T-shirts and webcomics

Hi All, it’s been a couple of days since I said anything here, and that’s because I’ve been busy.

Firstly I’ve been busy with Bigbluespoon, soon to be Bigbluespoon.com, which is our new online t-shirt store.  It all started about 2 and a half years ago when I was making some random t-shirts for myself.  I still do this, and if you know me, they’re the ones branded “Homemade”.  I have to point this out because a few people have actually asked where I got them, and it’s hard to break to them that I made them out of Burtons black tee shirts (£3) and WHSmith Inkjet transfer papers (£7 for 5)…

Bigbluespoon was originally a load of really quite purile designs aimed at students, but since then we’ve stopped being students ourselves, and stopped finding them amusing, and the market has moved on to a more intellectual geekery humour that you can find now in our t-shirts.  I went to a terrible university called Anglia Ruskin, and for anyone else who went to one of these digusting cattle market type Universities we have made the official “University of Clearing” T-shirts, in the same style as those YALE or Cambridge University tops that you see.  We’ve also got some logic jokes, and some that are just funny.

http://www.zazzle.com/bigbluespoon

And on to webcomics…

Every indie kid in the world has made a webcomic, they shove together some drawings of some vaguely amusing banter between some characters and achieve any level of success from becoming the next XKCD to dying on their arse.  In nearly every case the deciding factor is how much they stick with it.  It doesn’t seem to be one of these things where there’s a lot of chance involved.  This is the net, and if there’s an audience for midget porn, there must be an audience for John’s super webcomic.

So the other day, doodling away I found that I had drawn a picture of a fat stick figure, and some distance away, a thin stick figure, and I’d titled it “Nobody likes you because you are fat.”.  A comment on society if you like.  Either way, with the drawing too, it’s funny, and so I spent some time doing the rest of it.  2 days of design and coding later, and I’ve made the world’s first content management system explicitly for running a webcomic.

If I make a webcomic, I’m doing it my way, dammit, and if I get fed up, I’ll still have made a piece of software that makes it easier for everyone who wants to to publish theirs.  It’s nice.  It supports themes, and comments on each comic and a voting system to allow you to rank your comics in a top 10 kind of thing.  I’m just in the process of writing a bit for ‘random comic’ to show any random issue, and a thing for browsing the top 10 most viewed and stuff.  Twill be awesome.

Anyway, night world, another day of work calls tomorrow.  Sleep well now.

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