Choose Your Own Adventure: Drawing crap for fun and profit

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Kirby versus an overly complicated background.

This is a sample page from my upcoming graphic novel, where you’re in control.

The gong sounded last night, and so, I awoke from my cartoonist’s hibernation filled with ink and vitriol (and a small amount of boom boom). “To my blogging room!”, I declared in a exclamatory tone. And as I slowly walked from the one side of my vast empire to the other only to see that my whole eastern wing, known lovingly as “the place the maids go” had been burnt to the ground. “Noooo!” I cried verbally before I cried literally. (Luckily, I keep an extra blogging room available for said emergencies.)

In reality here is a random list of items I have done since last post: (sadly this part is all true)

  1. Rammed my car at another going 60mph down the highway while cackling and staring at the other driver
  2. Barfed in a dinosaur themed ride made for little kids
  3. Shook a guy’s hand who had no thumbs
  4. Went to Disney World
  5. Saw a plane write “Smile JF” in the sky (It turned out to be “Smile Jesus loves you.” but I like my version)
  6. Watched people laugh at a plane writing “Smile Jesus Love You.”
  7. Hired two new studios to produce “Welcome to Pixelton” Animations
  8. And I’m looking into a flash dev for a new game
  9. Fought something in my attic with a butcher knife. Still unclear.
  10. Realized my greatest fear is Anubis
  11. Last but not least: The entire ant town of Fred became zombies! Seriously. The almost pushed open their container! Some sort of fungus simply devastated the whole colony…so sad.

I’m so selfish - what’s new in your life? [insert your stories here]

And good news regarding the upcoming graphic novel, it grows. I may have finished up many new pages just this weekend alone. I’m getting cautiously excited about everything. I know that it will be all for naught but if it makes your day I win.

Where are the Pixelton animations/games? Well, I’m kind of waiting for the book now. But you’ll see at least two new games in the next few months. I may release “Wish” this year if I can edit it in a way that don’t completely hate.

I do have a new web comic that is nearly complete. I need to finish it up so here’s hoping a new biggies side strip appear this week, though I can’t muster up a promise. I apologize to everyone and thank you for hanging around. It will be worth your while should I not die before the book comes around.

NES cart Kirby Friends Nintendo

Profit? WHERE?!
- Josh

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11 insightful ideas to “Choose Your Own Adventure: Drawing crap for fun and profit”

  1. AvatarHarlequin
    1

    It’s great to see an update again, Josh! Man, I missed these. My life has gotten crazy busy, I’m juggling work with twelve hours of college every week. But creative writing degrees don’t award themselves to me! Do they? I hope they do. I want one of them to and I can just go play video games for four years. Dang, it’s good to see you haven’t abandoned us like your zombie ants. Don’t ever go away again, not even to go to the bathroom!

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  2. AvatarWasd (version 3.4.13 Helpful Edition)
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    JOSH!

    You came back! They told me you wouldn’t, but I only believed them until today.

    Things have been yes and no here. We got a 3G wireless card, and it turns out my house is 200 ft away from the 3G connection, so I am stuck with the inferior EDGE signal, which is practically wireless dialup.

    So sorry about your ant farm. Those fungi can be brutal. At least you have an army of undead zombie Freds, right? And apparently they can infect other ants, so you now have an unlimited supply of miniature zombie hordes! (why am I even telling you this?!)

    Oh, and nice pic of the novel. Though I’m not certain I’m actually supposed to understand what it is. Some sort of upside-down landfill?

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  3. AvatarKree
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    AAAHHHH!! BURN THEM! BURN THEM ALL! LEAST THE INFECTION SPREAD!

    Seriously, that youtube video shows how creepy fungus can be D:

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  4. AvatarJosh Farkas
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    Hey Gents! :)

    Harlequin: Congrats sir. It sounds like you’re working hard, but you’re a hilarious writer so with or without that degree you’re golden. (Oh, and if they do give away degrees somewhere pick up one for me too!)

    Wasd (version 3.4.13 Helpful edition): Sorry about the EDGE issues ninja Wasd. I’m still rolling the 1st gen, but I’d be pretty peeved about that. I still can’t believe the iPhone is your internet connection. Future generations will give out medals for that kind of thing.

    I came back from vacation and the zombie invasion had taken over. They were building mounds to the top just so they could throw the demon spawn farther away, but without shelter the whole town was gone. If only I had been here to create tiny shotguns for their for self-defense…

    Oh, and you’re absolutely right on the image. It is a town you visit that is made of garbage. Get catch!

    Kree: Ha, ha so true. I threw the little fellas out immediately in fear. If you start seeing fungus or tree related drawings out here you might want to - OH MY GOD…I’M ONE OF THEIR TREE DRAWING MINIONS. Damn you mother nature. Damn you. Damn… TREES!

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  5. AvatarHarlequin
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    Get your stinking leaves off me, you damn dirty trees!

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  6. AvatarCap'n Nobeard
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    Well, if this doesn’t make you feel better, I don’t know what will.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

    (B-|)~

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  7. AvatarJosh Farkas
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    Funny Video Fight!

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  8. AvatarWasd (version 3.4.13 Helpful Edition)
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    Actually, I’m speaking of a wireless card, like one of those “everywhere internet cards.” I didn’t even bother upgrading the iPhone, since it would just mean $80/month for something I already have. So now I’m technically stuck with using the iPhone, it’s just now I can use my wireless dialup card to play SNES games online… when the wind isn’t blowing outside.

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  9. AvatarWasd (version 3.4.13 Helpful Edition)
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    Ooh! Ooh! Brilliant idea for this insane website of yours, JF! And since I can’t find any “email me here” links not involved with employment, (coughgetawelcomtopixeltonemailaddresscough) I might as well post it here.

    You could use a chat box. Or rather, I want you to get a chat box. Like really really fast. And I know just where to get one…

    *Drumroll*

    MEEBO.COM!!!

    Yeah, they’re free, and I’ve toyed around with them so I know how to get rid of the ads on the larger ones. Oh, did I mention you can enter whatever freaking size ratio you want? Yeah, it’s that much of a beast.

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  10. AvatarJosh Farkas
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    A wireless internet card eh? Insanity. I thought our Viking Gods created said internet. Hmm. Well nobody ever wants to play SNES when it is windy, right?

    Good call on the chat box, but I fear the IM. I find it consumes me when I partake of its’ sweetness. But I was able to toss up a contact form in the main menu and an all too gushy bio. All problems solved! (Or, you know, not.)

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  11. AvatarRyu
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    YAY! He’s back!

    Sounds like you had wayyy more fun than I did!
    I checked back here like, every day.
    Well let’s see what’s new for me.
    A girl I really liked, turned out to be really…erm…immature.
    My comic is finally on it’s way to returning *Love how I designed my characters*
    And I’m starting to use Brush pens. And they rock!

    Can’t wait for more Welcome to Pixelton!

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