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More Fanart for Shortpacked!
This is based on one of his recent comics: http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/03-totally-babies/equaltime/
This is just a response to a comment I couldn’t draw earlier due to work and parties.
Shortpacked by David Willis
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Shortpacked!: Five
Shortpacked!’s final week begins! If you buy 3 or more items in the Books category in the store, use the coupon code SOGGIES to get $10 off your order! Works on items in the Books category only!
(The Dumbing of Age 3-book combo counts as only one item, but there’s 5 Shortpacked! books in there, so grab ‘em up.)
I think I draw slightly better when I’m drawing Dumbing of Age. I really don’t know what it is. Is it psychological? Leslie doesn’t get this nicely rendered over on Shortpacked!. It’s not like I sit down to draw Shortpacked! and think, man, let’s just crap this one out, it just happens.
(april 15)
and yeah i drew her in the same outfit that she’s wearing in shortpacked! right now why the heck not
The “The Shortpacked!: The Movie” posters arrived in the mail this very morning, on Shortpacked!’s seventh anniversary! Pretty damn sweet! I tried a million times to get the colors to show up correctly on my camera, but this is the best I could do. Imagine it looking roughly 400% prettier.
Though they are limited, there are still some of these left! You can even splurge and get a piece of original character artwork from me as well! All proceeds go to the “David and Maggie need to get the hell out of the house for once” fund.
I will start putting some of these in the mail to those who ordered them just as soon as it stops being The Deluge out there.
Originally my price sheet was just some stock Shortpacked! art, but after taking stock of all the posters I have available to sell, I realized, dude, I’m sharing a booth, I ain’t gonna have room for all that stuff to keep out on display, and so I replaced the stock Shortpacked! art with images of all the posters I’m bringing.
Wow, that should not have been one sentence.
Anyway, I’m bringing all that stuff, Shortpacked! books 1-4, Dumbing of Age book 1, and the new Leslie/Robin licky print.
EMERALD CITY COMICON BOOTH #1008, YO
In Shortpacked!’s final week, let’s count down the top ten Shortpacked! strips!
…this strip is one through ten.
welp we’re done
The ENTIRE 2,000+ strip run of Shortpacked! is now available in the app, joining David Willis’ other comics Dumbing of Age and It’s Walky!/Roomies! Thank you for enjoying The David Willis App.
(note: this is not a pregnancy announcement, getting that out of the way right off the bat)
Those of you who’ve read Joel Watson’s foreword in Dumbing of Age book 2 know that he claims Dumbing of Age’s creation is his fault. Well, Shortpacked!’s end is his fault, too. Go yell at him. But let me explain.
In the foreword, Joel talks about how we sat around exhausted at Comic-Con 2010 talking about drawing webcomics. To sum up, since he’d started raising a kid, his ability to attune himself with the pop culture lifeblood of his pop culture-riffing webcomic had severely diminished. Maggie and I sort of wanted kids eventually ourselves, and so this was something I hadn’t considered. I mean, writing Shortpacked! without a growing toy collection or the funds or time to watch movies or basically spend all day on the Internet getting mad at dumb people? How is that possible? It isn’t.
That’s the part of the story you’ve heard. But here’s the other half:
And so I thought to myself, okay, what kind of story can I write effortlessly without having to put my nose in the Internet and spend thousands of dollars on toys that should be buying my kid food instead? WELL, COLLEGE, OBVIOUSLY. Take all my characters, reboot them, and just write them forever, because I know I can. It’s my wheelhouse. I can write that on autopilot, blindfolded.
Shortpacked! was making barely enough money to live on at the time, and so I couldn’t just end it. I needed to write both comics at the same time, build up that second audience, so that when SP! dies I have that audience waiting. But the thing about having babies is that you can’t really plan for when they specifically happen. For example, ours hasn’t yet. Maybe soon, hopefully! WHO KNOWS. But back then, I figured Shortpacked! would end whenever that kid happened. I didn’t want to leave my characters hanging, so starting in 2010 I immediately started wrapping things up one by one. I gave Amber closure with her father. I gave Amber and Mike a happy ending together. I got Robin and Leslie back together (as was always the plan). I got Ethan the hell away from retail. The double edged sword with not knowing when your comic will end while still trying to wrap things up is that you need the strip to persist while characters are leaving. And so there’s Malaya and Ken and Lucy and everyone sort of being there to keep things alive until whenever, possibly indefinitely. Robin and Leslie would never leave – Shortpacked! is impossible to write without Robin. She is its tone embodied.
Anyway, Dumbing of Age really really really really did well. It has twice the audience as Shortpacked!, and with the help of Hiveworks, it’s making me pretty financially happy, and so I’m in a place that Shortpacked! can end whenever. It’s finally unnecessary, except for those times I have to yell at MRAs. Ultimately I’ve decided it will end on its tenth birthday, mostly because I really really like round number anniversaries and I’ve never done any single thing for a full decade before. It’d probably end sooner otherwise. My brain is solidly in the Dumbiverse, even though I still find spurts of great inspiration in Shortpacked!.
And so today, on its ninth birthday, I thought you should have advance notice.
Here’s a CLASSIC SHORTPACKED! to fill tonight’s gap, as neither Dumbing of Age or Shortpacked! updates tonight, what with the current M-W-F “I’m moving” schedule. Specifically, this is the “remastered” version of the Batman DDR strip which I sell as a print at conventions.
zeromayhem
siphersaysstuff
Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS
