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NEW TO WANDERING ONES? For your sanity, go to the The first comic The last comic is here Previous comic Wandering Ones Updates Every Monday & Friday! Most Recent Strip:(Updated on January 5, 2009).
Whoa. Whoa.. Whoa! Are you trying to tell me that you
and I are related? ThatÕs exactly what IÕm telling you Jack. Your mom and
I have much of the same genetic line. Not only that, but IÕm one of five siblings
that Dr. Flynn... created. C-created? Man. She hasn[t told you kids much of
anything has she? I guess that ShouldnÕt surprise me. She always hated that
we had been brought into the world as an experiment in Human weapon technology.
I... I donÕt... She never said anything about you or any of this B.S.! Ok,
I donÕt have a lot of time here, and I need to impart some important info.
Demonstration time. Ok Jack, I want you to give me a shove. Yep, right there,
on my chest..
© Clint Hollingsworth.
Redistribution is prohibited without written permission from the author/artist.
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01-04-2009 Keenspot had a bit of a problem
with our ad system and a malware hacker. If you're on a windows PC,
and found anything funny on your visits during December, PLEASE run
some up-to-date anti-virus software on your machine. KEZ of Xylia
and War of Winds fame had this
to say... Kisai, Keenspot's tech person says... "the software I want people to check against currently is at http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Stay safe everyone! 11-10-2008 Also, the new Shin Kage story is starting to get to an interesting point. Thanks to those who have been reading it. The extra income from that comic helps at the end of the month. Sorry to all my readers out there
for not getting at least one page up last week. It was a heck of a week
though, wasn't it? A new President Elect, and half my friends are thrilled
at Mr. Obama's success, seeing a bright future, full of hope of a better
economy, help for the environment, better education. The other half
of my friends are terrified that the new president will turn the U.S.
into a socialist state where a person's gains are consfiscated (through
even more taxation) by the Government to share with the lazy, and that
he will take all our guns and gut the 2nd amendment. To some point,
I see their fears. The reason for the 2nd amendment is the same as the
slogan for "V for Vendetta". And I no longer trust my government. The future will tell us what happens,
but I would like to make two observations. The troubles with the economy have finally trickled down to Wenatchee. For the last few years, My job has been VERY busy, making ads for the businesses in the area to go into the our paper, The Wenatchee World. The owners were kind of thinking (as many local business people also thought) that our somewhat isolated area could weather the bad economics times with little impact. Well, Hell's come to Frogtown. The high gas prices impacted the very limited incomes here in the valley (and all of North Central Washington) and to put it mildly, business is down. EVERYWHERE. So people aren't advertsing as much (Sure times are tough, so STOP telling everyone where you are and what you have to sell). This means I, and my fellow designers are not as busy. Can you see where this is going? We had a company wide meeting this week, announcing some changes, and how the company was not projected to make all their budget goals in 2009. No Christmas bonus (No surprise, we expected to have a "frugal" Chrismas), no profit sharing for our 401Ks (again, no surprise, ya gotta have profit to share it) but the scary part? Lay-offs aren't ruled out. And the way I see it, the 2nd designers on each sales team would be very vulnerable in this situation. Susie and I have learned to live OK on very small paychecks, but if I get laid off, we're in BIG trouble. Part of the reason I fell behind last week, is just that I'm pretty stressed by it all. As are a great many people I'm sure. (Sorry for whining folks) Ah well, perhaps new opportunities are getting ready to present themselves. I need some woodstime.
09-29-08 8-18-2008 With Keenspot's new ad program, I'm just about making up for what I lose not working the other day. (unless you factor in the Sales bonus, that extra third of my salary needed to make a decent living, which my team hasn't hit since February!) I'm also working on two more books of Strip reprints similar to the Ghost Wind book. The first will chronicle Hawk Talon and intriques in the West, the second will chronicle the mission against the Reich's fuel depot. Of course all the side stories will be there, along with a few extras... I took a little overnighter to Ingalls Creek. Click the link if you'd like to read about it. Next weekend, I will be at the Earthwalk Northwest Gathering, so comics may be a little spotty. For any of you in
the Portland area, Jon Young will be conducting a lecture called 6-30-2008 Some very good news is on the horizon. I talked with my boss Russ, and it looks like I'll be able to work a 4 day schedule. I can't espress how much this can mean. An extra day a week could mean another strip, feelance illustration, or finishing the outdoor book I've been writing. It's not set in stone yet, so keep your fingers crossed for me! I'll need to generate around $300 a month, one way or another, but even if I have to Ebay stuff to make ends meet, I'll do it. The scribble that you clicked from is just a cover idea sketch that I'm working on for a second Wandering Ones book, that follows the events in Wandering Ones: Ghost Wind. I don't even have a working title yet, and I'm also trying to decide if I want to include the Walking Man story or just leave it web only with the book being solely Wandering Ones material. (and do I include the Mad Scout or not?) I was looking at Booksurge as a publisher, but Chris Crosby indicated that he would like to publish it POD style (Print on Demand). As publishing through Booksurge would cost me several hundred dollars and Keenpspot won't cost me a dime (and also published my first book) it took me about 2 seconds to make a decision. I could expect about the same amount of promotion from both. I eventually hope to have the whole series in print form. I thank those of you who gave your condolences about my family loss, it was my uncle Howard, my mom's brother. To be honest, I did not know him well, but I'm sad for my mom's sadness.
5-19-2008 I took a little trip out to the
Columbia
River last weekend. Things have been going pretty quietly lately. I still have not gotten around to talking to my boss about going to a 4-day work week. With as little as my team has been making it's sales goal (and thereby commission) I don't see how I could possibly make less using that extra day to work for myself, if I even half gave it an effort. (I was originally hired to work 4 days a week and the extra "marketing" day was added to entice me to move accross the mountains.) Just need to find a way to get my boss to agree. They actually don't have enough marketing stuff to keep me busy for 8 hours, anyway. I'm looking at a few other creative
outlets recently. I've made an aggreement with Brain
Scan studios to distribute Mountainworld
online. I'm busy prepping the pages for the first issue now. Others
will soon follow. Eventually, though, I will need to draw the remaining
56 pages. Another reason to go to 4 days a week at work. I may just stick with Ka-Blam. Susie still has not heard back from the publisher about her requested manuscript. She's starting to lose hope on this one. She's started her next manuscript. For some reason, I went a got myself a MySpace account. Still not sure why... if you have ideas on how to network with it, please email me and let me know! |
