I actually finished this one LAST NIGHT and I put it on PATREON IMMEDIATELY because when you support me there you get perks.
Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying the spark of inspiration. Is it the holidays? Is it recovering from a sickness? I don’t know, but I finally plugged in my scanner.
I’m thinking about streaming when I draw, sometimes. Maybe. It’s an idea I’m toying with. Do people like watching people draw online? Is that a thing? I have a wonderful singing voice, and my hair is luscious.
OK, maybe one day soon I won’t talk about depression. When I’m ready.
OK, I’m sick and this was the best I could muster today. I picked “Christmas” colors — you’re welcome — I’ll await my holiday award in the mail.
I’m actually kinda excited about bitcoin — and some other things I mention. I’m just… bewildered? Constantly bewildered. Ajit Pie is like a villain out of a Douglas Adams novel. Roy Moore is baffling. The tax bill is baffling. This video is baffling. So silly. This world is silly. A bunch of children running around pretending they’re in charge of things.
I have more comics to upload! Did you dudes know I’m digging into the classic Allan archive? More comics in one place, I figure it’ll be a good thing all around. Check ’em out from 950 here.
Oh, one more thing is I’m getting into Instagram because apparently that’s where a lot of journal comics are? Let’s find out!
It’s been a rough couple of days but I’m not letting that get me down! I’m just gonna keep on truckin’. And you know what they say about truckin’! They say it’s going to be obsolete in a few years and hundreds of thousands of people are going to be out of a job.
It’s been a busy week! I’ll probably say that every time I don’t update for any amount of time. Wish I could’ve, really, but I couldn’t.
It’s been nice being a little more “stream of consciousness” with these. I really enjoy just kinda talking to myself and thinking out loud. I think I try too hard to write for an audience; when I write for myself I genuinely enjoy the process start to finish. And sometimes I work something out in my head, too, which is always an added bonus!
I haven’t done a storyline in a while. I’d like to give that a shot, again!
NEways, ignore the weird website changes while I tweak the CSS. It’ll be all weird for a while, but hopefully still functional. Comment or contact me if you notice something “game-breaking.”
We’re crunching at work this week. And next week. And probably every week until July 2018. Yeah, it’s that big of a crunch. Tech companies, my dudes.
Other than that I feel like I’m constantly missing opportunities—the world is passing me by. Bitcoins are worth $20k now, The Disaster Artist premiered last Friday (in select theaters), and POLITICS is happening, too, and here I am… making tech manuals instead of quipping about all this shit.
Can I please finish paying off my student loans so I can quit this job and make art, please?
Welcome to my inner monologue. Believe it or not, I do actually argue with myself. Usually, when I draw a comic, I’ll offer one perspective. I usually get a response from the other perspective, which is fine. I expect that. It’s also implied. When I write one side of things, I’ve also tried to consider the other side. So I wanted to try doing a strip where I explored both sides of a thought. Good and bad. Pros and cons. Hopefully it flows well. I liked making it, and I’m excited to make more in the series!
So I finished drawing and scanning this comic last night, but I didn’t have time to color it, so I put it on my Patreon in black and white. If you’re interested in reading my comics FIRST and getting bonus content and insider shit, it’ll cost you $1. Please consider supporting me – I’m not in it for the money, I’m in it for the art. Patreon helps me connect with an established readership moreso than a site like this.
Anyone here like podcasts? I’m going to this Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast blast thing on the 10th in LA. Reach out to me on Twitter or something if you wanna meet up! I think we’re gonna get some ramen in Little Tokyo.
I like working out and I like getting real introspective and maybe getting lost in a podcast or some thoughtful music and I CAN’T DO THAT WHEN EVERY TIME I LOOK UP OR OPEN MY EYES THERE ARE THREE MEN VYING TO MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ME.
If you are a guy, you might do this to people you are attracted to and not even realize. If you do this intentionally, then fuck you because it’s exhausting. Women everywhere: you’re right about men. I like to think I’ve learned to pick up on when eye contact works and when it doesn’t. I probably still make mistakes, but I am receptive to peoples’ expressions, reactions, etcetera. There’s a nuance to nonverbal communication with strangers, and it’s one that is obviously sorely missed by the majority or else this wouldn’t be something that continuously makes me uncomfortable.
Day 31 was weird. I was in a weird mood when I made that. This one’s better.
To you, I exist almost entirely digitally. You can hop onto any computer and type in any one of my URLs and access my websites without any sort of throttling or bottlenecking—my comic is on equal footing with the rest of the internet.
If the internet were no longer neutral, one could imagine a scenario where an artist like myself was silenced through partiality; a website would be bottlenecked so no one would wait for it to load; content you weren’t supposed to see would be buried; and you would be paying more to access presently-accessible information. Net Neutrality is good for everyone, except corporations. So now, we have to fight to preserve our digital landscape.
It’s frightening to see it laid out so bare; Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon’s ISPs (corporations already monopolizing most of America’s internet and occasionally already capping/throttling/bottlenecking it with impartiality) all stand to profit immensely from a reclassification at the cost of our freedom of information. Right now, ISPs cannot decide which sites you should access at which speeds. That may change.
We are a country built on free speech, but I guess we never specified freedom of access to that speech. Oh well. Maybe next time we make America we’ll get it right.
EDIT: In the comic, I mention “the vote” is happening “around Black Friday and Thanksgiving.” The vote won’t be until mid-December, but information surrounding the vote was released today (the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday).
I really haven’t, like, prepared for a Monday in a while. It feels good to give myself a couple hours before bed to switch my headspace off from funmode into workmode. I’m not there, yet, but as you can see… I’m prepping.
I really dig the shades of purple in this strip. idk why, I just saw it on kuler or whatever it’s called now and I figured I’d give it a go. I usually do a really simplified take of blending their swatches together. If anyone out there fancies themselves a digital painter, lemme know what you come up with!
Anyway, I’m updating this on Sunday night. It’s 10:53 PM right now and I wanna be up in 7 hours. My protein breakfast smoothie is blended, laundry’s done, clothes put away…
I live a simple life, I guess. That’s a good thing, right?
I was going to tweet something to this extent, but I decided I’d draw it, instead. I’ve found—despite me wanting to be someone who can influence people with words alone—that if there are no pretty pictures accompanying my ideas then no one cares. Maybe that’s because my art is unique—it’s the thing that really gives you “my take,” and people already have their favorite writers and thinkers. They’re looking for something fresh. And this just happens to be my “fresh thing.”
When I open up to people, I am hoping for engagement and response, but if I really analyze why I’m chatting, I’m not really looking for a solution – I’m looking for validation. Sometimes, I just want someone to hear me and understand me, and I think we all want that. So, when I’m having a conversation with someone, I find—despite an opportunity—it’s not actually my place to tell someone what to do or how to solve a problem (or mansplain). Instead, I ask them how they’d solve it, or try to ask questions that maybe they haven’t thought of, before. I think this is more productive for both of us; for me, I understand the issue more, and for them, they have someone to share with who is seeing an issue from their perspective and letting them vent.
Win/win/win. The third win is because Michael Scott gets a win, too, because he solved a problem.
