jon rosenberg ([info]diablochicken) wrote,
2006-04-20 11:22:00
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I'm On A Cock Diet For Jesus

It's been about three weeks since I became a full-time cartoonist! It's been pretty good, I really can't complain (actually, I can complain, and often do, but really shouldn't). I thought nine years would have taught me all I needed to know about the webcomics business, but it turns out that once you tie your ability to make rent to your creative prowess it creates deep pockets of self-doubt and worry where none existed previously, like slimy black tar pits of insecurity bubbling out of your gut. My hope is to use my extra free time to develop some sort of tiny drill with which to extract these oily deposits and sell it in drums as an alternative fuel.

Being holed up in the apartment working all the time certainly isn't good for the ol' inspirational process, so I'm glad that tonight is Pub Night. Every Thursday night Phillip and Gary and I head down to the Peculier Pub here in Manhattan (at the corner of Bleecker and Laguardia, a couple of blocks south of Washington Square Park) for a large dose of liquid creativity. If you're reading this, you're welcome to stop in and say hi on any given Thusday evening (although you may want to email me if you're coming from a distance, there's usually one week a month I'm not able to make it for whatever reason).

I'm always surprised at who shows up, there's almost always some random webcartoonist in town, and the 400 beers on the menu exert their own sort of gravitational pull on our kind. Bullshitting with other webcartoonists is just about the best source of inspiration there is, you're almost guaranteed to get a good quip or two you can steal from them to stick on a t-shirt. Inspiration is the nice way of saying "I stole your idea."

Another good source of inspiration, at least for geezers like me, is to go back and steal from my younger self. Here's a t-shirt design I whipped up a few years back that I never ended up using for reasons which should be self-evident:



I was always happy with the Gamera illustration, but the text... well, there's not a big market for a shirt with text like that, I'm guessing. I think about repurposing the illustration about once a year but I'm waiting to come up with the exact right tagline. If any of you "inspire" me with a suggestion, I'll be happy to repay you with a few free shirts if I end up using it. Think of it like Threadless, as if it were run by a cheap-ass Jew.
Tags: inspiration, japanese turtle monsters, t-shirts

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[info]rstevens

April 20 2006, 15:59:21 UTC 6 years ago

I'd happily wear that sans text.

[info]diablochicken

April 20 2006, 16:01:23 UTC 6 years ago

I think it may come to that, unless the absolute perfect slogan can be found.

[info]sheryls

6 years ago

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[info]eronanke

April 20 2006, 16:33:29 UTC 6 years ago

I dunno... Something classic, maybe, like "Are you my mommy?"

Gamera looks a little sad and desperate, to me, anyway. :)

[info]indierockjames

April 20 2006, 16:59:35 UTC 6 years ago

"Hugs!"

[info]diablochicken

April 20 2006, 18:04:26 UTC 6 years ago

I like this idea lot but I think Chris over at Achewood has a shirt that says 'Huuuugs' on it.

[info]roninspoon

April 20 2006, 17:00:45 UTC 6 years ago

100% Grade A Turtle Meat.

[info]raivictis

April 20 2006, 17:02:40 UTC 6 years ago

Hell, I'd wear that as it is. It's just inceniary enough.

Or perhaps "Just a vicious abomination looking for love/cock/jesus/jews/Oprah"

[info]fishyfred

April 20 2006, 18:47:27 UTC 6 years ago

Same. Or you could work in a "Hunchback of Notre Dame" angle if you modify the art a little bit. Quasimodo never looked so vicious.

Anonymous

April 20 2006, 17:05:00 UTC 6 years ago

"Dance like no one's watching".

"Dance until the buildings fall"

"You put your left foot out"

"Aloha Oe"

-zamphir

[info]grimicus

April 20 2006, 17:12:39 UTC 6 years ago

get an account slacker, it's fun, and it's free! :-p

[info]grimicus

April 20 2006, 17:13:46 UTC 6 years ago

I was thinking, "I'm the gamera, bitch!" but then you might be in the same situation you are already in...bad text :-)

[info]lurkerwithout

April 20 2006, 17:20:51 UTC 6 years ago

"Space turtle boogie"?

[info]lurkerwithout

April 20 2006, 17:32:57 UTC 6 years ago

Also -

"True King of the Monsters?"

"Giant Radioactive Reptiles American Dance Party"

[info]kavebarbarian

April 20 2006, 17:33:50 UTC 6 years ago

"Bulimic for Bikini Season" Contemporary and meaningful...

[info]mbuchwald

April 20 2006, 18:31:00 UTC 6 years ago

Rawr!

I would wear that t-shirt if the caption was "Rawr." Though I wouldn't necessarily buy it. Just in case you ever wanted to make a t-shirt solely to give it away to an internet stranger person.

[info]dana1witch

April 21 2006, 01:14:09 UTC 6 years ago

Re: Rawr!

I agree with that caption, "rawr". I love the cute turtle, but I wouldn't wear anything with "jesus" on it.

[info]abenn135

April 20 2006, 18:53:42 UTC 6 years ago

"I just need some lovin'"

"Gamera has a posse: 81'2", 100 tons"

"FEED ME"

"Space monster 4 life"

[info]grimicus

April 20 2006, 19:44:09 UTC 6 years ago

I like "Space monster 4 life"!

[info]granulac

April 20 2006, 19:08:28 UTC 6 years ago

Man I am like 5/7s of a centimeter away from being done. If I make it through this day I might stop by later.

And welcome to LJ. Get ready for the waste of time of your life!

[info]diablochicken

April 20 2006, 19:41:29 UTC 6 years ago

Please do, I need some defense from Gary's grabby hands and delightful personality.

[info]beeeej

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[info]garyt

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[info]ferociousj

April 20 2006, 19:08:58 UTC 6 years ago

For some reason I can't get away from seeing that with just the single word MALAISE in the same font; no idea why.

[info]diablochicken

April 20 2006, 19:43:28 UTC 6 years ago

This is exactly the sort of thing that I would love to do but I can foresee an endless torrent of emails from confused folks. "WHY IS THE TURTLE SAD?"

[info]atl

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[info]evander

April 20 2006, 19:17:59 UTC 6 years ago

Honestly, I think the design would work without any tagline at all. It's on a level where a tagline almost just takes away from it. Something about Turtle Soup might work, though.

[info]mbuchwald

April 20 2006, 21:04:16 UTC 6 years ago

Or...

~Gamera is really neat,
He is made of turtle meat,
We Love Gamera!~

[info]alex.makesitgood.net

6 years ago

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[info]alex.makesitgood.net

April 20 2006, 19:43:33 UTC 6 years ago

Footprints below gamera, like instructional dance steps. They don't have to make sense in practice, in fact it's better if they don't.

[info]kingofthebryans

April 20 2006, 21:53:38 UTC 6 years ago

Have it merely say "Japan!" because I believe Gamera is the definition of all things Japanese.

[info]inmostlight

April 20 2006, 23:10:24 UTC 6 years ago

"I'm on a Dick Diet for Jesus"?

Especially if you had a little Cheney in his mouth.

[info]lestatsgirl

April 21 2006, 00:45:59 UTC 6 years ago

"and that's what it's all about"

It's nonsensical but catchy.

[info]psychobillyfunk

April 21 2006, 01:08:57 UTC 6 years ago

Thriller!!

As I was staring at your shirt design the first thing that popped into my head was Michael Jackson's 'Thriller dance'. The thought of Gamera showing Michael and the rest of the monsters how thriller should be danced made me laugh out loud. Once I heard the rumor that Gamera and Jackson were drinking buddies. It all made sense. Do you really think Michael Jackson could have come up with those moves without the help of the Mighty Gamera?

[info]unrendered

April 21 2006, 01:38:20 UTC 6 years ago

Well, you could simplify it like:
"I give great blowjobs"
or,
"lemmie fondle that"
or being that he seems to be staggering like a drunk might walk:
"one too many"
or,
"I'm not drunk."

[info]inversethunder

April 21 2006, 01:57:23 UTC 6 years ago

"I'd hit that."

[info]kavebarbarian

April 21 2006, 02:47:32 UTC 6 years ago

On second thought, this shirt should comemmorate the great event of our eon. The event that signals the end times are here.


"Suri v. Grier
Cage Match Trainer"

[info]phoenixsansfyr

April 21 2006, 02:59:21 UTC 6 years ago

He looks like he's dancing the hula.

"Reject From Hawaiian Dancing School"
or
"Gamera Can Hula Too"
OR, the classic horrible parody
"Hula Hula Hula"

[info]fishyfred

April 21 2006, 03:05:01 UTC 6 years ago

I want to see the cowputer, Clara, on a shirt. There's something REALLY appealing about the way the mouth is drawn really big and massive. I light up whenever I see Clara's mouth and eyes in the comic.

[info]jwetzel

April 21 2006, 03:35:13 UTC 6 years ago

do the macarena

Or something. It looks like the macarena.

[info]jwetzel

April 21 2006, 03:35:45 UTC 6 years ago

heeey macarena

With the mouth as such it looks like he (she?) could be singing.

[info]dboriginal

April 21 2006, 04:47:56 UTC 6 years ago

vs.

- "fossil fuel addict"

Contest over. Prizes 2-6:

"vs."

"versus"

"lizardproof"

"where's the power plant?"

"hungry for wmd", "where are the wmd?", "point me to the wmd"



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