06/14/09-Some bad comics! I'm going to bed now! I might be out of town next weekend, though.
06/01/09-Didn't really have enough free time to make a comic properly, but it had been too long so here you go. I didn't get around to the colors, and so the strip doesn't read as well as it should. The two trolls are going to be different colors, and in the 4th panel it should be clear that the two-headed troll is the two of them put together. Chappy's reasoning for doing this being hinted at in the first panel, for those of you who like their jokes explained. This weekend I met with two good friends I hadn't seen in a long time, and made steak al poivre, garlic mashed potatoes and kolaches, all of which turned out really well. So it's not like I was just goofing off.
EDIT - It's mostly colored and corrected now, I'll finish it tomorrow.
05/18/09-I wanted to do two of these single-sized comics, but there's another deadline coming up at work, so I don't have enough time. Inking this one was disaster after disaster, but I was able to clean it up somewhat in photoshop. Colors could be a bit more finished, but it's gonna stay this way, I think. Also, if anyone has tried to use the rss feed, let me know if it works.
05/11/09-What's this?? An on-time comic? Oh, it's not quite finished. Whew. I should have the colors finished tomorrow night. This "plot" will continue for a few more strips, at least. Maybe I said that already. Here is a link to Jonny Crossbones, which fans of tintin will especially enjoy.
Uptd. - Okay, it's still woefully unfinished, but I have to let it go and start on the next one!
Uptd. II - Josh Lesnick asked me to make an rss feed, so I did what I could. It seems to work, but it probably sucks! The link is in that bar under the comic. That's just to the file, though, I don't know how any of that stuff works.
05/03/09-I couldn't get motivated to do the colors for this. I want to pick out color palettes carefully, I'm not very good at that. Anyway, this is the first of another storyline set of strips, which I swear off of every time I do one. This one is much less of an actual story and more of a collection of gags with a common theme, so I am optimistic. I will try and have the colored version up tomorrow night, but tuesday night is more likely.
04/26/09-I wasn't really feeling it this week. I drew loads of sketches, but I didn't have any ideas worth following through. Sorry! For those of you who only check on mondays, there is at least one new comic. I'll have another bad comic up sometime during the week, and a regular color strip next week.
Oh! I scanned some sketches and put them up on Seven. Here and here are direct links.
04/19/09-Well I spent all my extra time at work. Stuff turned around a bit though, so it was time well spent, if you care. Some more comics. Had some fun with thes ones, there was somehting I wanted to say about them but I forget. What a boring newspost! As for links, I didn't link to minus before it ended, but here is a link to Great.
04/13/09-Four more bad comics are done, but I am still in the uncomfortable position of having an unfinished page. So I'll try to update again later this week. Stuff hasn't been going too well at work though, so I may be too busy with that to comick. A comic I think readers of irritability will enjoy is The Princess Planet. Get ready to groan out loud at loads of puns! Those of you who intend to click the link, that is!
04/07/09-I haven't done the next badcomic yet, but in the meantime here is something that would be difficult to explain.
04/05/09-Last Monday was my mom's 60th birthday, so I flew down to galveston for that as a sort of surprise present. That's why there wasn't any update. Here are some bad comics. I'd have all 4, there was time for that, but the last one I was going to do is kind of dumb and I think I can come up with something to add to it to make it better. Working title is "one-track mind flayer". First comic is a twilight parody, my wife watched that movie with one of her friends a while ago. She said it was funny and, certainly, they were cackling the whole time, so I gave it a look. The thing is just fanfiction though, and watching it I felt like I had walked in on someone masturbating. So I only saw like two minutes, the part where they look at each other in slow motion. (I suspect this does not narrow it down terribly) Finally, dad-isms is my favorite of these by far.
03/25/09-Okay, it's in color now. It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but it's ok. I should have spent more time on the illuminated text, especially. OH WELL
03/23/09-Well, here is the aforementioned regular comic. I had hoped to have it colored when it went up, but things got behind schedule, in a shocking turn of events. I'll work on it during the week, but actual work is in another crunch time right now, so who knows how quickly that will progress. In a related note, I'll be busy next weekend, so I don't expect any updates.
03/17/09-Whoops, I missed the monday update! Sorry. I had been working on a regular strip, but all the poses turned out to be way harder than I thought, and people kept coming over, etc. Excuses. So anyway, I decided to just turn the crank on the ol' bad comics machine and put the real strip off until next week. As far as links to other comics goes, uhhh... Party Bear is real good, but there's not enough of it.
03/11/09-Okay here are the comics I mentioned. They are pretty bad, aren't they! Anyway, here is another comic which I like, Ballad. It has recently been resized for greater legibility, which is nice because it was really hard to read!
03/09/09-So, at work, our grant is coming up for renewal and I'm working 7 days a week. Pretty long hours. I had some ideas for bad comics that I was going to do, but when I started to pencil them out they were terrible! So I didn't have the will to use my precious leisure time on them. I'll probably do them anyway, but not tonight. I feel bad about my low output, so here're some semi-hourly comics I did while at work tonight.
03/01/09-More bad comics. Also, I haven't been linking other comics much. Here is one I like called The Good Crook.
02/02/09-It's 95% done. I might touch it up tomorrow, but you probably wouldn't notice. Perhaps you can see what I meant by the joke not being able to carry the comic. I'm going to have to go back to TX for some business, so there won't be an update next monday. I'll try and get some bad comics done before then, but who knows?!?
02/01/09-I'm not putting the latest comic up yet because it's a really boring joke that I just did because I wanted to do the art. But, the lineart was done so as to complement color, and I haven't done the color yet. I'll put it up monday night though, whether it's done or not. On a related note, I've been putting my energies a lot more lately into experimenting and trying things that seem fun, rather than making the comic enjoyable to read. Thanks for bearing with me so far!
01/19/09-The buses didn't run today, so I couldn't go to work. I made more comics as a result. I really like these ones, but the art doesn't "pop" as much as I'de like, I had a hard time creating depth. The tone, etc. is kind of a rip-off of Demon Planet, so if you liked them maybe check it out???
Sub Page Guide
Each main sub-page has some numbers at the top. These numbers are links to the
sub-pages, clicking on a number will take you to the corresponding sub-page. Go
figure, huh?
0- You're on it. This page has the updates, guide to the sub-sites, and some other stuff.
1- This is Irritability. The reason this site still exists. (it's a webcomic)
2- Snid. A stick-figure gimmick comic.
5- Personal Data. Who cares??
7- The art page: sketches, more finished pictures, RUFO, and physics puns.
8- Guides to things. So far, mainly just tips on how to draw.
Here is my E mail, by the way: mew17@duke.edu
