A Not So Christmas Carol

Well I suppose Cratchet won't be needed that fat bonus I was planning on giving him.

Still Alive

Hi everybody, apparently I'm still alive and the blog is still activated so I thought I'd blow off some dust and write my self a little post here.

When I first started this blog I thought to myself, "this is it, this is the blog that is gonna send me straight to the top!  You'll be richer than kings Jeff, KINGS!"  Well it's been a year and a half now and I have yet to hit 40 posts.  I suppose if it's any consolation I am richer than the guy in my alley that fights me for pop cans when I go outside to recycle them.

I feel like it's time to get back on the horse.  I do really love to draw and I have been doing so since I was a little kid.  I have always had a lot of support to never stop being creative but I always kind of felt that I needed to make sure I found some sort of "real" job. and degree or something of the sort.  I'm not sure if that's the message being sent to me from others or that's just how I perceived it.  I feel like a lot of my life I had it very, very easy with lot's of nice things and comforts and I believe that because I have had it easy when ever it came to doing anything I have always taken the path of least resistance and hated to push myself.

Sorry, I'm rambling but I want to change and push myself and there is no better time than now.  I still have a lot of support I feel like, especially from my wife who has put of with my shenanigans from day one and has supported 100% of my decisions no matter how big or small.  All comics or blogs, ideas or forms of creativity start somewhere, with one post, or picture.  I still feel self-conscious about my work sometimes and anxiety issues I've been working with for years that more often than not keep me from progressing and doing work.  But I feel like I have just had one of the longest and craziest weeks of my life and decided that I need to start, who cares if my artwork is not the best and my ideas are not the most creative, look at the artwork on any comic and see how it looked in the beginning as opposed to know.  We all go through changes and grow and get better, I know I can do anything I try!  (Here I go rambling again, someone should karate chop me or something)

Anyway I have been finally getting some ideas put together in my head for a comic to draw and have been working on some sketches and have even set up a nice drawing space for myself to work on them.  Where do we go from here then you might ask.  First of all I will not be posting them under this website anymore.  I've gotta be honest I have never really liked the look of this blog or it's layout and decided that I want to have a nice fresh start if I'm going to do this the right way (plus I've come up with a name that I feel like goes a long a little better with my new ideas I'm having although it is quite silly).  I will keep this blog up as it does continue to get hits every once in a while as well as the other one which mostly gets hits with Monica's Cupcake Icon and who know I may have a reason to come back one day and resume posting to them but for know they are on hiatus.

I really want a nice looking site that allows me to post comics and picture without having them being compressed and buttons at the top of the screen like "About" and "Archive" and "Tacos"  Something quite simple that looks nice.  I know a lot of sites use ComicPress but my first attempt at trying to figure that out was like trying to fight a magical hydra sent straight from the web-servers of Hell.  Perhaps if I try again and read more toughly through the tutorials I may be able to figure it out.  Unless I have any friends who know stuff about HTML or websites or floppy discs or something that would also be helpful.  I feel like that is my biggest hurdle at this point.  I have already started sketching out the first few panels of the comic and hopefully will have all that line art done quite soon.  As far as updating goes I have no idea how I want to do it.  Monday and Friday? Tuesday and Thursday? Three days a week? Every full moon?  I dunno.  I don't want to say I'll do it five days a week or something this early in the game and set myself up to fail.  I still have a job where I work 40+ hours a week as well as other things I do during my free time so I want to stick to updates right now I know I can meet and then alter those as time progresses if I need to, but all that will be told in the near future.

Whew!  If you made it this far I thank you very much for reading.  It does feel good to sometimes just say things on your mind and get them out there.  I still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with my life or where it is going, but I feel like this will be a good start for me, nothing in life that's worth doing is easy but I feel like I'm reading to challenge myself with this one and am hoping to have my first posting by the end of this week / beginning of next.  

Thank you so very much so far to all of you that have stopped at all my silly doodles and have supported me to this point and for all of you who have asked me to draw stuff for them I apologize that I have not.  I have been in a pretty bad creative rut up to this point and hopefully once I start getting a little bit into the swing of things I can start doing some drawings for you too.

Sorry for a such a long winded post (hopefully I didn't forget to say anything), and for making it this far you get a bonus prize of some sketches I did over the last few days!

Love!

facebook's destiny

Facebook: "C'mon baby, tell me what I want to hear."

User: "Are you sure, what if someone reads it?"

Facebook: "It'll be ok, just say it to me, you know what that does to me."

User: "Ugh, woke up this morning with snow all over my car! FML!"

"Ready for summer, can't believe all the snow we're getting for February!"

"Attention other drivers, if you can't drive in the snow, please

don't drive at all. That is all"

 "Brrr, this winter is so cold, I just want to go back to bed."

Facebook: "OH, OH BABY!! YES, YES!!!"

Naked 'N Famous Goes to the Theatre

One day I'm going to start a symphony that consists purely of theremins and bongos

I Don't Really Understand Dubstep

have yourself a slushy little christmas

So apparently my brother wrote a small article for Denver Off The Wagon going up sometime today, that's all about the holiday drinks our family used to make and was nice enough to reference me, and put a link to Naked and Famous Inc. on the post that he wrote. It didn't take long for the gears to start turning and for me to say to myself, "You should probably put some pants on a draw a comic to go with this nice little plug your brother is giving you dammit," so drew I did!


This little adventure is all about the first time I ever drank slush in front of my parents and my dad was very much against underage drinking, which I was at the time, and to make a short story long, the riveting tale you are about to read is in fact true!

"If I can't have any slush can I at least have a Tequila-Nog Slammer!?"

day of the turkeys

Have a great Thanksgiving, and don't forget to carve your turkey with the official Thanksgiving Day Sacrificial Dagger!!