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There are times in my busy life, where I wish I could just take 1 whole day off, stay home and veg and watch terrible daytime TV. Then, I catch a cold and do just that. All it takes is 1 day of these god-awful shows to hold me over for another year, until I manage to forget their god-awful-ness.
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I have this idea. It started at my graphic design job, where we often use clipart.com for quick vector illustrations or photos for our packaging or literature projects. Often, we come across some pretty awful work, and I am constantly amazed that someone got PAID for this piece of ****. Upon discovery, they are immediately emailed out to the other designers for amusement, and usually receive vocal responses- groans and/or laughter. What’s even funnier, is the search keywords that lead to the discovery– usually having NOTHING to do with the image at hand. For birthday celebrations, these terrible clipart findings end up on birthday cards or signs that hang all over our desk areas, subjecting everyone who enters to our obscure humor. It’s a blast.
Anyway, yesterday I tweeted a link to one that popped up in a coworker’s search (“I know it’s supposed to be a rabbit foot, but c’mon. seriously?”). It got a pretty decent response. I’m thinking this calls for a weekly-ish posting of “Clipart FAIL”. And my continued tweets involving up-to-the-second discoveries!gra
Just a forewarning ;0)
making a bowel movement look like a bowl of cerial is a sin too 😛
I probably have come across that myself, ugh
How does one sell to these establishments. I think my crap would qualify.
I have no idea, actually. Not sure how I’d feel about seeing my work next to the “rabbit foot”, lol.
Ooo! To the teleporter! Cool! Yes, a little more Sci-fi stuff would be cool to see now and then… they are aliens.
In regards to your poll, I am not a big fan of long-running storylines. The more successful comic strips never did that, except on occasion, and even then broke those up with gag comics. You do a “daily” comic so it is meant to be by nature a joke-of-the-day cartoon. You’ve been doing just fine keeping the story moving along AND making a funny… not an easy task (I know first hand 🙂 )
I’ve said it before, I think the key to your success is eventually putting out more content. Not an easy thing to do with your present schedule in your personal life. I feel your pain there too.
Color would be nice, and for me coloring is not that time consuming (it’s the damn inking). So maybe one a week in color or something? Keep on doing what you’re doing, it’s just fine in my opinion.
Thanks for the detailed suggestions Byron, I appreciate it! I used to run Z&F M-W-F, and that was doable before the kids’ book series (and um, wedding planning) came along. I hope to return to that, I did see better numbers and more success at 3-times a week.
Color does take me an extra half-hour to an hour… I guess it’s just all the decisions with such an open pallet. Thinking about going back… for a while, I did B&W Monday and Tues, and color Fridays.. that was fun.
I get what you’re saying about storylines. I think especially at only 2x a week, long storylines get tedious and seem waaay longer than they really are. My arcs usually last maybe 12 comic… a couple have gone past 20, but I tend to get myself out of it when it starts to drag. I find I write better when I have a “mission”, gives me direction and I come up with more jokes.
Find it interesting how voters are tied in pushing the sci-fi aspect vs. the social commentary aspect. HMM! I should just push both.
Uh-oh! Looks like it’s getting contagious. 🙂
laziness has that effect on people.. and aliens, apparently.
Congrats. you’ve done a comic that I can recommend to my wife. Not bad considering that I doubt I’ get the same results.
-C.
heh, well.. anything to expand my viewership, LOL
The chair in panel 1 looks like a tombstone, whether intentional or not I think it’s pretty poetic considering the subject matter of the strip.
it does! and it still works! heh, thanks
Good ol’ Maury will getcha anytime! I used to get trapped by his “Who’s the Babies Daddy?” spiel, but I learned about the ‘off’ button on the remote.
yes, thank goodness for the “off button” … and DVR for that matter. and the fact that I am not home during those daytime TV shows!
Hahaha…yeah Maury will definitely do that to you…even when you’re assured by %3000 that they’re the father. I love the comic…and I have NO idea how I missed this…great stuff. You definitely have a new reader.
Well thank you! See, you never know what pop culture reference will draw people in, LOL. I did a Steve Urkle reference a while back, and I STILL get hits from people who are googling info about him…! Glad to have you along for the ride, bud!
It is a hypnotic trash heap, mostly. Great strip today!
Oh, as a recovering “Maury” addict (I just got my 2 year chip in July), this was hilarious!
And since my munchkins are obsessed with any and all things “FAIL”, I look forward to any such art…