Hey folks– go vote for this manifesto to be written– it’s by Don the Idea Guy, a fellow Yirmumah reader, – about revolutionizing radio- http://www.changethis.com/proposals/450 - I guess if he gets enough votes, he can write this and have it listed. I think it will be an interesting read.

THANK YOU!

Sticker orders keep rolling in. I’m amazed. I think we’ve moved over 4000 stickers now, according to today’s tally. Crazy. I’m kinda glad it died down a bit, because I think the post office was getting sick of me coming up to the window and saying I needed them to stamp 30-50 envelopes for me. —

Crazy Star Wars fans…. I only have about 80 sets left now. I wonder if regular old Yirmumah like stickers would sell? Like something with the Burger King on them or something strip related? I doubt they’d sell as well as the Star Wars stuff, but I’m tempted to try it out. Hmm….

I gotta watch my time though, I’m really cramping on time as it is. I’d love to have some shirts made up, but yeah, the time thing. Im gonna hunker down and work on actual comics for a spell I think, get back to a buffer of some sort so I can enjoy a little bit of the summer.

WHEW! Bite to eat for me and it’s back to work.

I should just start my own webcomic news service. – http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/30/2247224&tid=186&tid=99

I did find it ironic, a comment there about how ironic it was that a group of “independents” formed a collective. hah!

I’m happy they’re getting the slashdot traffic, but I feel sorry for the people who just bought ads and now all thier impressions will be most likely eaten up by Slashdot morons coming in. There are a TON of rude, bitter retards there who can’t see the positive in anything. WOW.

I got what I was craving… a great post by Eric Burns at Websnark. Clicky.

He mentions the passing of a friend, actually, several, among his fun sounding journey to SanFran. It’s odd how you can be going about your life, doing the things you do, and then you gaze off into nothing and suddenly realize Dave isn’t on this earth anymore. Or that you have friends dodging suicide bombs in some god forsaken desert.

But here I sit in enjoying technology and good coffee. I’m a lucky bastard.

Today’s Comic continues with the KING in Bob’s house lurking around. That creepy bastich.

Boy, I was cranky last night.

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Here is the cover to last month’s Parents Magazine…. Looks like the graphic artist was having some fun….

A big hello to a new monthly sponsor, Sanity Check. I’ve never heard of it before now— but to sum up what I’ve learned…. imagine you had a boring technical job, which in turn you needed a “sanity check” – oh, and your next door neighbor is a Dominatrix named Mistress Kitten. GO look for yourselves at http://sanitycheck.keenspace.com/ - I wish my next door neighbor was a hot dominatrix.

And don’t forget to check out ALL of our sponsors in that pretty sponsor bar up top. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, the details are here.

Hey, we found out about this cool program called Netbux, that actually pays you to search. It’s free to sign up and pretty stinking easy to make some extra cash. Sign up here and try it out!

I’ll post more about this later. Let me know how it works for you guys and gals.

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Ok. So, not that anyone has been paying any attention, but Yirmumah had been updating at PV Comics on Sundays and Mondays. Well, we’re not doing that anymore. I can’t figure out any real reason TO do that anymore, or what purpose I’m serving there.

PV was a GREAT idea. A Great vision.. .. 12 creators, banding together, one KICK ASS web designer, a solid plan… but pretty much, it’s been a ghost ship with a skeleton crew for awhile now. Many of the original “12″ left long ago, for various reasons. Then, one day on the phone with Logan DeAngelis, I put a bug in his ear about print on demand from home…… so he looked into it and COMIXPRESS was born. The Yirmumah mini was the first book printed through the system to test it out and get it ready for a more “public beta” version of the print service. – Needless to say, Comixpress exploded and our fearless leader and doer, Logan, was swallowed up by the DEMAND monster, never to be heard from again….. well, on occassion. So… I’ll take a little of the blame and say my encouragement shot PV right in the foot. But hell! You HAVE to go with what works. And PV wasn’t working, ESPECIALLY moneywise. — I have to say, there couldn’t be a better bunch of guys there though. Everyone has/had the BEST intentions.

I’m left with a feeling of failure/frustration kind of. To once be called “The Image COmics of Webcomics” to…. well, nothing. Not a whimper or a whisper… POOF!!! FRRT!!! An idea I thought would REALLY work. And it didn’t. Well, at least Comixpress is working. I of course can’t take full credit for that, but it was one of those floating dream ideas I shouted about, and at least IT worked. But the “12 creators, one vision” thing… nah, that went bust a goo while ago. — I’m a little frustrated/sad about it. I’m frustrated that I still get e-mails from people who subscribed who after the thing went free, they were never contacted, and they were really unsatisfied with something they paid for being opened up I guess. It was managed… poorly. I wish i had more control over all of that.

Maybe one day, if a plan comes along they can get ahold of me and I’d help in anyway I could.

So with that, I guess any new books won’t be under the PV label. So we might be looking for a publisher… any takers out there??? heh…

to be honest, I’m missing homemade mini-comics more and more each day.

Viva La Independents!

Took a break from blogging over the weekend…. or DID I??? Don’t ask.. it will make sense soon.

Yeah though, I have a bunch of things going on at the house, home repair type crap coming this week. Some of the paint and plaster around the old windows in our bedroom is cracking, and we’re finally getting rid of the old bedroom suite for this “spectra” type (link) - We’re gonna do our bedroom all retro 50s looking crap. Because we can. – So ANYWAY, yeah.. that’s a lot of work we have going on. I won’t go into the BORING details, just that it’s keeping me busy moving things around and up and down from my basement.

Good comics coming to you this week….. sweet day!

LINK! TRUE STORY. I was sitting up late last night, sort of unhappy with what I had going on for script ideas, etc. I turned on the TV to relax a bit, and behold— BRITNEY AND KEVIN: Chaotic. – I had heard the whisperings of it’s awfulness, and all those whisperings were true.

I stood with my mouth gaped open in awe at just HOW BAD television has become… “it’s worse than we thought, Jim….”

I immediately thought to myself.. WWDPD? — (what would Drew Price do?) and so there you go.

It goes without saying, the whole MTV thing… you know what I’m talking about… Where are the damn music videos? No… where the hell are the GOOD music videos??? I should stick to just listening to music on the Digital Choice Music channel. THAT is Music Television, even though there’s no pretty moving pictures….. at least it doesn’t make me want to throw the TV.

What’s going on? Everyone’s sleeping on the east coast I bet… not us cartoonists…… slaving away here to give everyone in the world their damn FREE entertainment.

Curse this obsession!

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LINK! - Poor Bo Bice, at least he got the parting gifts…. filled with sweet…..

I’ve gotten three e-mails and one comment on the blog asking if I watched American Idol over Lost. I want to confirm that this is not so. I was HOOKED on Lost last night, and couldnt change the station. What a great show. I turned at the very end after lost was over to see the glitter fest of and the American Idol singing.

Congratulations, America! Mediocrity wins the day again!

That’s right! I said it!

Hey, it’s ok though. Eat N’ Park has offered him 10,000 to sing their latest jingle, so says the local fox news station. Hooray!

What side are you on? http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/the_new_digital.html

I’m a digerati and I didn’t even know it.

Lookie there! Another wise person who bought a sponsorship spot before we raise the price to… ONE MILLION BILLION DOLLARS!!

So a big thank you to TIKI COLADAS by Jonathan Caustrita. I found this strip right after the CAPE show, someone had posted a picture of the tables there and i noticed the word TIKI because I’m a huge tiki freak…. so I checked it out immediately.

Great looking comic strip there, and by the looks of how they had their table setup at CAPE (photos) , Jonathan is pretty serious about this effort. Very slick! I wish I could find MORE webcomics with this much style and flavor, not just some sloppy mess of a website with stick figures!

Thanks again for the sponsorship, Tiki Coladas! Everybody here, GO check out his site.

While you’re at it, check out ALL of our sponsors up there in the sponsor bar– If you’re interested in sponsoring us, check out the SPONSOR PAGE. Remember… soon… it will cost…. A MILLION BILLION DOLLARS!!!!

A funny animated gif story thing featuring Star Wars Episode 3- - http://www.msu.edu/%7Evoraravi/misc/starwarsstory.gif

Attention Club Yirmumah Members– Added tomorrow’s strip to the club section. Enjoy. I also promise to put up a big chunk of something secret SOON.

If you’re not a member, you should JOIN!

Seriously– I just got this weird craving for shortbread. Mmmm….. I hope I can find some.

I don’t know if it aired last night or tonight– but this is just freaky.

Brilliant little way to hone in on the pop culture madness by Kimmel. Bravo!

LINK! 2 today’s comic - Never did an American Idol strip before. Hmm…. it was about time. Probably one of the rudest strips I’ve done in awhile, so pardon my behavior.

I must admit… I do watch the show as background noise. And I must also admit, that I want Bo Bice to win. Just because everyone else seems so.. uhm.. plastic and fake. He stood out in this season from day one.

GAWDDDD— I can’t believe I’m talking about American Idol, or even admitting I watch it. I feel so…. dirty and ashamed.

ARRRRGGG!!! I missed the SHIELD last night! DAMMIT!!! This just now occured to me. The one show I really do watch regular like, and I totally blew it and went to bed at 10:30. I SUCK! It was a 90 minute episode too. DAMMIT. I wonder if they’ll replay it this weekend? Hmm….

Big thanks to the comic, WitchTHorn for becoming a Yirmumah sponsor. I’ve checked this comic out before by way of the blambot forums, and it’s a good read. The world of webcomics needs more adventure style story strips like this. I dig it.

Be sure to check out ALL of our sponsors who help us to pay the bills a little bit here, so I can keep bringing you strips day in and day out. If you’d like to be a sponsor, check out http://yirmumah.net/sponsor.php – Only $10 bucks a month!!! best deal on advo-tizing around. For your information we get like 17,000-20,000 page views a day currently, and that’s about 3000-4000 unique folks passing through here each and every day and growing!

Thanks again to WitchThorn!

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I had all intentions of coloring Today’s Strip , which features the prince of darkness and his blog, but allergies or whatever the hell hit me, HIT ME. HARD. – Seriously, I’ve never had a runny nose and sneezing like this EVER before. I feel, for lack of better words, retarded. This is a LONG post so hit the more button if you want to read more– (more…)

Blank Label officially launched today. Love their tagline. I wish those guys the best. They have a solid lineup there and a nice looking hub site.

Enjoy. DARTH VADER FRANKENSTEIN

If you’re not using the firefox browser, some of the layout of the pages may look a bit off. But why would use any other browser! Download firefox today!

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LINK to comic! - Ok, today’s strip is up and running. People were asking for a Drew vs Bob lightsaber battle, so there you go! NOW, I’m off to write my blog about my Star Wars midnight showing experience– HOO BOY.

Posted tomorrow’s strip up in the club.

Off to eat something, spend some time with the family– and then I’m off to the midnight showing of Sith.

Wow. This has been a great entertaining read. Darth Vader has entered his last blog entry before bringing his son to his master. Check it out.

LINK to today’s comic! : – Yeah, I’ll be in line tonight to see the new Star Wars. Haven’t been as lucky as some OTHER PEOPLE AROUND HERE who gloat about seeing it already.

I’m crossing my fingers than my other batch of stickers comes today… damn! Always with the bad timing!!! If you haven’t gotten your stickers yet, they should be to you soon. I ran out of the first batch, so there are a few folks who will have to wait probably another week to get them. Orders keep rolling in for those from our store page. Thanks everyone!

Zach Miller from Joe and Monkey and I were just complaining about how there was nothing going on in Webcomic news lately, and suddenly, Keenspot has quite a few people leaving there. It’s interesting. I’ve heard some really efhed up things about the situation. Best of luck to everyone in that– those coming AND going, and who are there already. Our good friend Dave Wright recently joined up— Todd and Penguin is his strip, if you don’t recall.

Also, overnight, another contestant in the Iron Man Daily Grind Competition has fallen. See my forum for details and an updated DEFEATED graphic. 10 down now. 40 something to go!

Hey, I just want to clearly say that I have nothing against Hollywood. Look inside to see my appearance in DOGMA.

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Been awhile since I posted a ukulele chord. I recently learned David Bowie’s Queen Bitch on the uke… click the more tab to see it and all the lyrics – (more…)

Bob just informed me that on THIS STRIP… he pulled a ha-ha on me. Read every second letter in each word in panel two.

Gotta love that guy.

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This is the first time in a long time that I haven’t been running on a buffer or ahead of time on strips. Tomorrow’s strip is yet to be drawn as I sit here at 7:50pm. It’s all written out, but I’m stalling. No, no no… it won’t be late, as I’ll most likely be up until 2am or so.

It’s actually kinda exhilarating doing something NOW with no safety net. Actually, it makes me want to go WAY topical, which I might do. I’ve had some great ideas popping up having to do with things I see in pop culture news…… Which will come in really handy soon.

I’ve said before, I wish more webcomics were more topical to events around us in the world as they happen. – Think about those late night comedy shows… they film at like 5pm or something, have a complete hour of television done by 11:30 every night, fresh comedy. I don’t know why more cartoonists aren’t doing this online. IN fact, there’s a hidden market there for doing just that. I chalk it up to laziness and most cartoonists not wanting to REALLY work and treat it like a job.

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“I’m CRAZY, bitch!” - According to Entertainment Weekly, Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a South African Psych Ward— and season three of his AWESOME show will NOT happen —

This is terrible news! I hope he’s able to get with it. I had heard rumors that he decided to go all Cat Stevens and got into some radical form of Islam and was going to renounce all of his possessions– including his show!– That would be half sad for us fans, and half awesome too going out on top like that.

Either way, I hope the guy is ok. He’s a talented mofo, and inspiring to watch.

I know one thing– the blog is BACK on the main page at Yirmumah.net – The fans have spoken.

I know it’s way too late for me to be up… but I posted tomorrow’s strip in the Club section. Club members.. enjoy.

I know I watched Life Aquatic tonight, and that was just a cool movie. I might have to buy the soundtrack. Mostly David Bowie, but only sung in Portugese on acoustic guitar. It sounds awesome. Also, there’s a Stooges song on there which is one of my most favorites ever.

That’s all I know at this very moment– besides the fact I know that I’m tired and I need to get some sleep.

I heard my ferocious Bassett Hound doing his “tough guy” bark when strangers are around– I hear a guy yelling “Hello…” from my sidewalk. — I look out and it’s a guy wearing wrinkeld khaki pants, a black polo shirt, with his license hanging from his collar like an ID badge, he has some flyer in his hand. here’s what happened…

I walk out: Yeah??

Guy: Is your Mom or Dad Home?

I give the guy a look like– WHAT??? Then I just say:
“Uh no, and we don’t want whatever you’re selling, thanks.”

Guy: Are you sure you don’t want one of these brochures for–

Me: NO buddy, thanks…. I come in before he can say anything else stupid to me.

—ARe my parents around??? WHAT??? I’m almost 30 here! My hair is out like a mad man, and I’m unshaven like a beast—- It would have been funny if my dad would have been visiting… hah….."Here’s the Deacon!” hehehe

Who knows what that guy was up to.

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Today is my wedding anniversary. Wouldn’t you know it, we don’t have a sitter for the kids, and my wife has to work. —- This is my daily rundown….. (more…)

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Busy Saturday here… I updated the club section with Monday’s strip. Also the winner of the WIN CLUB YIRMUMAH MEMBERSHIP has been announced. And the winner is….. (more…)

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Another sad rundown of my pathetic daily life as a cartoonist working from home… (more…)

My daily rundowns continue– for anyone paying attention or wondering if I’ll mention them. (more…)

Today’s Comic features that ever lovable Emperor Palpatine! Gotta love that guy.

I just noticed not only is it Cinco De Mayo, but it’s also 05/05/05 – freaky! – Read more of today’s ranting…. (more…)

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Added two new strips to the club section. Go forth, club members!

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I was inspired by Kevin Smith’s “My boring ass life” blog posts– and thought I might give a run down of my day, just for fun. I don’t know if I can be as open as he is… wow, maybe this will be a practice in how honest I can be. So– here it goes! (more…)

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Seriously… a 15lb hamburger? WTF? – It’s real. See here.

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Today’s Comic is the first in Star Wars WEEK THREE!!! A little Jabba / Sarlacc action for you. (more…)

Just saying… Club members, go check! – If you’re not a club member, you should join.

I uploaded tomorrow’s strip into the club section. Club members go to where you know to go.

Also, if you cast a vote today, you can see the sketch of JUNGLE BABE today only. So, VOTE.

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