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  • Listening to: Summertime- Beck
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  • Listening to: Secrets- Jenny Owen Youngs
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Gaaaah, I'm not dead... yet. Things have been hugely busy with convention prep and trying to get the ball rolling on Ghost Bucket... which is why I'm not posting comics here too often anymore and I'm basically an awful person. I'm also getting like, actual comic-related work now with doing guest strips for webcomics and drawing a six-page story for a friend's book which is fantastic but also kind of terrifying because it means I have to be grown-up or whatever and that's personally kind of terrifying to me. I know, "boo-frickity-hoo-poor-me-I'm-in-danger-of-fulfilling-a-dream".

Anyway, remember Ships + Dip? It's finished, it's printed, and it is totally buyable.
CLICK. CLICK NOW.



Yes, I have a store now. You can buy crap in it.
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  • Listening to: Hate Everyone- Say Anything
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Wow journal, I am really neglecting the fuck out of you.

I've finished drawing Ships +Dip (yeah, you remember that, don't you?) and I'm in the process of getting prepped for printing so I actually have something to sell at SPACE in two weeks.

I'm freaking the shit out right now because I have next to no idea what I'm doing. I've never done a con before and I'm slightly terrified.

btw I'll most likely have a ton of extra copies for sale online afterwards too.
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  • Listening to: Five Years- Old 97's
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WHO'S GOT TWO THUMBS AND HASN'T UPDATED HIS JOURNAL IN OVER A MONTH?

Stuff has been fucking bonkers with the move and stuff, but we're finally sort of settled in. As you can see, I've rebooted Ships + Dip. I'm going to try to get a page drawn every weekday this week so I can get it done. IT HAS BEEN TOO DAMNED LONG!! D8

Also started work on what I hope will definitely be my first graphic novel thing... It's the Old West… BUT EVERYONE'S A WIZARD. I've posted a sketch of one of the protagonists and I'm hoping to get the first chapter done up as a mini to either hand out or sell at SPX this year, depending on stuff and then have it completed sometime next year to self-publish or something.

Oh! And I'll be exhibiting at SPACE in March. I'm excited and kinda freaked out. A lot.
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  • Listening to: Donde Esta Santa Claus- Guster
  • Reading: Fool- Christopher Moore
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I get laid off this week. I'll be updating and actually replying to comments here more regularly after we finish moving at the end of the month, I think.

8D
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GhostBucket.com is now open for business!
Bear with me as I try to figure out what the hell I'm doing.

Also, this scares the hell out of me: [link]
Harley Quinn's voice sounds weird coming out of an actual human being.
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  • Listening to: a terribler karaoke cover of "Under Pressure&
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Gosh, sure is neglectful around here.

I've been super busy with my crappy job and getting website stuff together and things have been really chaotic with the move and all, and I've been kind of bad about replying to comments because I'm freaking exhausted when I get home at night and this is the worst run on sentence ever.

Thankfully the website's just about ready to go and I've got a four day weekend coming up this week to get word/comicpress figured out and get going on that to have a comic ready to go next Monday. That's right, provided I don't die before then, I should have an actual webcomic as of November 29th. Woo.

And today I applied to submit something to a comic/art 'zine-thing and they sent me a very polite kiss-off letter. Ah well. Also stomach flu.
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  • Listening to: The Future Freaks Me Out- Motion City Soundtrack
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have been making things.
Things I sadly cannot show you yet.
These things I can't show you are fairly kinda awesome.

It's one of the biggest freelance projects I've ever undertaken and I'm super freaked out about it. Also, saying you've "undertaken" something sounds super fucking pretentious and it won't happen again. Ugh, god.

In other news, I've hopped back on the Health-Train and I'm kicking things off by kicking my budding caffeine dependency. The headaches are a bitch. Eventually I'd like to get back "in-shape" (whatever that means anymore) and do a 5k run... thing.
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  • Listening to: Make The Bus- Janelle Monae
  • Reading: Side Jobs- Jim Butcher (thank you Amazon!)
  • Drinking: water



Right, so I’ve put off talking about this as long as possible…

I’m moving. In more ways than one. Firstly, I know I haven't updated in ages and that's because I’ll be moving my comics  to a new site at GhostBucket.com (don’t bother going there because  there’s nothing there… yet). I've been saving up comics I've done for the new site and I'm currently redrawing/rebooting Ships +Dip (aka 'The Airship Guy minicomic') for it too.

And I’m moving… well, physically. Again. Earlier this year I moved  back in with my parents. As some of you may know, I am a pastor’s kid as  my mom is a Lutheran minister. That isn’t the problem though.

Last August, the governing body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in  America voted to allow the ordination of homosexuals in committed,  monogamous relationships… and the one church my mom is at (she’s got  two, the other one I love dearly. They’re practically family.) went  completely fucking APESHIT.

They’ve voted to pull out of the ELCA (the governing church  organization) and have not been terribly nice about it. There are forces  at work in the situation who are not playing by the rules and the  degree of absolute hate in these people for another group of  people based on what really isn’t any of their business to begin with is  simply astounding to me. They are no more Christian in their attitude  and actions than a pack of baptized wolves.

My mom has now resigned from the church and since they own the house  we live in, we’ve got to move out. Mom’s taken a second job at a  customer support line in order to stay at the other church part-time.  I’ve probably said more than I should at this point but it’s been  weighing pretty heavily on our whole family and I simply ask that you keep us in our prayers (although if that’s not your thing, thoughts and  well wishes are a-okay too).

Edit: And to everyone who'se watched me recently, thank you so much and I'm terribly sorry this has to be the first new thing you've read from me 8[
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An actual website. I am excite.
I would be more excite if I didn't feel like shit 90% of the time.
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I finally realized what's happening in this picture. Go me.
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I set up a sketchblog on tumblr. Pop in over here, if you feel inclined to do so: [link]
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I'll be using next week to either get a buffer going on these comics so I can go back to daily updates or work out a plan of some kind since this photo retouching job's gone and shot everything to hell. That doesn't mean there won't be updates though, which is where you, dearest reader, come in…

I'm accepting submissions for a guest strip contest of sorts. Do a fake journal comic about me, submit it, and I'll pick five for updates Monday to Friday of next week. In addition, I'll write very nice things about you because I don't have money to actually give you a prize of any kind. Send you entry to joehuntercomix[AT]gmail[dot]com before… oh let's say Midnight Sunday night, eastern time? I dunno. Good luck? Or something?
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  • Listening to: see link
  • Reading: COMICS FOREVER
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  • Reading: COMICS FOREVER
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Heeeeeey everyone. Back from the weekend's SPX festivities and still very much alive. I've got a full-ish write-up on the affair over at the website-wordpressy thing.

I started a new job yesterday and so I'm trying to get a new comic schedule worked out around that. Please bear with me? Please?
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  • Listening to: Motion City Soundtrack – A-Ok
  • Reading: Cyborg 009
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As some of you may know, I love Oingo Boingo. Danny Elfman is a musical genius and I freaking love their music... with the exception of one song called "Not My Slave". It's just kind of bleh and not terrifically interesting and basically the aural equivalent of wallpaper to me. I don't really know why.

Today I was browsing around FYE when I came across an album entitled Dead Bands Party, which is an Oingo Boingo tribute album. I was elated! And it had The Aquabats, Reel Big Fish, and Suburban Legends on it, whom I like! How bad could it be? I mean really?

Lo and behold, it's kinda bleh, but the one song on it that I actually really enjoyed was the cover of... "Not My Slave". Go figure. I guess there's no real point to this story. It just struck me as a bit funny. The story's basically over now and you can stop reading now. I mean it. There's nothing else. Seriously. Stop.


Stop.
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BILLY FROM THE ORIGINAL POWER RANGERS IS GAY APPARENTLY.
Now here is a video to commemorate this momentous occasion:

[link]

HOLY SHIT
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I wanted to say thank you to everyone for the feedback on the comics this week. It's been almost a year since I attempted a longer comic and there's a lot of basic crap I'm still pretty janky on. So err... thank you for the continued support. I love... most of you guys. I think. Shit.

And now for some fun crap courtesy of ~ShadowMastah and ~johnny310, respectively. Neither of which is probably all that SFW...

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TYPOGRAPHY!!
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and one girl's unbridled lust for him:
[link]

I love this so much. It cheered me up a teensy bit, I think.
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  • Listening to: Ramona- Beck
  • Reading: Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain
  • Watching: Batman: Under The Red Hood
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Holy crap a Daily Deviation? Awesome. I'd like to thank ~K-L-ee for suggesting me and `kangel for the actual... featuring... part or whatever. I have no idea how the ettiquette for this sort of situation goes. Sorry! And hello to the new watchers all... 1,2,3.... all crapload of you. I'm extending a blanket "thank you" to you all in case I don't get a chance to drop by and actually thank you in the next few days. The little activity messages are coming in faster than I can keep up with and it's sort of completely insane. Auuugh.

And to everyone else: I'm really sorry I haven't updated this week. I am very much alive but I've been feeling really down about stuff and been trying to deal with some personal crap lately and just haven't had the energy to do any strips this week. I'm disappointed in myself for not being able to stick to daily updates and crapping out on it just short of a year. I'll start updating regularly on Friday or Monday. Sorry again.

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