Serializer Archive: "How I Made It In Webcomics"
🕑 Added 2024-02-01 17:27:01 +0000 UTCThis is a reprint of a 2003 commissioned strip which ran in the now-defunct Flak Magazine (flakmag.com), which I reprinted on the now-defunct Serializer (serializer.net). Please enjoy this, its "third debut."
Please also note that the sentiments expressed in this piece were exaggerated in order to caricature the condition of the artist by focusing on an occasional self-doubt we all experience (even people who pick apples or motivate gymnasiums full of children). I currently am quite delighted to be producing Achewood comics in the Old Fashion, and plan to hit even more rootsy notes once this latest Téodor and Tina storyline wraps up tomorrow.
Comments
Eric_WVGG
lol yeah that’s a pretty important disclaimer, I was starting to feel guilty about enjoying this renaissance
Jeff Holt
I know Keith from Boston. He lost a lot of money and Achewood was the only thing keeping him from continuing to lose money. What a dick,
@misterjayem
"A bed" would always be appropriate.
KTB
You are immortal
Kyle McCowin
I was super active on TOUAMB from its founding after Onstad shut down his Dumbrella board until like 2010/11. I got behind on posts after a vacation and felt like I couldn't get back into it. I now regret not making the time. I still follow some TOUAMBies around the internet.
Tom PM
A bed that you rent as part of a rental agreement of a part -furnished property should also be considered.
A. Hamster
Show me an artist who doesn’t think he’s Christ from time to time.
Ruxine
If I were to go to a furniture store, and purchase a random bed from the showroom floor, but specifically request that I not be told which bed I now own, and then take a shit on a bed on the showroom floor, I would be in a quantum state of both owning and not owning the bed I shit in. Which tee shirt should I wear if I do that?
Traedran
Oh, how I recall reading TOUAMB forums long after everyone stopped showing up. Never got a reply when I applied to join. Was always fun reading what y'all wrote there. One of my favourite forum bits was a user who showed up, typing a phonetic Deep-South accent at all times, claiming it was his speech-to-text software, as if it could transcribe 'like' as 'lahk' and other such drivel. His commitment to the bit was amazing. Tiny cans of Dr. Pepper all around.
E Corcoran
BRING BACK ULTRA PEANUT
E Corcoran
*cross
E Corcoran
One of the funniest things ever created by Man
E Corcoran
Maybe it's time for Ray to prank call Funky Winkerbean
Shawn Warren
Getting down to brass tacks, there are really only two beds you can shit in: a bed that you own, and a bed that you don't. It was considerate of you to make a shirt for every permutation of this activity.
Amy Lewis
it always comes back to pickles in the bed
Evan Kahn
I think about the second panel often and would happily buy a shirt of it were one ever to become available
b.zap
Ray's underpants earned their place in heaaaaaavenn
Ben Sunshine-Hill
Chris get the FUCK back to work, I need another shirt where a cat shits and I need it yesterday
Jenn
If only there was a T-shirt that said WHAT THE HELL, PEOPLE because Roast Beef and I would wear it while we read those dumb comments
Kyle McCowin
I knew there was a Serializer strip that made fun of me specifically and I was pretty sure he turned my username CortJstr into AbnrmlJstr but I couldn't remember any other details. I'm glad to see it again. I was sure among the people on TOUAMB who reminisced about the "core cast" and "before the cats took over"
Oppido
I'm partial to the tiger who shits in a phone book and the self-sabotaging bear who forgives the tiger as a Christmas present.
Alex Woods
Would you say that Keith "eats and fucks shit"?
Jay Y
I sure wish he didn't do all those cocaines.
A. Hamster
Message board (n.): the crucifix to which an artist is nailed
A. Hamster
That one time in 1984 where Funky Winkerbean just rode the porcelain pony for a week. I looked at it and thought, “he ate a whole barbacoa burrito,” it was very relatable
Eric Bradford
I just like that "fuckin'" sign on the wall of the spaceship. Other than that, meh
Matt Lastname
Keith from Boston may be a dick, but he knows what he wants.
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
Mr. Boston needs to get fucked. Go back to Funky Winkerbean for your poops, Keith, you slackjawed junkslut
Josh Egbert
Obliged
Matthew Harris
You mean Lyle? He's a tiger.
Josh Egbert
I am personally a fan of the squirrel who does cocaines & the tiger who drinks until he throws up also in his bed.