You’ll notice that something came early. Official word coming tomorrow from the old blog here, and I’ll talk about the details more— BUT if you want to catch the press release, you can check it out HERE.

ALSO! VERY IMPORTANT– there is a NEW FORUM Go there now and sign on up– ITS FREE. And we love your feedback! What are you waiting for? get in there!!!

Off to do some last minute tweeking and such. ENJOY!!!

Damn, you know, it makes me happy to hear from friends who got a good thing going and I know they totally deserve it. There is no greater feeling than that for me.

It makes up for those times you see people who totally don’t appreciate things they get or don’t deserve them.

BIG UPs TO DAN!!!!

What a tragic story. I feel bad for this family that’s been torn apart. But just a little reminder as I lash out in some angst here…

This stuff happens EVERYDAY. And in more tragic ways and stories we’ll never hear, or those that the media doesn’t consider worth telling. The truth is, there are too many stories like this to tell. They could have a whole 24hour cable channel about media like this, and it would never end. —- I’m sick of hearing the people like a priest tell you on TV what she expressed, or how evil the husband is… Im sick of hearing politicians go back and forth on this– hell, the family is pretty bitter, lashing out at people who did what they could to help. Lashing out at judges they BEGGED to take the case. Geez! And you damn well know when that clown Jessie Jackson shows up, it’s a bonafide CIRCUS. – don’t worry though, my TV is off. But you won’t be able to escape a media hot potato like this. So it’s just something to think about. Especially now that the talking heads will REALLY be on about this subject. Don’t forget all those other souls out there in limbo.

and don’t forget FEEDY THE ANGRY FEEDING TUBE!

LINK! - 24 Week continues. Never forget what happened to Steve. REMEMBER STEVE!

Wow, it’s the last day of March already! Time is flying! And wow, taking a look back at everything we’ve done on this daily schedule since January– its mind boggling. If i had drawn my comic with premade templates, I wouldnt be as impressed, mind you.

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Ok, for those who didn’t see the previous blog which was only up for like 20 minutes– no big deal. All that DID see it, you can totally go do that thing I said.

I defeated the evil trackback spam from flooding my blog. Here’s how– If you’re running the wordpress blog– simply go to where you have your blog installed, and delete the php file called “wp-trackback.php” —- go ahead and saveyourself a copy of it incase you ever want to put it back. But no one seems to use that…. soooooo carry on.

LINKY! - 24 week continues.. for, uh, better or worse…… some people aren’t getting the strips. I guess you wouldn’t if you don’t watch 24 like we do. It’s one of our favorite shows on the idiot box.

Although, I think we’re in the free in clear here. All you need to know is, that buggy eyed guy is how I draw Kiefer Sutherland. And Kiefer Sutherland was in Lost Boys and Young Guns 2.

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“Cochran died of a brain disorder in Los Angeles, said law partner Randy McMurray.”

-Full Story-

Seriously– DAMN– thats young to die.

Thanks to Jay for the link. Apparently, hours before her death, Terri Schiavo has put up a blog–

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/

I mean, c’mon! If she has a blog, CLEARLY SHE HAS A MIND! RIGHT?? RIGHT???

My wife points out that this might not be Arnold Schwarzenegger– because she thinks he’d have a scar on his chest from his heart surgery– however, I think it very well could be him. Ah, what being a politician can do to you.

C’mon Arnold! Don’t let yourself go!

LINK to comic - 24 panels week continues. Wee! YES. I know I draw Kiefer Sutherland wacky– i’m doing it on purpose.

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OH! And here’s a couple photos of that Tiki Cabinet I put up over the weekend. The guy who carved him calls him Teco. Look closely and you’ll see the leapord print that lines the inside backing. SWAG!

I’m having a pizzagasm right now.

Thanks for that word, Mitch.

For anyone paying attention– Something is coming on friday to Yirmumah.

If you want to know what’s going on, I MIGHT give you a summary if you e-mail me and I know you can keep a secret. e-mail me at: idrawcomics@hotmail.com and ask. I just MIGHT tell you if I’m around the inbox at the time.

OK! The moment 5 of you have been waiting for - The “Digital Strips Podcast” interview of ME is up at THIS LINK! - Listen, a podcast is just a fancy word for an MP3 audio file. So you can totally download it and play it in your audio players, just like the music you steal from the internet! AWESOME!

I just listened to the interview, and it came out way better than I expected. I don’t sound like half the ass I thought I did. I was frustrated with microphone problems before I got on with them, and I downed 2 Guinnesses to take the nervous edge off. ARRRGG!!! It’s not just for breakfast anymore.

Anyway, be sure to give it a listen. We talk about a good amount of things, some including: the beginnings of Yirmumah and where some of the strips came from, webcomics subscription models, how to build an audience for your work, hate mail, independent comic publishing, Macgyver having a mullet— all sorts of stuff…. once again, here’s the link- DIGITAL STRIPS PODCAST

A reminder– something special is coming to Yirmumah this coming friday, April 1st. Stay tuned– it rocks.

Things I learned over the weekend.

#1- Bob likes attention. ANd you people are feeding him and creating a monster!!! I kid, I kid. Bob needs love too. But Bob probably just needs his own computer and blog of his own. Then the internet can sleep safe at night.

#2 - Hanging a 68lb tiki cabinet from plaster walls is hard. But I did it.

Come to think of it– my “alpha male” in me has been shining through the past week. Wednesday night I fixed a problem with our van— (well admitedly by checking the internet) so that’s sort of like, my alpha nerd.– But whatever, it works. –

Then to hang this cabinet, I needed to like, drill out these holes in these heavy duty brackets– Bob said I needed a vice. I’m a cartoonist! I don’t have a vice! I don’t even own a drill so I had to borrow one from the inlaws. HURM. (note to self: buy drill) – I had to use toggle bolts which go into plaster or drywall and create an anchor. It hold up to 70lbs— everyone was doubting this thing would stay up on the wall— but a Saturday morning and afternoon later– and that thing was completely solid. Maybe I’ll take pics tomorrow. I even kinda hung from it a little to test it all out. So it is DEFINITLY secure if my fat butt can swing from it.

Alright— that’s the end of day recap. G’night!

OK! Bob has pretty much takend over the blog as he squats here this weekend. – So I didn’t feel compelled to blog anything. Just a quick note to say HAPPY EASTER!

I noticed like, uh, 4 or 5 people ditched our strip from their LJ friends feed this weekend. Probably couldn’t handle the Jesus joke or something. Or maybe it was the line about coke and a dead hooker??? I don’t know. Sorry, this strip isn’t for the easily offended. But C’MON!!!

For those that DO want to hook it up on their livejournal friends pages, the new feed is up– http://www.livejournal.com/users/yirfeed – add that up in your LJ accounts.. and it’s really easy to comment there. You can also click the link over to the right to hook it up. So far, the subscribers to the feed are 17. Let’s kick that number UP. Do it for Jesus AND the easter bunny.

In other news. I wanted to put out a public shout out to my wife. She’s a home health nurse, and had to work overnight for a guy who’s well, without getting into specifics, pretty much stuck in a bed. Before she went to work, she made the guy up an easter basket with jello cups and ho-ho’s, and a plush duckie. – My wife rocks. I bet this is the first easter basket this fellow has seen in years. – NOW, I want my wife back dammit.

Stop calling her in to cover for other slack ass nurses! She’s MINE!

Hey everybody! Head over to JourneyIntoHistory to see the new review, all about us - CLICK HERE!

Quotes from the review:

“Yirmumah by D.J. Coffman and Bob McDeavit is an excellent example of why the syndicates should give up now. “

“The result is art that’s a little less crisp than PVP or Penny Arcade, but with much more energy to every character and line.”

HAH! Take that PVP and PEnny Arcade!!! Our lines got more energy than your lines!

I only have a couple minor corrections. One, our newest book is 2.99. So probably no more cheap books until we do mini comics again. – Two, I don’t think I submitted the strip to be reviewed, I think he e-mailed me about doing it. Who knows. I’ll take the attention anyway we can get it. We’re cheap like that.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW HERE!

LINK! - We’re totally hanging with Jesus for the Easter weekend. And so is Pat O’Brien!

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So, I’m blogging……. Ok. What the heck is up??

I’ll tell you what’s up! I’ve got something up my sleeve. Something, kinda, BIG. Something that will launch let’s say… next Friday publicly. That’s April Fools day, but this ain’t no joke. Uh uh. No ways.

So what is it? Well… I want to say bad. But I’m still tooling with some things. I spent the day today working on it, when I could have been getting a week ahead on strips. But it’s ok.

I just hope some of you out there use it. That’s all I ask. Maybe it can work for more people than just ME…. this …. Yirmumah machine. Perhaps it can help you in some way? I don’t know. We’ll see.

See? This is why I shouldn’t blog. I know i’ve gotten some of you in a tizzy and now you’ll be e-mailing me to ask what’s up. Nothing is up. We’re upsidedownwards.

Sorry… that last part shouldnt make sense to anyone. I’m just still geeking.

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Replaced by a Hyena and a bag of Marbles…… DISCUSS!

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Who’s going to see this movie on opening day?

I SURE AM.

Sorry. I’m excited, and I geek out when I figure out lyrics to new songs. I’ve bolded the parts I like.

CRAPSHOOT LYRICS - Pearl Jam

Consider me an object
free of an infliction
free of all conditions
free of emission

yeah, I’ve been sittin’
upside down
and there I will sway
for all e-ter-nity…ahh

Never forward
Yeah upsidedownward
I’m feeling like there’s something
never thought you’d be part of

Meet me in the backroom
running an asylum
calling on the citizens
bring the ammunition

feeling righteous
yeah that’s not forward
I’m feeling like there’s something
never thought you’d be part of

Comin’ forward
yeah forward’s backward
coming closer

hang on
sail on
I’m feeling forward
get back and run
falling down
I will

[guitar solo]

yeah, I’ve been sittin’
upside down
and there I will sway
for all e-ter-ni-ty…ah

feeling mindless
yeah that’s not forward
I’m feeling like there’s something
never thought you’d be part of

Comin’ forward
yeah upsidedownwards
I’m feeling like there’s something
never thought you’d be part of

New PJ song debuts at concert– Here’s a link to the MP3 It’s called Crapshoot.

OH HELL YES!– It’s no surprise to long time readers that I’m probably the biggest Pearl Jam fan on the planet. And Rolling Stone reports:

Pearl Jam are almost finished with their follow-up to 2002’s Riot Act. The band plans to spend the next three weeks in the studio recording vocals and mixing. If all goes according to plan, the yet-to-be-titled disc could be released as early as May.

“There’s a lot more up-tempo stuff,” says drummer Matt Cameron. “It’s a lot more rockin’ than our last one.” Song titles like “Severed Hand,” “Worldwide Suicide” and “2x4″ seem to reflect that harder edge. Though the track listing has not been finalized, other candidates include “Marker” and “Cold Concession.”

Cameron, who teamed with guitarist Mike McCready on the track “Unemployable,” characterizes the sessions as more collaborative. “We reworked everything together in the studio,” he says. “It’s a really healthy environment – everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be.”

Pearl Jam hope to support the new record with a summer tour.

LINK

So– I missed out on that big Reading show last year– but we will DEFINITLY be front rowish this year. Pearl Jam is just the best rock band on the planet. I’m sorry.

I just caught a link to the Pat Obrien voice mail things. WOW. This guy is NUTZOID. I’m going to post the link to the audio, but it’s NOT work safe. Hear it here.

He must say “You are so fucking hot” like– 50 millions times on that. He’s coked out of his mind and calling someone over and over telling them all the stuff he wants to do to her. Whoever he’s talking to.

You know– the only thing I can think of when I see him, is Jimmy Falon doing that impersonation of him. Curse you, Jimmy Falon!

BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WIFE! - For whom the character of Calypso is based on. So, they of course share birthdays.

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Today’s comic is a true story. I’m sure people out there can relate.

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You know– sometimes it feels like I’m living in some fantasy land.. there’s such a smorgasbord of good stuff online to check out. Mostly for free too.

Of course, there is also a smorgasbord of crap out there, but you seem to find the good and bookmark your way through the crap.

But wow. You know, if you really break down what the web can do for comics… it’s just amazing. There’s already SO much going on… and no one even seems to be aware.

It’s magical as a creator. To almost instantly have something up to your audience if you want to. That’s the ONE thing I find lacking. More work ethic and more SUPER topical strips. I mean, imagine some comics that could write about what happened TODAY or last night and have a strip about it in the morning. In that regard, the net isn’t being utilized to it’s full extent. I’d like to see way more fresh comics on stuff thats going on in the world– not necessarily politics– but a mix of everything– pop-culture, whatever. Imagine if those South Park guys could have a whole show up in a day?? they’d do it.

http://yirmumah.net/?date=20050322

Everyone needs a BRICK of SILENCE!

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So, my buddy Nate’s book is out for sale too, ATLAND, - Beautiful work. Probably one of if not THE BEST looking webcomics out there today. He collected the first strips with some bonuse material and PV Comics sent it to Diamond.

Diamond turned it down. Did they even look at that!? Dear god, why wouldn’t they carry that!- 32 pages in full color for 2.99 from an INDEPENDENT!? that’s a friggin DEAL!– But no– Diamond passed. Or most likely, the crappy brand manager who has his head in his ass, passed. Yeah, Steve Leaf, I’m talking about YOU. I can’t wait to hear the reason. What the hell!?– To pass on a book like Atland is just insane. I could totally see why they might not carry something black and white and by ME, but to pass this GEM up— They’re retarded.—It really just hammers home the point to me that the Diamond system is a JOKE. a broken system.

Face it people. Even when you DO get in their catalog, and pay for advertising, whatever, you’re lucky to get 500-800 sales IF YOU’RE LUCKY. REAL LUCKY. Barely anyone breaks over a 1000 book mark on the self publishing side. I can’t say Diamond’s not doing it’s job, because frankly, I haven’t been giving a fugg about that whole system in a long time. But if Diamond can’t get behind a high quality book like Atland AND get that thing into shops by the truckload– then something is wrong.

ME? I chose NOT to use Diamond at all. It wasn’t even an afterthought. My book is full color, packed with goodness, $2.99 direct from the site where my readers roam. You won’t get a better deal on that. If I really wanted to, I could easily build up my own group of shops to carry my stuff direct. But it’s till not really worth it. – I WAS really looking forward to Atland being carried though. And I know there was some waiting around on Diamond to hear back on this. And you get word like that?? Blah….

This frustrates me, because I’ve seen people spend THOUSANDS of dollars on the self publshing game and lose their shirts over it… and they get nothing from Diamond but a bit of false hope and a tiny listing. —- The other part that angers me, the indys are the backbone of their damn catalog! They pay the bills. And it’s the truth. I’ve asked them! They need to fill those spaces with indy books. But they pass on something like Atland??? Give me a break. Like I said, that thing should have been looked at and praised. Brand managers should have been on the phone with retailer buddies and telling them how great the book is. But nope…. Wait until they find out Atland sold a few thousand copies on it’s own, and will NEVER go out of print!? They probably still won’t care.

I just want to shout– WAKE UP INDY PEOPLE! You don’t need them. You can still use em if you want.. but don’t waste months of your time. If you can do it.. sell direct. Use somethng like Comixpress.com (even though they are backed up at the moment) – but don’t keep feeding the broken machine.

That’s it. Im not going to mention it again. The only way COMICS will change in that regard, is if more people start doing some impressive things themselves. There are a few people at Diamond who have a good intention– but damn– some people just don’t have a clue. If Steve Leaf turned down a book like that, he should be canned. Let someone else that has a clue and can muster excitement for comics in that post. Not some washed up retailer. And I know, people on the other side of Pro-Diamond– will be like, “1. why do you even mention us?” “2.Go do it yourself then toughguy!” To which I would answer– 1. Because it’s dicky and someone is an asshat. and 2. I AM, thank you very much!

Viva La Small Press!

The Interview with the Digital Strips guys is done and done. I hope I didnt sound like an ass. I had some minor problems here with my microphone settings that delayed the thing, so I was just happy it went off at all. DAMN my luck! —- At one point I think I said it’s kinda easy to do a 5 day a week update. That must have sounded egotistical– but damn, it kinda is easy for me, but only because I’ve been wasting my life drawing comics for so long.

I feel like a know it all sometimes and it bugs me. Once again, this is really the only thing I have some expertise in— which could be sad to some. But I’m proud of it. – Maybe I’m jaded? Because when people ask me questions about making money, or the comic book industry, immediately I the thing that comes to mind are all those guys who are barely hanging in there, or who have lost their shirts. THIS PAGE comes to mind. - Yeah, it ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, kids!… . But us underbelly folks are JUST FINE!. Werther’s for everyone!

So, anyway, that interview will be up in next week’s show, which will be on monday. I’ll be sure to link to it of course. Be sure to check those guys out at Digital Strips–

Booyahkasha! - The new Yirmumah Strips #1 is now up and available to the public at THIS LINK. If you didn’t get one, buy this one up! Only 2.99 for this full color bad boy, packed with all those strips from July-December 2004, plus much more!

BUY IT NOW @ COMIXPRESS!

DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT….

Read Andrea Speed’s review of our first full color book HERE!

Wow. All this love for Yirmumah. You’re making her blush.

LINK! - I drew this comic last night, and I had mixed feelings about doing it. I wanted to do a comic about how I felt about that poor woman in Florida, and what a circus all that has become. The talking feeding tube was actually my wife’s idea and I took it from there. – Everytime I’ve seen the story of the Schiavos play out on TV, there always seemed to be something disingenius about him in interviews, especially when put side by side with the situation at hand.

Anyways.. this is how I looked at this issue through the Yirmumah glasses. Like it or hate it, I just want to see someone choke that guy. What person person than Feedy the Angry Feeding Tube?

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ITEM I just realized again that I should probably stay away from the internet too early in the morning when I’m in a groggy mood and have had little coffee. It makes me REALLY mess around and people seem to get all upset and angry with me. In their defense, I DO act like a turd. It’s just funny to hear someone say they have no respect for me, then I go to their site and their strip consists of a taking Assface with a hoonanny for a mouth. Brilliant! – It actually makes my happy the tap dancing Ass character look cute. I want a Happy the Ass plush doll. Some day!

Be sure to send in any questions you want the Digital Strips guys to ask me - I do the interview at 10pm tomorrow and it will air in the following Sunday show.. You need to be sure you questions are sent to digital.strips@gmail.com before the end of today, or at least sometime tomorrow morning. Ask anything! Let’s keep it semi clean though.

Those of you with LiveJournal accounts, do add this feed to your friends list: http://www.livejournal.com/users/yirfeed/ - It will allow you to feed the strip right into your friends pages and read from there. Woo! Plus, it’s pretty nifty and easy to comment on the strips there too.

Also, anyone using RSS, make not of our glorious new feed for your feed readers: http://www.yirmumah.net/rss/rss.xml

People with MY YAHOO accounts can also add that feed to their MY YAHOO page, and have the new strips fed in. I don’t know anyone who uses a my yahoo page, but if you’re out there, add our link! - http://www.yirmumah.net/rss/rss.xml

ITEM- Went to my first auction today. Blah, that sucked. This guy had a bunch of cool stuff in his yard, railroad signs, etc.. he died and now all his stuff and his property is up for auction. I cringed when the weird auctioneer said something like “I promise you, this property will look a lot better when he haul all this junk away” —– I cringed. Here was this guys collection of signs and stuff…. wow. And this guy auctioning it off is pretty much crapping on a part of who this guy was.

My wife wanted me to go to look at a couch there. But it was fugly. I’ll try never to go to an auction again. It just felt creepy.

Let’s run down some newsy news items. I’ll add things to this one post as things come in. Check back for additions I may add.

ITEM- Eric from ComicStrip fan writes some good things about me in his blog. Someone wrote good things about me? Yeah. Shocker, eh?? [LINK]

ITEM- Eric from ComicStrip fan uploaded all the art I sent him, along with the envelopes and letter I sent. You can see his complete Yirmumah collection on THIS PAGE!

ITEM- The Yirmumah Strips #1 (Enter Yirmumah), will be on sale soon at Comixpress. Like ANY MINUTE it could go up. So check their site out frequently, OR just wait for me to post the link when I know it’s up. [LINK]

ITEM- I just got off the phone and my wife want so drag me to one of those auctions. Some cool couch there or something. Gotta go!

I just caught Nightline tonight, all about a Muslim Comedian named Azhar Usman. (Link to his site) Very funny guy. And he really gets the message across.

It’s a damn shame what Muslim Americans are going through in this country. It really is. And the media is to blame– it really is. They put this GIANT FEAR in everyone… People think Muslim here, they think Terrorist.

NOW– this might not be the case EVERYWHERE with EVERYONE…. but here in Fayette-Nam if I brought up anything about “Muslim” – people would immediately jump to that spot in their brain – the GIANT FEAR!

Now– Here at Yirmumah, we’ve been slightly criticized for joking around about terrorists. I was recently told “JIHAD!” isnt a battle cry, its means “struggle". I knew that already. But seriously, isn’t it funny for someone to just yell, JIHAD! Especially a talking bear? If anything, we try to mock the stereotype of the terrorist. I don’t ever want people to think we’re down on our Muslim brothers.

In fact, Yirmumah is an equal opportunity offender. We make fun of EVERYTHING. Even ourselves.

And I promised that if a Muslim comedian caught my eye in some way, I’d link it up and post about it- This isn’t something I’d feel comfortable doing regularly, but given the way Muslim Americans ARE being treated in the US, (under a constant eye of suspicion) I think this well worth mentioning and bringing to light– and this definitly caught my eye. I sure hope folks like Azhar can get a fair shake… I see he’ll be in Pittsburgh on the 22nd of April. Maybe I’ll try to catch that show– In fact, it would be fun to hang out with more Standup comedians.

Mental note: I need to remind Bob to pursue a standup comedy career.

(Once again, in case you forgot, a link to Azhar’s site!)

Ok. Last week when I was packing up books I spoke of the liberating thing I did. Well, the books were late, and I wanted to do something special for the people who took me up on the offer and who were now waiting patiently. – I decided I’d give away original art from the strip itself to the people who bought the book. – Why??? For one, when my originals are done here, they go to a box. I have boxes and boxes of originals here from various projects. They do nothing but take up space. I know that people who actually follow my work, or this strip, would appreciate the original art a lot more than I do when it’s sitting in a box in my basement. I can’t do this ALL the time, and it may be the only time I do it. WHo knows. But it felt great.

Now, there are SOME originals I keep just for me. Ones that I’m fond of. But for the most part, I just went through my stack of envelopes, looked at the name, and if I semi-knew you, I paged through and found a comic I thought you might like. Now– since I wanted to keep the shipping down, I folded them! I hear collectors or speculators cursing me… CURSE YOU!— But you know what… “I” put that crease there. It was liberating to treat these things like something I was sending to someone as a thank you note. The first few I folded were painful…. but the more I did it– the more I realized, it’s just paper! These ARE just material things I created. SURE i drew on them.. but do they need to be some sort of sealed up in pristine condition?? Nah! Screw that. If your comic came folded, with a note written ON the strip or on the back of the strip– “I” put it there. And I did each one FOR YOU.

One person in particular, I ended up sending multiple things to. For one, he’s bought a bunch of my original strips in the past. Two, he’s become a really good friend– and three, he’s sent me some cool packages from the island. It’s almost like my own Pen Pal!—-

And what a cool thing? What an AWESOME exchange between the reader and the creator. I’ve told Bob this, and he thinks I’m crazy, but I’d like every reader to be like a friend. Different levels of friends, sure…. I won’t claim to KNOW many of you out there. But I’ll tell you, there is NO greater feeling than getting an e-mail, or note in the snail mail, or helping hand from someone out there. It makes you go… WOW. — And it really shows me that these things.. these little drawings and sometimes crude and twisted humor…. they CAN do something. If it’s just “entertaiment” , fine. That’s enough for me. But I’ve made a good many actual friends doing this, who support my work. People who were only readers first, and I just flat out can call them friends.

Here are some photos from the night I liberated some of my original strips to the readers:

The loot! The booty! And my humble ordering filling station at the tiki bar where many of those strips were made.

A closer look.

A note I scrawled on the back of one of the original strips.

Bob punching at the camera and trying to look tough. This was the night we signed the books.

CONGRATS TO KEP! One of my old compadres from the Digital Webbing boards has been doing quite well for himself in the comic writing field. I just found out today he’s the writer on the new Shadowhawk series. Kep is the nicest mofo on the planet, and he can pull a MEAN rabbit out of a hat too.

Read interview here- INTERVIEW o’ Kep!

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LINK! - You can’t go wrong with Kill Crazy Clowns. Screw everyone’s Pirates and Monkeys and Zombies and Robots… OBEY the CLOWN!!!!

Other news: The full color book will be going onsale to the mass public at Comixpress today sometime. I’ll link it up when I have the address.

Item: The strip isn’t in color today, because, well.. somedays I dont feel like coloring it. When I get the feeling to color, I will. – Once I start making more money with this, via donations, sales, whatever, I promise to have MORE full color strips… because I’ll have more time where I don’t have to stop and do other freelance jobs, caricatures, etc. —

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Hey, on Monday I’m taping an interview with Digital Strips podcast. You can send in any reader questions to them at digital.strips@gmail.com - There’s a complete write up HERE!

LINK! - Our apologies to gay Leprechauns everywhere. We really DO know how hard it is for you to get action. And we care.

ITEM For everyone who wanted an RSS feed of JUST the strip itself– The mysterious Brendan has swooped in and hooked us up. So…. add these to your RSS readers:

RSS FEED of Strip only: http://www.yirmumah.net/rss/rss.xml

LiveJournal Feed: http://www.livejournal.com/users/yirfeed/ (note: nothing on that list yet, but it will start adding strips after today)

And WOW– We broke 40,000 page views yesterday! FRAGGIN awesome!. Thanks to all the folks from NothingNice who swung in and e-mailed to say Hi. Stick around.

Also, it looks like a good many of you are spreading the word around in forums and linking to us. Keep doing it! Don’t ever be afraid to share the love you have for Yirmumah.

NOW, ye wee lads and lasses– Be sure to enjoy your day to the fullest! And why not embibe a dark Guinness in honor of Yirmumah. NEVER forget Yirmumah on the day o’ the irish!

Cast a wee vote for us in the old voting thinger m’jigger

My son Dillon, the 1st grader, brought me his first comic he made, stapled and everything. It’s a Batman story. Batman fights the joker, beats up thugs– AND meets girls.

After I told him how much I liked it, he happily dashed to his book bag and popped it in there, saying he was going to show his friend at school tomorrow. –

Ah… the magic of comics. It’s just automatic. I don’t even encourage him at all…. it’s like it’s built in. Kinda scary… but totally magical.

I added a link to the right in the link bar, Joe and Monkey. A fantastic comic I found by way of the nothing nice to say site. What an awesome find for me this past week! Super thanks to Mitch CLem for e-mailing me about the guest strip. People seem to be digging it a lot.

ALSO– Anyone who still wants a book and poster, I have some left over. NOT MANY– So e-mail me for details on that. Hopefully packages are still arriving where they need to be this week. One package I sent saturday got all the way to Washington state by Tuesday– thats awesome!

Today’s comic Link ! - Today’s comic I did for Mitch Clem over at www.nothingnice.com - He has a great strip and great readers over there. In fact, I’m loving the whole spectrum of comics I’ve discovered by way of his site. So big thanks to Mitch for giving me a holler. It was a lot of fun. – Im running the strip here, because I kinda put more time into it than I thought I would, so it took up my scheduled time to draw Yirmumah. Hey, squint your eyes, and it easily be Bob and Drew….

The joke– of course, was a Yirmumah joke I’ve wanted to do for a long time. A loooooong time ago in the early 90s, I use to say this all the time. Until one time we were all throwing the goat and all the lights went out in Connellsville. (in Fayette-Nam) – I STILL of course throw the goat. Good times!

Almost true to the digital strips guy’s prediction– BAM, someone has bailed out of the competition. Richard Guidry: See his bail out here.

I will spend his 20 dollars on …. SODA.

OK. Here’s the deal. I’ve uploaded some stuff I did when I was like 14-15 years old. It’s an effort to show aspiring folks that they don’t suck. They just need time and practice. I drew over 300 pages in the Scorpion days! And they ALL SUCKED!– I’ve uploaded some files and comments. Be sure to pass this link around to folks. This is pretty Awesomely bad.

SCORPION ONLINE!

I was referred to as “Dave Sim” like 3 times today via e-mail. Weird. That relating to my announcement I will be doing Yirmumah until I’m dead. Which, due to the way the world and reality work, could be ANY time… but I want to live a lonnnng time. But if a boulder flies off a cliff and lands on me tomorrow, you have until my buffer ends and the strip would end. Crazy?

Yeah.

Can you tell I’m not drawing strips today? I’ve been blogging a lot. That’s because today is “draw caricatures” day, and I have a good bit of back and forth to the computer. So, just ignore me and move along… nothing more to see here.

Today’s comic - Was something I just came up with while I was inking other comics. People seemed to love the Deacon character a lot, so I wanted to show what he looks like now.

More on the Deacon. - Yes. Deacon is based on my dad. But my dad isn’t like that at all. YES he is an ex-biker from the late 60s. Yes, he probably had many adventures involving ’shrooms. But the real Deacon is more like a wandering wise old monk now, than a womanizing superstar. But Deacon is my dad’s own Drew Price.

My dad shielded me from ANY info on him being a biker, or dealing with drugs– I never could have imagined it. I didn’t find out lurid details until I was 18 or 19. He tells my younger brother more than me. Probably because my brother is a weed head, and not a straight clean cut guy like myself. Sometimes I wonder if my dad raised me convinced I was an undercover narc. —– Seriously though, and there are a couple others here who could agree…. The Deacon is the man. Also, my dad was probably the only real family member to encourage my pursuing of any kind of cartooning career. Probably not the wisest choice I ever made, but I thank him for it constantly. —- I gotta get that guy a hobby!

Dateline: March 14th- 2005 - Fayette-Nam - (Dickerson Run Hill) -

A thought occured to me while finishing my second rum and coke of the night. What if I made a promise to just do this strip until I die? Like some people marry their wives, and make that pledge, what if I just said that this work is my baby and I’m going to raise it just like a I raise my kids. A commitment to just KEEP GOING.

No. Not in newpapers. Been there, done that. And, maybe occassionally a self published comic book of some sort wouldnt be bad……. but primarily, right here on the web for all to see. And, well, according to my schedule, a very open relationship with the readers and fans. I’ve made it a point to reply to just about every e-mail I’ve gotten, even the bad ones. And, as I get busier, I can’t always promise that– but I can promise to be as transparent as possible.

The bottom line…. I’ve seen it all when it comes to comics. No, I’ve never seen one of those fancy hollywood paydays, but I’ve seen all my dreams wished for when I was kid. Seen the newspaper business suck a big one. I’ve seen my friends in the independent comic business lose their asses as the market for comic books just fades away (especially indy comics) – I’ve grown tired of freelancing for other people, building and building for others, while my own things sit in the closet and curse me. And now, here I am. With my comic on the web. No real purpose besides just to keep going.

So what do I promise? What’s my oath?? Well.. I promise to do my best to make sure there’s a comic here every mon-friday. Sometimes every damn day maybe– Probably in full color. It might not always be funny, or tasteful. But it will be here for you and me and everyone else. Sometimes maybe it will take on a different format, or minicomics,– perhaps characters might die, and more introduced. Just evolve and keep going…. … I have nothing better to do with my work now.

While other people stop, quit, move on… I’ll just keep moving with this and leave something…something…. well,… absurdly epic behind for everyone to see.

I wonder who will still be here or there in 50 years? – Shit, 50 years from now, I’ll be 79! Can you imagine how much work that would be? And what a strange, long trip that would be? Will there be an internet? Or will you all be tuning in via some weird holo-projector right into my tiki bar/ comic drawing studio? A round of virtual drinks for everyone!

I don’t have the comforts of a syndicate contract. But I have the foolish obsession to just do it until I die out. Why not? Who knows… maybe there will be times when I just can’t support myself at all. Maybe I’ll be forced to be a Wal-Mart greeter or something on the side.

I can only promise that Yirmumah will be here for a Loooooooooong time. Let’s build some awesome army together or something. Hang around, won’t you?

Illostrated’s review of Enter Yirmumah!

Glad you liked your package Jason!

I just wanted to let you know I tried to reply to your e-mail, john@johnjett.com and it bounced. Here is your answer here though, hopefully you see it.

“Yes indeed. Thats the 1993 tour poster, and the first poster designed by the
Ames bros….

They actually are on Ebay pretty often– check there once a week and they
will pop up sometimes for around a hundred bucks to two hundred.. I got mine at the show in Indio in 1993– and it’s signed by
Ed too. . — It’s actually not that rare or expensive when compared to the other posters. The Pittsburgh 2000 show poster is one of the rarest, they spelled Pittsburgh, “Pittsburg” and only sold a few before they noticed. That one runs about 500-600 smackers! Crazy.

I’m a PJ freak. I’m sorry.”

LINK- Big ups to that guy with the dumb Irish name for single handidly writing all of the “Drew history” week.

Yeah, so you get a big full color comic on Monday. Surprise! We’ll keep it mixed up and do more big full color comics as we have time. We have some things in the works behind the scenes, where I HAVE to get more ahead than I am now for it to work right. So, stay tuned. 2005 is shaping up to be one of the best years for Yirmumah and it’s 16 loyal fans, i guess. Right?

Don’t forget to vote!

The first has fallen in the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge - The title goes to Demon Dorm Day’s Donald Noffsinger. – Sorry Donald, you just couldn’t cut the mustard in a challenge like this one.

Here’s a funny thing… the guy admitted to not having much artistic skill. But when he was finally voted out by the judges, he complained they should have warned him because he spent 20 bucks on art supplies, and he could have bought food with that 20 dollars. So the question needs to be asked, why spend 20 bucks on art supplies when you can’t draw in the first place?! —- Should’ve bought the groceries dude. And if you’re worried about groceries, why spend 20 dollars to enter a fugging contest of this nature anyway? BLAH– I smell…….. EXCUSES!

I make this promise. When I win the Grind challenge, in oh, who knows.. YEARS from now– I’ll buy the guy 20 dollars in Top Ramen and send it to him.

He seems a little down and threatening not to update his comic ever again (big loss there) – but seriously, all ribbing aside, we’d hope he’d continue to produce art and practice practice practice. Doing a daily comic of any kind is not an easy thing— nor is cartooning in general. Let contests like this beef yourself up. And even in losing, he’ll have the attention. Do you want people coming to your site and seeing you lost after two weeks of updates and now you’re whining about not continuing with your strip??? You should do the comic because YOU WANT TO DO IT. Not because you want attention or people to read it. —- You’re doomed if you do it for any other reason than for the sheer joy, sickness, obsession forming habit of it.

So there… Im HALF being nice to the guy. He should turn the fact he’s the first loser into MANY MANY more fans of his work.. by simply not being a quitter. Take a break or something– but never let them see you sweat.

I’m behind on things today. I’m breaking radio silence just to say HOWDY!

I was thinking maybe Monday or Tuesday some people on the east coast would start receiving their books and posters.

2 photos from last night at the Yir-Tiki bar as we signed books and clowned around. My Son Dillon got in there somehow too.

Just a quick note to relay that all the orders have been filled and shipped this morning! WooHoo! – Can’t wait for everyone to get their packages.

SUPER THANKS to everyone for their patience on this and supporting our work. It means a lot.

The mail lady treated me like a celebrity or something, and was falling all over herself that I was there mailing out so much stuff. She kept saying “I should have gotten you a chair!” – and she was impressed that a package was going to Belgium and Hawaii. Not many people ship things to exotic locales here in Fayette-Nam. So I guess maybe I do look important when I’m sending crap to some remote island or China. —- I’m not important though. I’m just a sasquatch who has to come into town now and then to mail things out. It actually makes me uncomfortable when I’m treated special in anyway…. probably some deep rooted pychological problem. Yeah.

I added all of our completed Space Ape strips to the extras page here at the site. - It’s not Yirmumah related if only the fact that it’s by this historic comic creating team of “COffman and McDeavitt”

Ol’ Jimbo the Space Ape was around in the days of the old Gravity comic strip we did. We wanted to do him daily at PV or another web publisher, but had no real takers. We ran some on PV. But never continued with it. So for now, Space Ape is here in our extras section for you to enjoy. Maybe he’ll see the light of day again sometime.

~comic linky dinky~ We finish the week with Drew in his new home!

I get people asking why I put a link to the comic everyday here in the blog, when the blog runs on the main page. I will reply grumpy like because I havent had enough coffee yet.

Dear Idiots, Morons, and mislead people:

I put the link on there so people using the RSS feed can jump right to the strip. OR when people are browsing through the blog archives, and they see something talked about, they can just jump to that strip if they missed it. Trust me, it works. Stop acting like I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m fully aware.

PS. I’m sorry I called you a moron. It was inappropiate.

Anyway, yes, once again, that’s why the link is there. Try it out, you might like it!

Ok. The plan is to get the books signed tomorrow by Bob and ship those bastiches out on Saturday morning. Hmm…. I could do it tonight if Bob could get over here. Maybe – JUST maybe.

I’ve gotten about 30 bucks in tips from the tip button this week. Goddamn, thats pretty awesome! We’re no Randy Milholland here, wherein we can just do this full time because of our generous fans… but I’m ALMOST at the point where I can buy a case of Guinness! SUCCESS!!!!

No, I friggin PROMISE I won’t spend donations on beer. It will all go to science, and bettering Yirmumah in some way. Whether that’s helping with ads run on other people’s sites, printing, bills, etc…. It totally rules to have any kind of support like that. So I just want to shout a GIANT THANKS to everyone who’s tossed some cash at us. You all rock.
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So efh talking about myself and my comic and everything ME you should be worshipping. What else have I been doing? Well, I joined that online Blockbuster thing, so now it’s one less reason to leave my house. The selection isn’t as good at Netflix, but it’s a few bucks cheaper. Late last night I watched Collateral, with Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox–which I thought would just be a giant ball of turd— but it was actually a pretty good movie. Tonight, we have Harold and Kumar I guess. So far, this service rocks– and just about any movie I pop in there, they have it, so I can’t complain.

I’m thinking about taking the evening off from working on crap and just vegging out here. Oh, and I hate goddamn laundry. Folding laundry sucks…and I totally feel like Mr. Mom. And I’m tired of my non-immediate family calling me that on the phone. UGH!!!

~Today’s Comic~

Drew’s first few days of life continues…. 1976 never looked so good. I struggle on whether to put in the term “sweet tits” on this one. I don’t know if the Deacon would really say that. – but it’s probably just the ’shrooms talking.

New Pet Professional up - The crew at PetPro are REALLY doing a greay job with their strip. Be sure to check em out.

Most original comic idea I’ve seen in a good long while.

We’ve been down the voting path before with our strip…. I’ve had people asking why we don’t have the vote buttons anymore…. well, we thought they were kinda silly. But now, it’s back. If you done dig our strip, try to vote everytime we update. Also, there is some feature that allows me to pop up bonus art– so when I have time to figure that out– maybe you’ll get a surprise after you vote.. Yes??? The button will be in these posts, AND over there on the left ad column.

Let’s rise up those ranks. Hurray for popularity contests! Nah, screw that– but it DOES bring in new readers, and that’s what it’s ALL about.

Wow. I just did something that made me feel really good. I can’t say because it’s a surprise for the folks who ordered the preorder special. — But I feel super happy right now. Thats all I’ll say.

OK! So all the envelopes are all ready to roll, and books and posters are ready to be signed by both Bob and I. I have to round up a Bob to do that though. So hopefully tomorrow he can come over in the evening, sign these, and I can mail these bad boys out on friday. I’ll keep the blog posted.

Liberating.

The UPS dude just dropped off the books and posters. I went out and grabbed the envelopes and all that jazz and I’ll start putting the packages together tonight. I still have to get Bob over here to sign them, then we’re sending these bitches out to you!!!

Thanks to everyone for waiting so patiently. I’m hooking all of you up. Just watch.

~comic link~ Our trip down memory lane continues. Meet Drew’s dad. Also known as “The Deacon” – An ex- Heck’s Angel. And you know, there’s only two ways out of the Heck’s Angels.

OK– thanks to Ed for hooking this up for us. http://www.livejournal.com/users/yirmumah/ If you use LiveJournal, or know anyone that does, be sure to let them know to pop that on their friend’s list. I’m going to get the RSS feed thing setup as well there. Will blog that later.

Hell, I might as well hit all the blog communities with a feed. It’s a great way to get the strip out there to human beings.

I know there must be. I have a request…. Can somebody set up some sort of LJ feed of the strip here? It seems a good amount of people read strips right in LiveJournal, and I’ve had some people ask about it.

I’d do it myself, but I’m extremely busy at the moment. I think I have an LJ account from ages ago… but still.. UGH– I’d like to setup something like like :Nothing Nice to Say: is doing. Check it out here- http://www.livejournal.com/users/nothing_nice/

~Comic Link~ Because you never demanded it, the first days of Drew Price’s life continue.

Taking a break from work here to check the ol’ mail. Always nice to read some supportive e-mail, etc.

I was surprised to have a knock at my door this afternoon – it was my dad and brother. Ironically, I was coloring a character based on him when they knocked. Weird… — They left Southern California on friday and got in today. That is a FAST trip. And they even hung out in Roswell for a day. Damn!– My dad does NOT efh around. He told me he drove 800 something miles the first day. Amazing. So– they’re back here for awhile until they get flighty again and head out. It’s great to see the old man– He lost 37 lbs out there in the desert, just walking around. It’s the first time my dad has lifted his shirt to show his belly in as long as I can remember. Damn, i REALLY gotta get with it and lose some weight here… I know, I know, I’ve said it a thousand times before.

Oh– And I cracked a friggin tooth today. FANTASTIC. I hate dentists. So I’m just going to ride this out. No! I’m not AFRAID of dentists. But my last few times to the old tooth doctor went poorly. So I just avoid them at all costs now. Although I don’t want to have rotten teeth. All you kids out there, be sure you to brush at least twice a god damn day. It’s kept me away from the dentist for a LONG time.

Alrighty. Couple of updates here. #1, I should have the books and posters here on Wednesday, and I should get them in the mail by Friday to everyone– I gotta get them to Bob so he can sign them. –Once again, sorry for the stinking delay, it’ll never happen again. Maybe I’ll never do a book again. Who knows.

Second: There’s a tip jar button on the main page under the strip now. To my surprise, I’ve had several people ask for one, so there you go. There was one on the Store page for a few days, so thanks to all those who tipped us! RIGHT ON! And we owe you a drink of some sort if we ever cross paths. The well wishes and support we’ve been receiving the past few weeks has been great, and really pushes me to do more. So stay tuned.

~Comic Link~ : We decided to show some of Drew’s origin this week. Enjoy!

:( No books. They’re late, obviously. I’m have peeved and half disappointed.

Sorry people. I PROMISE I’ll make it up to everyone.

Will post here when they do arrive. I hope they show up tomorrow.

Ok– Hmm.. Going to start drawing some new comics today– but wanted to unwind my mind a bit here.

The Daily Grind challenge goes on, but I’m kinda sick of talking about it. I gave it enough attention by talking it up all over, getting Kurtz involved.. and probably blessed some unworthy souls a TON of attention. Seems there are some people out to just bend the rules, or squeek by with stick figures or MSpaint comics. Blahk! I have to decide if I’m going to go full blown and thrash people, or if I’ll just shut up and move along and focus on MY WORK. Or a little of both. The fans seem to want to see me thrash people from the feedback I get. People love a good trash talk, unless you’re the person involved. …. But I have no regrets. If I don’t mention it again for awhile you know why. I’m not even linking it in this post. So there.

,b>Book Orders Update Ok. It’s friday. I don’t have the books or the posters from the printer. Frankly, I’m a little peeved because I havent heard anything since Sunday. And they were suppossed to be sent on mon or tues. –UGH. A mini nightmare. I’m sorry for the wait people. BUT, I’ll tell you this, I’ve upped the friggin ante, and anyone that ordered a book or a poster is getting something extra special in their order. YOU JUST WAIT…. and keep reading here for an update. I’ll most likely blog the minute I get those books at our doorstep—

First week down in the Iron Man Challenge. Piece of cake. — I want everyone to know, I’ve decided not to do a Saturday strip this week. I may just do the mon-fri for a while, but fear not, because we actually have some BIG strips written up that we’ll just toss in randomly I think. So you might be surprised to find a bigger strip on like a tuesday or a wednesday , at least while the contest is running.

I got three e-mails today alone about doing guest strips for other people. This gave me an idea– If anyone out there want’s to do “fan art” or a guest strip for Yirmumah– perhaps I’ll run those on the weekends. I’ll also include your work in future print books with credit and a link to your site. If anyone out there wants to do something up, just toss me an e-mail. It could be fun to see what other people would do with our train wreck we have here.

Actually– there are two things going on right now in the planning stage. One is a new minicomic series, or just a regular sized comic– and the other is a fanclub section. I can’t talk about either in detail right now, but just know we’re talking about them, and they both are sounding fun. Most likely the fanclub would come first. Club Yirmumah.

-From Smoking Gun- -

I hope he wins. But all stars should know to not keep this crap on thier computers or cellphones! Geez!– 80 million though– WOW– that’s a ton of dough.

Oddly enough, I’ve actually spoken with Durst via e-mail before, and he’s checked out our comics. He seems like a nice guy. Weird, huh??? He had a xanga blog for the longest time, but looks like it’s not been updated since Novemebr. — I’m not 100% sure, but I’m almost positive we had actually mocked him in a few MonkeyMan comics or AngryNaked pat strips. – I recollect.

~comic link~ The daily blog is a couple hours late today. The kids had no school so we all slept in. – NICE!

I think we’re actually going to run out and be a family for the day. A nice break from the routine.

I’ll blog more later. Everyone enjoy their Friday!

I was just cruisin technorati and saw a mention of Yirmumah and thought I would check it out. http://tallghost.blog-city.com/read/1109539.htm - Much to my surprise, it was someone who remembered me from the old minicomic days — I wish said person would e-mail me and remind me about our conversation and who the heck you are! I’m sure I would remember it. Here’s a highlight from his article there:

By far the best part was meeting new people. This event came in only slightly above making fun of Tom Savini, for one reason and one reason alone. DJ Coffman and his friends at Yirmumah. This was a great little ashcan comic that we all simply fell in love with. It had a semi-autobiographical feel to it, and the animation was light and fun. Unfortunately, I don’t always make it out to the local con anymore. I miss finding Mr. Coffman and trying to remind him that we actually chatted a bit for a weekend about five years ago.

Flash forward to today, and my web-comic reading lifestyle. Imagine my surprise and shame to find that Yirmumah has been turned into a web-comic!! Surprise at getting the chance to read fresh stuff from one of my favorite small publishers, and shame for not having thought to look for this kind of thing sooner! I urge you all to go and take a look at the site, go back to the first strip and read through them. If you don’t, I’ll have to kill a puppy.

Watch this guy and make sure he doesn’t start killing puppies. PLEASE. — For the record, we’re not doing any conventions this year unless we start making money from the site in some manner. Comic conventions are BLAH to me now. MAYBE– MAYBE I’ll do SPX and Mid-Ohio… but I’ll have to see. – Southwest is now going to start flying out of Pittsburgh, which could mean, sometime down the road, I would have access to numerous cities at a reasonable cost. Look out world!

FIRST a book update, then the news. My books were suppossed to have shipped Tuesday, but i haven’t heard a peep back now. So I’m getting a little impatient now. Next time, I’ll be sure to wait until books are in my hand before I sell, but I was afraid I might run out. So to everyone that ordered, thanks for your patience. I’ll post here as soon as they arrive. I hope they come by tomorrow. I’m sick of asking about it because I feel like a pest. – I’ll make it worth everyone’s wait. I promise! I’ll update here as soon as I hear something.

As you may or may not have noticed, I did a little cleaning up on the home page. I ditched the picture calendar and dropped in a Calendar Menu dropdown. Just want the site to be as easy to navigate as possible, so I’m streamlining some things on the main page and through the archives.

Also, I’ve FINALLY got around to tweeking the caricature page around. See here. Yes. As promised a long time ago, prices have finally gone up a bit. Supply and demand. But still, really reasonable. AND I’m going to get into the custom icons for people too. I saw a few places online who tried and got crushed with business, but i think I can manage that. And that is SUPER cheap. Check it out.

I maximized my space for ads to run. Primarily I’ll run ads for stuff I’m selling or promoting , like the caricatures, books, whatever is new— but also, if anyone out there is interested in popping an ad on they can e-mail me for ad info. Hey, we got mouths to feed.

Bruce Campbell talks about EVIL DEAD 4

Hell Yes! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.

~comic link~ Sleeeeeeep.

Which is what I’m about to get back to. Another school delay today for the kids. I love you, snow!

I have a ton of e-mail in my inbox, I’ll get to it later. I’m typing this with one eye open. We stay up way too late here.

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While I’m thinking about it, and while all these fine new folks are flowing in here, I want to ask anyone out there to link to us if they like our work here. – We’re giving this stuff away, and right now our only promotional tool is pretty much word of mouth. So those links are important to us. Help us get the word out, and we’ll NEVER forget you. Toss a link in your blogs, message forums, homepage, whatever…. just link it to http://yirmumah.net – THANK YOU!!! Toss us a line and let us know where you’ve linked us up. We’ll link you back…

Also, there are some link banners on the links page, if you’re so inclined.

Thanks to microsoft blogger extradoinaire, Robert Scoble for the plug on his blog. Not only did he link up the Iron Man Challenge, but also made my name a link to here.

So welcome to all my fellow bloggers out there! Grab our RSS up and keep an eye on us.

You can also find Scoble’s link in my link list to the right. It’s under blog: Scoble, Bitches! I love that guy.

A loyal reader posts some great facts about the Storm Riders game who’s ad you see on the main Yirmumah page for this month… in our forum. Thanks homey!— I’m also informed there is a Storm Riders comic available in the US. Do check it out.

~comic link~ More fun Bob Pope action!

There was a school delay today for my kids. So I’m going back to bed. ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

You know– the other day, I’m watching TV and I swear to god I see Hootie (Darius Rucker) from Hootie and the Blowfish in a goddamn burger king commercial. Sho’ nuff– IT IS him.

You know what’s even funnier. Hootie Fans are upset and they’re voicing their opinions here.

Cowboy Hootie. That’s your weird surreal moment for the day. Enjoy.

I’ve gotten the nicest goddamn e-mails today. Geez guys. I’m flattered. I’m so use to hate mail and people sending me viruses and stuff. But you people out there rock. Thanks you all so much.

~comic link for the rss folk~ So there’s today’s comic. Enjoy.

Look ma, I sold out! To the right you’ll see an ad for a game called Storm Riders. I was approached by a game advertiser after hearing my name on Scott’s main page and following the links through the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge. So it’s official, I’m one of those strips with ads for video games now. We’ve made it! We’ve finally made it! — Seriously though, the game looks pretty cool, and it’s based on an old comic book too. Check it out. - (I know, I gotta somehow fix up the link so it loads in another window, will be done today sometime) – I’m really appreciative because even ONE ad pays for a whole bunch of online expenditures and helps keep the strip going strong. Strong like bull!

Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge The final tally on contestants, 56. The pot is at $1,120. There’s no more time for trashtalk. Seriously. There are just too many people for me to keep track of and mock. If we’re going to win this thing right, we have to really knuckle down and keep to our promises we had anyways before this contest started. What’s this mean for Yirmumah fans? You can be assured that there will definitly be a mon-fri comic as long as this contest goes on. The big saturday strips may be gone for a spell, while I build up a buffer akin to the one I had when we did that whole newspaper thing. No sweat at all. Actually, we may surprise you with BIGGER comics on a day you didn’t expect it at all. So this is just flat out going to be great for the regular readers. And to all the new people…. goddamn! Thank you so much for reading, and don’t believe all the ugly rumors about me. I blame Bob, you should too.

Books and posters The books are supposedly on their way here for all of those folks who ordered. Keep an eye on the blog this week for an announcement on when they arrive, and I’ll also post when I’ve sent em out. Goddamn again, super thanks to everyone who ordered the special deal. We love you. Anyone else who missed it, the stuff will be available here online from another store real soon. I’ll post a link for you.

Seacrest, OUT!