Before Coffee 05/23/08
Morning, World! Today is going to be a fantastic day, where awesome things are going to happen behind the scenes! (positive thinking, positive thinking, positive thinking!)
Random thoughts kinda morning as I’m focused on working on stuff and can’t blabber too much… here we go… before coffee…
– I feel like a stalker or something, studying photo reference to memorize the face shapes of the Flobots band members. I realized if anyone were to walk in my office and see my photoshop file with a bunch of screengrabs, someone would think I was compiling some sort of shrine or something. So far, they won’t actually appear in the comic as band members or anything, but in case that happens– but I was actually going to do up something nice for them anyway.
– You ever have heavy things on your mind but you don’t know how to put them gracefully? That’s where I’m at with a lot of things right now. When I figure out how to say what I want to say, I’ll let the world know.
– Politics…. is it over yet? I heard my wife laughing about a bumper sticker she saw online that said… “If you thought you’d rather die than see a black president, now would be a good time!” — Hahahaha. Seriously– I’m feeling good to be an American lately. Note to the world… Change is coming soon.
– A lot of newspaper cartoonists are still bitter over the “web” guys. I stumbled across an article the other day about how the How to Make Webcomics has sold out– but there were snarky asshats from newspaper syndication tossing around passive aggressive comments. Well, they’re still on a sinking ship. It must really bug them to see the success of something like that. Hell, listening to part of Webcomics Weekly, I think I heard Scott Kurtz even say he was surprised that a book about the process was more well taken than his other actual books. It’s funny how a lot of webcomic guys learned to grow up pretty fast, set aside petty differences or arguments, roll up their sleeves and GET TO WORK— the print syndicated cartoonists could learn an awful lot from TEAM WEBCOMICS.
– John McCain might be a zombie. With a zombie army ready to take over and invade Vietnam for some sort of revenge or something. Just sayin.
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ooof Zombie McCain…can we start our own non-affiliated Swift Boat Veterans Against Zombie McCain (SBVSAZM) to put out ads? i’d love to see that commercial.
Yeah, newspaper strips and newspapers in general are a dying breed. I’d imagine those guys get read more in their ‘online’ version than physical form these days (and probably are not getting paid their fair share in relation in all honesty). They remind me a lot of the golden age comic creators that did all those amazing works and got paid peanuts. It’s one thing to be devoted to your craft like those guys, but these newspaper guys are just being used and paid much less than they are worth. And it’s a generational thing. I think our generation is going to push the digital side way more than physical printings anyhow. So they need to adapt or fall behind. Darwin for the win.