Little does Colin know, the real writing money isn’t in racist sock catalogs, but in ghostwriting sexually repressive blogs about wallpaper and windowsill gardening.
More failed idea excerpts from my almost-done journal:
- “Depressichauns.” Like leprechauns, but when you find or catch one, instead of gold or wishes you just get really depressing stories. I don’t get what the joke was supposed to be here either.
- “Funny midget comic.” I don’t even see how this one is an idea. I also don’t know why I was on such a small-man-joke-kick at one point.
- “Armadillo rehab.” This comic was about man who stumbles upon an AA-like meeting of Armadillos coping with drug addiction and freaks out and gets all nervous, because he was actually looking for a meeting of people who were struggling with being addicted to armadillos. I feel like this idea has a funny core, but was too convoluted/I was never skilled enough to make it work.
- “Madame Bovary comic.” A little more esoteric than what I typically aim for with Lead Paint jokes, this was also a horrible idea because I never finished the book so I don’t really know why I thought I’d be able to write a joke about it.
- “Dr. Butts, Penis Magician.” These were supposed to be separate characters. I think Dr. Butts eventually became Butt Cops, and Penis Magician got killed because I try to limit the number of penis jokes I write for the site. If I didn’t, I’m fairly sure we’d be renaming the site: “Penis Comics: Comics about Penises, Penises and Penises” within about four hours.
<3 Mike
I think “Depressichauns” is a great idea.
Many people find a sick joy in seeing the sudden happiness of others deflate in a burning wreckage of quickening realization as what they thought would make them happy wasn’t what they had previously perceived.
Yeah, I don’t know. The concept was okay I guess, but I just couldn’t make anything out of it. Sometimes you hit that “blood from a stone” moment with a joke, and it’s just time to move on.
Two things:
I bet all the good writing career things happen after the age of 27. Aging gives you time for your reputation and networks to grow and for you to find the profitable ways of making it work.
You’d probably get a lot of adsense clicks throughs on site called Penis Comics: Comics about Penises, Penises and Penises.
Hahah, both good points David.
I found this today. Thought you might be interested:
http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/
There’s also this chestnut, I quite like.
http://gapingvoid.com/2004/07/25/how-to-be-creative/
I saw that early in the week via @granulac’s twitter (the writer/author of octopus Pie). I really liked it a lot, and was actually thinking about putting it up on our right sidebar.
I’ve read Gaping Void before and remember liking it, though it’s been a while since I’ve browsed through it. Those are both good links though, thanks for sharing them!
God, we do get ready to pimp ourselves to whomever, don’t we? So true.
I could probably start a Penis Comics website with my 10 years+ of drawing penises here at work or Drawing Vikings as we professional penis drawers call it.
Hahah, that’s an amazing expression. Thanks for sharing.
Armadillo Rehab sounds like pure, undilluted, unfiltered awesome.
Furthermore, I just googled armadillos, and those things are really, really, cute.
So make that the pure quintessence of absolute awesome.
These are all good points. Maybe I’ll revisit armadillo jokes at some point.
“Funny midget comic.”
I would like to see you exploring this idea
Haha, I don’t know, it doesn’t seem too promising to me, but we’ll see.