Help me, Criswell!
Going full steam on my big-ass toon book, until I plowed into a brick wall.
From '87-'89 my toons were in The Loon News. From 1989-1999 I put out a single-page, double-sided publication of a weeks-worth of toons every month. I started posting my strip on the Internetrola in '99, but didn't write on the toon when it was posted. I did have the dates on my Mac. The one that's sputtered and flashed a "?" on the screen for the last 3 1/2 years. Frustrating to know I could get the dates if I could just turn on my Mac! So simple. Friggin' electronics.
Anyone happen to know when the first KDBX toon was posted? Any of the two of you who were here for that.
My other option is also less pleasant, but more likely to work. I need to find my 1999 calender to see when Richard Simmons called me to be on his TV show.
I have no idea where it coul--what's that? Could it be that some of you are not acquainted with the story of me almost being on Richard's show? Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear.
It was the summer of 1999, Richard Simmons was starting a new show in the fall called Dream Maker. The idea was you tell Richard Simmons your lifelong dream, and by the power of fuzzy-skull he will make it come true.
Commercials ran over the summer asking people to call or visit the web site and tell Rich your dreams. So, I e-mailed him about my dream of toon syndication. I didn't think Richard had that kind of power over time and space to convince a syndicate editor to sign me up. Or maybe he did. Maybe his plan would be to bounce around an editor's office until he signed me up just to get Richard out of the building.
A couple weeks later I got a message on my machine from someone working for the show. I called him back and we talked about it for a bit. He asked what syndication was, about my toon. I gave him the address of my site to have a look. This toon happened to be up that week.
He quietly read it out loud. When he finished he said, "uh-huh." I could tell by the tone of his "uh-huh" he thought this strip is no Cathy, Garfield, or Drabble. This ain't the type of stuff for this late-afternoon, chick-friendly show.
He said he'd pass it along the production chain.
I didn't wait for Richard Simmons to show up at my door.
The toon was in the middle of a story about drug testing the actors.
I have no idea where my 1999 calender is. It's here, I just don't know where. If I can find it I can figure out from there when the '99-2000 toons were posted.
Any psychics know where I should look?
Cardinals lost. I know nothing about football, but living here since 1976 I do know the Cardinals choke. At least when I watch the local news now I'll be able to get news instead of Cardinal stories from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many angles for 28 minutes of the 30 minute newscast.
From '87-'89 my toons were in The Loon News. From 1989-1999 I put out a single-page, double-sided publication of a weeks-worth of toons every month. I started posting my strip on the Internetrola in '99, but didn't write on the toon when it was posted. I did have the dates on my Mac. The one that's sputtered and flashed a "?" on the screen for the last 3 1/2 years. Frustrating to know I could get the dates if I could just turn on my Mac! So simple. Friggin' electronics.
Anyone happen to know when the first KDBX toon was posted? Any of the two of you who were here for that.
My other option is also less pleasant, but more likely to work. I need to find my 1999 calender to see when Richard Simmons called me to be on his TV show.
I have no idea where it coul--what's that? Could it be that some of you are not acquainted with the story of me almost being on Richard's show? Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear.
It was the summer of 1999, Richard Simmons was starting a new show in the fall called Dream Maker. The idea was you tell Richard Simmons your lifelong dream, and by the power of fuzzy-skull he will make it come true.
Commercials ran over the summer asking people to call or visit the web site and tell Rich your dreams. So, I e-mailed him about my dream of toon syndication. I didn't think Richard had that kind of power over time and space to convince a syndicate editor to sign me up. Or maybe he did. Maybe his plan would be to bounce around an editor's office until he signed me up just to get Richard out of the building.
A couple weeks later I got a message on my machine from someone working for the show. I called him back and we talked about it for a bit. He asked what syndication was, about my toon. I gave him the address of my site to have a look. This toon happened to be up that week.
He quietly read it out loud. When he finished he said, "uh-huh." I could tell by the tone of his "uh-huh" he thought this strip is no Cathy, Garfield, or Drabble. This ain't the type of stuff for this late-afternoon, chick-friendly show.
He said he'd pass it along the production chain.
I didn't wait for Richard Simmons to show up at my door.
The toon was in the middle of a story about drug testing the actors.
I have no idea where my 1999 calender is. It's here, I just don't know where. If I can find it I can figure out from there when the '99-2000 toons were posted.
Any psychics know where I should look?
Cardinals lost. I know nothing about football, but living here since 1976 I do know the Cardinals choke. At least when I watch the local news now I'll be able to get news instead of Cardinal stories from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many angles for 28 minutes of the 30 minute newscast.