07/10/08-The site was down for a while, I don't know why, but I finally managed to get through and upload the last of this set.
07/07/08-Nickelback was the first result when I googled "popular bands to hate". Although, it seems to me that disliking them doesn't necessarily make you a snob.
06/30/08-My allergies have really been acting up, Ive had NO energy, been sleeping >12h./day.
06/23/08-Liz got an xbox through her grant, and we picked up the orange box a while ago. I started playing half life 2 yesterday, it's really fun. I never played the first one, though, aso I don't really know what's going on.
06/09/08-I was going to continue the spellbinding "Polly Hates Toads" storyline, but I couldn't cram it into a strip format. So I went ahead and tried a full-page layout, it was a nice change. I'd like to color this one, but my dissertation is turning into some kind of Zeno's paradox situation, and I really need to buckle down and finish it, so I don't know if it'll get done. It looks all right in b+w, so I won't sweat it either way. Also, I turned 29 Saturday, I'm really getting old. I suppose that's not really surprising.
06/02/08-Another regular comic. This one will look a lot better once I color it. It'd look better now if I hadn't still been doing the lineart at 5 AM. Ugh.
05/26/08-There's a new art at Seven and new pics at Four. 2 more bad comics in ~24 h.
05/19/08-Well, I guess the half Monday/ half Tuesday thing has become routine. I can never think of strip ideas until too late, also I'm spending a lot of time on the pencils, even though the whole point of these bad comics is to move quickly. Hmm.
05/11/08-I don't know how universal the experience of having school thrown into pandemonium by a dog wandering in is, but it seems to have been common enough in Texas. I'll try and get a fourth one up Monday night.
04/28/08-I'm actually about half done with the colors this time, but I'm too tired to stay up and finish it. Hopefully by monday afternoon it'll be up.
04/21/08-If you haven't played Civ 4 or DF you won't get these at all, but you aren't missing much in that regard.
04/14/08-Whoops, I put this off too long and now there's only two bad comics. I'll put two more up in ~24h.
03/29/08-The conference was pretty cool, but I'm worn out from walking around SF so much afterwards. I started this strip late, I forgot how long it takes when the layouts aren't really simple. It's nearly 5AM! Ugh. So, there's no color, I'll have to add it in tomorrow or tuesday.
03/23/08-All I was able to do this month was a few more ridiculous centaur variations. I don't have much to show for my long hours in the lab, either, but that's science. I'm going to be giving a talk at the MRS meeting in San Francisco this Thursday, and when I get back I'm going to start writing my dissertation. The upshot of which is that I should get a real update done next week, then another week of hiatus, then back to normal schedule (hopefully).
03/10/08-March is going to be a really busy month for me, so I'm going to go ahead and say the comic on on Hiatus for a month. I'll try and do stuff, but I can't guarantee anything.
03/03/08-More bad comics. These ones were really fun to draw, though they aren't the funniest, I guess.
02/25/08-Ugh. It's pretty late right now. The coloring here is half assed, those two panel backgrounds are a quarter assed at best. But, there's just no way I'm going to be able to stay up and finish it tonight. I had a few other things to say, but I can't remember.
02/18/08-There's only two bad comics today because I spent all day playing civ 4 multiplayer with some friends of mine from high school who I hadn't really talked to much for several years. I'll hopefully be able to put two more up monday night. Have a bat picture as consolation in the meantime.
02/11/08-Apparently nylon brushes aren't appropriate for inking, so I ordered some fancy new ones. Once they get here, the lineart should improve significantly. It might not be noticeable on these bad comics though. Speaking of which, 38 probably doesn't work if you don't know what a silicoid looks like. Sorry if you're the wrong type of nerd.
02/04/08-The bad comics continue at a relatively sedate pace. I've felt more like playing video games than working on the comic or site lately. Also I've been working harder than previously, which might have something to do with my leisure preferences.
01/07/08-More bad comics. I'm probably going to just do these for a while. I can guarantee 4 new ones every monday, but I'll probably have more during the week, too.
12/04/07-Ugh, these colors look pretty bad, but it's way past my bedtime, so they'll have to do untill tomorrow. I really hate having to resort to gradient fills for backgrounds...
12/03/07-Okay, I got the new photoshop which is stable on this computer, but I'm having to relearn stuff and reinstall scanner drivers etc. So the new comic has no color. How unprofessional! Anyway, this will be the last normal comic of the year. I'll probably put a few more bad comics up, and there may be a 24-hour comic, but who knows. I'm not going to try and hold myself to anything. Have a happy Holiday, everyone!
11/26/07-Not much to say. I'm slowly working on the t-shirt situation... I doubt they'd be ready in time for christmas, though. I got civ 4, now that my computer can handle it. I was pretty obsessed with it for a few days, but I'm okay now.
11/19/07-Once again, the comic has no color. This time it's not because photoshop crashed when I was working on it, although that did happen, but because I took so long to figure out the script for this one that it was just too late to get it all done. In consolation, there are 4 more bad comics.
11/12/07-Okay, I redid the color. Maybe I shoulda spent more time on it, but I want to work on other things.
11/11/07-You may notice that the new comic has no color. This is because, as it was almost done, photoshop unexpetedly quit. I had not saved, and it was too late in the night to start all over again. I finally replaced my old computer, and the older version of photoshop I have apparently is way less stable on the intel macs than the old ones. I may have to buy the new one, which would be pretty terrible since I could barely afford the computer itself and photoshop is like 300 dollars even for the educational version. I told people on the forum that I'd have some t-shirt designs done by now, and I haven't finished those, either. To be honest, I'm spending most of my time playing persona 3.
11/04/07-Well, at long last, another Irritability strip. I feel like my linework has gotten a lot better, and my coloring has gotten a lot better... But they don't compliment each other very well. That two-tone cell-shading type of colors I usually use doesn't work very well with faces as I've drawn them here. And the way I shade hair clashes with everything else, I think. At least it's not terrible.
10/26/07-Talk about travel! I haven't spent more than one day at home for more than three weeks! I'm going up to DC again for the weekend, so there won't be a new real comic just yet, but I was able to at least finish four more bad comics. Here's the rest.
10/03/07-Okay, 4 more bad comics were added, and that's the last you'll see of me for a while, I'll be vacationing until the 20th, and I have a conference of sorts to attend on the 23rd thru 25th.
10/01/07-UPDATE! Okay, you may be familiar with the 200 bad comics challenge, first undertaken by a Mr. Nedroid here and then taken up by K.C. Green here. I thought about how I reject about 95% of my ideas for comics for not being good enough for a strip. (believe it or not) Plenty of those ideas had somehting to them, so I thought it would be nice to be able to use them, and the bad comics thing gives me the excuse to go ahead with it even if I'm sure it'll suck. I prefer the actual making of the comic way more than the thinking about it, so these are pretty much perfect. Anyway, here's the first 8 bad comics. Oh, and there's a new Snid.
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
