I'm working on the next three pages of God(tm). It'll end section 4. If it were a print comic, it would be an entire issue (two webcomic pages make one print comic page) -- that's about 22 pages all together.

I should put an RSS icon. I should actually make a links page and a gallery page and start thinking of merch and have a banner made for San Diego Comic Con. I should get a twitter account so people can find out when I'm at the table at Comic Con and when I'm signing, etc. etc.

I should do a little review of Marsh Rocket because Jules Rivera was nice enough to vote for me on the Eisners and pay for project wonderful ads. Plus her coloring is very minimalist and interesting.

...that's sort of a review I guess. I should be making ad banners for links and such. And special ad banner projects.

--but I'm tired and I'm filled with korean tacos. Dude, if you're ever in LA on a Thursday, go to Little Tokyo! In front of the Japanese American Heritage Museum, a special Taco truck comes by. DJ Akaider spins. People wait in line. The line forms around 5.

Good stuff.

Anyway, drawing new pages. Can't let my new fans down.

Labels: blog

One of my favorite new Animes is Time of Eve. I could best describe it as poetic sci-fi or poetic cyberpunk.

The story revolves around a cafe where the rule is you can't differentiate between humans and robots. Robots have to be treated like humans. Perhaps its a metaphor for the classist social structures in Japan.

One of the interesting things about this Anime is that its being distributed on the net as free webisodes. The creator of the series wanted to tell his story and avoid the politics of a big studio.

Unfortunately, it means every 15 minute episode comes out every three or four months.

But its worth it.

I don't see much of a point doing a lengthy review on it because its free. You could go to crunchyroll.com subtitled in English.

Labels: animation, anime

So, Memorial Day I was busy, had to do photoshop booger people for a pre-visual for a commercial (basically, none of my work will be shown in the commercial, but my work is being used to help develop the 3D look and make a test commercial for test merketing) and I voraciously emailed several sites asking them to review God(tm)

Check out the review at Fleen.com, he gave me a thumbs up.

Labels: God(tm), review

here's the right one.

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/updates/rss.xml

Labels: God(tm), updates

Usually, I don't blog about the newest page of my comics until I'm finished with a section. But by popular demand, I'm making an RSS feed available.

This RSS feed will let you know of the tiny updates and other news. I'll still let you know of updates on this blog, but this RSS feed is created for people who have feed readers.

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/rss.xml

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/updates/rss.xml


I have no idea what the difference is between the two links, but I'll make both available, and put nice little RSS icons on my comics.

By the way, I'm sleepy right now. I'll get around to making a nice RSS icon and generously post it around my website.

Labels: God(tm), updates

Thank you for reading. Thank you for linking. Thank you for Twittering. Thank you for emailing. Thank you for quoting me on random forums. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

In these last few months-- working as an animator on The Simpsons for a few shows, people randomly posting "Presidential Trouble" when there was much Watchmen hype, an Eisner Nomination (?!!), and now pretty much, overnight I've amassed thousands of hits on my site and people asking me for more.

It wasn't so long ago that I blogged, while drunk, one late night about my frustrations with my life. I since deleted that blog entry.


I wish I turned 30 sooner!



Well. I guess the life I always wanted has just started. Make interesting comics. Have it effect people. Live in financial comfort (well, step three I'm working on). And have fun doing it.

...and as soon as I'm off this freelance gig, I can devote more time to God(tm).

Oh, by the way, you see that weird gunk of text and code at the bottom of this blog entry? Anyone have any advice on how to get rid of it? I know its probably something simple but it was such a bitch redesigning this blog from templates and having limited knowledge in code, I just left it alone knowing I'd make it worse.

I'm sure someone has advice. Leave a comment or email.

Labels: blog, Life

Geez, my unique hits shot from 100 to 500 hundred this weekend. And now I'm up to 3400 in just three hours.

[sauce]

...I think I'm a real comic book artist now.

Labels: God(tm)

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The series is about a high school girl who happens to be the center of the universe. She doesn't know this and is constantly bored with the world. She starts a high school club to find time travelers, aliens and ESPers. That and how the characters play off each other is pretty damn entertaining.

Labels: anime

Labels: music, video

I like this song.

I like babies.

Labels: j-pop, music, Shiina Ringo, video

I drew this for one of my fans, Nic from Georgia. He's the first fan to drop some cash into the paypal.

I'm thinking I might do commissions for fans soon. But I'll get to that when I get a bunch of things out of the way.

Thanks again Nic!

Labels: Art, God(tm), my work

Labels: lecture, video

Sigh.

[sauce]

Labels: anime, robots

It kinda sounds like a pre-KZK song.

\\Single Release: 2009.05.27

\\\Album Release: Sanmon Gossip (三文ゴシップ) 06.29

Labels: j-pop, music, Shiina Ringo

My first Simpsons episode as Character Layout just aired "Four Great Women and a Manicure"(LABF09).

Stuff I worked on (at varying degrees):
All the Nail Salon scenes (except the one after Lisa's story)
Crowds in the queen's court
Daycare guy kicking blocks.
Daycare guy stomping blocks (Me, the Director and Assistant Director kept calling this the "--BUAHH!!!!" scene.)
And various touch-ups throughout the show.

Congrats to the entire crew for a job well done. Thanks to Raymond and everyone at Film Roman for this great experience.

Labels: animation, my work

Labels: holiday, music, video

That's good writing.

Labels: found on the floor, video

From JapanNewbie

Shizuko Kasagi was known as the “Queen of Boogie” 「ブギの女王」 in postwar Japan. She was born in Kanagawa but moved to Osaka with her family not long after she was born, which is the reason that she could speak Kansai dialect.

I first heard this song, pre-youtube, synced to a really cool piece of traditional animation. Now I have a better sense of where it came from.

There's also been covers of this song. The previous link, I like the band but the vocalist is much too nice. Shizuko Kasagi sounds like she's seen tough times and that she could out drink you.

Labels: found on the floor, j-pop, music

Yes, that little "4M" button with the icon that's too small to see is finally up. Go to http://s1.zetaboards.com/toecomics/index/

Labels: updates

I was just reading Paul Sloboda's review of God(tm)...again (I'm much too lazy to cut and paste the complete title right now, and at some point I ought to memorize it)

One of the things he likes is the pixellation of corporate logos.

The usage of low-resolution pixellation in the comic is a brilliant touch. I'm sure more than one person will think it's a problem with their browser. He employs this approach on a number of corporate names and logos, and it seems to walk hand in hand with the contractually obscured nature of the comic's title. Legally, I'm sure Elan couldn't stretch the copyright concept of "Fair Use" far enough to use the real St*tb*cks logo in every instance he has it obscured in the comic... but artistically, why would he want to? If copyright laws don't allow him to do it, it's their shortcoming he's illustrating, in their bold and clunky pixellated matrices.

There are several reasons why I do this:

1) I don't want anyone to sue me but I do believe in fair use. Its weird that modern media has to be a little careful to use corporate logos in order to artistically comment and express the realities of our modern world. After all, these billboards, t-shirts, banner ads, etc. etc. have invaded our world are part of the flora and fauna of our modern world. And depicting this or that fast food logo or this or that erectile dysfunction ad should be natural when we contribute to this culture.

I mean, I could use the real logos. But when this book sees print, I might be over using the logos so much that I could get sued.

2) I find it distracting when artists use fake logos. Look at Geof Darrow's work on Hard Boiled. There's familiar red cans that say "Cola Cola" in nice friendly letters and fake advertisements that whirlwind into the visual noise of urban life. I'm not criticizing Darrow's brilliant work, but you tend to pay more attention to the ads than you would to the ads in your everyday life.

I wanted something familiar, like when you see a guy on COPS and his t-shirt is all blurry. Or when you're out and about, past bus billboards, and you only give the ad half a thought because you realize your date stood you up (you know who you are).

There's something impressionistic about the cacophony of advertisements these days. And I chose to make it literal.

3) Some ads are just squiggles I draw in Photoshop and then I hit the mosaic filter. Making obscured ads is less time consuming than drawing fake ones. I'm also a very lazy artist.

4) One theme that is apparent, or will become apparent, in this story is equating corporate entities to deities. Corporations have the same rights as people. That's so the individual(s) who own a corporation don't have to deal with the fuss about paying taxes or buying pencils or going to jail.

But corporations have sort of become our pagan gods. We pray to them by buying their goods and services. They employ middle management and accountants as their priests. When we appease them, they make our economy prosper.

And when we say their name in vain and slander, they send their lawyers down from the heavens and hand us a cease and desist notice.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not some liberal who hates anything and everything corporate. But I am a moderate who looks at corporations with a weary eye, just like I look at the guy who asks me for change. I have benefited from corporate goods, services, and employment (especially employment) over the years. I'll be good to them if they shower me with electronics and movies and processed food. But corporations aren't gods. They're more like a cow that has walked into your living room. You want its milk and meat, but you don't want to have to plan your life around a cow that is in your living room.

And that's why we should vote for leaders who will (hopefully) take the cow outside and milk it for us, or in some cases, take it to the slaughter house.

Corporations are creatures that will do anything and everything to eat money. If what they do is helpful to us, we should reward a corporation for making our lives easier. They will tell us lies and half truths to make them believe in their brand, but in the end, you'll realize that this deodorant isn't helping you get laid, despite what the magic box says. But you like how it makes you smell because its a better option than how you'd usually smell.

5) Pixellation looks really cool. I wonder why it isn't used more often.

6) By obscuring a logo, since the colors were chosen to be associated with that brand, you still understand what that brand is.

Anyway, I hope this all makes me sound really smart and that I never get sued. If I ever do get a cease and desist notice, then that cease and desist notice will be used to obscure that logo.

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, religion, review

Check out the pics @ kirai.net

Why must be there robots in Japan and not in my backyard? America, see what happens when you let creationism take over the school? We don't have any awesome giant robots!

Labels: Art, found on the floor, robots

Finally, after months of work, Rev. Joeb Kim CPA has finally stepped out of the coffee shop!!

We start a new section, or "part 4" as we call it.

Anyway, this is probably when I start to get angry letters. You'll get a better idea of what sort of story this is when things develop, far far into the future (with the way I'm going). Trust me, I don't plan to write cheap and shallow material on the expense of others.... unless I'm getting paid a lot.

Labels: God(tm), updates

Down at Fool's Gold Press Paul Sloboda did a review of God(tm). He says many nice things about it. And I say many nice things about his book. Lately he's been putting up comics online (partially because I told him to).

Also at Webcomics Overlook I'm reviewed along side all the other Eisner Nominees. This is a much more unbiased review. I'm not El Santo's favorite. But also he doesn't get that this story was a comedy and a tragedy all at the same time.

...either that or I can't make up my mind what genre to stick to when I write stuff.


At least he makes reasonable arguements.

Labels: awards, Eisner Awards, God(tm), my work, review, Speak No Evil

Diachi 3000 can't be human. It just can't... but I bet he desires to be a real boy when he's not saving the world from evil robots.

[sauce]

Labels: found on the floor, music, video

Its either this Sunday or next Sunday. Check your local listings, cuz if the episode is called "Four Great Women and A Manicure" then that's my episdoe. If not, Hulu.com or Fox.com