filthylies

Dammit!

2004-06-14T17:33:01Z

I just paid for a Snapple with my sandwich, then walked out without grabbing the snapple. Now my snapple is a good 5 minute walk away and my laziness has peaked to levels not seen since the paleozoic era!

I got my first hate mail!

2004-06-09T14:55:02Z

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

My girlfriend kicks butt.

2004-06-08T19:10:06Z

So with my birthday coming up, my girlfriend found the absolute best birthday present. A DRAWING CLASS! That's right, she got me an eight week class in drawing! That's pretty cool, eh? I think she's trying to send me a message about my art skills. Eh? Eh?

Anyway, this will be my first ever art class. Hopefully it'll be fun and useful!

100 strips.

2004-06-07T15:03:55Z

Well, I've managed 100 strips now. I'm pretty impressed with myself managing to stick with it, and I'm thrilled that people actually read the comic. I thought about doing a '100th comic' comic strip for about a tenth of a second. Then I remembered how much I dislike 'milestone' strips in the other comics I read and came to my senses. Having just redrawn the first few strips I realize that the look of the comic has come along quite nicely, and I also think I'm writing a little more clearly now. Anyway, here's hoping the next 100 strips show even more improvement in writing and drawing.

Pounding Headache.

2004-06-03T14:59:30Z

My head is killing me! And my puppy needs to go to the vet. Today is not a good day.

I don't know exactly what's wrong with him. He's been listless and cries in pain occasionally when you try and pick him up. I think it might be his rear leg knee or something... dunno. That's what vets are for.

Fan mail....

2004-06-02T19:34:19Z

So, the tallies are up. 22 fan mails for May. Holy crap! My fans rule! I know from talking to other artists you usually don't get this amount of fanmail for the number of readers I have. (I'm still really small time compared to other comics. Only about 1400 readers or something like that.)

Strangely most of it is nice mail! There was only one message from a guy who said that my humor is "too easy" because I'm mocking conservatives and religion, things that many 20 somethings feel is worth mocking these days.

Well, at least I'm not doing a sprite gamer comic, yes?

Anyway, I really like the redrawn first two strips, so hopefully I'll get the third and final redraw done. Then I'll toss the old ones onto a seperate page.

Now... I need to resist the urge to KEEP redrawing the old strips to make them better! I could slowly work my way though the whole buffer! Of course, I'd probably think the first strips were bad ALL OVER AGAIN and then have to start over redrawing. I'd become the proverbial snake eating it's tail. So I won't redraw any more of them after this. I swear. No really.

Redrawing the original three strips...

2004-06-01T15:36:25Z

So when I started Filthy Lies, I was trying to draw everything on the computer to save the trouble of getting a scanner set up and I already had a tablet. I started drawing them in Adobe Photoshop, but almost immediately changed to Flash for drawing. Now I'm going back and redoing those original 3 strips.

What really triggered this was the fact that the second strip is the strip that most frequently gets linked in blogs and in newsgroups. Apparently I have been going downhill since then. I guess I peaked early.

Anyway, since that seems to be the most popular strip, I thought maybe I should redo it for color and snazziness, and since I was redoing that one, I figured I'd redo all three.

The first is already up here and I'll post when the others go up.

I really like the newer look, especially seeing it next to the old one.

Also... that old font? Yetch!

Annoyed...

2004-05-25T00:13:02Z

So, I've moved to Keenspot, but I haven't gotten anything on the front page, nor am I in the dropdown yet.

Grrrrr....

Keenspot sure has some lazy crap for craps. :)

I need to get a buffer.

2004-05-24T17:14:51Z

I sat staring at my blank comic template for an hour last night. I hate it when the muse is not upon me. I'm the absolute worst at coming up with ideas for comics when I'm sitting there needing to do a comic. I always do better having them figured out a few days before hand.

Obviously, then, I ought to have a buffer.

Oh, and maybe I should make myself some LJ icons.

Latest and best meme!

2004-05-19T19:42:29Z

1) Grab the five heaviest books off your shelf/desk/whatever. Dictionaries and phonebooks count.

2) Hit yourself in the face has hard as you can five times with each of the books. (That's a total of 25 smacks to your piehole.)

3) If still concious, stagger over to the computer and write whatever gibberish your battered brain can manage to squeeze out.

My attempt :

"You are doing a superb job, Mr. Rumsfeld..."

Warning : permenant brain damage can occure when doing this meme.

No hate mail? I CRY!

2004-05-17T21:38:07Z

So I figured today might actually generate a hate-mail or two. Tragically, no love. Normally I figure that the people who read my comic are pretty much a bunch of irreverant yokels like myself, so I don't figure I'll get anybody complaining.

But I figured mocking the death of a 13 year old girl at a hockey match in today's strip just might do the trick.

This was a little over two years ago, so I'm sure the comment went over most people's heads. Tragic, really. I guess I'll have to do better. Or worse. Depends on how you look at it.

3 months of no posting.

2004-05-10T17:35:20Z

Well, the T-shirts didn't take off because right around when I was thinking of getting them, I started negotiations to move Filthy Lies to Keenspot and if I did that, they would handle ALL of the logistics of T-shirt sales.

Consequently, I put the T-shirts on hold.

Now, with everything done, my comic should be moved over soon soon soon (All that's required is the propigation of the DNS) and I'll be moving forward on the t-shirts.

Very cool.

The delay was frustrating to say the least.

T-shirts of DOOOOOM!

2004-02-03T15:32:09Z

So I'm finally getting some T-shirts made up. It's very exciting.

Here is the tentative design :

Close up :

I'm pretty excited about it. Now if only people will buy them....

Christmas sucks.

2003-12-22T23:21:35Z

At least it does if you're planning on doing comics.

I should have forseen that I would need a huge buffer of comics to make Christmas a feasible holiday of not working.

I must comic like a champion!

Well...

2003-12-16T19:41:34Z

It doesn't look like I'm going to be publishing the strips to livejournal after all. I've just gotten a new website design up thanks to Hal (the guy who does my hosting), and he is discussing potiential ways to generate revenue for the site via ads or some such thing. So I have held off on getting a RSS feed set up for now. However, the new website is up. Is it nice? Yes? No? I should put a link to this LJ there, but it might be kind of superfluous given that I now have a rant section underneith each comic that lets me talk about the comic there.

However, it doesn't have the fun post/reply thingee that LJ has, huh? And the forum is pretty darn slow. Maybe I'll put up a link to it anyway. And let people decide if they want to read both.

50 comics on wed. Good lord, I don't know how people like aeire manage to do this for so long.

Still haven't gotten RSS feeds working...

2003-12-01T15:18:56Z

And I'm not sure I will until I get an actual better backend for my website working.

In the mean time... here is a comic :

Welly welly well.

2003-10-29T18:01:51Z

This is the journal I'm setting up to hopefully post my comics as LJ accessible.