and this is my journal comic.

I know journal comics have a mixed reaction in the comic world, some love them, some passionately hate them. I’m more on the love side myself. Anyways, I always wanted to do one, but would always fail after three days. Finally my Self-Publishing professor Sweetwater (yes, we call a professor Sweetwater) made my class do a daily one for a month straight. I dug it.

And now we are building websites for them. So welcome.

I want to get back into the grind of doing a journal comic everyday. I think I’ll start up again this week. Heck, at last weekend’s Editor’s Day Chris Staros (of Top Shelf Comix) looked at my mini-comics, looks through the inkdick number one and proclaimed, and I quote, “I want to see more dick!” So we’ll see…

Ok, this site is now live and open to the public. It still has some minor tweaks that need to be made, but it’s functional and that is what matters. So…welcome to inkdick, my journal comic. Inkdick is the first comic in a line of Ghost Car Press webcomics (more coming soon).

So I did these strips from March 24 to April 27. I still have a few more from that time to post up. But after that I gave up on these, but upon building this site I got the urge to get back to doing these daily. So I’m doing them again.

I will post the last remaining strips from the initial run up here in the next week and the new strips will follow soon after that.

Oh, and please tell all your friends about this site and tell ‘em to bookmark it!

Thank all yous guys for the positive feedback to inkdick so far! So I’m trying to keep up to date with these things. Ideally, I want to update with a new comic everyday, but I won’t be able to do that for at least a month, what with school finals this week, the fact I don’t know when/if I’ll have internet in my new place, and the fact I’ll be in Woodbridge, VA early June. But after that, I’ll try updating everyday. But until then, check back here every few days or so for updates.

Once again, thanks for digging what it is that I do and if you want, help spread the word and tell all your friends about inkdick. The more the merrier!

I tried to avoid the webcomic cliche of the the web cartoonist saying, “Hey, sorry for not updating in a while” but there is no way around it. So…

Hey, sorry for not updating in a while.

I gotta say, I sure picked a shitty time to start back up with doing a daily journal comic. Finals week just ended and I just helped check out 1000 freshmen out of the dorms, all on a grand total of 10 hours of sleep for the whole week, and I just made it under the wire. So, you can see how journal comics are low on my list right now. I need to get caught up on them and I WILL update the site with them when done.

But this leads us into our second problem…

I am now in the process of packing up and moving into my new place and we don’t know when we will get our internet hooked up and I need to find my scanner in my pile of junk. And then a week after that I’m flying back to see my family and tie up loose ends in Woodbridge, Virginia for at least a week, maybe more, and may not have means to scan and upload my comics there.

So…

I don’t know when the comics will be posted, and I don’t want to make any promises that I can’t keep. So please just come back and check the site once a week to see if I’ve posted anything, and then soon after that we can get back to a semi-regular schedule.

Thanks for bearing with me through this turbulent transitional phase I’m currently going through. Don’t worry, good comics will come out of all of this.

So I’m back in Savannah but my internet is not working on my computer (I’m currently using my dad’s computer while he’s visiting here), I still need to set up my old scanner and see if it will even work, and I still have a few inkdicks to backtrack on.

So, just come back in July. If things go my way (which they rarely do…) there will b stuff up. Ugh…I feel so behind because I haven’t posted in a month, even though it’s mainly because of things beyond my control. Oh well…July. Come back here then.

Well, finally got internet set up in my new place and finally pulled out my old scanner from the closet, dusted it off, and away we go.

I admit, I’m not totally caught up on these comics, I still have maybe two weeks left to do. What with finals and moving into a new place, going back to Woodbridge for a week, and then coming back here to Savannah to work on the house some, these comics took a back seat. I am going to try and post these up over the next two weeks in batches of two to five comics at a time. Keep checking back whenever.

If you are in Savannah for the fourth, come by my place for a BBQ. It’ll be awesome, I swear.

So it’s been awhile. Still have a lot of comics to catch up on, but I have a lot of comics ready to scan an upload. About 16 or so.

Problem: My scanner just broke.

I got three inkdicks scanned in (will upload them over the next three days). Each one took five scans to get right though, as my scanner is really old and shitty and doesn ‘t work all that well. Sometimes I need to give it a whack to get it to scan right. Well, this time I hit it too hard. Glass everywhere. Completely unusable now.

So I have no scanner.

I have two options. Everytime I want to scan something I have to bike up to the SCAD library, or find money to get a new scanner.

Anyone of any good deals on a good large format flatbed scanner that works for Macs?

I don’t know when I’ll be able to post any comics up in the future. This sucks, and I’m sorry.

ugh.

Ok, so I’ve hooked up Amy’s printer/scanner which she is storing here over the summer. The scanner sort of sucks though (sorry, Amy, I still love you). Every time I scan something in, it comes out super fuzzy, so I have to up the threshold to outrageous levels, and that creates another set of problems. But whatever, it’s a scanner, and with enough tweaking it works for what I need it for.

I am going to get a new scanner for myself though. I’m looking at getting a Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro. If I HAD the money I’d get one of the nicer models, but those range around two-grand, and I’d get a new computer before I’d get a scanner that costs that much. Out of all large format scanners, this one is the cheapest at under 200 bucks. Has anyone used this scanner before? Is it good for what it is? Should I just save my money? Does is work with Macs??? I need to know!

Oh, AND THE BIG NEWS! Ever since I have access to a scanner now, I’m going to be posting two to three inkdicks up EVERYDAY until I am all caught up, so check back everyday please and click the back buttons to make sure you catch every comic that goes up.

Late with today’s post, but I made it, dammit! Sorry about that. I thought I had more comics scanned in and in the system, but I ran out earlier than expected. So I had to scan in comics QUICK! As of now I got enough comics in the system to last until Friday, so I need to get my ass in gear on getting MORE comics in the system. At this rate, I’m  going to be all caught up sometime in early September.

I thank all you guys for reading this everyday, you people rule. Be sure to tell all your friends!

I am taking the weekend off, I gotta get caught back up with comics, I am sorry. Updates will start up again on Monday with  2 comics up a day.

Sorry. I love you all.