Self-Loathing Sunday

by Mike on May 6, 2013 at 3:30 am
Posted In: comic

Happy Monday nerds. Got a new comic for you to get your May started right.

Had a question come through on Formspring (which I thought had closed down?) that I thought I would share:

Q: Which comic was the first appearance of Butt Dog? Also, is there any chance of any posters, prints, etc of Butt Dog appearing somewhere anytime? moar Butt Dog. please?

A: The first appearance of Butt Dog was here: http://www.leadpaintcomics.com/2011/11/14/denny. Is there a chance for Butt Dog prints or posters? Sure! We don’t have anything concrete planned as of now, but I could definitely see some showing up in the near future. As for more Butt Dog in general, I’m not currently writing anything with him in it, but I’m sure he’ll appear again sooner or later.

For anyone else wondering about a store in general, I’m still a few weeks out before starting work on one. I’ve got one or two blocks of scripts I need to finish, but after that, I should be able to set one up. Having never built a web store before, I’m not sure how long it’ll take or how many critical precursor steps I’m forgetting about as I write this (“register our business, know how mail works,” etc.) but I’ll be starting on it soon all the same.

I appreciate everyone’s interest in a store and merch tons. It’s extremely uplifting, sometimes giving me a reason to literally get up off my bedroom floor and continue making comics.

<3 Mike

“Arsenic” –The Loved Ones

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No Comic 5/13/13

by Mike on May 13, 2013 at 3:30 am
Posted In: News

No comic this week. Blarb! Some lesser blips and blatts for you:

  • Work on the store is going slow, but well. Right now, my girlfriend is teaching me how to make inventory spreadsheets. Embarrassing that I couldn’t figure it out on my own (seriously I tried and made the most confusing and generally illegible thing) but she’s a business sorceress so we’re on the right track now. Also if you’re thinking it’s weird that one of the first things I did for the store was make spreadsheets, you’d be right, but you’d also be underestimating how much I like making spreadsheets.
  • Watched Cabin in the Woods this weekend. Thought the first quarter was ultra-boring, but at the urging of Dana Danes, I muscled through for the promised awesome second half. It was worth it … I guess? Definitely some cool scenes and effects, but there’s a lot of garb you’ve gotta scarf for like 20 minutes of rad. If you think you’ve got the trash guts, it’s on Netflix streaming.
  • Etrian Odyssey IV is a wonderful game, and if you have a 3DS and like your dungeons manly and hard, you need to give that one a long, loving play. (You can assume I mean this sexually or not, either way it’s right.)

<3 Mike

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No Comic 4/22/13

by Mike on April 22, 2013 at 6:33 am
Posted In: News

Still no comics this week, sorry! Spent the last couple weeks working on a script for a long, 30-panel comic. I finally finished it this weekend, which is super-exciting, but it’s also why there haven’t been a lot of comics lately. We’ve long burnt through our backlog and I’ve spent a lot (maybe too much) time into a single big, long comic instead of a bunch of little ones. Hopefully it’s good! Dana has the script now, so I suppose its fate will be decided shortly. (One lit candle along her tower’s battlements means it lives, two means it dies, and three means, “I am all out of grape soda, please send more.”) Working on some normal, short comics now, so we should be back in business soon either way.

Couple other things:

  • Definitely a comic next Monday
  • Just finished reading Updike’s “Rabbit is Rich.” Great book, but exceptionally depressing. (500+ pages of a family lying and lashing out at each other, etc.) Last 60 or so pages are highly redemptive however, so overall I liked it I guess. Think I’m done with depressing books for a while though. (Besides being general bummers, they make terrible “morning-on-the-train” reading.)
  • Fellow comic peeps: If you’d don’t watch the somewhat poorly named show “Strip Search,” a reality webseries about aspiring cartoonists, you should catch last Friday’s episode. (Episode #15: “The Merch.”) The episode’s competition is about who can best set up a convention table, and there were some cool insights (I thought) handed out by the judges here and there. You don’t have to watch the whole episode, though it does give some decent context. Starting at the 12:00 minute mark will place you right at the table review section.
  • Spent a portion of my night tonight exercising on a elliptical machine at the gym, listening to Taylor Swift and thinking about my ideal, second-string X-men team (to rescue my first-string team, because they’ve been captured.) Just a little insight into how I spend my Sundays!

<3 Mike

 

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