Mono Video Sketch

Me sketching Mono. Testing out a new video camera also...

The New Looney Tunes Show....

Kind of come across like a bunch of snide, smug, arrogant douchebags and conceited assholes. Much like the staff of Warner Bros. itself. ESPECIALLY BUGS!

CN Boycott

I'm starting a boycott against Cartoon Network and it's newer shows.

Anyone who agrees, do as I do and follow my example. I'm going to say this in the simplest way possible

CARTOON NETWORK HAS SOLD OUT. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR VIEWERS ANYMORE.

THEY CARE ABOUT MONEY, RATINGS, and TURNING A PROFIT!

We can PUT A STOP TO THIS NONSENSE.

Don't watch ANY of Cartoon Networks NEW SHOWS THAT ARE IN ITS CURRENT ROTATION.

Regular Show, Adventure Time, Annoying Orange, MAD, Incredible Crew, Looney Tunes Show, Level Up, Dragons, Gumball

THESE SHOWS ARE HORRIBLE AND UNWATCHABLE

But as long as people leave the TV on accidentally when these shows air (which is what's happening), They will continue airing horrible shows

WE CAN PUT A STOP TO THESE SHOWS.

IF WE HIT CN WHERE IT HURTS (They're ratings and their wallet) That will send the loudest message....

THAT WE DON'T WANT THIS GARBAGE ON AIR. More effective than hate mail.

JUST DON'T WATCH ANY OF THOSE SHOWS.

Dave Sim was right about my work. I DO need to shorten my page quota....

I always used to think of the page counts of my books in terms of "400", "600", "2,000", and "6,000" "pages" Those were idealized estimates, incredibly unrealistic in light of my actual work rate and achievements in terms of page output. I'm actually slow as hell. And you're never going to make it to 6,000 pages of original comics if you're just getting started at the age of 29 and your work rate is slow as hell, as mine is. Dave Sim sent me a little wake up call, as I trust his judgement, seeing as he's one of the biggest names in indie comics and a long time personal hero of mine. But I got so caught up in analyzing other creator's work rate, it blinded me from accurately judging my own capabilities. 10, 20, and 30 pages at a time is all I need. Though I am a huge fan of longer literature in all it's shapes and sizes, and thicker printings of books and comics like Akira and Cerebus and DBZ, I've come to realize if I focus on a handful of pages at a time and shorter form literature, 5-20 pg. one-shots and whatnot, I'm infinitely more powerful that way, as both an creator and an artist. 

Also, one thing I've learned from Dave Sim's letter and his decades of experience in professional comics is that, yes, there is an genuine age range of success, a time period in a young comics artist's life when he achieves his highest level of success and peaks. Most of the biggest names in comics peak between the ages of 20 all the way up to 40s. When you get into your 40s, you start to lose the energy of youth you had between the ages of 20 and 40, so says Dave Sim. So yes, being young IS an asset every comic book creator needs to value, especially those who are approaching their 20s and 30s, which is one of the most important times in any underground comic book creator or manga creator's comics career (and) life if they're going to be successful commercially and artistically.

-JM

Message from Da President of Aardvark-Vanaheim

And now, time for some Real Advice:

Yippledee ho and yabble dee hee. READ THE PIRATE'S NOTEBOOK! Secrets of Uploading Video (Hints and Tips for Not Getting Killed by the You Tube's Big Brother Sellout Police)

When you're uploading your favorite anime DVD clips and ripped/DVR'd from TV and DVD footage, when you first encounter  the upload menu on the Tube, make sure the file of your video doesn't have the title of  the anime on it or the title of your video has an existing anime name, as the YouTube copyright nazi sitecrawlers that police that sort of thing are looking for just that. You kind of have to make sure you upload video files with nonspecific names. Once the video is up, THEN you can specify the name of what you've uploaded.  But DON'T DO THAT when you're doing your initial upload. Edit your video title once it's gotten past the censors...

FREE COUNTRY
FREE VIDEOS
FREE TO WATCH!

That's how we like it!

When I'm out and about driving,

And I drive past some guy walking down the sidewalk with his HOT girlfriend, I say "You Lucky son of a bitch. Well anyway, you TAP DAT ASS. TAP IT WIT ALL YOUR MIGHT. Tap dat ass for ALL of us. For all mankind everywhere. Tap dat ass".