heylookitisacomic

Check it out! Colors n' shit!

So yeah, I spent a lot of time on the art in this one, and it certainly shows. Sorry there can't be a better joke to back it up, but hey, it's a delicate balance. The domain mentioned in the comic actually works. This is because I am deeply committed to my craft. I also registered bobscomic.blogspot.com. This is because I am deeply committed to urls which are possible to type.

A word about the subject matter: Blogspot is flooded with two things: spammers and useless early adopters. Seriously, try typing in any random combination of two relatively common words. Chances are very good that there's one post, usually consisting simply of the word "test," and the blog has been registered since 2000 with zero activity. Isn't there some way to purge that shit? My humble recommendation is a requirement that at least one post per year must be made. It doesn't even have to make sense; write 3 random characters and that counts. Blogs that have a buildup of 50 or so posts over the course of 2 years gain permanent deletion immunity, and everyone is happy, right?

It's because of ideas like this that I make the big bucks.

Shading

Sorry guys, still no comic. Just experimenting with some new shading techniques, and I really like the results. The picture itself seems a little emo, and it reminds me a bit of Spider-Man: Blue, which you should check out if you enjoy Peter Parker being mopey. (I do!)

Bookkeeping

Hey, the word "bookkeeping" has three sets of double letters. Sweet.

The thesis I mentioned on Friday was A General Survey of the Negro Population of Evanston by David Kenneth Bruner. It's not quite as old as I thought (1924), but it still has that vaguely racist look and feel that we all know and "love." Here's a link to the Northwestern library catalog page. Ha, it says the book has been missing since 2003. Lies.

Playlist, 8/3/2008

Maps and Atlases - You and Me and The Mountain - Daily News
Krakatoa - We Are The Rowboats - Spiral Dive
The Casket Lottery - Survival is for Cowards - Code Red
Jimmy Edgar - Silicon Graffiti - 18th Sheet Reflections
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals - Party Intellectuals
Akitaka Tohyama, Kenki Ninuma - Katamari Damacy OST - The Moon and The Prince
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue - Mothertongue Pt. 2: Shower
Walter Meego - Voyager - Lost
Zongamin - Zongamin - Serious Trouble
Free Kitten - Inherit - Surf's Up
The Ting Tings - Great DJ - Great DJ
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Breathe Something/Stellar Star
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Beginners Falafel
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Camel
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Melt!
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Comet Course
Flying Lotus - Flying Lotus - Orbit 405

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Old Picture Madness

Allow me to introduce you to the Northwestern football team of 1892. I'm sure they would fare just fine against our current team. Just look at the expression of the guy front and center. That just screams "hardcore competitor."

John Henry Wigmore: legal scholar, dean of the Northwestern Law School from 1901-1929, and keeper of perhaps the finest mustache in history.

Bestseller

One of the books I was processing at work today was a thesis from the early part of the 1900s. I should have written more information down, but I can get it on Monday, I guess. In this thesis were a number of pictures of locations in Evanston, some of which happen to be quite close to where I live. Having nothing better to do, I decided to go see what these locations looked like now.

Unfortunately, what with me being dumb, I decided to go out during rush hour in 90 degree heat, so I didn't get great photos. Some of the places have changed so much it's impossible to tell where the picture was taken from, anyway.

Cash advance, plz.