Coming into our 100th comic at what seems a staggering pace here, people. Please don’t expect anything on the awesome scale of the 50th strip (that was a product as much of lucky timing as anything), but go ahead and expect something a little bit special. I mean, I [heart] you. I want to give you nice things when I can.
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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!
The HOW Conference is alive and well, and it you have the right combination of twitter accounts coupled with our amazing coverage, well it’s damn near like you’re there right now. Which I’m not. I expect most of my next few days will be spent chasing the turmoil that is the #HOWconf tag, and looking for sweet twitpics, and most definitely not getting anything done.
If you’re keeping track, this is our 95th 1PT.Rule comic, so as we count down to the über-special occasion of #100, go on back through the catalog and get caught up.
Shoryuken!!
So if you missed Monday’s comic, that’s because I missed Monday’s comic, and it happened to fall on Tuesday this week. You may want to read it to give today’s strip a little more context, but, if not, no biggie. I’m sure you get the gist.
It’s been a somewhat distracting week for me as my partner in crime has been tracking pinball and arcade machines with the restless zeal of Aragorn himself. Of course, me being a tremendous gaming nerd, I’ve found myself bitten by the bug as well, learning way more about MAMEs and JAMMAs and replacement joysticks than I ever thought possible. Did you know it’s theoretically possible to pay a pretty low price for a random, crappy arcade cabinet, drop in a new motherboard for the game you want (purchased at 1/10th the cost) and just sort of, slip it in and go to town? Well you do now.
I do believe arcade games will soon become the design office accessory to have.
Before we begin, do check out our latest, news-heavy episode of the Reflex Blue Show. I’ve listened to it, it’s a gas.
I have found that, now that Debbie is indeed the President of AIGA, I am experiencing some guilt about not being an active member. There’s not a whole lot to be done about it today, as today’s strip suggests it would take some draconian plans to work the colossal cost of membership into my current professional budget. It would be nice if that number could come down somewhat — maybe chill out on expenditures of supporting design in China for a while — or that (and I’m just throwing this out there) qualified sole-proprietors/independent designers could merit a softer point of entry during the current economic climate.
I won’t hold my breath if you don’t.