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Decided to take an hour last night and doodle a "lunch-hour comic" myself. Slightly different style than I usually go with, freehanded in pen. I wasn't too happy with it, but then again, it's only an hour-comic. <a href="http://huah.net/jason/comics/ontheburner/hunger.gif">http://huah.net/jason/comi...

Yes, the "This is not hypothermia," is a Magritte reference. Actually, it's making fun of Greg's Magritte reference in <a href="http://www.zwol.org/archive.php3?date=20011101&type=zwol">the last single-panel, dialogue-free story strip</a> of Zwol. I just figured if Kate had been standing in comics l...

Oops. Yes, of course I meant Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist whose paintings adorn my walls, rather than Diego <i>Garcia</i>, an island off the coast of the tip of India. I shouldn't type when tired! I saw an exhibit of Kahlo, Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, and others at the <a href="http://www.phxart.or...

A "throwdown" is just my word for a challenge, just like a medieval knight dropping the gauntlet to challenge another. The venue: the year's <a href="http://www.spxpo.com/">Small Press Expo</a> Anthology, linked above. Last year, I posted a similar thread challenging others a few weeks before the de...

Boys and girls, the <a href="http://www.spxpo.com/anthology.htm">gloves are off again</a>. (Last year, I <a href="http://www.zwol.org/old/ezboard/fzwolfrm2774f.html">threw down</a> with <a href="http://www.clango.org/">R Stevens</a> and a bunch of the folks on this board. R didn't participate, and n...

Wow! I'm published and no one bothered to tell me!

I had been wondering about <a href="http://www.zwol.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... um=2">that project</a>, Randy...

Thanks! I'll have to pick up a few copies...any place online you can recommend purchasing them from?

jason

No etiquette that I'm aware of, and you don't need to ask permission (not many people DON'T want someone to link to them!), but if you are going to e-mail the person to let him or her know you're linking to that site, don't send a form letter. If you like the person's work that much, just send a fri...

Thanks, Joe! And trust me: I'm about as anti-smoking as it gets. (I assume you're commenting on the forum discussion...) Ironically, there are NO cigarettes in the strip (to my knowledge), yet all the folks on the messageboard seem to think smoking's "indie." To each their own. jason p.s.--the use o...

Well, if that's the way it's going to be on shameless plugs, I'll <a href="http://www.indierockpete.com/">cannonball in the community pool</a> as well.

Heh. And it only took over 7 months for that to actually make it online...

Enjoy,

jason

Looks fantastic, Joe! Your new 3D-rendered style is uncanny...it looks as if your black and white paper comics suddenly got lush and rounded...but it's still the same distinct style, right down the the noirish shadows. Look forward to reading it and I hope you have a chance to finish DILEMMA... <a h...

I don't draw nearly as much as most of the people here, but it took roughly an hour to an hour-and-a-half to draw each "page" of <a href="http://clango.org/">rstevens</a>' Indie Rock Pete comic (shameless plug: starts Monday at indierockpete.com). I'm usually a meticulous, excruciatingly slow artist...

At risk of sounding like blatant self-promotion, that idea generator is a much more sophisticated version of <a href="http://huah.net/jason/comics/mbd/">Man Bites Dog</a>, ...but you can download MBD.

<a href="http://huah.net/jason/comics/">jason</a>

It appears <a href="http://www.zwol.org/">Greg</a>'s given the latest "<a href="http://www.zwol.org/reiterating.php3">reiterating comics</a>" a nice long spotlight (thanks), and <a href="http://framed.keenspace.com/">Damonk</a>'s forgiven me for misplacing his ears (thanks!), and megazone27 <a href=...

I vote for standard links, since pop-up menus to put 'em in a separate window are standard to any browser, save lynx and Netscape 0.9 beta. :wink: Or just put a little text on the side saying it pops up a new window. Back to the subject of the day, though: I used to draw everything by hand (with muc...

Randy, if you need any help (cover art, the like) let me know at the e-mail listed below. Thanks for setting this up!

jason

As promised, here's the submission that didn't make the cut:
<a href="http://huah.net/jason/comics/expo/">htt ... s/expo/</a>
I'm still game for putting it in an alternative alternative press anthology, though...

Any feedback or tips would be much appreciated.

jason

Anyone else up for this idea? Cat? Greg? Randy? (An alternative alternative anthology!)

<a href="http://huah.net">jason</a>

...and it looks like no one here <a href="http://www.spxpo.com/anthology.htm">made the cut</a>. (At least I didn't see any <a href="http://www.zwol.org/old/ezboard/fzwolfrm2774f.html">familiar names</a>. Did you make it?) I'm a little bummed, personally, but, on the bright side, at least now we get ...

And I guess I'd probably better hit the history books again before tossing historical analogies out like that. Yep, Casey, many of the artists now considered greats were really just <a href="http://www.historyhouse.com/stories/titian.htm">painting what was popular</a> to get by, but I did hear somew...

You've got a point, Sean, but I think the folks above are trying to think of a day in which they could do nothing but draw comics for a living. ("Artists" without the "Starving" prefix.) And if you think about it, this advertiser-sponsorship model doesn't sound too different from the patron system o...

You've gotta love any movie with a Minkowski tensor in it. (Just kidding.)

<a href="http://www.slip.net/~figment/bb/q11.html">Rumor has it</a>, there's going to be a special edition DVD later this year. I can't wait.

jason

Howdy, Felt <a href="http://www.zwol.org/old/ezboard/fzwolfrm259e7.html">this topic</a> from the old boards ought to be resurrected eventually, and since it's a Sunday night and I'm procrastinating getting ready for the <a href="http://www.bobbins.org/">coming week</a>, I thought I'd do a brain dump...

About time someone made something like threadmole! Great job, Lyle.

You'd trust zwol in my hands, Greg? Actually, I was going to say something to the extent of "first diesel sweeties, then bobbins, now all i need is to take over zwol and my bid for world domination will be complete," but I figured I'd never be able to steal the reins. I'm <i>definitely</i> intereste...