Good morning!

It’s Friday. Whew. If you’re in the Tampa area, I’ll be at the Tampa Comic Con – come on out and see us! If you’re not in the Tampa area, and I wish you were, then I guess you’ll just have to wait until I give ya a recap next week.

Hope you enjoyed Winchester’s return!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Good morning!

The comic was done before midnight (11:59) so there’s progress! Woohoo!

Thank you guys for continuing to comment on the strip. It means a lot – and I apologize for my lack of participation on the site and on my fellow webcomickers sites. I have a ton going on personally and I’ve mentioned a little bit of what’s going on and I don’t want to whine about it so I’ll leave it at that. So just please accept my apologies for now. I’ll get my head out of my butt before too long…

As always, thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Good morning!

Happy Monday!! Winchester is back! Today’s comic contains a lot of words (sigh) and is basically to kind of catch up to where he’s been. It’s been a fun discovery for me because it lead me to Blabber Monkeys – Nonsensical Monkey Monks who have been trying to train Winchester so he can better understand Rick. Let’s hope it works!

More about the Blabber Monkeys. According to their literature (no site yet), they are experts in nonsensical teachings and are the foremost authorities on Monkey Business. As such, their slogan is “Around here, it’s all Monkey Business and that’s Business As Usual”. Interesting.

The design on Winchester's shirt – will be available soon.

I would have made Winchester’s shirt black in the final frame of today’s comic, but then you wouldn’t have seen the Monkey’s legs and I thought it was better this way. Hope you like it!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Good Friday morning

It’s Friday! And before I forget – IT’S FRIDAY! Wooohoooo! What a week! Crazy for me personally! Hope you enjoyed the strip. I have lots of quality family time planned for this weekend! Plus I have plenty of webcomics to catch up on!! Have a greeeeat day!

Oh and PSSSSSST – Winchester’s back next week. We’ll find out what our resident caveman/bodyguard/former British spy/assassin has been up to!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Happy Friday!!

If you’ve noticed the changes to the site, and you like them – drop me a comment. If you have suggestions, I’d love to hear them. I haven’t done much with the design aspect – most of what you see is ComicPress’ original template – and as a designer I have to say – it’s quite impressive. I’ll continue to be tweaking – or cartooning it up over the next couple of weeks, but I’m pretty happy with the way it looks now and the functionality is great. Special thanks for Phil (Frumph) from WebComicPlanet for helping me out of some tough spots (mostly me needing a well deserved smack upside the head! .

Moving on – I had a different kind of wake up call earlier this week. Many webcomic veterans out there – specifically the Webcomics Weekly guys: Scott Kurtz, Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett and Kris Straub have been railing against syndication – of any sort. As you probably already know, Amazon in conjunction with Andrews McMeel Universal (a traditional comics syndicate) announce Comic Strip Superstar. A competition of sorts where you would submit your comic and it would be reviewed and voted on – the winner getting a contract.

Having been on ComicsSherpa for a year and a half – and watching my pageviews steadily grow (without promotion), despite the selfless advice of the Webcomics Weekly guys I thought I’d consider entry. I was pretty aware what I would be giving up, but I thought in my opinion the pros outweighed the cons.

One of the cons are I give up a lot of my rights to this creation, and I could be missing out on potential opportunities as a result. Even if the comic goes nowhere, I lose it and the syndicate has the right to let it die a slow death.

A couple of the pros are that I would get opportunities that may not be afforded to me on my own – at least not as quickly as I’d like. I would get to meet people of influence in the comics industry. My career is put on a faster track than it currently is – even if it goes nowhere (I guess you’d be afforded the opportunity to get there faster).

I was seriously considering entering – my wife is a lawyer and I was half convinced that either there would be some sort of leverage point or my wife would be able to give me the final say on whether it was a risk worth taking (legally).

All this changed with one email. Confident in my growth in pageviews, I emailed someone at ComicsSherpa asking “what numbers they look at before they start to consider moving someone from the Sherpa site to the main UClick website”.

A quick bit of history – prior to the site redesign recently – getting to the “New Artists” section was – not easy. It’s still not easy to find my comic which is among a sea of links in the Sherpa listing.

So brave upon the belief that people that are coming to my page over there are REALLY looking for my comic, I awaited the response, which surprisingly came quick – even at 11pm on a Monday night. The “aide de sherpa” delivered a swift dose of reality.

“Creators asked fdor stats, and it seems a useful tool for you folks and we are glad to provide, but the traffic and readership are never a factor in our editorial decisions. I never even look at them. Our editorial decisions in pursuing a feature for online syndication are completely based on our own subjective opinions!”

That’s it. That’s verbatim – including the typo. Other than a quick greeting and his email signature – that was the email.

Traffic and readership mean nothing. Basically, they “just know”. Subjectively. 99% of the Internet relies on ‘traffic and readership’ and here you have a business that doesn’t even ‘factor in’ some of the most important elements to online success. The point is – they don’t get it. Regardless of the subjective aspect of their means of choosing comics – they really don’t get it!!! Perhaps this is the reason traditional comics are in trouble – it’s certainly a case for why syndicates may be destined, like newspapers, to fail.

Prior to that email, I was confident that if I could put out a quality product, I would have the opportunity to make a living. The reality now is, the comic will continue to get better and it will undoubtedly take longer. My motto for the last couple of weeks has been “Success only comes before Work in the dictionary”.

I should be happy now – and I am. My eyes are open a little wider – and I’m motivated even more. Ask my waistline what happens when I get motivated… Hopefully you’ll stick around for the journey.

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Rick the Stick is a webcomic – true that.

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Good morning

Hey guys! Hope you’re having a great week! I took yesterday off from work to catch up on some RTS stuff and let’s just say I was working pretty much the whole day, but once again felt it was unproductive. In comparison, working in the few hours tonight (Wednesday night), I feel like I’m getting more done. BOOOHOOO! Woe is me right? What about you? Well, I’ll tell ya what…

It’s Webcomic Review time!!

I’m a little late on this and for that I apologize. I apologize because the webcomic Y2CL is not a webcomic – it’s not one, not two, not… you get the point – it’s SEVEN comics all different, but some tie in to each other… some don’t. Get it? It doesn’t matter because they all are a part of the same very disturbing and confusing world. How do you get to the y2cl-verse from here? Well you travel through the brain of J Horsley and you get – well, you get a little something f’ed up from every angle. And it’s all good!

You want range? You want creativity? YOU WANT ZOMBIES?

y2cl. y2cl and YES I SAID y2cl!

Want to know more? Use this link to the page where you can get a taste of what each one is about. Or take a gander at this handy list of the seven comics that create the y2cl-verse:
The Gang
Furry Animal Magic
Inanimate
Larry & Friends
The Jesus Triplets – one of god’s sons is a woman – with a beard – in a word awesome!
Sergeant Blinky and His Brigade of Fantastic
Zombie 2 Christ

You should go there now and see for yourself. Seriously, go NOW!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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	I just can’t believe what’s going on. Winchester’s dead, and my family is running an underground safehouse designed to protect me, what does it all mean?

Good morning!!

Happy Friday!! This is me doing my happy Friday dance! You can’t see it, but I’m standing here doing it!!

So here’s what I want you to do for me this weekend. I want you to sit down, and take a breath because I know it’s been a wild few weeks here. Once you do that, I want you to fire up your email program and do me a favor.

Pass this site, this web comic, or webcomic if you will, on to a few friends.

When I say a few, I mean everyone in your address book. And ask them to do the same. You see, it’s my belief that sharing mediocrity* is a good thing. And if I’m right, and I mean – just look at you – I think I am, you were brought up right and you enjoy sharing. And mediocrity* is something this comic strip has in abundance. I share it with you, and you share it with your friends, family and other people you know.

When we all come back on Monday, we’ll have a couple new friends sitting at their computer wondering what in sweet carnations you did.

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

* Mediocrity as in something good enough to share (like a rumor), but not too good to keep to yourself (like a secret stash of cash in your yard from a little bank heist – not that I saw you do it, or I’m even suggesting you might do such a thing, but something like that).

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	They found Winchester’s car, but nothing else. Milton doesn’t believe me, I know it! I AM NOT A LIAR!!

Good morning! Hope your week is going well! Not much to say today…

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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	So here we were – no body, no car, no blood. I know what I saw. Milton was sketchy with the details. I know what I need and what I need is answers and something a little more pressing at the moment…

Good morning!

Yesterday I posted the comic then feverishly worked on some wallpaper which I added to a new page on the website (only listed here for now). Regardless, when I was done with it around 3am, I thought it was too late for the email feed, but I’d add it to the blog post on the site so I could reference it on FB and Twitter so those I know or follow me would get a heads up. Well it posted in the email anyway and there was no preview. If you saw it, I apologize, if you haven’t here it is:

Rick the Stick's Wonderously Funny Web Comic Wallpaper

I’ll try and post new wallpaper every month. If you have an idea for something, like a scene or a pose or something you would think is funny, I’m taking requests. September’s wallpaper will feature something along the lines of this:

Look, up in the air, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a flying lollipop!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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	Milton seems calm. Too calm. Crazy calm. WHY IS HE SO CALM? What is that in his hand? Who is he talking to? Who is Cro-Mag?

Good morning!

NOTE: Folks who get the email – there is a poll in today’s comic – click the link to vote – I need your input!!! Thank you!!!
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

Can I say that I’m glad the weekend is over? Please? Don’t hate me – I’m just glad it’s over. I drove up to Gainesville to help move a friend. It was hot, and let’s just say – he HAD A LOT OF STUFF TO MOVE! Regardless, I had a good time and very little sleep, and less time recovering. Ugh.

Speaking of which, moving on to the Weight Update! The Rick the Stick Diet is winding down – the last weigh in is this week. Here were the stats from Friday, July 24th, 2009.

Starting weight: 273.6 (March 6th)
Current weight: 223.2 (week 17)
Weekly loss: 3.4
Total Loss: 50.4 lbs
Goal weight: 222
Remaining to lose: 1.4 (5 days from today)
Goal date: 7/31/09

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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