptics N Tha Pubb |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|05:27 pm] |
I forgot to tell you, Livejournal, that Mr. Jon Roseberg and myself will be blaspheming and bullshittin' a couple of hours away at the Boston Skeptics in the Pub this coming Monday, April 27, 2009.
Bring your holy water, Bigfoot traps and alien-seein' googles! Here is the facebook command module. |
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| My ears are ruined? OR really good? |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
I have this thing lately (building over the last few years) in my ears where whenever I listen to like, laptop speakers, or real "tinny" sounding things, it feels like there's "feedback" inside of my ears and I can actually kind of like hear my eardrums rattling around? It's like a "churning" sound in my ears that makes me feel like I'm going completely insane. If I turn down the high end on the equalizer it completely goes away.
It doesn't bother me on like nice speakers, just small speakers like TVs and laptops. And sometimes people's voices. Earbuds are like kryptonite, but big expensive headphones are okay. Is this a thing? |
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| TCAF |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|09:38 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
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| |  terrified | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Does It Offend You Yeah - Being Bad Feels Pretty Good | ] |
Wow, TCAF is in less than a month! LET'S ALL GO TO TCAF.
Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2009
May 9 & 10
It is my favorite comics get-together. I won't have the OC book yet but I will have a preview there, I promise. |
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| Student Loans -- PAID OFF |
[Apr. 4th, 2009|02:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | SGU | ] |
Just paid off my student loans.
Remember kids! If you go to college, and get kicked out halfway through the 3rd year because you're too depressed to go to class but nobody seems to notice, and you keep wanting to go back but you become complacent for years with your $30k government salary you lied your way to get, and eventually get fired and spend the next five years working 12+ hour days, 7 days a week, building a webcomic merchandise company -- THIS TOO CAN BE YOU. |
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| OC and Wigu prints |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|08:19 pm] |
As of yesterday I have 100' of 44" wide semi-gloss photo paper, and like $700 worth of backup ink, so I now officialy have the capability to make museum-quality prints of every single comic, or drawing, I ever made. BUT I don't have all my high res files, so there's at least a year of Wigu comics, and about 5% of OC comics that I can't make available.
So I think what I'm gonna do is just sort of take suggestions on comics that people especially want to see as prints, and make sort of an archive page that I can constantly add to for comics that I definitely have available as prints.
But a task like that ain't easy, especially since I'm pretty much constantly low on free time anyway. So what I should probably do is take suggestions for certain comics that people would like to own as prints. You don't even have to necesarrily be interested in buying them, just if you like it and think other people would be intersted in buying them!
So can any of y'all think of any comics you definitely think should be available as prints, for the "launch?"
Also shown: John Campbell's new Actually Ugly Duckling prints.
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| Superfrog Pages Eight and Nine |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|08:34 pm] |
Oh man I forgot to do these the last couple of days, I also forgot to do at least 40 other things too so it ain't like it's an anomaly.
That wasn't the ONLY thing he could have done. But whatever works, when you are SUPERFROG.
WILLIE is so scared that his eyeball literally rips apart. Looking at this page, I actually REMEMBER drawing it, because I remember being happy with how Superfrog looks as he is flying toward them. I remember that, then I remember shouting. |
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| Superfrog Pages Six and Seven |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|05:38 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  all sticky and dirty kind of | ] |
| [ | music |
| | yo la tengo | ] |
Wigu.com was down yesterday so here are two pages of this.
Notice my use of the phrase "laser sword." Even at 11 years old, just a couple of years after Jedi was out, I was worried about getting sued by George Lucas.
The secret cave (which is basically a cliche in the Wigu-verse) which ostensibly has no electricity as evidenced by the still-burning candle, has a radio, which is apparently battery-operated and has been tuned to the news for however long the "ancient Amphibians" placed the Superfrog items there (including the book that makes you HIGH), knowing with their Wisdoms that Soupy Frog would fall into the cave at the exact right time.
And even with that, this is still better and more tangible storytelling than "The Attack of the Clones." Though I may be biased. The little fat kid that made this didn't know how bad his acne was going to be. |
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| Superfrog Page Five |
[Feb. 25th, 2009|06:43 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ladyhawke then The Books after | ] |
(Note, my numbering was off because of dumb, this is the real page five).
( Superfrog Page Five )
Did I get that tires-flipping up flying cars thing from Back to the Future? I guess I did, since it had come out a year before this.
I had a feeling that when I was designing the Googel Maverick for Wigu that I was kind of finishing a look that I was trying to get when I was a kid, sort of like a TIE Fighter with Space Shuttle engines stuck on it.
But yeah, the MEGA fighters were pretty obviously hella early prototypes of the Googel Maverick. This page also features possibly the fewest number of pages before main characters are introduced and then killed off... or were they?? |
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| Superfrog Page Two |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|03:36 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Savage Love Podcast | ] |
It's hard to tell on account of little Mashley going bananas with a purple crayon on this thing, but W.I.L.L.I.E. is a robot, and I can't remember definitely if it was an actual functioning acronym or not, but it seems like it was.
( Superfrog Page Two )
INSANE UPDATE. Andrew "MS Paint Adventures" Hussie ALSO MADE A COMIC CALLED SUPERFROG WHEN HE WAS 11. Published by MEGA COMICS. [PROOF] |
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| Superfrog Page One |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|04:13 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dino-5 | ] |
I just noticed I misspelled "illustrations." I wonder if 23 years is some sort of record for not noticing a typo?
( Superfrog Page One ) |
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| Superfrog |
[Feb. 18th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
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| | Pavement - AT&T | ] |
Okay, since I'm still not at to a point where I can start making comics before 1am, and won't be able to for at least another week, I am going to post the first comic book I ever made, a thing called "Superfrog."
I had actually hid it behind some wood paneling when I was like 12 and it wasn't recovered until I moved out, I think, and my little sister got ahold of it at one point and drew on it. But here it is, for your "enjoyment," Superfrog. By 11-year-old Jeffrey Rowland.
I will update a new installment each day until I get back on track (there will be OC and Wigu updates during this time, just kind of terribly spotty).
( Read the rest of SUPERFROG ) |
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| Progress |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|01:22 am] |
Some of y'all may be thinking "why is Jeffrey so crappy with the comics lately and hardly ever making them and not telling anybody anything." This is why -- TopatoCo is ass-deep in moving to a twice-as-big office, and here are some pictures to prove it.
Moving is always seven times harder than you think is gonna be, and there is always fifteen times more bullshit and trash and dust and hair and squalor and filth than it had previously occurred to you that you had been basically squirming around in.
And if you want to see it in real life, here is your chance.
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| Edward |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|07:22 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ting Tings | ] |
At last, TopatoCo has been consumed by Twilight Fever as well. |
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| Your Butt |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|03:28 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kenny Loggins | ] |
Poll #1339248 What's More Inappropriate
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat sounds worse -- "In your butt" or "Inside your butt." |
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| Wigu |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|02:24 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | craggidy | ] |
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| | NEW ANDREW BIRD | ] |
If you haven't been following the Wigu comic, I've been pretty happy with the ones from this point on up, which is rare for me.
I just need to work on my lettering, either that or make a stupid font out of my handwriting and I don't know why I am so loathe to do that, it is the 90s now and we have an ethnical president now for the love of sweet baby Jeebus.
Anyway when I am not making humongous mistakes yes sometimes I make comics too, just checking in. |
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| Soak It In |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|02:04 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 01027 | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dino 5 | ] |
Best news I heard all decade.
I've been waiting to see that for most of my adult life. |
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