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Eric: On the other hand, McDuck would certainly shop at vintage clothing stores, so long as they were less expensive instead of more expensive.
(From Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break! Click on the thumbnail for full sized habadashary!)
One of these days, somewhere between update the fucking Lexicon already and finish the fucking Shortbreads already, I have update my three core daily trawls already, you fuck!. This is because the trawls as they exist are desperately out of date. I've added a great number of things to the daily check and taken a few out (over to the Sporadically Checked list, generally). Folks like Jennie Breedan of The Devil's Panties and Steve Troop of the venerable (yeah, he'll love that) Melonpool and Misha and Crash over at Cheshire Grin deserve acknowledgment, and they're just the tip of the iceberg.
One of the others who deserves her rightful place on the trawl is the extraordinary Jin Wicked, who is a wonderfully evocative pen and ink illustrator and artist, and artist and cocreator of Asylum on 5th Street, and the webcartoonist of today's special subject, Crap I Drew on my Lunch Break. See, if I don't put these folks on the trawls, the only way they come up in conversation is when a strip strikes me and I snark it.
Which is of course where we are today.
Today's strip is a good showcase for Wicked's exceptional art skills. She has some of the tightest hatching I've ever seen (how her hand doesn't fall off is beyond me), and her characters are evocative and fun. They remind me, in design, of the good folks over at Goats, though from a much more art-centric point of view.
Today's strip is also gut bustingly funny, in my never-quite-humble opinion. The idea of Scrooge McDuck drinking absinthe and listening to Specimen provokes giggles.
So. A good enough reason to bring the strip up. Now if I just got around to updating these things....
Posted by Eric Burns-White at June 7, 2005 9:58 AM
Comments
Comment from: okaynowa posted at June 7, 2005 10:26 AM
Hmm... a top hat alone does not make you goth, no.
But...
My brother and I both have top hats directly as a result of our gothy phases (which may or may not be over).
Is there a Venn diagram or other logic statement that could sum up the situation?
And that is some wicked artwork-- notice the apparent difference in texture between her hat and the other blokes' stovepipes?
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 10:28 AM
Eric... I've been noticing that you have a tendency lately to use the f-word more often. While I am not for censorship and all that... I was wondering if you could tame it slightly? Use it when it deserves to be used? (I believe swears lose their power and shock value when overused.) I mean, three uses of the f-word in the same sentence... just seems a tad much.
Otherwise loved the snark, when I have more time I'll have to read that comic.
Enjoy!
Robert A. Howard
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 7, 2005 11:02 AM
Robert--
My use of such... expressive language is usually inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I've recently received. The more tired I am in general, the pottier my mouth becomes.
I'll do what I can.
Comment from: scrubbo posted at June 7, 2005 12:36 PM
In that case, I propose a sleep deprivation experiment to see if we can get Eric to post a 5,000 word essay on kittens consisting wholly of the word fuck.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 7, 2005 12:38 PM
Fucking kittens.
Comment from: Johnny Assay posted at June 7, 2005 1:01 PM
Psst... it's spelled "haberdashery."
Comment from: SeanH posted at June 7, 2005 2:01 PM
Jin Wicked is completely awesome, even if she lives in a bizarre parallel world where chubby girls in chainmail bikinis are a bad thing (http://crap.jinwicked.com/?comic=24)
Comment from: Shaenon posted at June 7, 2005 2:29 PM
I believe you meant to say that she's FUCKING awesome.
Comment from: miyaa posted at June 7, 2005 2:58 PM
I prefer the Fez over the top-hat, especially when its used in PvP gaming situations.
I do have a general question about all things Gothness. What exactly is its appeal? It's got to be more than to dress up like you're either channeling Edgar Allen Poe, or some British 80's band, or top-hats.
Comment from: Aerin posted at June 7, 2005 3:29 PM
BWAHAHAHAHA! Anything that prompts a loud enough laugh from me to cause my friend across the hall to come in and ask what's so funny merits a trip through its archives.
But yes, I am eagerly awaiting the updated trawls, since I regularly poke through your trawl lists when I'm looking to kill a couple of hours by going through a new archive.
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 4:12 PM
Scrubbo said: In that case, I propose a sleep deprivation experiment to see if we can get Eric to post a 5,000 word essay on kittens consisting wholly of the word fuck.
Eric said: Fucking kittens.
Careful, the Kitten Collective is listening. Do we really want them to go on another Ribboning Spree like the Kitansky Incident of 2003? The Russian Mad Scientists are still finding ribbons in their machinery to this day...
Robert A. Howard, Tangents reviewer
- Resistance is Furry - The Kitten Collective
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 4:13 PM
(and that was *supposed* to be followed by an animated gif file but I guess I couldn't html that lil' chap into here. Oh well...)
Comment from: Steve Troop posted at June 7, 2005 4:20 PM
Steve Troop of the venerable (yeah, he'll love that) Melonpool
Actually, I don't mind. Any mention is better than no mention.
Sometimes I think I'm just below everyone's radar.
Steve
Comment from: RKMilholland posted at June 7, 2005 4:45 PM
What the fuck is with people telling other people not to fucking swear?
I was on a panel this past weekend at A-Kon and was told not to swear - not by the moderator, who honestly could give a fuck - but by another cartoonist. And I wasn't asking, "Could you please curb your language." That I could have understood. I was told, on the panel in front of the viewers I wasn't allowed to swear, like I'm a child.
He seemed nice otherwise - but needless to say, my cursing alotment doubled.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 7, 2005 5:18 PM
Fuckity fucking fuck. Fuck you very much, Mr. Burns.
Remember kids, if you read it here, just don't tell your parents where you learned it from.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 7, 2005 5:20 PM
And by "Fuck you very much," I mean thanks, before someone takes that the wrong way.... erhm. Yeah.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 7, 2005 5:25 PM
Trust me. I learned years ago not to take such phrases as offers or invitations. Depressing, really, given the number of times someone's said 'fuck you' to me....
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 7, 2005 5:28 PM
Depressing, really, given the number of times someone's said 'fuck you' to me....
I await your soon to be released version of the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People," with baited breath, sir.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 7, 2005 5:34 PM
I'll ask Randy Milholland to provide the introduction. And suggest we use a picture of him giving the reader the finger.
Comment from: quiller posted at June 7, 2005 5:58 PM
You could make it an anthology with chapters by Harlan Ellison, Don Rickles, and Jerry and Mike from Penny Arcade...
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 9:40 PM
Um, you do realize I didn't ask Eric to *stop* swearing, just to cut back on it a little? Nor did I deride his use of swearing, just ask nicely if he could lessen it slightly.
Heck, I even had a *reason* for it besides "it's not nice," what with the whole "swears lose their effectiveness and shock value when overused" theme.
*shakes head* I need a drink...
Robert A. Howard, Tangents reviewer
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 7, 2005 9:46 PM
Um, you do realize I didn't ask Eric to *stop* swearing, just to cut back on it a little? Nor did I deride his use of swearing, just ask nicely if he could lessen it slightly.
You should've realized saying something like that is akin to kicking an anthill or prodding a bee's nest with a honey-covered stick, you know. You're just asking for it.
Comment from: gwalla posted at June 7, 2005 10:11 PM
I just thought Eric was trying to be more "street". Demographics, focus groups and all that.
His next snark will consist entirely of words ending in "izzle".
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 11:13 PM
Jin Wicked said:
Nani? Okay, is that why people playing rap music have a tendency to turn it up so loud that it registers on earthquake equipment in a 10 mile radius when you ask the players to turn it down slightly?
You know, there is such a thing as common courtesy and politeness.
(Of course, if you're joking I must warn you that I take everything at face value. It makes things much more amusing and causes quite a few people to backpedal. On the plus side, I've managed to stop women in my area from swearing for fear of me accepting their proposal (or worse, suggesting they invest in Depends if they lack bowel control). *evil smile*)
Rob H.
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 7, 2005 11:13 PM
Hmm. Okay, Jin's comments just vanished into the ether. The comments on rap music and the like are mine.
Comment from: gwalla posted at June 8, 2005 12:23 AM
And yes, Eric, you definitely should update your daily trawls. You've still got Basil Flint on there. Heck, you've got It's Walky! and GPF on there, and you've already YHM&YLMed them.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 8, 2005 12:34 AM
Nani? Okay, is that why people playing rap music have a tendency to turn it up so loud that it registers on earthquake equipment in a 10 mile radius when you ask the players to turn it down slightly?
Hai, I wouldn't know, I don't hang around people I find annoying, and if something bothers me I just leave and go elsewhere. I find a lot of stuff people do annoying, but it's a free country so I don't go 'round bitching to them or confronting them about it.
Besides, my point was that you posted a comment like that in a place that's frequented by smartasses who make fun of stuff for a living... what do you expect now, really?
You know, there is such a thing as common courtesy and politeness.
You mean like not voluntarily going to someone else's website/blog/house/party and then complaining to them about what they choose to do at their own establishment?
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 8, 2005 1:37 AM
Okay. People have gone to my website and commented about the format and other elements of it. They commented about my use of "cookies" as being too much like Eric's biscuits (to the point I'm discontinuing it). I don't see this as complaints. I see it as constructive criticism.
I didn't go and tell Eric that his use of the F-word was wrong. I didn't go and state that it was vile or any other bit of idiocy. I made a simple statement that I thought the swearing was slightly overdone today and it might be nice if he toned it down a tad.
Heck, I didn't even "tell" him to stop.
So why the bleep is what I said so wrong? I'm not bleeping censoring him or the like. Just suggesting he not say the f-word three times in the same sentence.
Now I *really* need a drink. *sigh*
Robert A. Howard, Tangents reviewer
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 8, 2005 2:59 AM
So why the bleep is what I said so wrong?
It makes you sound like a nitpicking weenie.
Just because you caved to the grumblings of your disgruntled readers "constructive criticism" doesn't mean Mr. Burns here will.
Fuck on, Mr. Burns. Fuck on.
Comment from: Ray Radlein posted at June 8, 2005 5:03 AM
I do have a general question about all things Gothness. What exactly is its appeal? It's got to be more than to dress up like you're either channeling Edgar Allen Poe, or some British 80's band, or top-hats.
Simple: As Neil Gaiman observed, black goes with everything. Especially everything black.
Comment from: larksilver posted at June 8, 2005 11:25 AM
Seems a shame to me that somehow, Eric's cool snark on one of my favorite comics got derailed, somewhere.
Ah, well. Such is the way, sometimes. Either way, cool snark (did I mention that?) and I'm really glad Crap! is back in action. Yeah!
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 8, 2005 1:10 PM
Well, Jin, you can think what you want. It's obvious nothing I say is going to change your mind, about swearing, or your opinions of me.
Rob H.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 8, 2005 3:26 PM
It's a message board. Don't take shit so seriously, dude.
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 8, 2005 4:05 PM
*ahem* (Of course, if you're joking I must warn you that I take everything at face value. It makes things much more amusing and causes quite a few people to backpedal. On the plus side, I've managed to stop women in my area from swearing for fear of me accepting their proposal (or worse, suggesting they invest in Depends if they lack bowel control). *evil smile*)
Besides, in this electronic media which lacks any real emotion, tone of voice, or anything else, how can you tell what someone's reaction is?
Comment from: quiller posted at June 8, 2005 7:41 PM
I think it was actually more a case of people riffing off of your comment more than people believing you are actually trying to censor Eric, Tangent. Well, Jin might be taking it that way, but I'm not and I didn't see much indication in the other comments that they were directed at you in particular.
Comment from: John W. Wells posted at June 8, 2005 9:46 PM
As someone who got a top hat so he could dress like a Gilbert and Sullivan character, I heartily agree.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 9, 2005 1:15 AM
I think it was actually more a case of people riffing off of your comment more than people believing you are actually trying to censor Eric, Tangent.
Exactly. Well, until he got upset and defensive about it, anyway. =3
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 9, 2005 9:55 AM
Dude. So going to keep swearing in this weblog.
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