Oct23
Oct23
I may have mentioned that I do career day at a couple of schools around here. Add to that, walking a big dog to drop off and pick up my kids at school, and you get a few students who know what I do for a living. A young man named DeVarelier Mitchell shows me some of his artwork now and again. And he asked if I could publish a cartoon he drew. Of course, I said “yes”. Publishing isn’t what it used to be, apparently. When I was a kid, getting published meant knowing somebody who worked at the local paper, or at least at a screenprint shop that needed some work on the cheap. Now? Ask that kid’s dad, the one with the webcomic if he’ll pop it on there one Tuesday.
Anyhow, here’s DeVarelier’s cartoon. If you’d like to see it nice and large you’ll have to click on it, and then maybe click on it again until you get the huge version. I took the blue notebook lines out for you, and I made up a little sketchbook for DeV, so he can draw on unruled paper for a bit. I think he has a big future in mutant violence comics. I’m sure you agree.
Would you like to be ‘published’? I’d prefer things with skateboards and bikes and such in it, or maybe even Hubris or Kara or somebody, but hey, if you read the Hubris, the least I can do for you is use a Tuesday here and there to get you published… whatever that means in these days of digital media.
Oct23
Well, I’m really new to this book thing. But here I am flogging another book. I just got my big box of them and sat down to look through the printed version. I like it. I’ve been doing The Buckets comic strip for a long while, with a few disappointing outcomes over publishing a new Buckets book. After this last time, I figured I needed a book no matter what, and asked John Lotshaw with Moonbase Press to set it up for me. He did, and now I know what everyone in my family and group of friends are getting for Christmas. If you have family and friends, I encourage you to consider The Exhausted Parents Guide To Why Your Life Is Normal.
I went back through six years of Buckets strips, reading each one. The ones that made me laugh out loud were used in this book. So that’s what you’re getting: distilled Buckets O’ Funny. Concentrated Humor in a neat package. Remember to get extras, ’cause you’re gonna want to cut one of them up to put your favorite cartoons on the fridge and on your office door. See? That’s me being helpful. Christmas and birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, Hannukah, Eid, Festivus, Agnostica, Solstice, New Year, Black Friday… I honestly do not wish to interfere with your right to give and receive celebratory gifts in your own freely-chosen fashion, within the bounds of your country’s attempts to legally restrict any antisocial craziness going on. I’m just sellin’ books here. Enjoy.
uh … strange. Very very strange.
Awesome! I haven’t heard that in years.
this one made Paste just a bit more human to me…Unicorn Pee…*rofl*…I had never heard that one before…made me chuckle and like Paste just a bit…for more unicorn humor and stuff, Heavenly Nostrils at go comics is a funny, sweet strip about one….
lol that and that paste actully likes hanging around and being lowels friend. interesting thought pasty was twelve the way he looked
Don’t you have to be at least fifteen before you are allowed to get even a part time job?
Probably. On the other hand, I assume Paste was working legally (through some family tax loophole or something) for his brother, Hubris, and that he lied to Sportsmart and Lowell let it slide because it suited him to do so. And on the other other hand, this is a webcomic, and the story is more important to me than objective reality. Most of the time.
We demand reality in our comics. *LMAO* j/k Greg.
I’ve always liked those rainbows (though a little less once I learned what spilled oil does to the environment). Never heard the “unicorn pee” bit before though.
This is a common meme NOW – go look it up.