Hey all y'alls! A couple of quick things this morning. First and foremost, today is the day that Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 comes out, and tonight I'm going to see Inception, and in between I'll make comics and fix my site and letter other comics and do some illo work. So lots of new media today, I just thought you'd like to know about all the media that's happening. I will probably clean my kitchen and fold laundry too.
Less importantly, I started one of those Facebook fan pages this week. I'm trying to separate my public life and personal life a little bit, at least in terms of how many pictures of me with whiskey splashed over my face are available to the general public. I sent out one of those annoying "blah-blah-blah suggests you become a fan of" things that Facebook does, along with the promise that I'd never do it again. I mean, I hate that crap, honestly, but you have to let people know JUST ONCE.
Out of the resulting smack talk that ensued, my good friend and comics bro J. Chris Campbell bet me I couldn't hit 1000 "fans" on Facebook by the end of the year, without once directly soliciting fans on Facebook or Twitter. From what I understand, I can allude to the existence of the page, post content there, link to it, whatever, I just can't do any "hey you should LIKE me, please LIKE me" stuff in either of those two places.
If I win, J. Chris is going to redesign the Wide Awake Press website for a week so the home page is a big DHARBIN IS GREAT tribute. If he wins, I'm going to do a special comic about how awesome he is (he is, too, it'll be EASY) and put it up, give him the original, etc.
Do you know where it's okay for me to directly solicit "fans"? RIGHT HERE! Although don't worry, I won't push it here that much either. But this first time, yes. If you like my comics and are on Facebook, "like"ing my page won't noticeably improve your life, but it won't hurt it either--I don't really send anything out. I think when I do con appearances I'll probably send invites to that, but that's like 3 or 4 times a year or something. So you should be spam-safe from me.
I also added the last four spreads from my last sketchbook to the Flickr set devoted to that stuff, if you're into that. 109 pages! Took me 2 years to fill it up, but that was a good sketchbook, I improved a lot. Hopefully my current sketchbook will improve much faster though--I'm not getting any younger, America. I was born way back in 1974, the same year that James Brown invented rap music/tiny female versions of self dancing on stage:
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Hey all y'alls! A couple of quick things this morning. First and foremost, today is the day that Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 comes out, and tonight I'm going to see Inception, and in between I'll make comics and fix my site and letter other comics and do some illo work. So lots of new media today, I just thought you'd like to know about all the media that's happening. I will probably clean my kitchen and fold laundry too.
Less importantly, I started one of those Facebook fan pages this week. I'm trying to separate my public life and personal life a little bit, at least in terms of how many pictures of me with whiskey splashed over my face are available to the general public. I sent out one of those annoying "blah-blah-blah suggests you become a fan of" things that Facebook does, along with the promise that I'd never do it again. I mean, I hate that crap, honestly, but you have to let people know JUST ONCE.
Out of the resulting smack talk that ensued, my good friend and comics bro J. Chris Campbell bet me I couldn't hit 1000 "fans" on Facebook by the end of the year, without once directly soliciting fans on Facebook or Twitter. From what I understand, I can allude to the existence of the page, post content there, link to it, whatever, I just can't do any "hey you should LIKE me, please LIKE me" stuff in either of those two places.
If I win, J. Chris is going to redesign the Wide Awake Press website for a week so the home page is a big DHARBIN IS GREAT tribute. If he wins, I'm going to do a special comic about how awesome he is (he is, too, it'll be EASY) and put it up, give him the original, etc.
Do you know where it's okay for me to directly solicit "fans"? RIGHT HERE! Although don't worry, I won't push it here that much either. But this first time, yes. If you like my comics and are on Facebook, "like"ing my page won't noticeably improve your life, but it won't hurt it either--I don't really send anything out. I think when I do con appearances I'll probably send invites to that, but that's like 3 or 4 times a year or something. So you should be spam-safe from me.
I also added the last four spreads from my last sketchbook to the Flickr set devoted to that stuff, if you're into that. 109 pages! Took me 2 years to fill it up, but that was a good sketchbook, I improved a lot. Hopefully my current sketchbook will improve much faster though--I'm not getting any younger, America. I was born way back in 1974, the same year that James Brown invented rap music/tiny female versions of self dancing on stage:
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