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There was much more of a visceral reaction to Friday’s Craigslist comic than I anticipated. Apparently that’s something an awful lot of us have had to deal with in our time. While the conversation over there has a few good tales, I’d be remiss not to have to you spend a few hours of your day wasting away in front of the megasite for airing such grievances.
I’d also be remiss not to mention our fun-timey interview/chat with designer/author Jason Tselentis, who a little birdie told me may have found himself in a contest to out-foxy one Steven Gordon. How this contest ended I do not know. That we are still here upon this Earth following it means it did not go full-force, and precludes a rematch may someday occur.
And, lastly, my reward for finishing today’s strip was waiting until I was done to watch this (office warning — naughty words present):
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This strip was an awful lot of fun to write and draw. I briefly considered turning this into our second episode of Force Justify, but I think I’ve figure out something a lot more fun. I’ve very excited for next week. Very.
Drawing every line of Milton Glaser’s most famous poster (is it? Now I’m not sure) gave a surprising amount of insight into how he drew that image. Which shapes he began with, which he filled in. It reminds me that we can call it design until we’re blue in the face, pour over every contour and detail and dissect them, but really that all started out as a man drawing. And if you’re a designer who loves to draw, there’s something very inspirational about that.
Have a good weekend. Freelancers keep those pens up –
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Heeyyyyyyy — back on track!
Lil’ bit of housekeeping on 1PT.Rule this week, as our current storyline found itself to be a touch unresolvable in its current state. Well after a few days of tossing ideas around not only do I have something much better, but it’s going to actually take about three times as long to resolve. This may or may not come as good news to you, I’m not sure. I promise to make it as entertaining as I possibly can for the ride.
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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