It’s the last week of school, kiddies, and this Bug is happy! I get to have all next week off! WUBBA WUBBA!
It will be cool because I can spend more time with my pal and mentor, Max Ink. There hasn’t been any time I’ve spent with him that I didn’t learn something.
The slate of summer adventures will begin, too, starting with the Latino Fest next month. Aaand, the Doo-Dah Parade and ComFest! Then it’s the Jazz and Rib Fest followed closely by the Hartford Fair. I am going to have Max come with us to that. He needs a little countryfication.
And now, to Chadwick Cicero Cleanly. I’ve got plans for this man. He’s going to cover a man who fathered a sea turtle, discover the roots of his beloved Beagle Brokaw, and possibly, finally, get laid. Maybe.
Fasten yer seatbelts, it’s gonna be a hell of a ride.
Holy Cannolis! I’ve been a bad little bug! I haven’t posted anything new for almost a month!
Well, might as well get right to it.
Chad is going to be featured on Webcomicsnation. I got an interview and everything! I was interviewed by a very nice girl named Tea Fougner. Very cool first name, I say! I also cleaned up the Chad page and changed the color scheme. So far it’s been met with general approval. I had to reinstall the Stat Counter and either the old one wasn’t registering all the hits or Tea, sweetheart that she is, has been talking Chad up big time because my hit counts are zooming up, up, UP! WOOHOO!
My back has been killing me. I went to see a chiropractor on Monday and left with my back hurting worse than it did before! I’m living on ibuprofen.
The latest Chad episode was in response to watching America’s Election HQ on Fox News. I wasn’t surprised to see Megyn Kelly barking about how horrible Clinton and Obama but I was really disappointed to see Bill joining in so gleefully. I suppose I could chalk it up to he wants his contract renewed and with more money but it still stuck in my throat. He has spent alot of time in the past yappin’ about “journalistic integrity” and now he’s shown himself to be nothing but a money whore. Can’t trust him again, never again. Guess it’s back to Jim Lerher for me!
I just read an article saying that climate change could affect beer production. ACK! Guess folks are going to sit up and take notice now!
You want great comic art? You want classic comic style? You want to laugh your ass off? Then look no further than Wasted Potential by Ray !! Tomczak.
I know Ray, but I don’t know much about him except he likes to wear hats and he’s very funny and smart. He is in my Sunday Comix group and I get to have a bite of food with him occasionally after meetings. He doesn’t talk much but his comics do!
Wasted Potential is a treasure trove of wonderful sight gags, puns, self-deprecating humor and expressions. They’re like Lays potato chips, you can’t read just one and it’s a guarantee that you will get out loud laughs, you know, the kind that just burst out of you. You also don’t want to miss The Complete Pop Darts Ray’s take on pop culture.
So if you see a guy with a crazy hat on, shake his hand and thank him for the laughs. Even if it isn’t Ray, he’ll still appreciate it.
Geez! All the coverage about the big snowstorm and Columbus barely gets mentioned! We got the most snow, much more than Cincy or the Mistake on the Lake but can the MSM mention that? Noooooooo!
This is the CAPITAL of the FREAKING STATE! EVERYTHING got shut down! But can it get more than a nanosecond of air time? Hell, no! Now all the talk is about poor East Coast getting some wind and rain. Awwww…poor them. But it’s NEW YORK CITY!! OMG! Call out the National Friggin’ Guard! Oh wait, we can’t. They’re all over in Iraq.
Yeesh.
Of course you realize, this means war.
Well, it’s a blizzard! We officially have gotten a foot of snow so far. The wind is howling, too. Good day to stay home, which I am doing!
S.P.A.C.E went pretty well. I sold about $31.00 worth of stuff and met some nice people. I held my own in a discussion about using graphics tablets and the guy even apologized afterward because he thought I thought he had attacked me. I said, “Hey, it was a discussion. No biggie!”
I got to be the voice of Donna Dead for Kel Crum’s comic presentation. Kel did a grrreat job with the voices but I sucked big time. I gave a copy of “Ice Cream Anti-Social” to Matt Feazell who was pleased to have it. Everyone seemed to like Moanin’ Wally.
My other big news is that in a month or so, Chad Cleanly is going to be featured on WebComicsNation. I got an email from Tea Fougner who is the Project Manager for the joint WebComicsNation and ComicSpace site. I was a little freaked out so I asked her why she picked Chad since it’s really not the kind of comic that most of the demographic would voluntarily read. Here is what she said,
I tried to pick comics that are unique and consistently updated that have decent art and writing– and in your case, I also wanted to highlight the fact that Chad Cleanly has been on WCN for almost three years!
Life is really an Indian giver. Ain’t it great?
The Hubster just sent this link to me.
Garfield Minus Garfield
No, I’m not going to tell you what it is. Them what has the twisted mind will understand and appreciate the gift they have been given.
Personally, I always thought Garfield had some sublime moments, like the strip where Garfield sticks his head in a mouse hole. When he takes it out, he’s got on a wig and makeup. The last panel reads,”The strange mice are back.” There was a Sunday page wherein Garfield removes a mouse from it’s hole, winds its tail around it like a top then jerks on the tail and the mouse starts spinning. It spins all the way over to where Jon is reading the paper with his coffee. The mouse grabs onto to the coffee mug then leans over and pukes into it while Jon looks on in horror. The inevitable “GARFIEELD!!” comes in the last panel.
It’s what comedy is about! Strange mice and vomit!
Ok, today has just disinergrated into serious suckage. Anybody got a joint?
The white death is coming! Where are the children!!??
Apparently, there is a pretty intense storm heading this way with snow and ice in the offing. I might get tomorrow off! Actually, that would be really nice. It would give me an extra day to get ready for S.P.A.C.E.
Today is fluctuating between serious suckage and not too bad. I was REALLY late to work because of traffic. Specifically, because of the ridiculous set up on Campus View Boulevard. This street is extremely busy in the mornings. There are several corporate buildings along it and it is also the street most used by commuters to get to Route 23 and I-270. There is a spot where there is always a Columbus police officer directing traffic so that employees can turn left into these buildings. It’s a major pain in the ass and a unbelievably poor use of the cop and taxpayer money. I sat on that street this morning for a least 25 minutes because the cop had the traffic so backed up. Plus, in this short stretch there are four traffic lights and none of them are synched as far as I can tell.
I got so angry this morning about this that I wrote the Dispatch, WCMH, WBNS, WSYX, the Chief of Police and the Mayor’s office. So far, I got an automated response from the Dispatch thanking me for writing. I just can’t understand why this cop has to do this. Why can’t there be access made into these parking lots so that the people just have to go to the light instead of backing the cars up to the freakin’ bridge!
It’s also Thursday which means the other NP is working today. This woman is the poster child for fuck-ups. A student will come in for a sore throat and she ends up treating them for depression! Our appointments are a half an hour long. She usually ends up spending an hour treating something besides the chief complaint. It’s frustrating. I have to watch who she sees so that we don’t end up running behind. We usually do anyway. ARRRGG!
I want to put Janice Dean, the weather lady on FoxNews in tomorrow’s Chad. When I put public people like that in the strip I usually ask permission first so I emailed her. She answered right back and said fine! I thought that was really nice of her. I just hope she doesn’t mind that I am going to have her aggravating Chad!
The new book is ready. It’s a good one, too, much better than Standing at the Edge of History. I have a Sunday Comix meeting on Sunday and I am going to bring the proof. Hope they like it!
Now I just have to figure out how I want to do the Hatman comic. I have a vague idea for the cover. I’m no good at design. I’m a jokester, not a graphic artist.
It is so freakin’ cold here. I am sick of it. The sun has been out yesterday and today and it really perked me up. A’course, that isn’t going to last. Jackie told me the other day that her fiancee calculated that Ohio gets about 90 days of sun a year. I’d say that’s maybe a low number but it does stay gray in the winter here. Bill Watterson is right. An Ohio gray sky is different. Maybe it’s being an Ohioan, but the winter sky here is just…different.
Tomorrow is my Dad’s 81st birthday, or would have been. Not gonna be a pleasant day, even though it’s Friday. I hope this gets easier soon. I am also sick of crying and I only have two Xanax left. Gah.
I had a very nice IM chat with Max Ink today. He is an interesting guy. I’m glad we’re becoming friends. He understands how the crap in your head can weigh you down and make the drawing harder. He also told me to stop looking at my Stat Counter. A wise man, indeed.
Speaking of Stat Counter, I got a hit from Fox News the other day. It wasn’t the Bill. He’s on vacation this week and he wouldn’t be bothered with actually reading the comic. I emailed Megyn Kelly and asked her if she read it but no response as expected. Maybe it was Roger Ailes! WHA HAHAHAHA!!! That’d be great! I did email him once. There was a little rumor floating around about two years ago that FNC was going to do a primetime newscast so I emailed Mr. Ailes and told him I thought Bill would be excellent at that. And you know what? He responded! (Yeah, Roger Ailes wrote me back, Bill. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.) He was very nice and told me I was mistaken about the show but not about Bill’s talent. Wonder if he ever told Bill about it. Doubtful. He’s a busy guy. World Domination is tough, just ask George Bush.
