Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "Further Research Required"
One of these options is bound to be true.
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I’m interpreting it as affectionate at any rate
The first commenter down is right, it really isn’t irony, is it? Just amusing. [June 13, 2012]
"talking to myself? no, that was from Glengarry Glen Ross"
pathways to adventure
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Super Double Comixplosion!
ONE: Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: “HI, BILLY MAYS HERE TO HAUNT YOUR DREAMS”
TWO: I hope at least one person agrees with me, because if not I’ll just come off as super insecure
As a rule I don’t write out lengthy news posts like other comics, but I just wanted to make a feeble excuse for missing Friday’s update and remind y’all that you can send questions to journalcomic at gmail dot com. I’m getting a little more spam these days, which in my convoluted reasoning means that even the spambots are reading this page now and therefore readership in general is up. Thanks all!
p.s.: I didn’t write out the feeble excuse because it is seriously pretty sad. Hardly worth mentioning, really. Let’s all just move on?
comics for people who talk to comics
I don’t know, shop casual
Twitter ate my little post on the subject, so I will share it here: a brilliant Super Mario Galaxy music video set to “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen. I dare you to watch that whole thing and not want to go play the game (again, as the case may be). I dare you!
it’s not you, it’s me
This is going to make me sound like a jerk, but I’m going to be honest here and tell you…
Why I Might Reject Your Comic Idea (Even If I Asked You For One)
- It didn’t make sense.
- It made sense, but it wasn’t funny.
- It was tonally inconsistent with the site or had inappropriate content.
- I already had an idea / don’t like you / any one of a number of other minor reasons.
It has happened that people have helped me develop great ideas that I have used. But in the main, when I ask for an idea I’m dimly hoping that the stars will align and you will open your mouth and say something brilliant, something that you maybe didn’t even think you were going to say. If that happens, great! When it doesn’t I go back to thinking for myself.
Part of it is that I’m protective of my work, and don’t really want people telling me what to do. Part of it is that I have an (enormously varied) audience to keep in mind. And part of it is, like the alt-text says, this is supposed to be a journal comic; if I used everybody else’s suggestions (and these happen more often than you might think) it would sort of defeat the purpose, wouldn’t it? [June 12, 2012]