Hey, all of you who read more on this site than just the words in the boxes with the drawings- Want to check out TSOJ’s webcomic interview blogsite? Sure you do.
Also, there’s an interview with me, so… y’know.
Click HERE for that stuff. Enjoy.
You didn’t suppose I was suddenly going to be one of those webcomics that shows nudity and all, did you?
Just for the record. I have nothing against kids. Or having kids.
But, they ARE kids y’know. Sometimes they are difficult to be in the room with.
I still remember there was an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, where the weird guy is being interviewed on the radio- he says that when you give a kid an IQ test for an adult, they score ‘Crazy’. (I’m paraphrasing.) What a great observation.
Nobody (Well, in this age of the In’ernets, we know there’s always SOMEBODY) wants to prop up useless stereotypes. And here I am doing a comic strip about a married couple having the ol’ “Husband Climbs Down” scenario.
You know why I did it, too.
Tell me you don’t know a couple like this. Tell me.
Yeah, I know ’em too. Heck, sometimes I AM them.
Body language. We communicate a lot by the way we stand, and the way we move… or the way we don’t move.
Body language. Just remember, if you don’t want to talk to someone, and your body language says, “I’m randomly and uncontrollably violent, unreliably continent, inconsistently coherent, and just liable to leap into the air with my arms flapping around me”, then you don’t have to say it with either spoken or written language. It’s just a time saver left over from when we were a race of cave dwellers with a three word vocabulary… and one of those words is rude and currently still disallowed on TV.
I had a point to make, but had so much fun making up that last bit that I forgot what it was. Carry on.
You know how it’s been called ‘The Stone Age’ because, y’know, they found stone tools and obviously the men made the stone tools and killed food and everyone in the human race survived the ice ages and everything? Well, you realize, of course, that they’ve since found fossilized woven surfaces.
So, yeah. Buncha naked men running around with pointed rocks, grinning about how smart they were and then dragging a dead animal home to… the women who were wearing woven leather clothes, and carrying things around in woven grass baskets and sleeping on woven mats.
Stone age. Riiiiiiight. And somebody kept drinking all the fermented berry juice the women were saving for Sa’urday night, too.
Y’ever have one of those flop-sweat realizations? Somebody says, “Well, at least you didn’t do such-and-such, ’cause then you’d be an ass!” riiiiiight before you were going to say, “And then I did such-and-such…”
Yeah, me neither.
You know what you should never ever do? Read comics and keep an eye out for exposition pages and panels. You know those panels- the ones where the characters hand you all the Catch-Up Cliff’s Notes for the story you’re in… What’s worse is when you see those movies and TV shows whose creators somehow managed to keep their jobs even though everything seems to be characters either catching you up on things, or saying stuff that just repeats the action you’re seeing anyway. Oh, and commercials? Don’t ever stop to think of all the logical mistakes in advertising’s attempts to convince you to buy anything. It never stands up to scrutiny. Oh, oh, you know what else you can’t do? Read a novel, and pick out how many adverbs and adjectives there are. Oh… My… Head. Also, never read a Larry McMurtry book and wait for him to use any word other than ‘said’ in place of the word ‘said’. You darn near can’t stand to read the book once you spot that. Said, said, said, said, said, said… it’ll just ruin it for you.
So. Don’t do that stuff, for sure.
Have any of you guys been reading webcomics long enough to spot how a lot of them seem to start off being about either 20-year-olds running around all crazy or about video games one way or another? And then how, after a while, they turn out to be about lots of other stuff?
Well, I swear, when I started off- this comic was gonna be about skateboarding and kayaking and bicycles. Seriously.
Christmas has come early for Kelly.
Kelly is original to the Hubris comic strip, but not the way he is now. Paste, Kara, Lowell… they all found a place later.
Originally, Kelly was supposed to be a character behind the camera that would always be pointed at Hubris. That’s because Hubris was supposed to be the host of the show ‘Because It’s There’, which was also the name of the comic strip way back then. Hubris’ father was also alive back then, too. Honestly, I don’t really recognize the original incarnation any more.
Kelly was to be an off-panel voice. He was to be ‘Us’- able to talk to Hubris while remaining remote. Genderless (that’s why he’s named Kelly- I’ve known both genders to be named Kelly) and faceless, he was a character without being a character.
As Hubris found a place away from a TV show, and into the shop his father was supposed to have been running, Kelly remained and took on a gender and a race and a face. He became one of those upscale guys who obviously visits the gym and makes time to do cool stuff even though he’s more often wearing a suit and doing big things.
Then, I needed the TV show to be a peripheral thing in the new version of the comic strip, and Kelly resumed his cameraman duties.
Weird, how these people take on little lives in these comics.
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