Last friday I posted a lil’ April Fools comic of which the fools part didn’t show unless you clicked the “read more” link, which unfurled like this:
much to my initial delight (and following chagrin) the joke worked better than I expected because a lot of people didn’t click the link. At first I was like “haha gotcha good, fuckers!” but then throughout the day and weekend I kept getting emails and tweets that were like “congrats! I knew you’d make something of your sad, little life!” or something similarly implicit, until eventually I realized (as one astute commenter pointed out) I basically just April fooled myself. Haha! waaaah! Anyways, sorry to do this but I must dispel any and all rumors that I’ll be doing a TV show. There had been talk of it once, but I never wrote the script for it because that’s just not something I wanted/want to do at this point in my life. I’ve got comics to make and cats to feed. That’s funny because I’m unemployed and my cat’s a dick.
Speaking of that, MoCCA is this weekend! Pizza Island will have a table and we’ll be selling a group sampler mini comic as well as talking on a panel (ostensibly titled Pizza Island: the Panel) on Sunday at 2:30. Come see us gab about how much we love tea cozies and knit sweaters! I’m not kidding. I love sweaters. I don’t really know what a tea cozy is though.
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Ha! first comment!
Hmmm…..
Well….
Yes.
Indeed.
I’m gonna go to your store and buy a panel now (for lack of something better to do).
sincerely,
Jacob
I thought that was hilarious. Especially how it was a backfired April Fools’ thingie. May I humbly suggest that the next time you essentially pull a prank on yourself that it involve the saying, “If a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass a’hoppin.’” Possibly with a drawing of yourself as an old-timey prospector? Just a thought.
haha I like that. Perhaps that’s a thought that will come to fruition
I submit that those people who didn’t click the “READ MORE” button are all dumb.
not true, people just read things quickly and if they’re in the mindset to read a comic, that’s all they’re going to read, not the text around it. (I only have to say that since some of my friends fell for it. Hi Shelby!)
A tea cosy is a teapot sweater, basically. You bung one on your teapot to keep the tea warm for longer.
That’s all I got.
i like how your cat is angry at the tv for not showing bones too
Oh wow! I totally felt like a dickhead for suggesting that you April Fooled yourself! Now I feel gratified that my comment didn’t go unnoticed, but it also confirms my dickheadery. To make myself feel better I think I’ll go do something futile like start a Facebook campaign titled “If 1,000,000 people Like this than Julia Wertz will write a Fart Party pilot script”
Kharma’s a bitch.
It’s almost like if panels of some of your comics were painted by a Dutch Master (the kind of artist, not the cigar for rolling blunts) who had access to excellent indoor lighting. Well that’s probably an exaggeration about the amount of times you’ve drawn yourself surrounded by food, but it’s not so so rare, I don’t think.
Also, you just mailed me my copies of all your books and I’m wicked excited.
I dont mean to be a jerk, but if you leave a comment with a whole bunch of links in them, I’m most likely going to delete them. But that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the comment!
Yeah it’s kind of impolite, it’s like going to a wild party and handing out Jack T. Chick tracts.