Insert blog post here? Today’s comic is important. You’ll want to jot this one down in your memory banks. Like Sauron after Helm’s Deep, vengeance will be swift and terrible. Eventually. This became a very, very long story, and will wrap up tomorrow, and after that I think we’re going back to normal for a bit. Because there have been happenings in the design world that I’ve missed — jokes that now will never be! Rock.
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I TOLD you this was going somewhere! Ooooooooooooooooh.
So Neenah Paper has been pushing their Love Linen site pretty huge on Twitter, and pointed me towards it a few days ago. It’s a lovely site, but i am far past being impressed by sites simply for being lovely. What I was impressed by was them overnighting the Love Linen swatch-book-promo-piece to my ‘office’ about as quick as I’d ordered it through the site. For free. That kind of no-holds-barred push for promotion gets my respect far and away. There’s another portion of the site, where you upload a jpeg and they’ll send you a custom proof, that I have tried several times and failed at, as the system always hangs on my images (I’m trying the Marie wallpaper that will be available for all on this site… soon?). If I can get it to work I’ll let you know. For now, simply know that their Promo/Swatch book is a work of art that you should keep around your office just to show you specifically why print is not dead.
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.
Having 100 comics is awesome because big, round numbers are awesome. Also because reaching that milestone in under a year feels pretty neat, to boot. Thinking of 100 different comics makes me feel like they’ve got some weight, and maybe that’s why I’m trying out some character-based comedy of late. Time will tell if that pays off, but rest assured you haven’t seen the end of this particular tangent.
By my count, the other longest-running graphic-design webcomic, which has been at it for a few years I believe, will be eclipsed in sheer volume in a number of weeks. This is my way of saying I’m the shit over here, and recognize.
The first comics in this series pain me to both view and read, and I know that’s half the fun of watching any artist over time. Looking at early Peanuts and Garfield strips, or Calvin and Hobbes to a lesser extent, is always fun and charming, seeing where character started visually and comparing them to where they end up. The webcomics version of this is Penny Arcade, whose early strips look like a monkey drew them when compared to their radiant current form. Of course, there’s ten years of difference there, and thousands of strips to grow as an artist. In my neck of the woods, Newton’s nose eventually overpowered his face, and –as some assert– portions of other characters came to overpower other portions. Such is evolution. Hopefully Rob thinks I’m getting better at drawing black people, too.
Looking back, I’m happiest with the camping excursion and our foray into detective fiction, Force Justify, aside from the random gag here or there. Then of course, there’s other’s I’d just as soon forget exist. I have to believe other cartoonists feel the same way, but that’s one of the benefits to this. There’s really no endless iterating of ideas. You do a strip, it’s done, you move on and you do the next one. So when one turd pops out, there’s always a chance the next one can be solid gold.
Admittedly, most end up in the middle. Thanks for everything,
–nv–