I'm as Indy as Cartoonists getI mean, I'm in probably the most prime position an Indy Cartoonist can be in, you know, if you think about it. I'm no "Penny Arcade" or "PVP" (which are both about video games actually. Is that the only way a webcomic an blow up? I'm sure that more than video game fanatics read webcomics...) and I don't have the kinda fandom those have. And truthfully, I don't really want it just yet.
I mean, I'm an Indy Cartoonist. I've got a really neat Indy webcomic that I'm really proud of. I've got a great readership of intelligent, good humored folks that grows daily. I haven't "sold out" as they say. I've got a really cool DVD collection, but that's beside the point.
Point is that this is a really neat time in my life. I'm an artist trying to affect the world in a really pure, untouched way. I mean, Lord knows I don't do Dead Days for the money (Yearly, I spend hundreds of dollars more on it than I make), I'm doing it for the sheer high I get every time I post. Every time I create an effective comic and make you people giggle, or snicker, or LOL, or ROFL, or even just crack a smile. Are they all gems? Maybe not, but hell, they make me laugh or I wouldn't post it! Like alla you great artists on here, or anywhere, I'm doing it because if I don't I'll explode. That's a great feeling. The feeling that I could stop at any time but I won't coz I can't. I'm Indy, bitches, in every sense of the word and I'm embracing it!
YOU SHOULD EMBRACE MY INDY-NESS TOO! Crap man, admit it! Indy stuff is cool! It's that "too cool for school" feeling you get when you know you know about something great that no one else does. It's that superior feeling you get when you introduce someone else to something neat and it spreads because of you. And lemme tell you, you're in prime position to do that right now too, because this comic has ALOT of spreading to do before it gets anywhere CLOSE to mainstream. Which is great, because I'm in no hurry to be listed next to "Sinfest" (though I frikkin' love Sinfest). In the mean time I enjoy being under the radar. Being something YOU would like.
But as I charish these time dear reader, YOU SHOULD TOO! I mean, WHO KNOWS when I'll write something breakthrough (yeah right John) and become the next sensation! Where will you be then? Bitching about how "I liked Dead Days better when it didn't have T-shirts for sale at the local Hot Topic." That's where. Enjoy knowing that you're in the know. Enjoy knowing that only you and a select few get to supple upon the tasty goodness that is Dead Days every week. And I'll enjoy knowing that at these years in my life where filled with meaning and honest to goodness artistic aspiration.
I'll be back with something new for youre heads soon. Thanks guys for watching and caring. Lates.
-John
P.S. How would you guys feel about getting to see some classic "DEAD DAYS: UNUSED COMICS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY FOR GOOD REASON" comics? I have a folder with about 5 "Dead Days" comics I did about 3 or 4 years ago that I never used or posted or printed for various reasons. I guess you can call them the "LOST COMICS"... or the "REJECTED COMICS". Either way, they'd be funny. If not "HAHA" funny then definately, "THAT'S REALLY EMBARASSING IN A BEN STILLER SORT OF WAY" funny.
Mellow as "H"
Devious Comments
Rejected comics? Bring it on!
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"How do you know you're not head-to-foot extra nipples and we've all just been too polite to mention it?"
And if hot-topic starts showing off indie-rocker T-shirts, I'll be a little sad. I dont know, indie is already becoming "cool", and that means we've got something that is fairly new. Scene kiddies.
*shudders*
But I digress. Lets see those comics, hmm? I'm intrested.
haha, but seriously. your comic rocks. and i always show it to my friends when it cracks me up. which is nearly every time. i've also bought extra copies of your little books, so i can not only have one for myself but also hand them out to my uninformed buddies. i haven't used that temporary tattoo yet, though...
and it's good to know that you don't do this for money or anything, but just because you need to. that's awesome. i feel that way about my own work as well. so more power to ya!
oh, and
"I liked Dead Days better when it didn't have T-shirts for sale at the local Hot Topic."
i know that's so gonna be me if that happens. but it probably (hopefully) won't.
show us the lost comics!
Please ignore everything I just wrote. You do good, Mr. Rios, and I think you're a swell chap. Post those lost comics!
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When artists discover as children that they have inappropriate responses to events around them, they also find, as they learn to trust these responses, that these oddities are what constitute their value to others.
I'll pay you a hell of a lot of money for a shitty xerox copy of those comics... I swear I would.
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I, Nicole, pronounce strangers to have the best candy.
P.P.S. You make alot of P.S.'s. Is it P.S.S.?
Ok - so that was the best play on words I could come up with on short notice.
It's not like I have all day to spend on this. No wait... something about indian food? Could I do that?.... You're so indie you should come with free papadams. Nope - that doesn't even make sense.
Man, you are so Indie you should wear a hat and carry a whip and roll under doors, snatching said hat at the last minute from the ground - cos it fell off when you rolled.
There - are you happy? I *have* spent all day on this now. I haven't managed to finish any of the other journal replies I had intended to do...
You are a demanding mistress.
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"It's a beautiful day - the sun's shining - I feel good....
And no-one... no-one's gunna stop me now...."
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