ARRRGH I SPELLED "WEIRD" WRONG NOOOO

Not to draw your attention to it or anything.

I'll fix that later today. Also, still messing with the site! Thanks for your patience. By the way, the Making Webcomics book is out! Not that it needs my traffic, but I'm excited. I pre-ordered mine so I'll be checking my mail with anticipation every day until it comes. It'll be like that one Calvin and Hobbes story.

OH MY GOD.

When I first started putting comics online, I said to myself, "I'll know I'm a Real Webcartoonist the day I get my first fanart."

Ladies and gentlemen, that day is today.

(Also: I'm trying to fix up the site so it looks a little better. Unfortunately, I am completely terrible at this kind of thing. Sorry it looks weird right now, I'm still messing around.)

I don't have much to say, but I wanted to get that There Will Be Blood post off the front page (although I saw it again the other day and it was EVEN BETTER).

I like Nona's expression in the "chick flick" panel, although it wasn't exactly what I was going for. She usually doesn't make the kind of faces Jackie does- in fact I think probably she would actively try not to. But it's fun to draw once in a while, because their faces are such a different shape.

I KNOW SO INTERESTING RIGHT

Oscars 2008

Well, my personal favorite There Will Be Blood didn't win Best Picture. But at least Daniel Day-Lewis got the well-deserved Best Actor. I was afraid they were gonna give one of those "You sucked in this, but you've done good stuff before" oscars to Johnny "I look like a fourteen-year-old goth on a Southern plantation in 1860" Depp.

There, I said it.

Anyway, I'm glad that didn't happen.

I'm such a sucker for Hollywood. I was weeping ten minutes into the ceremony. And I'm not ashamed.

I don't think I need to tell you why this is one of my new favorite Achewoods ever.

Feb 20's page:

I'm not sure why I think this is funny, but I really, really do.

I'm the first to admit that Good Crook was not written as a webcomic. I wrote it as a single book with a definite end. I hope it doesn't seem too slowly paced. I'm a little nervous to talk about this stuff here because I don't want to seem too down on my own work. I'm not; I'm very proud of this, but I do have some worries as I imagine you have to in order to hopefully start improving. (I'm also sometimes very doubtful of my skills as a colorist, and just generally transferring a page to the screen. It always looks to me like something's lost in the process. Oh well.)
I've got a decent bunch of readers right now- I'm pretty much where I sort of wanted and expected to be after the first few months of the comic. We're sort of nearing the hundredth page now, and I hope to get the comic out there a little more. I'm not totally sure how to do that, but... wish me luck. All of you who read, thank you! And those of you who have talked about and linked to the comic- it means a lot to me, more than I can say.
If you read, please don't hesitate to tell me what you think! I'd love to talk to you guys.
I hope this post doesn't seem negative. It isn't! I feel like my life is going pretty well right now and I guess I'm sort of trying to transfer a little more of that to my comics. Or something.
Anyway, there was a recent bunch of arrests of mob bosses from the Gambino family, and one of the guys they got owned the restaurant a block away from my house. We always called it "the mafia restaurant." It's weirdly satisfying to find out we were right.

There's a new picture for Valentine's Day up at the top of the page there. I drew that entirely while watching The Graduate, which is a pretty good Valentine's Day movie if you ask me. But in my "Viewer's Cut", Ben runs to the chapel at the end, bangs on the glass, yells "MRS. ROBINSONNN!" and then they run away together.

I mean, come on. Seems like a no-brainer to me.