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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
8:18 pm	Screw you, Creepo. I haven't got much news to report. The comics still plugging along slowly. I smashed up my hand pretty good at work last week, so that's kind of an excuse. But anyhoo. Since there's no real news I'm just going to show off some artwork I had lying around. Ready? Couple months back I got me some of those Copic markers. I can't really use em too good, colour's not my thing. I got a grey one though, so all FFFA books from now on will have the grey tones. Reprints too. Sweet. This is a sketch Haydes did while we were sitting at the bar gettin' our drink on. I snitched it cos it was so rad. I thought I had a bunch more of Haydes's bar art, but I seem to have lost them. Haydes does his best work when he's half cut. These are those sketches I'm doing for that fella whose doing the sprite for the RPG. You like? Ok, I love ya, bye bye. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
8:13 pm	Dave found alive and well. Caught up with Dave on the weekend. He handed over four more pages for the Bob story and as an extra bonus he gave me three pages of Captain Crab. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned Captain Crab before, but it’s a story Dave’s brother Leigh has been working on for a while. It’s a pretty rad little story about a crab super-hero who has beaten all the super-villains so he turns to the bottle. Once Dave finishes it up I’ll stick it on the website for all to gaze on in stupification. And over on the RPG front, I’ve got this dude who’s a rad pixel artist doing the basic character sprite in exchange for some sketches I’m doing for him. If anyone’s ever tried doing pixel art they’ll know that it’s a massive head fuck. But once I’ve got this sprite I should be able to edit it to make all the clothes and crap for the characters. I’ll post it once it’s done. That’s all for now. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
7:58 pm	In the name of science. Since there's not much happening on the comic book front, I decided to do a little science experiment. I GREW A DINOSAUR!!!! Seriously, I did. I'm that clever. Check it out. HOW I GREW A DINOSAUR. This is how looked when I started. I believe it's some sort of Ankylosaur. That card beneath it says that it grows 600% bigger, but 600% bigger than pretty fuckin' small is still pretty fuckin' small. I put that twenty cent piece in so you can get an impression of the scale of the thing. The first step was to put the little guy in water. So I did. On the back of that little card from the first picture it says it takes three days for the bastard to grow to full size. Three days! I'm so dedicated to science. The next day I took this picture. You can't really tell, but it has grown. It was about this point that I got bored with the whole thing so there's no more pictures of it growing. I'm not that dedicated to science. Probably a good thing I stopped taking pics cos I suck hard at it. Finally! That's not trick photography or some clever Photoshop bullshit, it's fucking huge! And that's the same twenty cents as the first pic, but that didn't grow or shrink or anything. Kinda disapointed in the coins performance. I don't know what that tiny dino's made of but I think everything should be made out of it. Everything. So that's how I grew a dinosaur, and why issue three isn't out yet. (Comment on this)
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
9:16 pm	Interesting concept... Kinda took the week off from drawing the comic book last week cos I got the first season of ALF, and I had to watch it before I did anything else. ALF was one of my favourite shows when I was a kid, and I just had to get the DVDs when I found out about them. I had this kind of dread in the back of my mind that the show might suck because I hadn't seen it since I was about eight or whatever, and over time peoples tastes tend to change. But lucky for me my tastes haven't seemed to have changed since 1987, and the show absolutley fuckin' rocks super ass. Love it. I got the first season of the ALF Animated Adventures as well. That cartoon is really weird. It's set back on Melmac about a hundred years before ALF crashes into the Tanner garage. It also has another of my favourite theme songs. Haim Saban and Shuki Levy seem to have done just about all of the raddest themes for 80s cartoons. They did He-Man, and Ulysses 31, and Saban did Samurai Pizza Cats, MASK, Dino Riders, Dino-Suacers, and many more, they're just the ones I can remember right now. I also got the first season of Fraggle Rock too. So go teach your grandma to bite wind. (Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2007
5:28 am	Ugh! It's time once again to face the nightmare-Hell-toilet that is the working week. Fun fun fun. Couple of news items to report: First. Dave's officially MIA at this point. I don't know if his phone's busted, or something terrible has happened to him, or maybe I just said something really mean to him last time I saw him and I was to drunk to remember. It happens a lot. But since he's got the next three pages of the web comic, I'm going to put that project on hold for the time being. That doesn't mean we're going to stop making it. It just means I'm not going to put up anymore pages until we have a bunch of stuff finished, and then once again try for that elusive weekly release. Second. A while back I told you about the MUD (Multi User Dungeon) game I was making for the FFFA universe. Thing is, the game building program was kinda hard to use, and I fucked it up, then the support website up and disapeared so I was left hanging with a game full of bugs. Good news is I found a new game building program with an active support community, and this one has pictures. So I 'll be plugging away at that pretty soon. Should be pretty cool, and I also know a fair few ways NOT to make an RPG now, so here's hoping. Be good. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 6th, 2007
7:35 pm	OMG! TMNT! WTF? I saw the new Ninja Turtles movie the other other day, which they've decided to call TMNT. It's not only the best Turtles movie ever but maybe even the best movie ever. Ever. It's seriously that good. It's so good in fact that even Leo is cool in this one! Hard to believe I know, but it's true. I don't know if this movie is following the continuity of the current cartoon series or what, but it's set when the bros are a bit older. I'm not even entirely sure they're even teenagers anymore, in the new movie that is. In this one they've already kicked the Shredder's ass, and I've heard a lot of people complain that Shredder's not in this one, but let me tell you, Shredder isn't the only villain in the TMNT universe. It's like the Aliens franchise, y'know you can have an Aliens movie without Sigourney fucking Weaver in it. C'mon you guys! And the new villains are so fucking rad I'm all like, "Shredder who?" Anyway. The TMNT movie is balls to the wall fucking awesome. The characterization of the bros is so spot on it almost hurts. Like I said Leo is cool. They've got him being the most ninjery of the four, and not just whinging like Chucky from Rugrats saying "I don't think this is a good idea, you guys," even though he does say shit like that from time to time. Donny and Mike, who are bit players - let's face it - in the whole Turtles milieu, have day jobs which are funny as fuck. And Raph, my boy, he's kicking more ass than ever and kicking it harder. The showdown between Raph and Leo is so fucking rad I need to see it again. It's been a long time coming, since basically it's the main plot device from the first movie and the new cartoon. And it probably drove the earlier issues of the comic book, even though I have read them it was about twelve years ago so I can't remember all that much from them. I think it even gives a nod to Batman Begins, though I could be wrong, because I was in Turtle heaven the whole time the movie was playing, and the mind can play tricks when you're in Turtle heaven. You know what I'm talking about. In conclusion: TMNT possibly the best movie ever. I'm going to see it again, and get all the toys, and get on DVD before and after it comes out. I think everyone who's ever had even a vague interest in the Turtles needs to see it, or forever be teased. I love being a turtle. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
11:14 pm	I got nuthin! The Drop Kick Murphys played last night, and I went and watched ‘em. Great fun, but I can’t help feeling that I could’ve saved a lot of money, and would’ve had about the same experience, if I’d just got a slab and chucked on a few of their CDs and got wasted. What I’m trying to say is I don’t really remember too much of the show but getting out amongst it and seeing a live band is never a bad thing. Unless the band sucks hairy ones. Issue three is pumping along quite nicely right now. It’s gonna be 24 pages long so no back up this go round. I’ve already got twelve pages and the cover penciled, and I seem to be squeezing out about three or four pages a week at the moment so I’d say this ones about four to six weeks away from release. Some cool stuff in this one. There’s an orgy scene, and the most vicious pistol whipping I’ve ever drawn, and a fair bit of gun play which is always fun to draw. Some other things I’ve got to report is I’ve written the Uncle War Hero Gerbil’s War Story story, which I’ve renamed Eye For An Eye (I4NI). Sweet little tale about how Unc lost his eye in the war. Lots of swearing, rudeness, and violence in that one. Also started writing Funny Furry Friends Adventures: The Musical. I’ll be drawing the Musical and Dave ‘Dancing with him self’ Jarvis is gonna do I4NI. I really want to get one or both of those issues done before the Doujicon-Z which is on July 24, I believe, at the Monash Caulfeild campus. What is Doujicon-Z? It’s a convention for self published comics and books and stuff. Doujinishi is the Japanese word self published. Here’s a link to a thing on the Pulp Faction forums with more info on it. http://forums.pulpfaction.net/viewtopic.php?t=2705 Another link to comic creator interviews from the forums. Fanboy Radio is rad I highly recommend it. If you’re into that kind of shit. I am. http://forums.pulpfaction.net/viewtopic.php?t=2716 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
11:01 pm	80s Cartoons and Chin Dildos!! My friends Tales, and Rinny gave me a belated birthday present on Monday. The first was the complete collection of Ulysses 31. The second a chin dildo. Now that’s not a chin-shaped dildo, but a strap-on that straps on to the chin. While I was all to happy to accept the cartoons, I just couldn’t bring myself to take the chin strap home. Besides my elbow dildo would probably get jealous. Some of you may remember Ulysses 31 from when it was on the ABC in the 80s. It’s loosely based on that old Greek story about Ulysses having to get home before his wife marries another dude, but it has robots, and sword-laser guns, and other cool as fuck stuff. Also has one of the top three all time greatest theme songs ever. There’s twenty six episodes in all, and I’m having a hard time getting through them. For some reason I can only watch about one episode before I fall asleep, and not cos they’re boring. I have the same problem with the Muppets, and Fraggle Rock which I love more than life. They just make me sleepy. The next Bob page is inked and ready to roll. Just need to slap a dash of colour on it. I’ll put it up in the next couple of days. I also bought the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! game for the Nintendo DS off of Ebay. So in about 18 months when it gets here I’ll be otherwise engaged until I finish it, or get stuck and don’t want to play it any more. So issue 3 and the web comic may experience some delays around this time. That’s it for now. More later. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
10:28 pm	Mutants, aliens, toads beware! I was trawling the Parkdale Op Shop for babes this afternoon, but I found the Bucky O'Hare movie on vhs instead. I was fuckin' PSYCHED! I have vague recollections of Bucky O'Hare being a comic book like seriously fuckin' years ago. I also have vague recollections of watching the cartoon when I was about fifteen, and I remember thinking it sucked. One thing I knew for a fact is Bucky O'Hare has one of the rockinest theme songs of all time. I still know that cos I watched the tape today, so ner. Turns out that in the closing credits Neal Adams, and Larry Hamma get credited for doing something or other, and Continuity Studios had something to do with the cartoon. So this backs up my brain fart that Bucky was at some time a comic book cos Adams and Hamma are comic book guys. And Continuity was a comic book company in the late 80's early 90's. And just for future reference: the cartoon does suck. It's really stupid and it doesn't look that good. Rad theme song though. Did I say that already? Another thing. It's not even a movie. It's just the first three episodes of the series. Three fairly sucky episodes at that. It's not all bad though. The cover's pretty cool. I think its a bootleg though. Check it out. Luckily it didn't cost me $22, it only cost a buck fiffty. I think I was over charged about a buck. Rockin' theme song. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
10:17 pm	Having a cold sucks! So I got this really fuckin' bad cold the other day, and I couldn't go out boozing over the weekend. The upshot being I stayed in and drew two more pages of issue three, and finished inking, and colouring page nine of the Bob story. And I watched about ten thousand and sixty forty three DVDs. And you shouldn't start sentences with and. One thing I found out though is that my head is completely filled with snot, and nothing else. It must be cos there's no other way to explain the amount of mucus that's poured out of me over the last couple of days. Anyway. A while back I was showing off some old art work that I've done, but since I'm fairly severely brain damaged from years of alcohol abuse I forgot all about it. But the other day I remembered, so here's some more. The cooler kids in school may remeber a few years back - probably about ten by now - I did a comic book went by the name of Riot Squad. I only every released two issues cos I only ever finished two issues, but I found the first three pages of issue three, which I now present for your consideration. The story was really stupid, see these two punkers were getting chased all 'round London by the Tooth Fairy, who's the guy on the left in panel two. The guy on the right in panel two is another fairy, but he's got a gun, and his name's Turnips. Here we have our two heroes sitting some where recapping the previous two issues. That dude in panel two is Cluade Hopper, he was s'posed to turn into a monster later in the series. Like I said the story was stupid. That guy the police have is Jesus. Check out the cop uniforms they're almost exactly the same as the FFFA cop uniforms. That skeleton guy in the trench coat is Jack the Ripper who got reincarnated in issue two. That chick's a whore and Jack's gonna kill her. The nun is Satan I think, and those three guys are werewolves. Like I said the story was stupid. Hey page 9 of Bob is up. Yes it is. http://geocities.com/fffastories/bob9.html Next: Bob finishes up the story of his fucked up date. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
11:33 pm	Sucks when you can't think of a subject line. I finally got round to finishing up the colours on page 8 of the Bubonic Bob story. But I still managed to mess it up. I forgot to colour in Larry's eye lids on panel 7. But that's just how it goes sometimes. You're gonna have to learn to live with it and move on. How rad's Haydes's pencils though. Rad is how. I penciled another page for issue 3 because I'm a penciling machine, baby! Next for bob, we see just how fucked up his date was. Be there. http://geocities.com/fffastories/bob8.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
11:22 pm	I fucked up! I just spent the last five hours colouring page 8 of the Bob story then some how managed to save the first half twice and not save the second half at all. So before I try and re-enact one of my favourite scenes from Nightmare On Elm Street 3, and smash my stupid head through the computer screen, I'm gonna leave it alone and have another go at colouring it tomorrow. Or next year. Now I feel as stupid as I look. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
9:52 pm	Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it? NO SENSEI!!!!! Man those Kobra Kai are dicks. Just finished up another page of pencils for issue 3. Looks pretty snaz. Still haven't coloured that page of Haydes's work. But I have an excuse. See after a heroic stint of binge drinking which roughly coincided with my birthday, I had a hang-over that could kill a Stink Moose, then I had to work a whole bunch. Plus I forgot. Then I couldn't be bothered. So there. Thanks to every one who got drunk with me during that previously mentioned period of excess. You know who you are. Wow, I don't think I swore in this whole post. Does dicks count as a swear? Next time. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 16th, 2007
8:27 pm	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!! Yeah that's right, buddy. It's a year to the day that the very first issue of Funny Furry Friends Adventures was released. Fuck yeah! Seeing as how the book's only one year old it's pointless having a party for it. You know like those parents have parties for their one year old kid, and the baby's got half of fuck all of an idea of what's going on and wont remember shit anyway. And I'm pretty sure paper doesn't give a fuck about much either. While I'm here I want to thank everyone who has bought, stole, used as poo paper, or even just read the damn thing. And special thanks to Dave "this one's for the ladies" Jarvis, and Haydes "it was like that when I got here" Smith for all their help with the drawing and stuff. Well I said no party but if the pub's still open when I finish work tonight I'm gonna drink until the sons o' bitches kick me out. Then I'm gonna drink some more. Cos I roll like that G. Maybe next year we'll get three issues out. Unfuckinglikely. Cheers. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
12:09 am	Who is your daddy, and what does he do? You fucks really gotta see the pages I got off of Haydes a couple days ago. I just finished inking page 8 of the Bob story and it looks so damn good. Do you guys realize how lucky you are getting this shit for free? You should be paying big bucks for this stuff. It's a good thing me and the lads have such good fuckin' natures or youse'd be in big trouble. All's I gotta do now is slap some some colour on that bad boy so you can see it. Easy Haydes's best work so far. I mean it. These three pages are better than the other three pages. I had a look over my blog the other day and I noticed that I post about once every seven years. I remember that I originally said I'd be posting weekly updates, but I rarely do enough work on the comic book to be able to keep up such high out put. So from now on I reckon I'll post about once a week whether I've got something to say or not. Only problem is the posts will end up being non sense making word piles like this one surely is. What? One more thing before I go: I'd just like to pay tribute to the recently deceased, Anna Nicole Smith. Now most people only know her from the media circus her life became after she started fucking that dead guy. Of course this lead to her becoming a big fatty pill-popping booze hound, which gained her more negative press coverage. Then you know she dropped all that weight and was a skinny boozed up doper. I would like to remind you people that before all this she was an accomplished stroke-mag model, and a soft porn movie star. That's how I think she'd like to be remembered. Anna Nicole, you will be missed. (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
8:44 pm	Long time between drinks. Australia Day it was, so we decided it was good a time as any to play-test the official FFFA drinking game. Here's how it went down. We held the event at Pia and Eccles's backyard which is the perfect arena for these types of shenanigans. We had two boxes of goon for ammo, a whole bunch of shot glasses to slug the goon out of, and six hard drinking scumbags ready to throw down and throw up. We couldn't start straight away though cos we had to wait an hour for Tales to show up. Tales was across the road at the pub getting loaded, and I must say that turning up to a drinking game session plastered shows a high level of dedication to getting pissed up. It brings a tear to the eye I tells ya. I'm so proud of the little scamp. So eventually Tales turns up with a skin full, and it was on. Along with me and Tales there was Eccles, Shay, Benny, and Clarky. Heavy drinkers all. In the game there's six characters -three each from issues one and two- so obviously we got one each. The first few rounds were kind of slow as the fellas got their heads around the game system. They also all attacked me as some kind of evil warm up. This resulted in me having to do about fifteen shots of wine in about a ten minute period, with a hefty seven shots in a row to end it all which had me threatening to vomit. That's when we decided that a bucket on hand would be a grand idea. So after those evil fucks had KO'd my character -which mercifully let me sit a round out- they'd pretty much figured out the game and started in on each other. The pace picked up and so did the sinking of shots. Shay was next on the list for persecution and took a shit load of shots which resulted in a fine display spewing into a bucket. There's also Special Cards in the game which have many different uses. They can be good or bad, either boosting your stats, or forcing you to do a bunch of shots. Just the luck of the draw really. When designing the game I thought the Special Cards would be used a lot more than they turned out to be. See what happened was after a few rounds and quite a few shots each the game descended into a big slugfest with everyone basically attacking the person who just attacked them. Cos booze don't help you strategize none too good. Hear? And then everything went black. I thought I'd passed out mid game, cos the next thing I remember the game was all packed up and some of the players were M.I.A. Turns out I didn't puss it, but it does seem that my brain chose to erase the best parts of the evening. From what I hear everyone involved covered themselves in shame. Like a convict in solitary smearing shit all over his body. Which funnily enough actually happened that night. Wont say who did it though. You figure it out, the clues are all there. So yeah. The game rocks. It's captures the mean-spirit of the comics really well. You can really fuck people up, especially if you gang up on them. Also the character cards have special powers and attributes which actually gets the player to start acting like their character. Which is weird, huh? Now all that's needed is to do all the finished artwork, and crap like that, and get the game printed up so you at home can enjoy throwing up in buckets, and falling over as much as wee did. Cheers. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
2:10 am	Tales of Bubonic Bob: page 7. It's late. http://www.geocities.com/fffastories/bob7.html (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
11:48 pm	Need an excuse to get drunk? On the very first post of this blog I stated that I had a drinking game almost ready for play testing. I wasn't lying, it was nearly ready. There was just a few bugs left to sort out so that the game could be played by non-geeks and drunk-as-fuck people alike. The problem was, I was too close to the project. I needed to take a deep breath, and take a step back so I could come at it from a new angle. And that's what I did, a year later. Well not exactly year but close enough for people who don't know how to read calendars to thinks so. But anyway I just now finished up with all the game cards and rules and crap like that and now the drinking game IS ready for play testing. Now I just gotta organize some unwitting bastards to play it with me to see if it's any fun. I was thinking of calling it: Booze Brawl - The Official Funny Furry Friends Drinking Game. My reasoning being that the longer and harder to say the tittle is, the funnier it is. We've all got our own problems. On a side note: I was watching Transformers the Movie the other day while I was drawing. My two favourite parts of that movie are when Spike says "shit", because he says shit, and when Starscream gets blown to all fuck by Galvatron. That's my most favouritest bit because ever since my early child hood Starscream's voice has annoyed the living piss out of me. It's so satisfying when Galvatron turns into a cannon and gives him what for. That got me to thinking about the new Transformers movie. I've seen a preview and it looks fucking awesome. It really does. But I'm more than a little worried about what they're going to do with the story. About 90 percent of what goes on in the cartoon just wont fly in a live action joint. For me, one of the most charming thing about the Transformers was the animators 'fuck scale' attitude. Like how does a fifty foot tall robot turn into a jam box, a normal everyday sized jam box? And how the fuck can Devastator stand up inside Astrotrain when minutes before he was almost as big as Autobot city. Were the animators or writers just lazy, or did they think that kids wouldn't notice that shit? Or does that kind of stuff just make sense in Japan? Either way I fuckin' love it. But in a live action movie if you're asking the audience to suspend their disbelief enough to buy giant robots that turn into cars or what ever, I think you'd be pushing shit up hill if you wanted them to believe that a giant robot could turn into a pistol. And then you gotta fast forward twenty years. Do people even use jam boxes any more? Would Soundwave be an MP3 player or something? In the end it doesn't matter which characters are in the film or what they now transform into, and it doesn't even matter if the story sucks smelly vaginas. All that matters is it looks so rad you'll piss all over yourself and who ever's sitting next to you when you see that first car change into a big fuck off robot. That's what counts. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
9:45 pm	Bob page 6. I just watched a bunch of Masters of the Universe episodes, and some thing struck me funny. Apart from how much of a do-nothing wanker Man-at-Arms is, I realized that Castle Gray Skull is green. What's that about? And why has it taken me 23 years to figure this shit out? And another thing. For a while now I've been telling any one who'll listen just how much of a piece of shit Myspace is. I always thought that I'd never get myself a Myspace page because of how much cock Myspace guzzles, and because it was essentially pointless since I'm using Livejournal for my blogging needs. But then I thought what the fuck. Why not get a Myspace page, maybe get some traffic going to my website or whatever. So I did. And what a big fucking mistake that was. I spent about two hours fucking around with that shit and got absolutely no where. It has to be the most user non-friendly site I've ever seen. And all the shit about not putting up anything that might be offensive. What a load of shit. I don't exactly know where Livejournal stands on the offensive material issue, but they've got fuck in the spell checker, so I'm guessing my colourful language isn't going to get them pissy at me. So I take back what I said earlier. Myspace isn't a piece of shit. It's a grinding pain in the cunt. As a tribute to that little rant, here's a character sketch that I did for a buddy who's making a cartoon. Enjoy. Bob page 6: http://geocities.com/fffastories/bob6.html Next, Larry and Goober are back! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
8:32 pm	I finally finished the script for #3! Just like last time the script for this one was a real struggle to get done. After the last one took so long to do I really wanted to get this script finished before I finished drawing the last on, but as always, I didn't. Because this one took so damn long to write, and I was concentrating on scenes with long periods between doing the last I'd kind of forget what the other scenes were like. So as I was writing it I'd be thinking, "this one isn't as funny as the other two," or, "this one isn't as violent," or, "this one isn't as gross". Then when I read the entire thing I realized that this one is easily the most violent, and probably the most disturbing, though maybe not quite as funny as the previous books. Even though I don't actually try to make each issue grosser or ruder than the others it seems to be happening. All I can say is the story gets what the story wants. I must admit it is fun seeing how far I can push it before I get in trouble for making this awful shit. I'm probably far from it yet but if I keep pushing the envelope who knows. Although for that to happen some one has to actually read the fuckin' book. Am I right? Ok here's some more art that has nuttin' to do with nuttin' that I did years ago. A million years ago when I was a teenager and I got my first tattoo, I thought I might like to be a tattooist, but I've more chance of becoming the dictator of a small South American country than that ever happening. Anyways these are some tattoo style drawings I did at the time. I'll try and get a new Bob page up this weekend. Keep it sleazy. (Comment on this)