Bendependent [email] said at 1:15 PM 12-08-2004: the comic is called "dirt farm"
all of them are in a mini-series so far, this one called "endangered species".
not sure how many mini-series i'm going to do. don't really want to put a limit on them really, but i'm trying to get at least one of each section done before i send them out for possible syndication...
so far there's been:
- designs for things i'll never make
- mad libs
- celebrity zombies
- fappy the seal
- hideous heart
- employee handbook
- & now endangered species
the ides is that i will eventually come back to these. after watching other people try to do comics for several years, i've mainly found that they've gotten kind of boxed in over the years. i like the idea of keeping my format open so i can really do whatever i want.
i want to be able to do everything from shel silverstein-esque illustrated poems to photoshopped images to collages of tiny scraps of random crap i found in the street.
this way, i don't think it'll ever get boring to do. that's the idea anyway...
Bob [ url ] said at 10:34 PM 12-10-2004: The whole miniseries thing/format/whatcha kinda reminds me of Tom the Dancing Bug. The shape and size do too, actually, but that's about all they have in common.
dave [email] said at 9:42 AM 12-08-2004: the two later panels seem cohesive. The bus guy gets to laugh at the car guy. The homeless get to laugh at the yuppies. I don't see the direct link between juice guy and no toilet paper. Unless we are to draw the parallel by thinking of "butt juice"
Connie said at 11:24 AM 12-08-2004: Maybe there is a connection. Notice to the right of the orange juice, in the side door of the fridge is a bottle of something labelled "x". Maybe the wife put a little X lax in the juice because he kept drinking it all. That's why in the second cartoon, the guy has the poops and the wife is outside laughing. Just a thought.
Connie said at 1:42 PM 12-08-2004: Ok. Well maybe the guy saw the note about not drinking all the wife's orange juice, so he drank the whole carton to be mean and well...drink a whole carton and see what happens. haha!
meredith [email] said at 1:00 PM 12-08-2004: I had a friend who used to pick me up at this gas station on her way to our rehearsal so that I wouldn't have to take the bus.
Once while we were there, we saw this woman with five children of varying ages behaving horribly. The eldest of them had a 2 liter of some orange drink and kept beating the other ones with it. His mom yelled at him to stop and he began BEATING HIS MOTHER with the two liter while she tried to shepherd the smaller ones (who began hitting each other with whatever snack foods they were carrying) towards their vehicle.
We kind of drove by slowly in silence. In a kind of astounded suspense.
myriam [email] said at 1:16 PM 12-08-2004: I hate it when I hear kids call their mom "STUPID!" and the mom just lets it go by. That is inexcusable behavior to me and if I had ever called my own mother "stupid" she would have smacked me across the face. And I would have deserved it. Seeing that happen with no consequences makes me want to shake the mother.
craig [email] said at 1:47 PM 12-08-2004: I hate it when I'm waiting for the bus in New Orleans and people are driving by in their SUV's and laughing at me...
rick [email] said at 1:55 PM 12-08-2004: Try riding your bicycle on Magazine Street and getting honked at and told to "get off the fucking street, asshole," or yelled at while on your bicycle on St. Charles when some fraternity boy getting out of his car without watching in front of some overpriced restaurant almost doorjams you.
craig [email] said at 1:59 PM 12-08-2004: I was in my dad's car once when he honked at some bicyclist riding down the street, and I proceeded to yell at him. People here are so assbackwards.
rick [email] said at 2:02 PM 12-08-2004: In BRLA, a bicyclist was hit on River Road, by a pcik-up truck, from behind while there was no other traffic around and on a fairly straight stretch. Some people were quoted in the paper as blaming the bicyclist.
In Iowa, I carpooled with a guy who, any time, he saw anyone crossing the street and was not on a crosswalk, would say, "Look at that fuckin' idiot."
meredith [email] said at 2:14 PM 12-08-2004: I think growing up in Louisiana instilled a natural fear of 'self transport' that it took me a while to get over in Chicago.
I rollerblade all over now and no one yells rude things to me. Well. At least not THOSE kind of rude things.
rick [email] said at 12:16 AM 12-11-2004: The funny thing about D.C. motorists is that they are, hands-down, the worst drivers that I have encountered in the United States.
