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I'll be adding more names as I discover them, as well as accepting suggestions from all of you. Bear in mind, however, that the best band names are things that you happen to hear or say by chance. Don't sit down and try to think of names--the best ones have a story behind them.

If you form a band with one of these names, or someone you know does, or you find out about one, let me know so I can add a note.

That said... the list. [Newish items marked with a star.]

Acidic Juice
Agile Beaver
Anne Points [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
The Automatic Emergency Defibrillators
Barbara Cannot be Ignoble
Bouncers and Goat Cheese
Box of Surprise [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Cap'n Ahab 'n' the Whalers [From Ben, 11-26-05]
Casual Wombat [From *amberfoxwing, 11-30-05]
Caveman Bozo
Cell Phone Terrorists
Diseased Armadillo [From *amberfoxwing, 12-19-05]
Drawing Naked People
Dr. Kevorkian and the Nuclear Sex Toys [From Ben, 11-26-05]
Dream-Jesus
Dying Geriatrics
The Edge of Fancy
Educated Eggdicator
Enough About Skanks...
Female Samurai
Feminine Daze
Firewood ICE
Fish Comma Giant [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Flaming Pants
Floral Authority
Forks Leak
Freakbox
Frostbite Lawsuit
Full-Fledged Resident Nudist
Garlic Naan
Gaseous Pope
Graphite Fornication
Hellhouse Temple
Herpes Comma Oral [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Horizontal Icicle
Icing Flowur
Indistinct [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
The Infibulators
Jacket of Shame [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Jurassic Monotony
The Juvenile Urbanites
Katie's Wednesday
K-hat and Q-bar
Knots and Rickles
Lacy Jeans
Laudable Peon [From ~strwberrySHORTcake, 12-2-05]
The Last Moments of Waking
Lesbians in Eden
Limbo Like a Lizard
Liquid Burger
Lobotomy Maiden [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Lupine Delinquency
Morbid Fruit
My Funniest Jesus Experience
Mythical Biscuits [From ~silvermoonlight55555, 5-16-06]
Negatory Blue [11-12-06]
New and Improved Cobra
Nomad Gonad
Nuclear Mermaid
Ostentatious Salamander
The Overly Caffeinated Locusts
Pajama Pants of Innocence [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Pantslap
The Perfect Ankles
Pink Argyle Sweatervest [From *amberfoxwing, 11-30-05]
Plastic Pumpkins [From *amberfoxwing, 5-14-06]
Pubic Access [From Paul, 11-26-05]
Pulsating Shoe
Psychotic Dreamworld
Purple Duck Snorts
Red Cheetah
Rights to Cloth
Rusty Staples
The Salubrious Hyenas
The Same, Half an Hour Later
Sexual Bankruptcy
Slabs of Shakespeare
Slap Your Whiskers
Spiritual Bingo
Sunglasses of Tourism [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Tastes Like Awesome
Tell it Slant [~astonishme's favorite]
Thompson is Tardy
Twisted Cubic
Uncle Peanut
Unusual Discharge [From ~RuseOfPoison, 5-4-06]
The Wealthy Hippies
Whimsical Doughnuts
Who's Denny?
World's Dumbest Virgin [From ~astonishme, 9-13-06]
Zamboni Monopoly [11-12-06]

]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3907524/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3907524/ Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:26:31 PST
Time for an art update. The only thing currently in progress is my sketch of Salgrus, which I'm currently trying to trace and color in Illustrator. Yeah, I know... look, at some point I'll draw a character who isn't Salgrus. I promise. For instance, I still need to draw that dragon for ~silvermoonlight55555. Soon, I promise. After that, since I recently introduced my character Kuna from Avistasis (~amberfoxwing knows whom I'm talking about) on an RP board elsewhere, I should probably post a drawing of her here.

And after that... well, I'd really like to get started on one of my comic ideas. But which one? Well, my idea was to draw the first few strips of each one--sort of a "pilot episode," if you will. That way, I can find out A) which of my comics are the most fun to actually draw and B) which ones people like the most. I've already done this with my series about Scotthew and Alacrity, which I'm tentatively calling omgwtflol.

And now, because my need to share my cleverness with the world can't wait that long, and because it didn't seem worthy of an actual deviation submission, I give you...

***

Ten Sad Truths of Gaming

1. The only one who wants to hear stories about your character... is you.
2. It is physically, temporally, and philosophically impossible for five or more people to find a time when they can all reliably show up at a gaming session every week.
3. If you game long enough, this will stop being true, because you will have no life.
4. You will roll your eyes at old-timers who complain that older editions were better and that the new ones are a ploy to get more of gamers’ money, right up until the moment they release a new edition of a game you’re currently playing, at which point you will become one of them. You will still go out and buy all of the updated materials anyway, you worthless corporate whore, you.
5. Each additional supplement you buy only decreases the chance that you will actually use any given rule in any one of them.
6. If you hold enough gaming sessions at your house, then at a certain point your mother will stop offering to make cookies for you and your friends and start asking when you’ll move out of the basement.
7. I lied in the previous sad truth. You have no friends.
8. You will always run out of snacks. Always.
9. Your DM is a spiteful, bitter person with an unfulfilling personal life. So are you, actually, but the difference is that he’s the one with the power to take out his anger on you in-game.
10. You might think that my use of “he” in the previous sad truth is politically incorrect, but I actually used it because your DM is, and always will be, male.

***

Dude, I should totally put this on a T-shirt.

Okay, that's it for now. Stay tuned till next time for Ten Sad Truths of Musical Theater.



...oh, you think I'm kidding, do you? ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3688707/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3688707/ Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:59:59 PDT
Well, this is sort of annoying. Okay, people who have been following my dA site for a while might remember that for some time now I've been working (occasionally) on a comic in the form of a documentary about a bunch of washed-up fantasy adventurers (a la "This is Spinal Tap"). However, I've learned that there's a new TV show premiering tonight, Drawn Together, with a very similar premise: a "reality show" about what are basically stock characters from different genres of animation. Okay, it's not exactly the same, but now I worry that if I ever do start And Cut!, everyone will assume that I'm ripping off Comedy Central's idea. Ah well.

Still, I'll probably end up watching the show, because it looks like it just might be funny. The overall concept is a real winner, at any rate. Everything depends on execution, as they say.

Oh, and there is a fantasy-RPG-type-character on Drawn Together, but he's, well, nothing like any of the characters in my comic. So at least I'm acquitted of precognitive plagiarism on that count.

(I'm plagiarizing the term "precognitive plagiarism," by the way, from Arthur C. Clarke, who worried that people would assume that he stole the ending of 3001 from the movie "Independence Day.")

And It's Walky! is over. How sad. ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3288405/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3288405/ Sat, 04 Sep 2004 21:11:53 PDT
No, wait, I'm not. I have other stuff I actually need to do, which is why I was on deviantArt all evening in the first place.

Dyemmit! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3264514/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3264514/ Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:28:42 PDT
Well, I'm back, and here I'll stay for the foreseeable future. However, I find myself suddenly swamped with... well, everything. Don't worry--it's not enough to seriously stress me out, but I am going to need to spend some more time putting out fires before I can get back into the art groove. *sighs* Best of luck for the year to all of you who are starting school or college again this fall! ^^ *dashes off* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3175471/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3175471/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:06:58 PDT ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3126847/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/3126847/ Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:48:53 PDT
So the winner, who guessed 234 deviations, is... *drum roll* ...~ silvermoonlight55555! ...again. How does she do it? I swear, Rosie, you must be psychic or something. I mean, really. Okay, I now owe you two drawings, then.

The rest of you, take notes! Here's a girl who knows what she's doing.

Maybe I'll upload a deviation someday. Wouldn't that be new and different? ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2906554/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2906554/ Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:04:16 PDT
...I hope she gets fat.

Okay, folks, it's time for the Second Occasional RandomScribe MessagePool! (Henceforth known as the SORSMP.) That's right, you leave your guesses as to how many messages will be stuffed in my inbox when I return, and the person with the closest guess gets a nifty gift sketch of a subject of his or her choice! (Within reason.) The twist? This time, I'm going to be gone for a whole month! Well, close enough, anyway. I leave on Monday (that's July 19 for the calendar-impaired) and won't be back until August 14, so aim your guesses high: we're talking triple digits, folks! Or at least I pray we are. If I get back and have to slog through over a thousand messages, I'm going to cry.

Incidentally, I still owe Alex and Rosie their gift sketches. If you want to cash in on those, you two, talk to me once I get back! I can't get started until you tell me what to draw.

And hey, maybe I'll draw something while I'm gone! ...but don't count on it. *scampers off*

***

Note to self: Subtract the 14 deviations currently in my inbox from the total upon my return.

Note to everyone else: Happy Bemidji Day! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2742201/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2742201/ Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:22:26 PDT silvermoonlight55555 's prediction that I would receive 65 messages was the closest to the actual value of 60! (For those of you keeping score at home, that's one hot topic, eight comments, forty-three (!) deviations, and eight journal entries.) w00t!

To the rest of you, thanks for playing! And don't despair, because there will be two more MessagePools this summer. (I swear, it's like I don't even live here anymore...)

In other news, major kudos to ~ Merrwizard, who solved my fiendish little word puzzle! I'm going to be up to my ears in contest drawings if I don't watch myself... >.>

*dashes off to look at all those messages* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2691241/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2691241/ Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:19:07 PDT word puzzle... fortunately, this time around the process is much easier. ^^

Here's the plan. Starting Sunday I'm going to be away from my computer for a while. To enter the contest, simply post a reply to this entry guessing how many messages I'll have in my dA inbox when I get back on Saturday. The person with the closest guess gets a drawing of a subject of their choice. Simple enough, no?

I'd like to give you a range to base your guesses around, but the truth is I don't know how many messages I might get. Sometimes I'll go for a couple of days without anything, and then someone on my watchlist will go and upload a whole roll of film. So instead I'll give you this week's RandomScribe Watchlist Deviant... *drum roll*

~sevenofeleven! He's got some interesting abstract and science-fiction-y 3D renderings in his gallery, so go take a look. ^^

That is all. See you in a week or so! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2637896/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2637896/ Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:22:20 PDT
*Bilious! Her drawings are really awesome, and she's got some Discworld art too, so of course you have to go look at her gallery now. Yes, yes you do. ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2581650/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2581650/ Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:41:11 PDT --Sunday in the Park with George

Man, did Sondheim know what he was talking about: if it's not one thing, it's another! Now that I suddenly have enough time to seriously work on art, my computer decides to have a complete meltdown. This is the computer with PhotoShop Elements, the tablet, all my works in progress, and my scripts for comics, so it's kind of not good. Thankfully, it looks like something that can be fixed without losing any data, but until then I might have to resort to drawing stuff on paper and scanning it... if I can ever get that darn scanner to work.

So, moving right along to this weeks spotlighty thingy! *drum roll*

~thebadhotra! Check out his thought-provoking gallery of poetry and prose deviations. You'll be glad you did.

Is there anything else left to say? *wanders off* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2536357/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2536357/ Sat, 29 May 2004 14:24:53 PDT
I received a couple of pieces of art this week, in case you didn't notice them in my Favorites section. The first , a gift, is a painting by ~fleshpeeler of my character Salgrus and ~ aphrodite0666's character (named Aphrodite, unsurprisingly) in a scene from an RP at the Freelance Keep. The second is ~sniper3's half of our art trade: a picture of my lizardfolk character Makhai, who will appear in And Cut! if I ever get around to drawing it. >.>

Speaking of getting around to drawing, summer is beginning, so I'm going to have time to be doing requests and art trades again soon, if anybody's interested. If you are, just let me know. ^^

Which leaves my Random Deviant Spotlight Thingy. This week it goes to... *drum roll*

~Stalinismo, who is one of the few other people I know who has a hyena character! So check out her cartoons.

That wraps it up for now. So long! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2480949/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2480949/ Sat, 22 May 2004 00:37:08 PDT
Okay, I'm just gonna skip right to my little random spotlight feature, which goes to... *drum roll*

~5KY3! Her drawings are simply mind-blowing. The fact that she hasn't gotten more exposure on this site by now puzzles me to no end. I mean... really. So go look at her stuff!

Yeah, that's it for a while. *dashes off to hide from the police in a large crate* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2431084/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2431084/ Fri, 14 May 2004 22:23:13 PDT
So. First of all, my poem Building Blocks has been published in Daybreaks, my school's annual collection of art, poetry, and prose. It's sort of sad, though--mine was the only poem that wasn't written in free verse. I feel so unintellectual and plebeian.

There are a couple of people working on pictures for me, but I will force myself to be patient. Yes, yes I will.

Which leaves us with the Weekly Random Recommended Reading Spotlight. This week's winner is...

~blackpearleyes! If you check out her gallery, I suggest you start with her Storybook Confessions series. It is, to quote Teen Girl Squad, "Soooo good!"

(On a side note, how many of you actually look at my deviant spotlights? It's nice to think that I'm helping my friends and stalkees get a bit more exposure... ^^ )

And that does it! Till next time. *dashes off to collapse in an exhausted heap* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2377106/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2377106/ Fri, 07 May 2004 06:44:41 PDT
First off, sometime during the week I hit 1,000 pageviews! *dances* Also, I got another two devStalkers, which makes me very happy--now I have so many that they don't all appear on my main page! (To paraphrase Kafka from David Ives's "Words, Words, Words": It's the only way we know they're watching. We perform, we upload deviations, we type another journal entry--and a comment appears. At least it's a sign that somebody out there is paying attention.)

Also, I really like dA's new scrapbook feature. It's really ingenious, in a way--it improves the quality of deviations on the browsing pages not by imposing some arbitrary standard on everyone but by allowing each person to set their own standards. I approve. *stamp* The new today page is also worth a look, if you haven't already seen it. The only other change I've noticed is that clicking on a deviant's name now takes you directly to their gallery, although the avatar icon still links you to their main page. Still not sure whether this is a good thing or not, but at least it's nothing major.

Finally, this week's Random Spotlighted Person Whose Gallery You Should Really Look At is... *drum roll*

~Merrwizard and his fascinating photo-manipulations! My personal favorite of his so far is Special Delivery--if you're a fan of any Quentin Tarantino movies, you'll find it has sort of a familiar feel. He doesn't have way too many deviations just yet, so you have no excuse not to go look at them all! Go!

Is that all? (Did you dance? Was he charming? They say that he's charming.) Yeah... I guess that's all. Till next time! *dashes off to STUDY!* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2332799/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2332799/ Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:11:32 PDT
...a month which is about to start very soon. God help us.

So! I finally uploaded something! That brings me up to a grand total of 24 deviations, or one full gallery page. Unless, of course, you set your browser to view a different number of deviations at a time, in which case you're weird.

I don't have anything in the works just now, but I have a few ideas for drawings that I might start soon... not to mention the comic itself. (I'm going to stick with "And Cut!" as the title, by the way, since everyone seemed to like it.) I'm too busy to want to start any requests/art trades at the moment, but if you're interested talk to me in a few weeks. ^^

Well, that takes care of everything except, of course, the Random Deviant Spotlight. This week's deviant is... *drum roll*

`doobybrain! He's got some awesome photographs in his gallery, so be sure to check them out.

So long for another week or so! *dashes off to Beijing to find a dojo* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2290670/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2290670/ Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:25:30 PDT
Not much else to say, so: the target of this week's RandomScribe Friend Spotlight is... *drum roll*

~DazedCellist! Her short story/monologue "Most Noble is the Toad" is both well-written and thought-provoking. Read it!

Well, that's it for now! *dashes off to Monte Carlo* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2249889/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2249889/ Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:45:58 PDT sniper3 a description for his half of our art trade, so hopefully I'll be getting that soon... ^^

Random Spotlight time! This week's winner is...

...the ever-so-talented ~vickitty! Lots of cool stuff in her gallery, especially if you like furry comics. And check out her webcomic while you're at it!

Yeah, I think that covers it for now. *dashes off to find the Pajama Pants of Innocence* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2184188/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2184188/ Fri, 09 Apr 2004 06:52:23 PDT art trade with ~sniper3, but at least I'm fairly happy with how that turned out. I still need to tell him what to draw for his half, so...

Nobody's figured out my little word puzzle yet... must I remind you that the winner gets a sketch? If this keeps up, I might have to start giving hints...

In case you didn't already notice it in my Favorites list, I've also found a nifty little utility that scans your gallery page and generates an organized, easy-to-navigate summary of all your deviant statistics. If you're ever curious as to which deviation got the most comments or what time of day you most often upload, this is the program for you.

And finally, this week's lucky spotlighted Friend of RandomScribe is... *drum roll*

~fazzle, artist of all things cute and fuzzy! Fazzle's especially good at drawing canines, and is apparently going to start a comic soon, so keep an eye out for that. Tell 'em RandomScribe sent ya! Or don't, because that would be kind of weird.

Well, that wraps up this week's art report. Until next time! *dashes off to steal one of those little hotel desk bells* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2161210/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2161210/ Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:51:58 PDT
The puzzle goes something like this: the eight words clued below need to be placed in a 4x4 crossword grid. There are to be two blackened squares on the grid, and each letter is at the intersection of two words--one reading across and one reading down. The twist? I'm giving you the clues out of order. (The numbers in parentheses indicate number of letters.)

1. exclamation of dismay (4)
2. volleyball move (3)
3. flying mammal (3)
4. lavish event (4)
5. D-to-H linkup (3)
6. botch (4)
7. commandment (4)
8. corn unit (3)

*devilish grin* Enjoy! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2135164/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2135164/ Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:38:22 PST
But you have to admit, I got you pretty good.

I didn't get any art finished this week, but I hope to get some work done on that this weekend. I've also started learning Flash at school, and good grief is it ever FUN! For one thing, the vectorization means that I can draw really good-looking cartoons even with a mouse. It's really amazing. With enough time and effort, I might even be able to throw together a couple quick animations. Also, I've talked to ~ sniper3 about our art trade, so I should be able to get a start on that this weekend. Now all I need to do is figure out what to have him draw... >.>

And what would one of my weekly updates be without a Random Friend Spotlight? That's right--not as interesting! This week's lucky winner is... *drum roll*

~deeplycrashing! Yay! ^^ Her drawings have a comic-book style that I just love. Go, look at her gallery! Comment on her stuff! Pester her to start drawing a superhero comic!

Well, that's all for now. *dashes off to confiscate a typewriter from a monkey* ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2127894/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2127894/ Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:01:56 PST
*sighs*

Hey, everyone. This is kinda hard for me to talk about, but it needs to be said... you see, I haven't gotten any work done on my art this week--in a long time, actually. I just haven't been inspired to draw, and have been disappointed with what I have produced lately. I haven't told anyone, but it's really starting to depress me... and that's why I've decided it's for the best if I leave dA and give up on the art thing for good. I mean, it's not bringing me any satisfaction anymore, and if I'm honest with myself I probably won't be able to make a living drawing cartoons, so what's the point? I'm just wasting my time.

So I'd like to thank you all for your support during my short stay here at deviantArt. It's been grand knowing you. Fare thee well!

May the wind be always at your back,
--RandomScribe ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2088199/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2088199/ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:09:47 PST And without any guide,
You know what you decision is,
Which is not to decide."

I've reached a decision of sorts on the matter of webcomic hosting. I think I'll post the black-and-white comics here on dA to maybe get some more people interested, and then post them on Drunk Duck once they're colored. All that remains now is to actually start drawing. *sighs*

Art progress: the picture I mentioned I was working on last week is now about halfway done. And ~sniper3 still hasn't contacted me about our art trade... Snipey, where are you? My window of increased free time is rapidly approaching its end...

In other news, I seem to be the only one of my group of friends who hasn't posted one of those journal entries where you answer a huge list of personal questions. O.o

And this week's RandomScribe Deviant Spotlight winner is...

~Volkai! He hasn't amassed a very large gallery as of yet, but what's there is definitely worth a look. Many thanks for your plentiful comments and advice, Volkai! ^^ ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2055502/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2055502/ Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:31:51 PST
Okay, calling this art-related is stretching it a bit, but I couldn't resist sharing it with all of you. You see, I recently learned an interesting secret about newspapers, and today I decided to try it out for myself. So let's take a look at today's Arizona Republic (those of you also living in Arizona may follow along at home).

Okay, on the front page we have: an inside look at a hostage situation in an Arizona prison that resulted in a 15-day standoff, an article about a church trial that acquitted an openly gay Methodist pastor, a photograph of angry war demonstrators in Madrid, a human-interest piece about Arizonans spreading their loved ones' ashes in unusual places, and an article reporting that the Pakistani army may not have cornered Osama bin Laden or his lieutenant after all.

Now here's the secret: as any good newspaper editor knows, the headlines of every front page, when read in a counterclockwise fashion, should contain a limerick. So...

The standoff went on fifteen days,
They're clearing a pastor who's gay,
There's war demonstrations,
Creative cremations,
And bin Laden is still far away! ]]> ~RandomScribe http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2043808/ http://RandomScribe.deviantart.com/journal/2043808/ Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:42:28 PST
Anyways, my dilemma is this: if and when I start working on it, where should I host my comic strip? I’ve come up with a number of possibilities:

o Geocities and the like. I’m not willing (or able) to pay for web hosting for a comic at this point, but it would be easy to get a homepage on Geocities, as I already have a Yahoo account. I’d have to learn HTML, of course, but I don’t think that’ll be a problem. There are some other downsides, though—those pop-up ads, for one thing, and the limit on disk space: assuming an average file size of about 250 kb, I’d hit 15 megabytes after 60 comics—less than a year if I update twice a week. So I don’t know if it would be a very good long-term plan.

o KeenSpace. It’s free, it’s well-known, it has provisions for automatic updating and that nifty little navigation buttons and calendar. However, the servers are crash-prone and it’s apparently rather hard to use—~ amberfoxwing and ~ArekuWargTamer (authors of Kajekyuu) and ~kheetor84 (author of Across the Pond) all abandoned KS in favor of other sites. So again, I don’t know.

o Drunk Duck. Another free webcomic hosting site. It’s mostly an unknown at this point, since I don’t read any comics on it as of just yet (get working on Kajekyuu, you two!). However, I have been told it’s easier to use than KeenSpace. There’s also a commenting system automatically built in, but I figure I can get a forum at Talk About Comics wherever I end up, so that’s not really an issue.

o deviantArt. Surprisingly, dA didn’t occur to me as a viable place to host a webcomic until ~fleshpeeler (author of Phoenix Incarnate) elected to do so. And indeed, there are many advantages: uploading images is a breeze, my devstalkers would be automatically notified whenever I update, and I might attract a few more readers from people just browsing the site. And again, there’s a built-in venue for discussion. However, because I obviously can’t edit the site itself, putting a comic on dA would sort of limit the extent to which the page would really be “mine.” That’s really the only thing making me hesitate, but to me it’s a pretty big deal.

So anyway, I’d like to hear your opinions on this—that’s why I caved and decided to put up a journal entry, after all. To quote the Baker, “Any help at all...”

In other news, I’ve got one picture currently in progress, but don’t hold your breath—I’ve only drawn one of the eight characters in it so far, and that took me all of yesterday afternoon. It’s sad how perfectionistic I get when using my tablet, and half of the time I’m not as satisfied with the end result as I am with the stuff I draw by hand. Sigh. I’ve also got an art trade with ~sniper3 in the works, but he’s been busy and has yet to contact me about it. On a related note, the Infinite Art Trade is still in the conceptual phase at this point, but thank you for your interest.

And now, because I haven’t plugged my friends’ artwork enough yet, here’s the Random Deviant Spotlight of the Week, lovingly selected from my friends list by my calculator’s random-number function. This week’s winner is...

~silvermoonlight55555! Her poems are short in length and long in meaning. Be sure to take some time to reflect after reading them—there’s much more than meets the eye. And, as always, don’t forget to comment!

Well, that about wraps it up for now. Until next time! *dashes off to measure his ankles* ]]> ~RandomScribe