| An Update (maybe) |
[May. 14th, 2008|06:58 pm] |
God Damn it Kate Beaton, first you ask us for money and then you don't update for like a week! What kind of tomfoolery is this?
I know! I am a scoundrel! I seem to have been popping up in some other places instead, but will have comics soon. At present I am working on a one about Joseph Howe, which is going to please maybe three people from Halifax. I cannot help it, he is my faaavorite! (he is so great)
I have gotten a lot of feedback about the shirts (thanks so much to those who purchased something!) and wanted to say this- if it happens that another shirt comes out, yes almost certainly it will have to do with the historical comics. Likely what will happen is that I will post ideas here instead of just unveiling them. But it's all speculation right now because I don't know yet what's going to happen! The response has been overly generous though, thanks dudes, as always I am at your service.
Lastly, lord thunderin' would you believe a new website is in the works, one with an rss feed and everything. |
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| murder poll |
[May. 14th, 2008|09:52 pm] |
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Raise your hand if anyone has ever tried to murder you. No details.
<<-- Raises hand. (not for years, thankfully) |
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| A Softer World: May 14th |
[May. 14th, 2008|04:56 pm] |
http://www.asofterworld.com
we hope you like it. it has a picture of Kate Beaton in it, of all god damn things. |
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| Whubble |
[May. 14th, 2008|08:39 pm] |
so i've had Whubble in the hands of a syndication agency since the beginning of the year. on their request i drew up 52 finished colour strips, and have been waiting for news on whether they can place it in a newspaper somewhere. but it's been a while, and i'd like to be doing something constructive with this work, so i'm gonna post it up as a whebcomic, a new strip every wednesday for a year. unless of course it gets picked up by a paper, and i suddenly have to pull the plug.
please spread the word about Whubble, i am mighty proud of the chubby little sufferer. as you may see, it's not like ALR was in tone. it's alot less violent, calmer, more...*hurghle*...mainstream. it's me stepping into more amiable places, and i really enjoyed doing it. to me all humour is the same, whether its mean or quiet, if it makes you laugh then its working.
hope you likes it ^_^
jx |
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| Twitter addiction |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:12 pm] |
Okay so when I first heard about Twitter I thought "oh that is a cute idea but it sounds totally useless."
Eventually I got a Twitter account of my own so that I could post status updates for the comic and people would stop hitting F5 over and over again all night.* At this point my opinion was "okay MAYBE Twitter has its uses but it is still pretty dumb to be all 'oh hey guys I just had the most AWESOME sandwich for lunch.'"
Then I started following other people on Twitter. Dudes like RStevens and Paul Southworth who tweet basically ALL DAY. I was expecting to be annoyed by this but somehow it has become COMPELLING READING, even though the majority of people's posts are exactly the kind of "awesome sandwich" Tweets I thought were so "dumb" in the first place.
Now I'm completely addicted. I find myself following more and more people (right now I'm sticking to folks I know personally either via Internet or Real Life). The highlight of getting in to the office is catching up on Twitter while I drink my coffee and responding to people's tweets where appropriate. The other day I think I must have made like twenty posts in an afternoon.
The appeal of Twitter, for me, is the CONTENT: constant streams of new things to read, all day, every day. It's the same reason I've been reading Jerkcity for the last, oh, eight years:† even if not every new bit of content is funny, enough of it is to make the aggregate worthwhile.
So Twitter, I wasn't wrong about you. You are a web application with genuine uses, but 99% of your content is "awesome sandwich" inanity. And I think that is totally awesome and fun. I have become a Twitterer, for better or worse.
PS: My Twitter name is "jephjacques" in case you want to follow me.
*This has not worked.
†Holy shit you guys Jerkcity is TEN YEARS OLD this August. |
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| thoughts (2004) |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
Early notes as I prepared to write the first Scott Pilgrim. Click to make big.
Note uncertainty about the band name, etc... it was a while before I was fully comfortable with "Sex Bob-omb". Because it's idiotic. But at least it's idiotic in a way that is true to the characters!
I found some earlier notes (from 2002) and see that I had whittled the characters down from a larger number.
Stephen Stills was the last "final" character to appear. Young Neil was named first - although he was originally an actual young kid, for HILARIOUS purposes - and Stills flowed naturally out of that, I guess.
Originally, Scott had a number of friends based on old characters I made up in high school and stuff. Of these, only Kim Pine survived (thank god).
He also had multiple roommates.
I am really happy that I figured out a little thing called "narrative economy" between conceiving this book and executing it.
Anyway, this scrap of notes is from pretty much immediately before I wrote the first book.
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News: Precipice!
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[May. 14th, 2008|05:48 pm] |
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http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/290328679/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/05/14/precipice/ Gabe : So our game will be launching very soon and in order to get you in the mood so to speak we made a little four page comic. In the game Gabe and Tycho own and operate the Startling Developments detective agency. The city of New Arcadia is trying to move into the future but it's still plagued by ancient horrors and dark magic. The study of the arcane has fallen out of fashion though as steam powered machines and other new technologies have captured the imaginations of the populace. The Startling Developments detective agency remains committed to investigating the strange ... |
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News: The Littlest Vigilante
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[May. 14th, 2008|07:00 am] |
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http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/290328680/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/05/14/littlest-vigilante/ Tycho : Comic conventions often have a "free shit" table, and our booth was situated in such a way as to watch this locust swarm coalesce. We even had a chance to see this drama unfold, which we immediately transcribed to the surface of the table for future use. We started the event with our psychic reserves depleted, as we'd been up until two o'clock in the morning the night before. If a grown man is coming home at two in the a.m., it would ordinarily be fair to assume that he was drunk. I would give you that one for free. ... |
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| woah |
[May. 14th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
Whoa, I just realized Octopus Pie is one year old today! A year of this! Wow~!
HOPPING TIME |
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| say something better, like "He said, 'Either these curtains go or I do' and I said 'Yeah, thanks, OS |
[May. 14th, 2008|09:46 am] |
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http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001222.html 
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May 13th, 2008:
Here's an experiment which could be pretty rad! I'm going to link to the Flickr images tagged "haylookit" here for the next few days, and maybe INDEFINITELY. If you have something you want thousands and thousands of like-minded strangers to see, try uploading it to Flickr and tagging it with "haylookit"! And if you want to see something that some stranger on the internet thought you'd like, click here!
AWESOME IMAGES ONLY, PLZ
UPDATE: Guys this is awesome.
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| There's them dogs! |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:54 am] |
In case you were wondering, this is why I was asking about the dogs of webcomics:
(It's part of a storyline over at Life's a Bluff where the dog character starts a Fight Club, and the main character gets falsely accused of running a dogfighting ring. Newspaper comic dogs and TV cartoon dogs made earlier appearances.)
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