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.
Our new reviews program stumbles and bumbles onward — the biggest takeaways from this week’s doubly-filmed review are 1.) make sure there’s nothing not green between you and your green-screen before filming, and 2.) light blue is apparently too close to bright green not to make yourself look like an erie ghost upon re-filming. Perhaps we can use that to our advantage come Halloween-time.
Regardless! We bring to you our review of Timothy O’Donnell’s SKETCHBOOK, which we interviewed him about a few weeks ago on the Reflex Blue Show. The book surprised me, and I found that there can actually be something worth reading in a book filled with giant, gorgeous pictures. Click below to watch the review.
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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.