Well, now that there is some REAL talent involved in the competition over at the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, I’m going to knuckle down more and get ahead.

I spoke with Bob on the phone tonight… he mentioned that I’m crazy, and I could literally go for 10 years. He may be right.

I see I’ve entered the psyche of my fellow competitors, to the point where one decided to put someone he thinks looks like me in his first days strip. See here. I love it. That is fantastic. I’m flattered. I shouldnt even link him and send him any traffic, but honestly, I think it’s awesome. Touche’!

New DigitalStrips podcast is up. They mention Yirmumah and that they like it.

I’m glad they got rid of the radio sound effects. Sounds way better now. Check these guys out.

NOTE: The book and poster special ends today. You have until the end of the day to order. There may never be another one like it. Order Here.

~Comic Link~ It’s on! The Iron Man Challenge begins today. There are now 32 competitors, and a pot of 640 bucks. There may be a few more entrants by the end of the day.

I e-mailed Scott Kurtz yesterday and asked him to join up. I figured I needed some real competition over there. He made it in. Now, the amatuer hour smack talkers are shaking in their boots, but I know as well as any other well educated webcomics fan, that sometimes Scott is late. So this keeps him on his toes too.

Beyond taking all their money, that’s REALLY why I’m in this too. It keeps me on my toes and is something to look forward to. Nothing brings out the best in you like a good old fashioned competition. And this is the first time in a long time I’ve been excited about something that was going on in webcomics online. Seriously, there are a lot of talented people on there. And even for the guys who are complaining about “semi-pros” joining, this is the BEST thing for them. Hell, even in the LAST competition there were some published guys, etc…. Anyway, I plan on mocking people as they lose. But I’m only doing it for fun. And maybe it will inspire them to keep working so they don’t get mocked so bad. You know?

My prediction of course is, that I will win. No one has witnessed my obsession before so closely. Now it will be under a microscope.

Comic update. This is the very last chance for people to get the special deal. Click the banner while you can see it above the strip on the main page.

Book update for those who ordered. The books and posters are being shipped Monday. I won’t ever do a presale special again unless I have the books in my hands already. I hate making people wait, but I promise those who did order, I’m going to spend a whole day doing nothing but kick but art fot their orders. So there!

Lettering some comics and getting ready for the big contest starting tomorrow. The pot has grown to $580 bucks. Not too shabby. I haven’t decided how I want to spend that yet. Hopefully one more person will enter and make it a nice round 600 bucks. If not, Ithink it would be cool if everyone just tossed a buck in and made it a nice round number.

600 bucks could probably buy my dad a hell of a hooker.

So I was doing some smack talking for fun, in a forum clearly marked for smack talking. And obviously I hit nerves by calling everyone Kolchaka wannabe, art school dropouts. People immediately resorted to calling me real bad names and just trying to be mean. And I continued my charade of mockery.

Now, those that know me, know I’m just messing around. But I was immediately labeled an asshole. And thats fine with me I guess. They even made a POLL about Yirmumah needing to tone it down. IN a smack talking forum. Geez. Then a couple fruity guys wanted to have a nice pretty place where people cooperate and help one another and blah blah blah. Look, thats fine.

Hey, it’s just for fun. And obviously, these kids can’t hack it. So I won’t go there or link their forum anymore. Their loss. I’ve invited anyone from there who wants to have fun smack talking, to come to Yirmumahville.

I will however spend their money when I win it.

~Comic Link~: Finally, it’s the BIGFOOT & tiki show!

This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Just for my own enjoyment, but if you enjoy it too, even better. A quick story on this. I don’t get to get out much here, and I like it. I generally get annoyed by the locals in my area. Sometimes, I feel like a bigfoot here, and it occured to me, perhaps bigfoot just likes his privacy. — One day, I thought to myself, what would be the most absurd idea for a comic or sitcom…. a Bigfoot and a Tiki and they’re roommates. I remember Bob sitting here staring at me like I was stupid, and telling me it was one of the dumbest ideas he’d ever heard. At least he said that until I started spouting situations to him. What the characters might be like and the type of laid back humor I had in mind.

So BIGFOOT & tiki has sat on the shelf for awhile, and I thought I’d bring it out. This is especially cool to me, because I dig all things tiki. It’s not as in your face as regular Yirmumah strips, but I thought I’d bring these two to the Yirmumah fold in some way, so here they are. Love em or hate em, they’re BIGFOOT & tiki!

Here are some character sheets–

There are rumors floating around that he wrote his wife and on a secret message and said it was only for them. A final farewell and telling them how to go on. In some ways, I think suicide is just bad… it’s most definitly a lousy thing to leave your loved ones with. And, a most selfish act. But in Hunter’s case, damn, it seemed like he was happy and did it just to go the way he wanted to. You can read his wife’s complete run down of the day, it’s a good article. LINK

Only that guy could pull that off. And now they’re seriously going to blast his ashes into a canyon. Damn…

Suicide is never on my mind. I want to live to be a happy old, old man. I want all my friends to be around too. Hell, even the ones I’ve lost… it still sure feels like they are around me.

~Comic Link~ Those Gods are CRAZY. Crazy.

So, Monday the Iron Man Challenge begins. Who will be the first to fall?! Sure, we’re acting all cocky like and stutting our stuff… but seriously, there ARE a good many talented people involved, (and a few terribly bad ones) so be sure to check it out and judge for yourself. It’ll be fun.

I’ll probably forget all about it as time goes by, and then one day 480 something dollars is plopped in my lap along with hate letters from everyone.

I’m excited about tomorrow’s strip. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now. Even if people don’t get it, I don’t care. I did it because I wanted to.

We’re in. All paid up and sent all the requested info in. And there’s a nifty link to the official page right here on the blog to the upper right. Click it to follow all the losers. Of course, we will be winning this thing. Link to official site.

We’ve already made some enemies in the forum there. Geez… I can’t call them ALL Kolchaka wannabes… but there are a lot of what I would consider art school dropout comics. LINK: The official shit talking forums. And yeah, we’ll probably talk some smack. Hopefully everyone has a thick skin. So far, people are resorting to boring comebacks. It’s apparant that most of these fools think they’re too hip for the room. We were even called Penny Arcade clones AND PvP clones in the same thread… HUH?? Wha?? I don’t get that. I bet they thought it would affect me like it affects other people who are truly clones of something else— I think my Kolchaka wannabes remark touched a few nerves… hehehehe.. GOOD. May they crumble beneath our mighty Iron Hands!

Anyway, I love a good clean competition. They can say what they want about our strips. Our readership doesn’t lie! And we’ll keep working hard to feed the strips out. I have some big plans I can’t talk about right now until things are set.

Oh– only a few days left in the BOOK DEAL. So hit that link while its up above the strip to take advantage of the offer. Thanks.

A bunch of web cartoonists doing a Daily Grind Challenge. Everyone puts in 20 bucks, and who can go the longest without missing a mon-friday update.

It starts on Feb 28th. I’ve sent my e-mail in demanding to enter. You know I’d win… right? I can outdraw any man, for any amount of time. Mon-Fri updates are a BREEZE. So this would be fun, and money in the bank for me.

Hopefully they accept my challenge, it this is truly an IRON MAN challenge and not an IRON PUSSY challenge.

~Comic Link~ The awful truth, revealed!

I did almost accuse the real Bob of downloading porn on my computer. I saw “Digital Strip” in the download clean up screen in firefox.. then I realized it was for the Digital Strips podcast. D’oh! — But I couldn’t explain the MILF thing over the weekend.

Or…. could I!?

The Digital Strips guy have a new podcast up. Check it out.

Digital Strips : The Web Comics Podcast

These guys are doing this stuff all on their own, free and for the fun of it. So if you like reading webcomics, give a listen to this. It’s good insight from a readers point a view. – My only critique is, all the noises and zings and stuff, they could chill on that. Heh.. Reminds me of the SNL skit with the radio DJ… Still, it’s good solid talk on webcomics.

Hey, why not e-mail em and tell em to review Yirmumah??? Here’s their e-mail– digital.strips@gmail.com

Hook it up!

~Comic Link~ Ha! You thought yesterdays strip was bad… we always find a way to take it one step further away from good taste. Enjoy!

Thanks to our good friend James for sparking the idea.

Im just posting this in from my old blog. This blog is much easier to find things on. Enjoy. Someone should STILL do this shit…

COMICS NOW!

Another Innovative thought for the comics industry. Vending machines. That’s right. Vending machines. Picture it. You walk into Walmart and along the Coke and Pepsi, and those stupid crane machines, there’s a big glowing display that says – HEY KIDS! COMICS! – and it would stock all the best selling comics, as well as rotatint series.— These comics would be about a buck to two bucks a pop. Pretty much as low as it could go. Even if comics had to go back to newsprint, WHO CARES!!!–

There are plenty of ways that idea is impractical to the way a system is setup now. BUT– imagine if one of these hotshots who love comics so much, if they put some of their money into funding such an effort. Imagine selling vending routes out to already exisiting vending companies. Returns? Imagine a reship center or a free comics to schools program. – I mean, imagine this— Little tommy gets a couple free comics from the local library or school incentive program. Sure, it’s a back issue, but it’s an awesome story– boom, he loves it. The next time he’s at Walmart where these machines are, he notices that his favorite series is carried right there in that machine! Boom. Hooked.

And what of comic stores? Well hell, why wouldnt a local comic shop actually sponsor the machines in his area, on each book that came out of the machine, it could have his business card attached for his shop– This would solve so many problems. All you would need to implement this idea is a test area. A contract with some big companies to carry a couple flagship titles, AND perhaps some independents like Devils Due,– GI JOE would be a great comic for a machine like this. Wow.. I could see the kids flocking to a big glowing GI JOE comics machine…. imagine the front of that machine rotating the images. Now imagine BIG companies paying for those eyeballs. Heck that would be totally worth buying stock outright and non returnable. COmpanies make a crazy bare bones profit when the COMICS NOW! machines buy a subscription to their title.

Imagine those high traffic areas actually having COMICS. Thats how kids found comics back in the day. On the local dime mag racks. And those kids helped to fund an entire specialty industry. That industry is slowly crumbling… and the greedy speculators dont want it to change. They have a strangle hold on. It’s time to kick them in the nuts with a big concrete sack full of INNOVATION.

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Let’s do an imaginary setup of one these machines. Minus the machine cost— say you already owned one. You were able to stock it like this:

50 copies of GI JOE @ 50cents a piece from the company. $25

150 copies of MARVEL - 3 different titles at 60cents a copy from Marvel. $75

150 copies of DC- 3 titles @.50 - $75

150 copies of IMAGE 3 titles @ .50 - $75

$250 bucks for stock, gets you 10 titles to stock in your machine. Maybe add two more indy type titles, maybe an IDW book like CSI or something… but lets stick to the 10 title machines for now.

So all together, with those bare minimum prices, you have 500 books. If you sold them all for 2.50 (way less than a pack of YuGioh cards!) – you’d make $1250, – for a 1000 dollar profit on your order.

Now that’s just ONE machine. And one machine that could be checked weekly and restocked. Imagine if you owned 5 machines, at a chain of big stores. Or imagine if you leased those machines out to the shops themselves. OR other sites. I also imagine, with only 10 titles in a machine, it would be easy to make the buttons pretty big and colorful the actual covers of that months comics themselves. Or a digest size cover for the button. Oh, those kids would just EAT that up. Forget the ride on horse.. they want the big colorful spiderman comic, they want to push the button and have it shoot out in a sleeve and backboard. heh.

Ok, go forth and steal my idea and make a zillion bucks! Or you can HIRE me to help you envision a plan and solutions for such a model. I have more ideas than I can write here.

Added more caricatures to the gallery. See here.

Pretty fun stuff. I forgot to raise my prices. So for now, they stay how they are.

We’re proudly hosting this complete spoiler of Star Wars 3- Includes tediously collected photos from the film that have leaked, animated gifs, and a run down of the plot. Feel free to link this around. I’ll host it as long as I can– or until I’m officially asked to take it down or something. Wee!

STAR WARS3 SPOILED BY YIRMUMAH!

Only 6 days left on our special we’re running. All the details at http://forums.pvcomics.com/viewtopic.php?t=1524 GO!

An update for those who ordered already. First off, THANKS you amazing humans! Second, our orders were suppossed to be here last week, but will get here this week I guess. The printer had the flu I guess. Ahem, LOGAN DeANGELIS had the flu. – It’s ok, we love him. I’ll be sure to make it worth everyone’s wild who orders. – Since everyone who’s ordered is in the US, you should have your books days after I get them, and I’ll report here on the blog when they arrive.

~Comic Link~ Yeah, that’s right. We went there. And we’re proud. Deal with it. – Sure he’s an old man, but time can’t let you escape the truth. Sooner or later, you will face the truth.

:)

~Comic Link~ So there’s your comic for Monday. Enjoy. I made it with love and care just for you awesome people out there.

Late last night we got the word that Hunter S. Thompson shot himself to death at his compound in Colorado. Wow, like no one saw that one coming a mile away. Still, suicide is LAME. The dude was only in his 60s, he could have done so much more. Sad. I’m betting it’s how he planned his end anyway, so there’s little anyone could have done about it. – Ironically, or maybe not so ironically if you know his work, his last column on ESPN is “SHOTGUN GOLF WITH BILL MURRAY”

Book update. My books aren’t here yet. But as soon as they do arrive, they are getting sent out to ALL who ordered. Only a week left in the SPECIAL. Go now!

Thanks to the hacked Paris Hilton phone thing, Bob got through to Pauly Shore before the gig was up. Now his mailbox is full and not accepting any messages.

Here’s Bob’s transcript of the call. It’s short but sweet.

Pauly:..ring…ring…ring.."Hello?….Yeah,hello?”

YIR:” ….Pauly? Hey man, it’s Bob.What’s up?”

Pauly:"Uh. Nuthin’,dude. Just got back in.Where you at today?”

YIR:” Oh,uh..hangin’ out with that chick from town. Uh, what’s her face.Naomi? You ever meet her,man?”

Pauly: “Naomi? Uh…Naomi Judd? You don’t know her,man.”

YIR:” No.no. Not that Naomi. Naomi Watson. From in town. Has that tribal tattoo on her back. The midriff thing.”

Pauly: “Who is this?”

YIR:” It’s Bob,man, Bob.”

Pauly:” Yeah, which Bob is this?”

YIR:” Oh..um..It’s Bob,the WEASEL!!!!HA!HA!HA!HA!(Undecipherable weasel clicking noise).

Pauly:"…..fuck off..(not understandeable)…-click!-

Before his mailbox was full, we were lucky enough to crank call Pauly Shore. He sounded dumbfounded. We’ll post a transcript of our call later. You KNOW how it ended….

No, no.. we didn’t do it. But we’d thought we’d post the list for internet prosperity reasons– CLICK HERE to read all her private crap.

How hilarious.

Before his mailbox was full, we were lucky enough to crank call Pauly Shore. He sounded dumbfounded. We’ll post a transcript of our call later. You KNOW how it ended….

Little late on posting the blog, but the comic of course has been up since way early in the a.m. — ~Comic Link~ - Enjoy!

- Your pals at the Yirmumah Mining Company, est. 1998 -

~Strip Link~ Ah, the question is as old as man…. and we cover it today as well, solidifying our place in theological history…. or not. Who cares. We’re all worm food, right? Right….

Ok. It’s official. I’m sick of JLo— not that I was ever fond of her in the first place, but her videos and music are just annoying the hell out of me this morning, as my wife zones out on the morning videos. UGH. Do pianos fall from skies? If they do, please send one to JLo. What a hooker.

Presale update: You only have 11 more days to get the special offer. Click here. Remember, you CAN order by mail. Just e-mail me for the mailing address. — And big thanks to everyone that ordered. I’ll be sending out your books as soon as they get here. Hopefully today– but if not, I guess sometime next week. I’ll be sure to hook everyone up, since only a couple handfuls of people have ordered—— no, I didn’t mean that as a guilt trip to folks who didn’t or can’t order the special— I’m seriously hooking everyone up who orders. Because I’m just that way.

Still haven’t decided on the Pittsburgh show. Hurm…. They’re not down for the 24 hour comic day, or they say they don’t have time or room to do it. I look at a show like that, which charges 17 bucks to get in. Then I look up at a show like Mocca in the summer, which charges 7 bucks a day to get in. And it’s got what could be a more popular lineup of creators… and the Harvey Awards. — Anyway, this has nothing to do with anything. If I were a rich man, I SWEAR I’d offer 10 bucks to anyone who came to my table, just so their entry fee would be 7 bucks instead of 17. – HOw can we get these conventions cheaper again? – Is it just greed? Or is there a reason it’s so high? I don’t know….. it bugs me, but it’s probably no ones fault. This year, I blame Ernie Hudson and Margo Kidder.

Link From a kind a reader on my forum: The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trailer on Amazon.

Oh Heck yes.

~Strip Link~ – It’s been awhile since I had a moody strip, so I wanted to throw a curve ball. We’re not ALL about tap dancing asses and venom spitting cobras you know.

Back to work for me.

Here’s another one of my favorite little ukulele songs. I struggled to play it when I first started the uke, but now that I’m pretty smooth and look back at this tab, it’s completely an easy song to play— I doubt ANYONE who plays ukulele reads this comic or blog at this point, but I figured I’d blog it for prosperity reasons and it’s easy for me to find on my Uke category link…., but anyway, here’s the tab and lyrics…

“Nobody KNows you when you’re down and out.”

C A
Well, once I lived the life of a millionaire,
Dm A Dm
Spent all my money, Like didn’t have a care.
C E7 A7
Took my friends out for a mighty fine time.
D7 G7
Boot leg whiskey, champagne and wine.

C A
Then I began to fall so low.
Dm A Dm A Dm
Lost all my good friends, had no place to go.
C E7 A7
If I get my hands on a dollar again,
Am G7 C
I’m gonna hold it ‘til the old eagle grins.

C A
‘Cause, nobody knows you
Dm A Dm
When you’re down and out.
C E7 A7
In my pocket, there’s not one penny.
D7 G7
And as for friends, well, ain’t got any.

C A
Soon as I get back on my feet again,
Dm A Dm A Dm
They all want to be my long lost friend.
C E7 A7
I think it’s strange, without any doubt.
Am G7 C
Nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

Traffic has been crazy to the site recently. We jumped from a regular average of about 4000 page views a day, to a whopping 28783 yesterday! Yowzas!!! —

Yesterday alone, we had 2,432 new unique readers pop in, so I just wanted to say HELLO! And thanks for checking us out. Bookmark us, we’re here everyday putting up our basterific work for free, and we’re not slowing down.

Oh, and big thanks to all those who have ordered the special book deal. I can’t wait to get these out to you all.

I’m on the fence about doing the Pittsburgh show. Someone should persuade me. I just e-mailed them about space there. Maybe I could organize some 24 hour comic day event or something, and pimp PV comics and my yirm stuff. I don’t know.

Linky - Based on a true story, kinda. I was recently approached to write an encouraging letter to a 12 year old kid. I didn’t know what to say.

Seriously, I honestly believe there has to be some sickness involved in wanting to do anything like this. It’s an insane amount of work and time. But those who have it, know that once it’s gone, there’s a huge void that can’t be filled with anything but doing it again. I need to name that disease. Sequentialuenza. Sequentialpychosis?

I guess no matter what, the truth CAN set you free.

Official Pre-Sale Info ~ Offer Ends February 28th

Prices include shipping!

Yirmumah Strips #1 “All strips from July-December ‘04 in full color” - Signed and numbered - $5.00

AND

Enter Yirmumah Poster - Signed and numbered - $5.00

To order by mail, please e-mail us for info at: yirmail@yirmumah.net

THANKS!

I was just scanning our local Pittsburgh news. The most notorious child molestor in Fayette-Nam’s history has died in Mexico. Shallenberger. He died a fugitive.

Now, naturally, we just hate child molestors here. —- We have a semi funny story about this creep that’s Yirmumah related. Way back in 1996 or so, when Bob and I were roommates we actually planned to go to Mexico and kidnap him and bring his ass back here, or hold him for ransom to his rich ass family. — Ah, criminal thoughts. I told Bob it would never work, because I most likely would have beat him to death on the ride back from Mexico.

It bothers me that this guy got away with his crimes. Died a free man in Mexico, and no one bothered to go get him. It’s like a plot to some old movie… fleeing to Mexico to escape the law. Anyways, I’m glad this guy is finally dead. He didn’t deserve to live this long. If there’s a hell, I hope he’s buring in it.

~Today’s Comic Link~ : For real. The real life Dave asked me to do a caricature for him a few weeks back, and I haven’t gotten around to it. So I was behind on strips, and behind on caricatures and sick as a dog, and I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone. So that third panel is what Dave asked for. – Maybe by the time he gets married, I’ll have a super fancy one done up and framed. – I don’t even think he reads this. Well, I’m sure he does so in chunks now to see if he’s mentioned. This one is for you, Dave!

So many years ago, Dave had asked me to do a drawing for a back tattoo for him. The classic whale vs giant squid battle in the ocean. I’ve never gotten around to it, although I think of it often. There seems something so epic about it, I don’t know if I could do it justice.

Alright- I’m hunkering down for a few days and getting some serious work done. I’ve goofed off enough here. We redid the little shelf in our tiki room yesterday. It turned out pretty nifty, and we can actually display some of our mugs now. I’ll maybe take some photos sometime for the old blog. But for now— I need to go hunker down and keep my head in the game.

Seacrest, Out!

~Today’s comic link. ~ - A little Valentine’s day shuffle for you. I hope everyone is enjoying the made up corporate holiday.

And a little reminder about the book pre-sale. (yeah, I may remind people everyday) It’s only running for two weeks from today direct from the old blog here. If you want to order through snail mail, please e-mail me for an address to send to. Otherwise, here are the paypal links again. Big thanks to all those who ordered over the weekend! You guys rock.

Prices include shipping!

Yirmumah Strips #1 “All strips from July-December ‘04 in full color” - Signed and numbered - $5.00

Enter Yirmumah Poster - Signed and numbered - $5.00

As you can see here, today we debut the art that will be the cover to the new book, as well as an 11x17 mini poster. –

A quick note about it. Back in 1998 when I was doing the original minicomics, something like this was going to be the cover to the issue 4 that never came out– and Yirmumah went to sleep for a spell while I worked my butt off doing freelance work. So now we finally had a chance to use it and it seemed right. For people who don’t get it, it’s a homage of the Enter the Dragon movie poster, one of my favorite kungfu flicks of all time. – And now, because I REALLY want to get this in readers hands I offer you an early Valentine’s Day Gift….

LIMITED TIME PRE-SALE! : Here’s the skinny. We gots the full color collected book AND a miniposter. – For two weeks only, any orders that come in will be signed and numbered by both Bob and myself , and I’ll doodle a little sketch somewhere on your book or poster. – After that period, we’ll still have books for sale elsewhere, but they won’t be all signed and special like that.

How to order: You can use paypal right now if you have it. If you want to send money via snail mail, please e-mail us for info. Shipping included in price.

Yirmumah Strips #1 “All strips from July-December ‘04 in full color” - Signed and numbered - $5.00

Enter Yirmumah Poster - Signed and numbered - $5.00

Finally, if you’re a Yirmumah fan, reviewer, blogger help us get the word out about the offer, and link up this entry. Thanks to everyone for their support!

It’s been up for awhile– but Don Simpson has a blog. One of my favorite cartoonists, and a kinda local – Here’s the link to it.

Much has been said good and bad about Don… but from what I know he’s just a kick ass mothercrunker who tells it like it is. Back when I was an absolute nobody, as oppossed to the semi-nobody I am now, he was very encouraging of my own cartoon work and minicomics, etc. I got to sit beside him at Mid Ohio a couple years ago as well. He seemed interested in how my career was going and how I was doing it. It almost sounded like he was asking ME for advice— which couldnt be possible. Maybe he thought I was just a hack and couldnt believe I had any work at all. His skills far far outweigh and outclass my own–

Anyway, Don Simpson is amazing. And by the looks of it, his blog is DEEP talking about the comics in a deeper way. Don Simpson is deep. Deal with it. LINK!

~LINK to strip~ - Bob was inspired by the “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” strips. Of course, our comic is ALL true though, while that Ripley’s comic is just a bunch of hogwash nonsense!—

Maybe Bob could run his own museum one day of “It’s Da’ Truth!” Memorabilia? That would be swell.

He keeps reminding me to blog about fighting Tito Ortiz— but I don’t know what to say. I guess I’m suppossed to act like some wrestler and call him a little bitch or taunt him— and this will somehow bring more joy to our readers??? Fine. Tito Ortiz is a little bitch. Bob informs me that he’s primarily a grappler/submission type fighter. That stuff wouldn’t work on me… I don’t want to brag about my own skills, but that guy would be in for a major surprise if he latched onto me as I simply tap three of his pressure points and he goes down like sack of bricks. — I really don’t like hurting people physically though, so I’ll have to train Bob to fight him when he shows up at my door. We’ll be sure to get it all on tape.

Oh– some official Yirmumah items will be for sale REAL soon. Like REAL soon. Check the blog here tomorrow for details.

~Link~ It’s here! It’s finally here! Happy Burt Reynolds Day!

Go and celebrate by watching and of the number of great films he’s been in over the years.

Have we convinced you that we’re Burt Reynolds fans here at Yirmumah? Good. Then we’ve done our job. Now go forth and bust out your ’staches and celebrate!!!

So, I got to draw a Gondola boat on the latest caricature. Never drew one before. Check it out.

I was talking with my wife and asked if she would ever run around in a boat in Venice– and she informed me that the canals there are sewage. So that would be kinda gross. I don’t know how that would be romantic at all.

~LINK for my RSS peeps~ (I just said peeps, i must still be ill.) BUST OUT YOUR ‘STACHES because Burt Reynolds’ day is tomorrow!

In other news, a pretty decent podcast about webcomics is available at Digital Strips Blog. These guys aren’t professional broadcast quality by any standard, but they have some solid things to say about the artform beyond webcomics. So I give it the big Yirmumah thumbs up for today. I wonder what they’d have to say about our strip? I probably don’t want to hear it.

Back to work for me! Get your ‘Staches ready!

I’m not a big fan of John Mellancamp. However, I love playing this song on my uke. So I submitted the tab to Uke Boogaloo. Here’s the link.

3 chords and the truth, mothercrunkers!

Blach! I have I have a cold. Sneezing, post nasal drip thingy, bLah! It suuuuckkks….

Luckily, I’m ahead on my strips. I’m a little behind on caricatures, but I’ll be on track. I’m not sick enough not to work, so all the due caricatures will get there this week as promised.

Two things I’d like to get accomplished this week. #1, I’d like to find out when I can start selling you fine people the print book. Soon, soon…. #2, I’d like to get some work done on the secret Yirm project I’m planning and get that launched by the end of the month. It will be very keen, I promise you that.

Also– at one point, I was thinking about moving the Yirmumah strip to a hub like keenspot or some other place, but my traffic has grown by leaps and bounds here on my own, so at this point I don’t think it’s necessary. By golly, I think I can actually do all this on my own and remain independent. Some places make me so excited though, and I just want to be a part of things…. but it’s probably better that I’m on my own out here on the webernet. – -Thanks to everyone who’ve linked us up. You rock.

14,000 page views yesterday!!! And most of them without referrers, which means they’re most likely coming from bookmarks or personal link lists or blogrolls or something. I really appreciate it– the more people who read, the harder I’m going to efhing work to make Yirmumah totally KICK YOUR BUTT—-

Wow, I just refrained from using two bad words. It’s the cold.

~LINK~ It’s the Ladder of Change! Hop on!

Poor Jeff Woogy. Pray for him.

In other news– I’m hella busy right now with things stacking up here. Soooooo, without further adieu, back to the drawing board for me!

Watch your back, Tito Ortiz!!

Here’s a link to a REALLY long interview with Alan Moore about various things on writing and doing your craft. Brilliant guy. Someday I’d like to play chess with him, or throw rocks at cars with him or something.

IN said interview, he had the following to say about Jack Kirby and Stan Lee:

But, the Marvel-style approach, this started with Smilin’ Stan Lee, Stan ‘The man’ Lee, and I’ve gotta say, and this is only my opinion having seen Jack Kirby’s pencils, I think that the process went something like this:

Stan Lee comes up with an idea: “Right, next issue of The Fantastic Four , like, what if there’s some really big powerful threat from space, sort of – or according to some people, what if in the next issue, the FF – the Fantastic Four – fight Godâ€�. And Jack Kirby goes away, and he thinks: “Galactus…Galactus eats planets…and he’s got this herald…and it’s this silver guy on a surfboard and he goes before him…and this guy’s so frightening that solar systems will switch off their suns so that he doesn’t notice them, they’ll black out their entire galaxies so that he’ll pass them by, and yeah, The Watcher, he intervenes and fills the Earth’s sky with illusions to keep this creature away, but it doesn’t work…â€�. And you’ve got Kirby, he’d pencil five pages a day…he just wasn’t human. He’d just sit there pencilling five pages a day, six pages a day, nine pages a day, and in every panel – so he’d be breaking it down into stories, he’d be breaking it down into a continuity of images, he’d be inventing the characters, he’d be writing the dialogue suggestions – very crude, very quick, but sometimes quite detailed. Then this would go to Stan Lee, who would look at the story that Jack Kirby had written , would dialogue it in his own unique way – he would put in a lot of ‘thees’, ‘thous’, ‘face front true believers’, footnotes, and then it would go out as ‘ Fantastic Four created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’, but it was only one of them who had a share of the action on the characters, and that was…the smiling one. And that’s probably why he was smiling, come to think about it.

STRIP LINK - Yes. Time traveling cavemen. What more can you ask for?

In other news… back to drawing strips for me. Behave, people of the webernet.

Apparantley, we’ve challenged UFC champion, Tito Ortiz to a fight of some sort. Bob says I can take him, but upon further inspection, he looks a little frightening to me. I bet he’s never taken on an angry cartoonist before, so who knows???

Strips are coming along fine. Ok, I’m lying. I’m a little behind on where I like to be, but still, no delays forseen– Yirmumah goodness everyday for you all.

I’ve also just been informed that our cover to the forthcoming book and miniposter has been spotted at the Emerald City convention in Seattle this weekend. So, I’ll be posting it sometime this week, hopefully with some news on the on-sale date for the book, etc. SOON…SOON… as soon as I know, you’ll know! I can’t wait for people to get their hands on em.

Back to the drawing board for me. Watch your back, Tito!!!

You must watch this. Brilliant job by these guys. Here’s a link directly to the Quicktime version–

Im bookmarking their site, it looks interesting to me.

So, today’s super big color comic, can also double as a nifty calendar for you! Or a jazzy background wallpaper for your computer.

I wanted to do something different this week. And I’ve had the calendar idea for awhile, and figured now was as good a time as ever. If enough people dig this, we may do one every month– I was actually going to draw everyone in it, but I came down with the flu this week and it put me back a couple days…. but it’s like one of those accidents that turned out pretty nice, the mixture of cartoons and collage action.

Enemy? Or Reverse Secret Admirer? - Ok, I’ve seen a pretty major explosion of viruses and worms, and things of that nature, being sent to my e-mail addy. I would have figured it to be a random spammer type thing, but they’re getting pretty specific about subject lines having to do with actual things in my strip. — Dummies.. I’m not going to open attachments. Please stop bothering me. – I must have a second super power to really get under the skin of some people or something. As Triumph would say—"I keed! I keed! It’s a joke you see!” – So take it easy out there. I seriously don’t want to have to track you down. But in all honesty, you’re hatred fuels me, whomever you are. Thank you.

Somewhere in my mind I picture some Z-List celebrity I offended gettinger his/her little cousin or nephew to send me viruses or worms. Or Michael Jackson.

Stan Lee???? ………………….naw!

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here’s dah LINK!

Sitting around one day, I said it would be funny to just have a giant venom spitting cobra attack Star Jones. And so it was that this strip was born. Enjoy.

Notes about Stan Lee on 60 minutes from the “Comics Reporter.”

Yeah. I’m still sore. Sorry. I woke up this morning and thought to myself– damn, just because he signed a contract with Marvel saying he can get 10% of money derived from other people’s creations doesnt mean he deserves them at all. – It should definitly be divied up between the people who were the CORE creators behind these things that Marvel has made so much money on.

What could I expect though? Who am I fooling? Marvel is a corporation. Not a comic book company. They are ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. Have been for quite awhile. Ask Avi. –

But they are a corporation without any ethical standards. I wish they would change that. Stand up and change that. What an AWESOME thing that would be for them to do something to honor the people who BUILT that fucking place.

Until then…. the curse continues.

See the link:
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These guys are just great. Funny gag too. I may have to steal it. That’ll teach them!!! – Check out all their fine comics going on at DigitalPimpOnline - Now, GO!!!

Found this on the Wikipedia for Jack Kirby.

Melt lyrics by Monster Magnet

waking up
i watch another sun go down
another day spent underground
in my world of pills, yeah
and i was thinking how the world should have cried
on the day jack kirby died
i wonder if i’m ill, yeah
i’ll never trust myself again
but i don’t care, no
just set that plastic soul on fire
and watch it melt
life is good, a rocket sled utopia
a self-imposed my opia
you gotta love this place
life is fast, a million winners everyday
you tell me, is this work or play?
i’m never really sure, yeah
i’ll never trust myself again
but i don’t care
well just set that plastic soul on fire
and watch it melt
yeah yeah yeah
well i’m alive, now you watch me go
a tickle inside my brain
where it comes from i don’t know
but i’m laughin’ in the flames
it’s just the look in your eyes
i feel like i can fly
and then sometimes i dig it so much…
i could die
i’ll never make no mortal place
cause i don’t care
just set that plastic world on fire
and watch it melt, yeah
well i’m alive, now you watch me go
a tickle inside my brain
where it comes from i don’t know
but i’m laughin’ in the flames
it’s just the look in your eyes
i feel like i can fly
and then sometimes i dig it so much i could die
and then sometimes i dig it so much i could die
and then sometimes i dig it so much i could die

LINK for the rss folk

My buffer is pretty much dead right now, so some of the recent strips are pretty fresh off the desk. I wrote this on my crappy last Monday morning.

Man, every month, Dreamhost , seems to get better and better! They added this one-click install of the Wordpress blog– but I just go their new newsletter and they now have one-click install for phpBB bulletin Message boards, and a few other things, including an open source merchant type store setup. DAMN!!! I already have a forum setup at PV already– but dang… they make it super simple to set this stuff up now.

Seriously, this is the tightest hosting on the planet here. Check it out if you’re in need of hosting or need a new hosting service that kicks total ass.

Been a while since I got around to updating the caricature page. You can view all the latest at http://yirmumah.net/caricatures/

One isn’t REALLY a caricature, it’s more of a logo for John the Car Guy– which didn’t really fall under the caricature prices.

Speaking of caricature prices and stuff… they may be going up just a tad soon. I don’t know. We’ll see. I get a lot of people asking for custom comics based on their caricatures or their own superheroes. Some folks don’t seem to understand that my caricature prices are WAY WAY different than my usual freelance prices for like comic page work. Which is still VERY low, but its NOT 8 dollars a page. — I usually try to go around 50 bucks a page for comic page style work, inked and lettered. Believe me–that’s WAY cheap. I’m kinda sick of doing freelance work, like some of which you can see at www.djcoffman.com – I’m having a lot of fun doing my own work again, and it’s keeping me pretty busy. I’ll still check out people’s projects– but at this point it would have to be something I’d be really passionate about. And nothing seems to be giving me juice lately except for creating my strips and getting this stuff out to the readers.

Damn, we’re up to about 4000 unique folks a day– and those are returning people as well. Thanks to everyone who reads the strip and the ol’ Yirblog. Good to know people are paying attention.

Seriously, leave that Groundhog alone! –

I got lucky on this one, because I drew it in advance, guessing he’d see his dumb old shadow anyway.

Yesterday I was also stricken with a flu bug. Man, it killed me. I woke up feeling a little iffy, but then it progressed into legs of jello and a feeling like i was going to hurl at any minute. Then it went to my head and I got a bad fever and headache. So yesterday was filled with a ton of laying on the couch holding my face because I had no medicine here and couldnt escape to get any. It sucked. I got NOTHING done. Just a ton of me sitting there in sickly pain thinking about all the comics I could have drawn. UGH.

I’m starving now. All I ate yesterday was a donut and a rasberry cookie which I forced myself to eat. I now need to go fill up and get some energy back in my gas tank, and hope that whatever it was is completely gone.

This is just bizarre! Check out this story first…

Ok so…

And get this!!!

Hahahhaa– Is the media THAT DUMB??? or are the toys THAT good??? Too funny– my god.

Matt breaks the story once again—

My good friend Jim Rugg, co-creator and artist on Street Angel is holding as contest through comicbookgalaxy.

Each winner will receive Street Angel #1-5 and the original mini-comic signed by creators Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, and an identical, signed set will go to the store where the winner buys their comics! And, one Grand Prize Winner will also receive a one-of-a-kind piece of Street Angel Original Art!, and so will their comics shop! It’s super easy to sign up via e-mail. Do it!

Details HERE: Win Street Angel Comics!

This has been cruising around the net for a couple weeks– but still, if you haven’t seen it, check out this solid funny Star Wars3 parody: HERE.

New Comic: Yeah I did it. Don’t ask me why, I just felt like it. Deal with it!!!!

:)