April 29th - That's All, Folks.
And off goes our plucky Venusian hero, back home and into obscure
State News history. Time to navel-gaze. Navel-gaze so
hard.
I want to thank the ~250-300 of you who regularly read The Percy
Project here, both for being generally interested in the strip,
and for sticking with me through the worst of it - which, I have
to say, probably consisted of far more strips than the best. While
getting a strip out every day all school year looked like a very
interesting challenge from the far away view of last summer, it
turned out to, at times, be an extraordinarily frustrating experience
at times. Some days, you just can't think of anything, and I think
you can tell which days those were. However, there were shining
bright spots, and I think those can't be totally discounted either.
All and all, while I'm not sure that I'm glad I chose to do a
comic strip over the past year, I'm glad to have done
it. An odd distinction, maybe, but I think it's important.
Finally, I've gotten a few e-mails asking if I've any other projects
in story, or if, in fact, this marks my departure from cartooning.
For the moment, I'm taking a break from this business of getting
strips up on a very regular basis. A recharge is needed. Badly.
However, yes, other projects are in the works. Rest assured, as
soon as anything's finalized, you'll hear about it on this page.
If you want to have immediate notification (and don't want to
constantly check what will otherwise be a dead page), send me
an E-Mail,
and I'll put together a little list to notify whenever my next
project comes to fruition.
(Oh, and a final note - if you send me an E-Mail over the course
of the year, and didn't get a response, I'm not ignoring you.
I just found out that almost none of the mail that I sent out
over the past year actually got out of my machine - some snag
with Eudora - so there's approximately 40 of you who I need to
get back to anew. You'll hear from me soon. Promise!)
April 26th - Problems
There's some minor problems with the archiving that'll get cleared
up tomorrow. Sorry for the weirdness. Strip ends Friday!
Update: Fixed, and far before expected!
April 11th - Red Ceader Toxic Hellpit
Another campus-specific joke. The Red Ceader river is, as students
will tell you, their voice run thick with fear and disgust, our
own little camus sludgepond, where endless chemicals, pesticides,
vomit chunks and body parts are dumped year after year. It's one
of those things that reminds you why the EPA exists - to have
the bejesus frightened out of them by such examples of man's ability
to totally destroy his surroundings. The "shopping cart"
line is taken from objective reality, by the by, and does not
contain an ounce of exaggeration.
Also - just three more weeks 'till the comic's done for good,
everybody, so stay tuned and have fun.
April 5th - Gassing.
Those of you reading this from off-campus (which, as my stats
page shows, is a signifigant majority of you) mightn't be familliar
with the context of today's strip, so let me fill
you in. I just love being on a campus so paranoid
of riots that it pumps enough tear gas into possibly-rioting crowds
for me to feel it burning my eyes and nostrils like hellfire a
good five-minute walk from the action. Yeah.
March 29th - Bees!
For anyone interested in a bit of Percy Project trivia, today's
entry is an updated version of the first strip I ever drew for
this comic. The original, which you can view in all its inglorious
nature here,
is a pretty good example of how quickly a strip and one's drawing
style can evolve over a few months (the original was drawn sometime
in mid-June, and the strip began its run, as the archives show,
in late August). Useless facts abound!
March 24th - There Was a Poll!
According to this
poll, The Percy Project ties with The Boondocks for the second-most
hated comic in the State News! Woo! Unfortunately, a whopping
33% chose Mallard Filmore, which barely registers as being targeted
at the human capacity for laughter. I just can't compete with
that.
March 14 - Returning: The Return
Back as promised. Just seven weeks to go now before the strip
is all finished. Also, if you'd like a look at a little thing
I did this summer whilst the strip was still in development, take
a look here.
One of my better Watterson rip-offs, if I do say so myself.
March 4 - The Springing and the Breaking
The madness is over. Spring Break now. No new comics for a week.
We resume on March 14th.
February 28 - Bizzare Stuff Week
Anyone curious about just what the heck is going on this week
should first understand that I've got a midterm, a big test, and
a fairly substantial paper due this week. Therefore, I am descending
into utter madness, and taking the strip with me.
January 10 - Returning
Back to work, back to work, back to work. Sorry, no revamped site
layout (tried - failed), or navigation (tried - failed. If anyone's
a PHP guru, and wants to help, do E-Mail
me), but we'll see the Cast page up within a few days, along with
some other trinkets. For now, though, you get new comics, every
day the paper runs (not next Monday, by the way - University holiday).
As an aside, if today's strip doesn't make a whole lot of sense
to you, it might be because you're not from MSU - mayhaps this
and this
will help.
December 14 - A Long Winter's Nap
Hey, everyone. Glad to see people are trickling in now, after
Portent Pete's
kindly linking (it's amazing what a crowbar will do for some people's
discretion), but, unfortunately, I'm going to be leaving you all
for a month. It's Christmas Break now, and as there's no State
News, there is also no Percy Project. New strips start up again
on Monday, January 10th, and we'll likely also see a revamped
site, which actually has things on it like a Cast page and normal
archiving system. Might I also reccomend that, if you're in the
cheery Christmas spirit, do head over to TheNorm.com,
and donate towards the eventual re-birth of the best comic strip
to grace newspapers in ages.
August 31
The Percy Project.com, home of the State News' new student-produced
comic strip, is now up and running. The various sections should
be online soon. Please be patient with your cartoonist. Also,
please E-Mail
him with any thoughts on the strip - he wonders if any humans
he does not know are reading it.
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