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I meant to tell you guys this sooner, but we’re rolling a little differently this week. Nevermind that the Thanksgiving Holiday would throw a wrench in the updates anyway, but I had three papers and a project outline all due this week, and I spent the weekend working on those.
DESPITE THAT, I still had time to particiipate in something REALLY COOL comics-wise. The Daily Texan (which I do comics for) is doing a Thanksgiving Who-Dun-It event, all of the good majority of the Daily Texan comic artists are involved. That means Sammy too, so Smoothie Home is also in it. There’s also John Thorn, Elysium, 6 Dollars, Please, Run Cupcake Run, Lou-zer (or Joysticks), Mipsters, Ice Breaker, Adventures in Emergency Medicine, and of course, Psycho Bevo. This is a MAJOR CROSSOVER. It is a three day event starting Monday and ending Wednesday, so I suggest that anyone who can pick up the paper these three days do so because it looks fantastic and it has been a lot of fun to do.
To give you just a taste of the awesome, have a look at this:
Yes, that is John Thorn standing next to Emery in the same panel. Cool, huh?
For those of you not in the Austin area, don’t worry. These super cool events tend to go up online at the 6 Dollars, Please blog once the paper has finished running it, so if that is the case then I will get you a link the moment that happens. If not, well hell, then I’ll just scan the newspaper for you.
Of course this all means that you’d probably have to wait until after Wednesday to read it, but I promise it will be worth the wait! Also, as you’ve probably figured out, the comic won’t be updating on a regular schedule this week. We resume next week, probably on a MWF schedule.
Also, on a side note, you may be wondering why Smoothie Home hasn’t updated in a while here on the site. Solomon and Sammy are working on an actual story arc right now, and Solomon plans to post it in its entirety when it is complete (which will be soon, I think) rather than page by page.
Sound good? =)
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What’s this? Color? On a Thursday? I’m sensing a pattern here.
Sadly, this comic is one that may never see print. My editor said it was “too much of an endorsement for the paper” and that they could not run it. Which I can understand because yeah, if you read it then you’ll see that it certainly does come off that way. Self-promotion was actually not my intent though. I was just calling it like I saw it. There’s a chance that they’ll still run it if I end the newspaper version at the second panel, but we’ll see. The saddest part is that it is based on a 100% true story. This whole conversation really did take place. It was a while back when the first of our comic strips ran in the paper and we were newer to the game. The waitress, her name was Rebecca, was having a slow night and struck up a conversation about the paper. Jonathan shamelessly promoted us because Jonathan is the type to do such things when he cares about them. I think we made a fan that night.
And maybe I’m a little biased but even if Smoothie Home and tWC were not in the paper, I’d still laugh more on average after reading the comics page than I have in any of my previous years as a student here. I hope you all do too.
Have a nice weekend!