It's about Guest strips

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:01 am

Head on over to William George's site Delineated Life. He has a guest strip up that was done by Yours Truly. W.G. liked it, and I think it's one of my better pieces. It's certainly better drawn than most of my comics, and I really enjoyed doing it. Hope you all like it too.

William G · Post by **William G** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:37 am

I agree with EFM's assessment of his work.

I think this is better than me pimping someone else's comic even though it's on my site, but I cant figure out why.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:11 pm

I really liked your guest strip eric. I mean I'm not the creator or anything, but as a reader of IAG I think your guest comic fits snuggly within the story that willy g is creating.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:11 pm

Are you trying to suggest that pro-wrestling is fixed? How dare you!

William G · Post by **William G** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:30 am

Rip Tanion wrote:Are you trying to suggest that pro-wrestling is fixed? How dare you!

GASP!

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If my sprained thumb didnt make me want to belt back some soju, this news certainly does.

Kris has a pretty good story as well coming up. And I'm always open to guest strips since they enable me to stay lazy.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:33 am

William G wrote:I think this is better than me pimping someone else's comic even though it's on my site, but I cant figure out why.

It's because you get to have fresh content for your site, yet you don't have to do any actual work.

Kris Lachowski wrote:I really liked your guest strip eric. I mean I'm not the creator or anything, but as a reader of IAG I think your guest comic fits snuggly within the story that willy g is creating.

Thanks Kris. Even though it's not cannon I wanted it to fit in with William's universe. That's why nothing really happens in my story.

Rip Tanion wrote:Are you trying to suggest that pro-wrestling is fixed? How dare you!

The word "fixed" conjures up the image of players being paid to throw a game. Let's just call wrestling "predetermined."

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:40 pm

Gees, you folks in Chi-Town are still hung up on that Black Sox Scandal, all these decades later. I guess that's to be expected when your team hasn't won it all since 1917 (1908, if you're a Northsider).

As for wrestling, it pretty sad, but I've seen grown men who still think it's real, and parents who'll get mad at you when you try to tell their kids that it's fake. I can remember my own parents telling me it was all "predertimined" when I was 9. I was in shock, until I looked closely, and saw the way a guy like S.D. Jones would pull a punch, and stamp the canvas with his foot at the same time, to make it sound like he actually punched the guy.

To quote the late Fred Blassie, "What a bunch of pencil-necked geeks!"

William G · Post by **William G** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:23 am

I watch it for the violent ballet that it is.

Kris, I'm going to try to get yours up this Sunday... somehow. I'm still doing my webbing from a PC room.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:04 pm

Rip Tanion wrote:As for wrestling, it pretty sad, but I've seen grown men who still think it's real, and parents who'll get mad at you when you try to tell their kids that it's fake.

Reminds me of the game we play called "Santa Claus." Santa Claus is real because we know what he looks like, how he acts and what function he serves in our society. He's real but he's not a an actual individual.

This form of performance wrestling is real because we know what it's supposed to look like, how the players behave (including the limits of real physical contact) and how it's supposed to make the audience feel. It's real, but it's not an actual sporting event.

It's also a lot like a rock concert where the audience gets sucked up in the energy and the moment that is being performed on stage. It would be a mistake to think that the angsty singer-songwriter who appears to be singing from the heart each and every night is really feeling that emotion every time they sing the song. There are some who, Brando-like, will use the song to trigger the emotion in themselves in order to enhance their performance and there are others more like Olivier who know how to show you the emotion without actually feeling it at that time.

I can imagine younger people getting caught up in the soap-opera-like drama of professional wrestling, especially at an age before they're aware that it's a performance, but the ones who should know it's a performance and still insist that it's not are like the hardcore, starfleet uniform-wearing Trekkies on the fan/fanatic scale.

This analysis comes from somebody who's never been interested in wrestling and generally dismisses it as silly, but the varying levels of "reality" are interesting to me.

Oh, and I liked the comic!

William G · Post by **William G** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:23 am

I have some chums who do wrestle... or did...

They told me that it's real as in they try to make it look like they're beating the snot out of each other while not actually doing it, but if someone isnt doing his job and selling the "offence" properly, they start smacking him for real.

Also, I've been told that there's no way to fake getting dropped on your ass, which makes sense to me.

William G · Post by **William G** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:43 am

Ladies and gents;

Kris Lachowski's guest strip is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:41 am

Ha! Last time I went to a fast food joint I think the girl behind the counter was a clone, a very slow and inbreed clone.

I liked it, Kris. William, how many more guest do you have lined up?

William G · Post by **William G** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:57 am

Lined up?

About 8.

Actual comics done or on the way?

4

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:31 pm

Let me guess, Kris. The news anchor in your strip is supposed to be Ted Koppel, the personification of Alfred E. Newman. Those ears are like sattelite dishes.

Hey, Becks...if you really felt like Asimov, you'd be rolling over in your grave from this hideous I, Robot flick that's coming out.

efm wrote:Ha! Last time I went to a fast food joint I think the girl behind the counter was a clone, a very slow and inbreed clone.

There must be hundreds, nay, thousands of these clones, working at supermarket checkouts everywhere.

William G · Post by **William G** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:12 pm

Rip Tanion wrote: Hey, Becks...if you really felt like Asimov, you'd be rolling over in your grave from this hideous I, Robot flick that's coming out..

No matter how the song changes, the name remains the same.

losttoy · Post by **losttoy** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:12 am

Another cool comic from Kris. This guy is awsome! However, I got the impression that the guy talking about terrorist clones was George W Bush, not Ted Koppel. Maybe I missed something, but how does it relate to the rest of the story or is it suppose to? I know Eric used It's About Girls characters in his guest comic.

Speaking of which, where did Eric's comic go? I only got a brief look at it the other day before my daughter needed my attention.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:23 pm

losttoy wrote:Maybe I missed something, but how does it relate to the rest of the story or is it suppose to? I know Eric used It's About Girls characters in his guest comic.

Speaking of which, where did Eric's comic go? I only got a brief look at it the other day before my daughter needed my attention.

William did a few Tales From Science which can be found here.

As for my comic, I don't know if WG is going archive or put up links to the guest strips that were done for him. I'll keep it up on my site here.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:02 pm

losttoy wrote:However, I got the impression that the guy talking about terrorist clones was George W Bush, not Ted Koppel.

Oh, yeah. You could be right. I was seeing the panel as a news report, but it could be a Presidential press conference. When I saw the big ears, Ted Koppel was instantly triggered in my mind. But now that I think of it, Koppel would have bigger hair.

Hey, Kris, where you at, so you can set us straight.

William G · Post by **William G** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:45 am

I'll be archiving everything when I finally get web at home...unless the artists dont want me to. Then I'll link them.

William G · Post by **William G** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:45 am

Oh yeah, I'm always open to more gest strips if anyone else wants to take a pound at it.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:45 pm

Rip Tanion wrote:
losttoy wrote:However, I got the impression that the guy talking about terrorist clones was George W Bush, not Ted Koppel.
Oh, yeah. You could be right. I was seeing the panel as a news report, but it could be a Presidential press conference. When I saw the big ears, Ted Koppel was instantly triggered in my mind. But now that I think of it, Koppel would have bigger hair.

Hey, Kris, where you at, so you can set us straight.

It's definitely G dub.

William G · Post by **William G** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:46 am

I didnt think it was Ted Copple because he's a meaningful and well spoken man, where Shrub is not.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:15 pm

William G wrote:I didnt think it was Ted [Koppel] because he's a meaningful and well spoken man, where Shrub is not.

Yeah, maybe if can stay awake long enough for him to finish a sentence. Koppel could put a meth-head on a binge to sleep. There's a reason Nightline does so well in the ratings. Insomniacs, deperate to cop some winks, love him. He's better than Sominex, or a warm glass of milk.

Most people who call Bush a bad speaker, never sat down and actually listened to him speak. He's no Ronald Reagan, but he's no Dan Quayle either. At least he's not doing a bad JFK impression like Kerry does. The presumed Democratic nominee is as boring to listen to as Koppel. Maybe that's his plan to defeat the terrorists; he'll bore them to death.

Besides, oration as a quality for public office is over-rated. Speak softly, and carry a big stick, as T.R. used to say.

As for the confusion in the panel in question, it may have been clearer to "pull back the camera", and show Bush speaking behind the Presidential podium. Then there would be no doubt who you are trying to portray.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:52 pm

Rip Tanion wrote:As for the confusion in the panel in question, it may have been clearer to "pull back the camera", and show Bush speaking behind the Presidential podium. Then there would be no doubt who you are trying to portray.

good point