I highly recommend reading “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant. It’s a short poem with thoughts about death, and it’s pretty amazing. It’s online here.
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To follow up on my guest comic for Edmund Finney’s Quest To Find The Meaning Of Life, today I had a guest comic posted over at Robbie and Bobby! It’s a great comic that often blends humor with the surreal, which of course means I love it. Thanks to Jason Poland for putting mine up!
Here’s the link, go check out the rest of his work and the other awesome guest comics:
http://robbieandbobby.com/guest-comic-by-evan-brown-of-of-the-fittest/
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I’m excited to announce that I have a guest comic up over at one of my favorite webcomics, Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life by Dan Long. You can see my guest post here.
This is my first attempt at a guest comic, and considering the last EF guest post was by Jason Poland (Robbie and Bobby), I’m in great company.
If you haven’t read Edmund Finney before, now’s a great time to check it out—very funny with dark and morbid humor, just the way I like it! Dan is posting guest comics while he works on finishing up a book. I’m happy to be a part of it.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of regular updates to this comic. When I first started posting comics every Tuesday and Thursday, I made it a goal for myself to do it for an entire year and never break the chain. There may have been one or two times when I posted a little later than I wanted to, but I’m proud to say that I successfully followed through with my plan. Creating a webcomic was something I wanted to do for years, but for one reason or another I never felt completely ready to take it on until the winter/spring of 2011. I’m so happy with how it’s come along, and the fulfillment I’ve gotten from writing and drawing Of The Fittest has reached a level I never would have imagined when I started.
Because of that, this comic has become a necessary outlet for me, something that I feel is essential to my creative sanity. That said, creating a self-imposed twice-weekly deadline was a fun challenge, but it sometimes brought a level of stress and anxiety that now seems a bit silly to me considering this is something I’ve been doing purely for the fun and satisfaction of it. Now that I’ve reached this first milestone, I’m going to ease up on the artificial time limits and take my time to create something I can continue to be very proud of. So from here on out, I’ll be uploading comics whenever I please, which may be twice during some weeks, once during others, or sometimes not at all.
I look at this as a positive thing, as it allows me to do some things that I haven’t felt like I’ve had time to do. One of those things is working on improving my artistic skills and drawing ability. I would really like to practice so that my art continues to improve and never has to be rushed. This will also allow me to work on some more difficult, complex, and/or longer strips if I come up with them. It may even let me write better stories and jokes. And it will certainly give me the opportunity to work on other projects I’ve been neglecting—musical projects in particular, but also an OTF book and some other merchandise.
And so I thank you, oh loyal reader, for joining me in the journey of my first year as a webcomic artist. I appreciate your feedback and laughter as I’ve created what was, quite honestly, something of a dream of mine. Although I’ll likely take a quick break right now, there are still many more laughs (and surely many exasperated groans) to be shared going forward. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to subscribe via RSS or Email so you always know the moment a new comic is up. In the meantime, browse through the archives and rediscover the sheer number of awful puns I’ve managed to commit to cartoonland. Whatever you do, please don’t leave me–I’m fragile and desperate for your approval.
Godspeed,
-Evan
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It has been brought to my attention that Thok has somehow managed to start his own Twitter account despite both his better judgement and his usual inability to plug a cable into a computer without breaking it.
The Twitter universe is all downhill from here: @ThokTweets
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Now that the comic has been up and running for a couple months, you might have come across one or two that stuck out as your favorites.
Be sure to use the “share” button to spread them everywhere like an infectious rash (but even funnier than a rash) whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter, your blog, or whatever. I’ve been getting great traffic from Stumbleupon, so all stumbling submissions are much appreciated.
Seriously. Do it. I triple dog dare you to.
While you’re at it, tell me which comics are your faves so far!
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