Digital Strips is Almost Special...
I've already admitted that I've got a pretty shallow critical depth when webcomics are concerned. I'm out of the loop usually (which is a good thing at times) but when I do get my fix I get it over with the growing crew found at Digital Strips (http://www.digitalstrips.com/). A while back (well, a month ago) they started a contest challenging people to make their own comic out of a picture of their own devising. The picture in question was this simple thing:
If you're familiar with the "Specials" that I do from time to time, you already know what I did with that. If you're new, then I'll just say that I printed out a dozen or so copies of that picture and started painting them with watercolors until I had a small handful of cute little one-panel comics. You have to "get" Digital Strips to understand a few of them, but for the most part I think the general geek public might get a maybe sort of possible kick out of them. Also I have NO idea where to put these on the site, so the Blog seemed like a good place to hang them to dry. (I also had to shrink them a bit to fit them in the Blog, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fun with Photoshop fonts. Please forgive me. Also if you'd like to see more legitimate versions of my "Specials" and you haven't yet, check out Jerome and Abe Lincoln here:
Oh, and enjoy yourselves.
-jared
posted by Jared at 6:01 AM
4 Comments:
Hey! That was your New Orleans 2005 comic on one of the covers of the prize books.
Do you feel special?
JARED!!!! I had my stand-up thing tonight...well, Saturday night. It went sooo well, so smooth - I didn't forget any of the jokes I wanted to tell and everyone laughed...I got a lot of compliments afterwards. After the show I went to an apartment with my sister (a senior at the UM art program) and her friends. I showed your "XXXX is Special" Art Crashes to them and they reaaaaally liked them. It was cool to say that you're a friend of mine. Hope you're doing well - no rush on the Deathmatch page...Pepsi won't care. Haha...stupid April Fool's joke. I got really pissed before I realized that's what it was.
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Anony:
I feel less special than weird. I think it has to do with how I found out about it and why I submitted stuff. Long story short I made a pretty funny but VERY offensive comic (that wasn't in the Telethon) that made me feel I had to do something to make up for it. :tangent:
Back to your question: No, I do not feel like a unique snowflake because to the telethon cover.
Adam: Rock on, although now it I have to paint a XXX is Special, using xeroxed porn images. Damn you.
Oh and April Fool's let me down this year. Almost no one did anything cool (HomestarRunner excluded.)
-jared
http://flashdiego.blogspot.com/2006/04/standup-pictures.html
Everyone likes looking at pictures.
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