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Click on the redneck to see the new IRK comic!



Wow, two comics in two weeks. That's pretty good for me. I plan to keep the trend going but I don't have the track record to support such claims.

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Looks like I squirted out a new comic. This time it's a guest comic for Captain Excelsior. Click the pic to see it.

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Looks like the 15-Minute Comic thing is going to be happening. I have six of them in the can. I'll wait until I have a magic number of about 20 before I start posting them daily. After I completed the first one I developed a fear of the whole idea. I was worried that each one had to be at least as good as the last one. Well, I eventually conquered that fear by forcing myself to do a second one -- a very crappy second one. After that I had no problem moving on. And some of them even turned out pretty good (I think).

My new problem is that I have ideas that pop into my head some time before I start the timer. If I turn those ideas into a comic later, it's not true improv. And at least once I went a little over the 15-minute time limit. So... what to do. I think I will have general rules in place (each comic conceived and drawn in 15 minutes), but allow bending of the rules. I'll indicate any time the rules are bent. The idea is to get myself drawing every day, as quickly as possible, and as often as possible. Why let the whole thing get bogged down by the rules?

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Before we get back to our usual programming, here's a tentative new feature: the 15-Minute Comic. I would give myself just 15 minutes to come up with an idea for a strip and draw it. There would be a new strip daily, or on Monday through Friday, at least. The purpose of this exercise would be to 1) increase traffic to this site, and 2) help me shed my crippling perfectionism. I think the 15-Minute Comic will work if we accept that crappy strips are permissible and inevitable. It seems there's no reason not to do this. Besides, how hard can it be to find 15 minutes out of each day to draw? Well, if I decide to go through with this, I'll build up a sizable buffer of strips before posting any more of these. That'll all but guarantee no missed updates. Leave a comment to talk me into or out of doing this. By the way, this would not supersede the other strips like IRK, Buttles, or even Dr. Depresso.

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Click the pic for another Buttles strip.  It's OK if you hate these.  I didn't abandon the regular IRK strips.


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I feel bad about not updating irkworks more often so I posted something I normally wouldn't have posted. It's a new comic I did awhile ago called "Buttles." There's at least one more Buttles strip coming soon. After that, who knows? Click the pic to check it out.

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Click pic for a new comic:

 

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This isn't the triumphant return I probably owe after disappearing for a couple months. Click the pic for latest comic.

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Hear ye, hear ye.  After unreasonable delay the next comic strip has been crapped out. Click the pic.

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Current Mood: tired

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I guess there's a new comic. There's some optional audience participation if you're into that kind of thing. Click the pic for comic. (Rhymes!)



Sometimes I wonder why I don't write more journal entries in addition to notifications for comic updates. But then I realize the majority of the entries would involve me threatening to give up comics, slagging other peoples comics, and being generally miserable.

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