Congratulations, Brad!
Posted October 2nd, 2006 by Howard TaylerFellow Blank Label Cartoonist and all-round great guy Brad Guigar is celebrating his 2000th daily strip in the Greystone Inn/Evil Inc. continuity. No, this doesn’t count the strips he’s done for Courting Disaster (www.courting-disaster.com — sometimes not safe for work) or Phables.
Congratulations, Brad. Here’s to both of us cranking out 2000 more (I’ve got a head-start. Maybe you’d better start counting those other projects, toon-boy.)
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October 2nd, 2006 at 8:10 pm
As much as I like Evil, it’s only a six-day-a-week comic. You’re still so far out front that there’s nothing in the rear-view mirror.
October 2nd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Ah, but if Brad whips out one Courting Disaster per week, and two Phables per week, he’s actually got 9 strips per week to my seven.
I’m only 305 days ahead, and he’s gaining on me at a rate of two days per week. In just one year my lead will have shrunk to a paltry 201 days.
Brad will catch up with me in early September of 2009. (I will have to have him assassinated before then.)
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:10 am
I don’t think you’ve got anything to worry about, Howard. True, it’s technically a six-a-week comic, but quite often, he doesn’t get in the full compliment of six. And you already SAID you weren’t counting Courting Disaster or Phable in this tally.
And speaking of his continuity, could you maybe drop a hint or two that more Greystone cameos in Evil, Inc. would not be unwelcome. :-D
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:42 am
Wulf,
I’m not going to start an argument on my friend Howard’s blog, but I will mention that I haven’t missed a Saturday update — or an update on any other scheduled day of the week — for several years.
I do use Saturdays for non-continuity strips and comics that feature character profiles, but my site is updated every Saturday nonetheless.
For the first five years, the Saturday strip was a regular part of continuity — and was updated every Saturday along with the rest of the week.
After seeing weekend numbers dip consistently over those years (and after realizing that my readers were missing plot points that happened in the Saturday strips) I finally decided to take Saturday out of continuity when I launched Evil Inc about a year ago.
To say that I “quite often don’t get the full compliment of six” is completely untrue. If I posted comics during any given week, I posted Monday through Saturday.
As far as seeing Greystone cameos, that’s always a definite possibility. :)
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Brad, you need to go ahead and give us a count of Greystone, Evil Inc, Phables, and Courting Disaster. The suspense is killing me. Certainly you’re within spitting distance of my 2305 number already.
October 3rd, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Hi Brad. Congratulations on the killer benchmark!
As long as you’re reading here, I’d like to register a vote for phlushing Phables entirely and adding extra Courting strips to make up the slack.
October 3rd, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I’m pretty sure Phables is not only phun for Brad, but also phinancially important, since it appears in a Philly paper.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Phables is phun and also enjoyable, as someone who gets some of the local jokes and the references.
October 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Yah, well. Living in rural Colorado, Phables phlops with me. The only local humor around here concerns the phragrance^W fragrance from the local feedlots and that’s only funny once.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Actually, adding Courting Disaster and Phables barely adds another 100. CD is weekly and only a year-and-a-half old. Phables updates every other Monday and started earlier this year. :)
Phables is a project I lobbied for for years at the Daily News. I’m really proud of it. It’s been very well-received both in the paper and on the Web. I don’t know that you have to be familiar with Philly to appreciate it, but I also know that I’m never going to please everyone with everything I do.
Bottom line: I love Phables so I’ll continue to do it. :)
As far as doubling CD, I have to think long and hard about that. It would allow me to go even farther over the line since the cartoons I do currently have to appear in newspapers. I could do one safe one and another… unsafe… one.
I have to be honest, though, if I were to figure out a way to add another project to my week, I would spin Gary the Graphic Artist into his own weekly strip on a dedicated site targeted to graphic designers.
But I’m already juggling two young kids, a wife, a day job, a daily comic, a weekly comic, and a bi-weekly comic. I really have to try hard to manage my time and more tightly than it already is. :)
October 4th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Brad,
I need to apologize, that post sounded much more critical of you than it was meant to. I’ve read (and enjoyed) your comic for years, and will continue to do so. Apparently I was mistaken. Perhaps it’s an issue with updating TIMES that I accidentally mistook as simply not updating. I tend to check most of the webcomics I read right at or around 10:00 MST, and there have been a few times where I’ve checked and yours hasn’t yet updated. The discrepancy is probably simply due to when I check it, and not due to a lack of updating on your part. I apologize for any inaccurate statements I may have made.
In the meantime, keep the funny comin’. :-)
October 4th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Thanks, Wulf. No harm, no foul. :)
October 4th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Doing it for love is the best reason ever, Brad.. Keep up the good work and may you always be doing things you love.
Respects
October 4th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Howard, if you count CD and Phables, shouldn’t you count the bonus story in UNM? That should give you another couple of months before he catches up, right?
October 5th, 2006 at 5:46 am
*chuckle* As someone who enjoys both, I’m going to get the popcorn and enjoy the debate. Whoever wins, I get entertainment and humorous reading material.