Steering Abounds
I gotta say, the spam comments that get submitted to Fleen are ever more amusing; I particularly liked this one:
This is in actuality a terrific webpage. written in a very vivid, using the grammar very well, give us to add a lot of fun. This is steering to be the best. Thank you .¹
This is the pledge that we at Fleen make to you: we will write in a very vivid and use the grammar very well so we may give you to add a lot of fun. It’s what every hack webcomics pseudojournalist aspires to do/be.
- Okay! EmCity! Know who’s going? Everybody and their dog — except for me, it seems — will be in transit sometime in the next 24 – 36 hours towards Seattle. A list is included for your convenience below, but for the moment I’d like to focus on one particular element of World + Dog, Mr Brad Guigar², on account of when he travels tomorrow towards the upper-left corner of the country, he’ll be doing so as a man who has rid himself of the shackles of The Man:
Last month, the company announced layoffs, and … was offering a generous buyout to employees who would take a voluntary layoff, and I was accepted as one of those candidates. My last day is today. [emphasis mine]
I’ve found more than once that people thought that Guigar was already a full-time
drain on societywebcartoonist, but the fact is that he’s been working for nigh on a decade and a half in the newspaper biz in Philadelphia. Every in-house graphic to explain why we’re eating more beets? Chances are Brad did it.Practical upshot: juggling multiple comic strips and editing Webcomics Dot Com all took place in the interstitial time between work, family, and sleep, making Guigar one muthascratchin’ master ninja at time management. One shudders to think what he might accomplish with another eight hours each day.
Brad’s agreed to an interview about what the transition is like, which we’ll do sometime after this weekend’s con and he’s gotten into the new routine. My one piece of advice for everybody is, If you ever found yourself in Brad Guigar’s way, now’s the time to be somewhere else.
- Off To See The Wizard
On the main floor, you’ll find Alaska Robotics (booth 216);
Blank Label with special guest Magnolia Porter (booth 210); Blind Ferret (booth 306); Dylan Meconis and Hurricane Erika (booth 223), next to their Periscope Studiomates (booth 222); Girls With Slingshots and Something*Positive (booth 309); The Mighty, Mighty Halfpixel (booth 102); Hijinks Ensue, Multiplex, and Wasted Talent (booth 307); KaBOOM!, publishers of Adventure Time by Ryan North (booth 402); SMBC (booth 206); Studio Foglio (booth 110); The Oatmeal (booth 705); The First Great and Bountiful TopatoCo Empire, including appearances by Aaron Diaz, Anthony Clark, Ethan & Malachai Nicolle, Chris Hastings, Chris Yates, David Malki !, Jeph Jacques, Jhonen Vasquez, Meredith Gran, Ryan North, Sam Logan, BeckyAndFrank, Tyson Hesse, and Wes & Tony (booths 202 & 203); and Unshelved (booth 206). - And Your Little Dog, Too!
Meanwhile, over in Artists Alley, you may find Ben Costa (table P18); David Maguire (table P04); Ed Brisson (table F10); Jim Zub (table C11); Mary Cagle (table H07); and YukoAndAnanth (table A22).
I’m probably missing people. Let me know and I’ll steering to be the best.
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¹ Verbatim, naturally. The dude or lady in question very much wanted you to buy shoes.
² He’s dreamy.
“If you ever found yourself in Brad Guigar’s way, now’s the time to be somewhere else.”
Speaking as one:
Who has been in Mr. Guigar’s way day in and day out for more than seven years now–I am one of the three people left who stands between him and over one thousand U.S. dollar bills, as a matter of fact, as part of the ongoing Daily Grind Ironman Competition–I find myself oddly driven at this point to make some sort of braggadocio-laden comment.
Unfortunately, having never made such a comment before, I find myself at a loss. Maybe something like, “What’s he gonna do?? Become even more daily now??”
Oh, well…
Mike
By MHPayne on 03.29.12 2:15 pm
My partner and I will be there for our webcomic, Frederick the Great, at table K04.
By Geoff on 03.29.12 3:01 pm
My partner and I will be representing our webcomic, Frederick the Great, at table K04.
By Geoff on 03.29.12 3:03 pm
Wait, what? You mean one of the co-authors of the bible on making a living from webcomics wasn’t actually making a living from his webcomic?
Er, sorry, I think Bengo just took over my keyboard there. Move along.
By Morgan Wick on 04.01.12 2:51 am
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