Well, happy new year everybody! I gotta say, as much as I love them — I’m glad that the holidays are over. There are just too many days that I have to take off, and that means there are also days like today where I can’t get the comic out at midnight on Thursday morning like I usually do. I know it’s really not that big a deal, but my own out-sized guilt takes over and makes me crazy as soon as I hit that point where I know it’s going to be late. Course’, it’s that same guilt that allows me to motivate myself to hit self-imposed deadlines to begin with. Gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
I got some pretty great gifts this christmas, not the least of which was a pretty swank new brush pen. I’m still figuring out it’s particular eccentricities — but I’ll keep you posted if it supplants my current brush pen as my primary tool. Because on this site, that constitutes news.
In other “news” I dropped a quick review of one of my favorite new(ish) comics on the blog on tuesday — The Wind in the Willows. If you get a chance, give it a read. It’s good for me to be articulating my thoughts about comics that I like (and maybe dislike, if I pick something I don’t enjoy further down the line). It makes me look at what I’m doing and what I can do to make Billy a better comic. Tell me if you like it — I’ll try to make time to do more.
Hey, you wanna be fan of Billy on Facebook? It’s really important. So is Twitter. So is Etsy. Bleh. I have no idea what I’m doing. Ya-HOO!
Later,
J.
Please add a flamethrower tag.
HAHAHA!! Oh, this is rich. And perfect!
I’d actually forgotten about Spritzer, so this was a cool surprise. Love surprises.
And lay off the guilt, man. Toooo many calories.
@Nile: You sir, are my most demanding reader. Flamethrower tag activate!
@JE: But it’s soooo delicious.
The kids have rule number 1 down: cardio, cardio, cardio…
I love the expressions, very blair witch.
ok, i’m done with the movie references, promise…today.
Zombie with a flamethrower would make a cool shirt. Also what is the spikey thing that kid closest to spitzer in the fifth panel wearing on his head that is falling off in the last panel? And what is the girl in the very bottom right wearing on her head?
Jesus Nile, you’re full of questions this week. I’m not going to tell you flat out, you should pay attention to the backgrounds of past and future comics — but I will give you a clue. They’re markers for the clubs they belong to.
In my defense, I’ve never heard of a chess club where the members wear giant chess pieces on their heads.