0180 - Way Too Hot

Notes on today's comic (13 Sep 2010):

My lovely friend Bridgett Spicer, creator of the wonderful comic Squid Row, generously gave me a helping hand with the punchline of this strip... I seem to recall that there's a sort of rule with comedy: When you're coming up with a joke, think of something funny - and then take it one step further. I'd forgotten that at the time, but Bridgett came up with the goods :)

News, Views and Just Plain Schmooze...

Monday 30 August 2010

WOOHOO! I thought it would never happen, but it has: I've now had readers from every state in the USA! Whoever in New Mexico paid a visit, thank you!

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Firstly, the country count advances a little farther: Costa Rica brings the number to 88. Welcome, Costa Rica!

Second, I've decided to put in the numbers and titles of the comics into the notes sections, and I'm slowly advancing through the archives, correcting accordingly. This also means that I've got to add in some notes, because some days, I didn't make any comments. It's also a touch confusing, because in order to help me, I numbered and titled each comic as I drew them - but they weren't always put online in the same order in which they were drawn! I've not done that in a while, but returning to the earlier ones is making my head spin just a little!

Anyway, I'll announce when I've got the updates completed :)

Friday 13 August 2010

It's Jenny Everywhere Day, where artists are encouraged to create their own version of Jenny Everywhere, possibly the world's first open-source, public-domain character. I found out about Jenny Everywhere quite by accident, and it fired me up into considerable enthusiasm :) You can find lots of Jennys, both in strips and cameos, here.

Monday 9 August 2010

Who is Jenny Everywhere? Well, according to this Wikipedia article, Jenny Everywhere is a fictional person created as an open-source, public-domain character - her creators couldn't find any characters which were so freely available, so that's why they made her. So, anyone can use her as a character in their work, be it comic strip, movie or whatever, so long as the representation looks like the description the creators gave (and a special paragraph provided showing that Jenny can be used in anyone's work).

Friday 13 August sees the ninth anniversary of the creation of Jenny Everywhere, and the second annual Jenny Everywhere Day - people are encouraged to create works featuring Jenny, and submit them to the Shifter Archive Project in time for the event. So that's what I'm going to be doing!

One rather delightful, specified aspect of her character is that she likes toast... This inspired a nice little idea for the strip (I wasn't planning to simply draw a pic of Jenny by herself), so hopefully, it'll make Friday's strip make some sense! I'm rather excited about the whole thing, really...

In other news, the number of countries has grown slightly, again... This time, it's Algeria added to the list!