Bottoms Up! A new single-panel comic about your crappy life.

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Permalink Reply by T´s Kingdom on June 19, 2009 at 8:25am

I think your artwork has the sense of traditional cartoon style, it´s has certain "professional" look. In a way it also reminds me of some older artwork seen on Mad magazine (which is -obviously- a good thing) You seem to be aware of your strengths and limits and you handle things overall very well.

Your ideas are good and "working ones" and your humour is nicely "dark" - personally I would probably like to see it adjusted even darker but most likely that´s just dark enough for most people. So, overall things are looking good!

Hopefully someone here can help you out with website designs - those things aren´t unfortunately my cup of tea.

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Permalink Reply by Brian O'Meara on June 27, 2009 at 8:09am

Thanks for the very positive review of Bottoms Up. I appreciate the Mad Magazine reference...I'm flattered.

In terms of the dark humor, that's always been a question for me with this comic. My humor is naturally dark, but I'm trying not to go overboard with it. That being said, based on the traffic on my site, I'd say that the panels that are "darker" (like one involving a dog, peanut butter, and nipples) seem to do better than the "lighter" ones...

I'd sure like to know what others think as well. Check out Bottoms Up for yourself.

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Permalink Reply by James Riot on June 28, 2009 at 11:49pm

Your comic looks good! I agree with T's Kingdom that it's reminiscent of old Mad Magazine, but that is by no means a bad thing. I dig your sense of humor, I'm definitely bookmarking it for regular reading.
As far as website layout, give Panel Flow a try. It's a nice, smooth, flash based comic management system. Right now it's in the "host here" stage, but very soon will be available to download and install on your own server.

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Permalink Reply by Brian O'Meara on June 29, 2009 at 5:24pm

James,

Great to hear that you like the comic. I'll have to dig out my old copies of Mad Magazine to see what you and T's Kingdom see as the similarities. But hey, people actually paid good money to read Mad Magazine, so I will take that as a compliment. Also, I will definitely check out Panel Flow. Thanks for the tip.

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Permalink Reply by Gaelyn Thorne on July 14, 2009 at 7:31am

Love it, your sense of humor is nice. I feel that way about my coworkers on some days...

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Permalink Reply by Brian O'Meara on July 26, 2009 at 10:22pm

Since my last entry here I have gone to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule and I have just redesigned the site to better showcase the comic. I thought the old design was "crowding" the comic too much. Please let me know what you think--about the comic and the site.

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Bearman on December 20, 2009 at 5:48am

Don't know what the old layout looked like but liking the new one. Love the line and shading work on your stuff.

I see you have links to social bookmarking sites but no indication of whether you have accounts there. (ie facebook, twitter) so people can follow you via those means.

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