http://www.bigjcomics.com The development of a webcomic site and a webcomic author Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:43:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, my life has been shaken up like a snow globe and now has been allowed to rest enough to return to some strange semblance of stability. Sigh. My wife is disabled and looking forward to a year or more of painful surgeries. I've been spending a lot of time ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=25 Thought I'd do a little catch-up here, as it has been... um, 3 months. Here we go: In June I got my black belt - I earned my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Lots of hard work (and more than one injury) paid off. MWM! turns 50 - At the start ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=24 First, my donation mini-strip is up. It can be found here. It is a quick primer on the Zombie language, Zombese. Also, I would like to take a moment to plug a comic I like to read: The Order of the Stick. Not only does this comic capture the strange humor ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=23 Nothing super-serial to report today. Lets just hit some bullet-points Easter - I didn't do anything too special. I did make a site graphic for the MonsterMug. See bottom of this post. I hope everyone had fun. March Donation Drive - This was a success past all my hopes. It garnered $147 ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=22 Just a quick update of how things have gone these past few days: I passed my Kumdo test and am now a 4th gup. Yay! I have gotten $76 US in donations for MWM! Considering I was planning on Zero--Nada, Zilch, The Big Goose-Egg--in donations this is quite a pleasant surprise for ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=21 Thursday I test for 4th gup in Kumdo, the traditional Korean art of the sword. I know my stuff so I'm not nervous that way, but I am worried about my foot. i pulled a side tendon in my calf and it's been giving me problems with that foot. I ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=20 A couple new things are going on this week. First, is job-hunting. I am looking for work to tide me and my family over until I can either get back to grad school or find better work. I had an interview yesterday along with a drug test. nothing sense esteem for ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=19 Yesterday was Valentine's Day. I did little piece of MWM! art for the holiday. This design has become a bit of a mascot for the site and can be seen in several other places, not the least of which is the donation pic. This design originally showed on Cecil's coffee mug ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=18 I have been sick as a dog with the flu. Between the aches, fever spikes, at one point delirium, and coughing up semi-solid chucks of gooey... stuff... I've had one heck of a winning weekend. However, I am getting better, so updates should be coming shortly. I have big plans coming ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=17 Ok, eventful week. I broke my C: drive. Thanks to a backup drive I am up and kicking. Thank goodness. I don't have much else to add. Resurrecting my 200+ bookmarks, my many cookie passwords, and other stuff has left me a tad drained. This month I plan to add something ... http://www.bigjcomics.com/?p=16