More fun with my pad

New Tablet

I got a new Wacom today and was just tryin' it out. It's pre-tay, pre-tay, preee-taaayyy sweet.

What else?

...but another girl

Banned!

My tinypic account got banned. Photobucket deletes any pictures they don't like. Hopefully imageshack will work better for me.

And more ladies

Lady sketches

Ladies

I've been drawing some girls

sketch fun

Kickin' it Hewlett style

Onan

Sketches for a new strip, Onan: The Last Boy in the Universe

Sketch Blog

Hopefully I'll be posting sketches here all the time.

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.