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Last week’s Christmas comic was derailed in reaction to what has come to be known as The Christmas Blizzard of 2009, which completely destroyed fully 75% of my holiday plans, and continues to pose a threat to this day.
The unexpected upside of being snowed in for four days was working through nearly all of the DVDs my wife and I received on Christmas. Quantum of Solace itself was the lone hold-out, being sidelined by a Band of Brothers marathon on Spike TV. In case you are wondering, that formula looks like this: BoB > QoS.
My wife received Julie & Julia, a movie I had previously vowed never to see, in fact suffering through G.I.Joe while she saw it with her mother last summer. Being a good husband I sat down and was moved emotionally by the tale of a young blogger during the heyday of the blog (long since past). I guess that movie is supposed to be about a cook but NO! it is actually the greatest (only?) movie about blogging interrupted sporadically by Meryl Streep playing a muppet.
The entire tale of Julie is one any mid-aught blogger knows all too well. The initial rush of excitement, the feelings of isolation and the void of the internet, the elation of your first comment, followed by your first comment from someone you don’t know. Feeling pressured to produce something worth your audience’s time, day after day, with a spouse and family who don’t really get what you’re doing at all. A roller-coaster, that. In the end, through nothing but the power of blogging, this young woman scores a book deal and a movie based (half’sies) on her life. God that’s a happy ending.
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We are two comics away from the odometer clicking over that first zero to a “one” and this is the part where I tell you the big-ish plans we were hatching for the 100th comic have been slightly delayed as the complicated web we’ve woven to bring you this strip is complicated. So these plans will be replaced by smaller, still fun plans, in the interim.
Last week I wrapped up my first set of illustrations as a Veer Marketplace Contributor, and I’m here to report on that process. Smooth as silk, though as the site warns, requiring of patience. In abundance. Patience while you wait, like waiting for a blood test, with no indication of success until word comes all at once. Happily, I shot 10 for 10 from the line, and later this summer you’ll be able to buy some Nate Voss artwork on the cheap — er, on the reasonable — from Veer.
It’s what amounts to a Veer-branded iStock site, which I guess people are calling “microstock” these days. I am okay with that, though there was a time (before my independent employment) when I found the practice somewhat less savory. iStock is the Wal-Mart of image-sites, and Veer has always been like a smaller, cooler boutique chain. Sure it’s a chain, but it’s cooler. It’s like the Apple Store before the Apple Store was everywhere. I’ve always felt like they “got it” from their wallpapers to their blog, and especially their Merch section, from which I scored a few shirts that has in the past years have become worn from wear. So becoming a part of that brand feels very good to me.
So right now there’s 10 Nate Voss’s that will appear on Veer later this summer, and now that I know that whatever it is that I’m doing is what they’re looking for, you can bet there will be more. Have a great weekend.
Also — HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!
Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
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