My store is open!

The amazing Rex - in addition to giving the site a kick-ass make-over - has set up a store with akimbo comics merchandise. Stop by and check it out!

What the fuck's up with the updates, man?

I'm not as awesome as I thought -- I'm working on it --

Thrice a week!

I don't know why I didn't think of this before but I recently had the brilliant idea to go to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday update schedule with eat shit on Monday, a short story on Wednesday, and an on-going comic on Friday. So look for a new Curious Urgency this Friday.
(How do I do three comics simultaneously? -- I'm that good (we'll see)).

I've been a die-hard manga hater since I was a kid and was traumatized by the anime Unico --but I was recently clicking around looking for a new graphic novel to read and was at a loss. It seems I've read every western graphic novel worth reading. While searching a came across Akira again. I was coerced into watching the movie in cartoon-college and couldn't get through it - anime is unwatchable to me. I was aware of how great it was supposed to be ( and had always liked the cover and even chose Akimbo as a title for my own comics because it could be made to look kinda like Akira ) but had a heretofore insurmountable prejudice to all things manga. While re-reading the accolades and copious praise and with other options seemingly at nil I checked it out. Immediately I was impressed with the storytelling and the techniques used to convey the speed and excitement of the motorcycles racing down a deserted highway at night. It was pretty tight. The story seemed a little cliche -- the overbearing bad guy and legions of flunkies -- but the storytelling was really superb. I ate through all 360 pages of volume one in one sitting.

monday update

The first row of the new Bob & Bob page is up. We'll see how this works out.

new nin

I have to mention this: master of the internets Josh Sandoval informed me nine inch nails has a new intrumental album available on the web in rainbows-style and so I downloaded it yesterday. Kick-ass album and you get to stick it to the man, as Josh says.

New Format!

Josh Sandoval at work (who, were I to cast him in a movie of my life, would be played by Michael Cera) pointed out that the design of my website (which I loved) was confusing - especially to first-time visitors and casual browsers - and so - in the hope of reducing the percentage of visitors who only spend 0-30 seconds at my site from 75 to something less heartbreaking - I've decided to put eat shit and die on the main page from now on. Josh says that people looking for a webcomic would click on the old format and think "what the fuck is this?" and then click on. I don't want that. Also - the comics list on the right side is apparently unclear and so now I have links at the top to descriptions of the comics. Better? 75% and counting...

buffer-free zone

The new Bob & Bob page isn't even close to being ready. I used to have a buffer of about five to ten pages - done in advance - but when the site went down I lost my buffer. Now I'm working two jobs and time is tight - so it's seconds of shit this week. I'm thinking of updating a row at a time rather than a whole as-if-it-were-printed comics page and thereby be able to update Tues. Wed. Thur. and Fri. What do you think - is this a good idea or should I keep things how they are?

shit's early

Look how early this update is - I think I'm awesome. S-dubs at work today told me she didn't like stories about shitting - and this has inspired me -- 101 stories about shitting - a new project - because stories about shitting are my favorite stories. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks Tyler

I have Tyler Vickery to thank for today's comic. He came up to me at work the other day and said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you a good story" and then related this story about wishes coming true. I started this bitch this morning and managed to get it done and update ontime. Not that anyone gives a shit. And I managed to fit in The Darjeeling Limited which was pretty stellar - although the short film at the beginning with a bare-ass Natalie Portman was the best part. That song - that hotel room - the contrasting warm and cool colors - it kicked ass. My favorite Wes Anderson film, however, remains Rushmore. The kid at the video-store said this was now his favorite but he stikes me as being a huge phoney.

probably the crack

Updated early ---
I think I'm going to do some really short shorties next and then try to finish out Bob & Bob.

pituitary gland

I first checked out Patti Smith's Horses when in love with the song Rock 'n Roll Nigger from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack (yeah)- which was far and away my favorite song on the album (and I don't care what anyone says that was a kick-ass movie with a kick-ass soundtrack). I wanted an entire album with that song's raw ferocity and was disappointed by what I thought was a comparatively tame offering. I didn't get how everyone described it as having all this "raw energy". Recently Juno reminded me of Smith and put her in a context which included Iggy and the Stooges - who I was ignorant of back in the day (a forgivable oversight) - and I decided to give Horses another listen. Thank you Juno. Smith kicks 100% of my ass and I can't imagine how I missed it the first time. Totally raw and naked and it gets into you and overwhelms. Fantastic.

And the Oscar for "Best Smoking" goes to...

...Atonement. Longing-smoking, mansion-smoking, smoking-to-opera, hand-rolled smoking, war-time smoking - Atonement has it all. The best smoking I've seen all year - and a decent movie to boot.

I'm gonna count that

It's still Friday

late update

Apparently there's a meat-cutting emergency and they need me at work early - so I'll have to update post-work. I was close too - it's all inked.

Betty Doughnt

Looks like it's going to be a morning update --

Will E. Maykitt?

I'm supposed to update with the last page of this chapter of Vivian Blank tonight by midnight. As of right now the page is half-way inked. I still have to finish inking, scan it in, add the blacks in photoshop and post it -- and I don't think my wife is cool with me spending the rest of the night away from her as we haven't seen eachother all day. It's doubtful - but it'd be cool if I could do it.

Get back in the firey water!

Yay, a blog!
A place to talk about shit I think is cool.
Like the webcomic octopus pie
or this video
Check out the kid at the end -- he's like "Yeah, I made this shit, bitch"