This was a fairly popular cartoon too. But it does have a ninja, a pirate and clown hate. So it’s pretty much made of the internet.
Archive for ‘February, 2009’
Adventures In Being Slightly More Popular Than Usual
by Markasaurus on February 26, 2009 at 12:00 amFor some reason, yesterday’s comic turned out to be insanely popular (well, compared to the usual Deed The Inky comic) – it made the front page of Digg (it has been Dugg 2,597 times at the time of writing this) and sparked a debate on Reddit about how crappy my drawing is. (By the way, xkcd is totally better drawn that Deed The Inky, it just has a simple style.) Anyway, thanks to everyone who Dugg us and Reddit-ed us and voted on Is It Funny Today. It’s a great motivator to know that people are actually digging what you do…!
This is an interesting one… this was kind of a throwaway comic; I was concentrating on drawing “Ghost Week” and I just had some spare ideas and nothing to do one day so I drew it as a little bonus comic. It became the most popular comic on the site by a HUGE margin. It wound up on the front pages of both Reddit and Digg, and the site got 60,000 hits in one day. The average is about 1,000. If I had known I would have shaded it and drawn it a little better. Still, I love this cartoon for it’s legs.
It’s weird that I’ve been inside a cloud. There’s only like a couple of generations of people who have been able to do that.
This drought turned out to only be temporary though. Then they tried to reform healthcare, those dumb bastards.
I’m not quite sure what this cartoon was about. I think one of my friends dared me to do a cartoon about a greek statue, but I’m not sure. Did you ever write something, then find it much later and wonder what it was about? Anyway it’s that.
It doesn’t even seem to have encouraged any employment growth either. Unless you count serving staff at Lloyd Blankfein’s house.
I love the Reddit thread about this cartoon. Comments range from “Hilariously unfunny” to “Also, why 56 hours? A geostationary orbit is (theoretically) possible at 22,236 miles above the Earth’s surface, so a 56 hour journey would have an average speed around 400 mph. I would think it would be possible to accelerate to much higher speeds than that, at least on the downward journey.“
Adventures In David Copperfield Might Be A Douche
by Markasaurus on February 9, 2009 at 12:00 amSo after I finished drawing today’s comic I felt a slight pang of guilt for making a joke about David Copperfield’s untimely demise. Then I got paranoid… what if the dude had died or got some horrible disease and I hadn’t heard about it and I made a tasteless joke? Should I just change it to Criss Angel, who nobody cares about under any circumstances? I decided to check Copperfield’s Wikipedia page just in case. This turned up the following pieces of information…
- In 2006 he was mugged, but used sleight of hand to hide his valuables from his assailant. The two ladies he was with were not as magically skilled and lost all their stuff.
- Also in 2006, Copperfield claimed to have found the fountain of youth on an island that he owns.
- In 2007-2008 he was investigated by the FBI for sexual assault and bribery.
So, what I came away from this experience with is that there is a very small, but very definite possibility that David Copperfield is an immortal sex offender who won’t help you if you get mugged. I think karma will have my back on this one.