0222 - Birthday Fun

Notes on today's comic (21 Mar 2011):

Actually, that was how I spent my birthday - which is why there was no Thursday comic last week... sorry!

Strictly speaking, it wasn't me who was an extra in the video - it was my Minecraft avatar. Two of my Minecrafting friends, HojjoshMC and SatoriLove, made a parody of Eminem and Rihanna's song, "Love the Way You Lie" ("Love the Way You Mine"), and several Minecrafters, myself included, were invited to appear in the music video, intended to be a shot-for-shot remake of the original! The video is here, and they did a really good job with both the song and the video - as for me, my avatar is dressed in a Pac-Man T-shirt (and you see me once in the video, for a few seconds, and again at the end in the bloopers! Thanks to HojjoshMC and SatoriLove for giving me the chance to be in the background of the bar scene!

I am sorry that I didn't do a comic, but I was having such a great time talking with my friends for what ended up as a seven-hour Skype-fest that it just didn't get done... Considering that up to that point, my 40th birthday was proving rather boring, I think I'm allowed!

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Monday 14 March 2011

Well, there would have been a strip on my 40th birthday - had I not changed the upload date to a Thursday!

I also realised that I'd messed up the notes for last Monday's strip - the title and the comic number were the same ones as the one before it! *cringe* I've hopefully fixed that now, though.

Thursday 24 February 2011

Changing to Thursday made one heck of a difference; I felt more relaxed about getting the comic done yesterday. I've still got to get changes made on websites which link to this one, so that there's a revised banner. Goodness knows when I'll get around to it.

Wednesday 9 February 2011

First of all, apologies for not putting out a comic on Monday - I had these sketches drawn, although it was way past the deadline for automatic uploading, but I just wasn't feeling up to continuing.

Second, I'm still getting to grips with the tablet PC's pen, so I hope you'll excuse any inconsistency with the drawing. I'm also drawing sketches much smaller than they need to be, which is causing problems later on. Of course, I'm not practicing anywhere near enough.

Last, but by no means least, a happy birthday to my mum, Sandra, who is 59 on Friday!

Monday 31 January 2011

I'd like to take the opportunity to say a huge

THANK YOU!

...to my brother, Patrick Johnson! When my laptop died, he very kindly said that he would send me - free, gratis and for nothing - his old Tablet PC that he was no longer using; he added that it could come in handy for drawing the strips... The thing is awesome, and I'm so happy with it! Thank you so much Patrick! (Now I'll have to up my game to do the tablet justice...)

Monday 24 January 2011

I'm back! Sorry for being away for two weeks, but the ribs were really bothering me the first week, and I still wasn't sure by the time the second week came along. But, I'm back now!