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The personal blog of an ordinary guy in an ordinary little town nestled in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Listen to occasional original music, view original artwork read random ramblings and just generally bask in the ordinary guy's ordinary aura. Sor
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Gummy Comics Archive
If you’re a regular visitor of the Gummy web comic and have landed upon this page instead of www.lovesickalien.com, there’s a reason for that. I’ve decided to redirect traffic from t...
Google page rank humor
For those that don’t read the Gummy comic regularly, here’s the latest comic I posted there. Thought I’d poke a little fun at all the recent Google page rank silliness going on. If...
Vote for Gummy?
My wonderful friend Polli was kind enough to nominate the Gummy comic for a 2007 Weblog Award. If you’re interested in voting for Gummy, all you have to do is scroll down and look for Polli...
Just a bit too much, thank you.
I wrote recently that I was looking around for custom plush toy makers because I had an uncle that expressed interest in helping get them going and investing money into Gummy. Well after writing to ...
The Evolution of a comic strip and its characters - Part 3
In part two of this series I talked about why it is I draw little aliens and just where they came from (besides Mars of course). With the inclusion of the article I mentioned we’d take a lit...
It’s amazing how we lose track of time
If anyone has been sitting there wondering the last couple days if I’d forgotten about doing the third installment in my “Evolution of a comic strip and its characters” series, wel...
The Evolution of a comic strip and its characters - Part 2
In part one of this series I talked about how artists tend to continually tweak their characters over time, refining them to an ultimately more polished product. Garfield was a great example since t...
The Evolution of a comic strip and its characters - Part 1
If you’re a long time reader of any of the more popular comic strips you may know that those strips tend to evolve and change over time. For example if you look at the Garfield strip (by Jim D...
I think the internet is broken today
I’m experiencing one of those odd days on the internet and in blogging where things all seem to be screwy. I’ll give you a few examples. For starters, earlier today before I took an epic...
Gummy has invaded Myspace - Wanna be his friend?
Today my cousin and I finally got around to putting up a super cool page for Gummy on Myspace. We’re hoping with over 170 million users that we can at least snag a few more faithful readers. O...
Having fun with a million dollars
Last night I had a little fun with the “what would you do with a million dollars” meme over on the Gummy site. I decided I liked how the illustration turned out so much that I wanted to ...
The Power and Potential of WidgetBox
You may remember I’ve written before about the success of my Gummy blidget on Widgetbox. I thought I’d write a little more about how it’s helped us with the comic and how Widgetbox...
Gummy has conquered WidgetBox!
The other day I decided to check the stats for my Lovesick Alien blidget and was surprised to see that it had soared all the way to the top three. Today I was even more surprised to see that it now ...
DC Comics opening their doors to web comic artists
I read an article yesterday that talked about a new company and website DC Comics will be launching in October called Zuda Comics. Once the doors are open they will begin accepting web comic submiss...
Can't decide if it was money well spent or not
Well my week long sponsorship on OnlineComics.net will expire tomorrow and I'm not so sure if it went all that well or not. While the RSS subscriptions to the comic site generally rose a little bit ...