All right, as I was mentioning before about moving in the near future, in about two weeks I’m leaving Canada to adventure down to Southern California for a new job contract. As such, I’m probably gonna be kinda busy with moving my everything to the other side of the continent and won’t likely have a chance to get with the comicking right away. So if you can come up with a fun guest strip between today and midnight on the 5th of November feel free to send it along! (to coelasquid@gmail.com )
OH ALSO! I suppose I should also mention that comics need to be 650 pixels wide to fit on the site. Height is up to you as long as it’s not… you know… completely ridiculous. Thanks! sorry if that’s causing anyone any problems!
Depending on how many I get, I’d like to get some small prizes together for my top couple picks of the lot (buttons, prints, that kind of thing), if that’s any kind of motivation!
Thanks guys! Here’s hoping this move goes as smoothly as possible…
man, I love guest strips – as long as they are funny.
Nice! Always fun to see other artists’ take on a comic. Hell, I might even submit something.
Ooooo Socal, which are you headed down here?
I WILL DRAW YOU NOTHING BUT FAN COMICS.
SUDDENLY
MILLIONS OF THEM.
Can you please just draw some comics or shut the site down?
I have no idea how serious this is supposed to be, but on the off chance that it isn’t sarcasm I’ll just throw it out there that I’ve kept with the one-a-week schedule I committed to for the full eight months this comic has been going so far. I’ve had updates go up a day or two late and updates end up rushed, but even in the thick of working 80 hour weeks at my real job I never missed one. And now that I know real life circumstances are going to get in the way of making stuff, I’m warning people ahead and trying to give them something else that’s nice to look while I deal with real life.
It’s time for Coelasquid to live up to REAL LIFE CONSEQUENCES
FULL life consequences.
Yeah I know but I actually wanted to write “real life CIRCUMSTANCES” referring to what you said earlier about moving n stuff :) sorry for the misunderstanding
I wouldn’t call southern california “the other side of the continent”. Just saying…
From Ontario, sure it is. Or are the east and west coasts of North America not opposite sides of the continent anymore?
ooh in your face sigfigs
Damn… You got pwnd! ;) and I can tell you it’s hell to fly down there, at least from Alaska(and Canada) especially red eye flights.
Aw man, sounds like a big deal for ya. I hope this all works out for you! So when you say job contract, do you mean it’s a short stay or is this gonna be a more sturdy move? I assume a work visa since you’re a Canadian citizen? I could be waaay off, but that’s what I’ve gathered. SoCal though, sounds like it could be quite an adventure. I hope it is! Haha. ^^ Heck, I’ll be excited to see what this contract would ask you to be doing.
Yeah, it’s basically a five month contract for now, but if they like me they may extend it. I’m hoping to be there for a decent stay, at least. Closest I’ve been to LA is Vancouver, so it’ll be an adventure for sure.
I don’t see why you just don’t let Vorked do a bunch.
this is an important question.
do the comics have to be (how you say) good
well, funny, at least :P
i can’t promise that, but i can totally promise shitty mspaint shitty shitpaint shit.
No that’s actually a pretty important question to me. Are you expecting LONG COMICS like you usually post, or would a really short and simple, “One line, One Punchline” comic work if I have something clever?
Anything funny. You come up with the rest. OH! I should throw it out there, 650 pixels wide.
Why are people giving you so much shit and acting like they know everything?
I, for one, embrace guest comics. It makes the comic almost more in touch with the community, and allows for updates when the author is busy.
Hell, if you get a lot of guest comics, you could update more than once a week to keep people satisfied while you’re doing your own thing.
I’m sure there are plenty of people willing to help you out by contributing a few comics. I’d do something if I had 1/16th of your talent, but alas, I do not.
Yeah, I don’t want to take more than a week or so off, so if I get a lot, you guys will get more updates that week.
ZOMGNESS I totally want to do this.
I need to get my witty on.
I can’t believe you are interrupting this funny comic that I get for free because of some so-called ‘real life’ bull! Where does my licence fee money go? What about your duty to me, some guy on the internet? This is making a mockery of everything ever and I for one won’t stand for it! Leaving this site FOREVER!!!!!
Ah, I’d love to do a guest strip, but honestly, I have as much feel for macho as Pyramid Head has for macramé. Presumably, anyway.
Best of luck with the move. Canada to California looks like a huge distance on a map…
Yeah, I think the shortest route is like 4,100 Km or something, and I’m road tripping there because it’s the easiest way to get my stuff through customs. Can’t ship it without a work visa, can’t get a work visa until I leave Canada.
Oh my goodness. Someone PLEASE do a Pyramid Head doing macramé comic! That would just be amazing!
Good luck on the move!
I wish I could draw.
Best I could do would be to steal your old comics, draw googly eyes on them, and pretend they’re new comics. :3
I’d draw something up but I have no fucking idea how to ink with a mouse. Look forward to some guest strips regardless.
Good luck with your job!
I’d totally draw a guest comic! …..If I could draw and you wanted it full of WoW references.
Hey, if you stop through sacramento and want to have a beer somewhere I’d knock back a few with ya. Your comic had me in stitches with the Mr. Fish story and I think that’s worth a round.
WHATS THAT? MAKE MORE GUST COMICS VORKED?
OKAY
Damn drawing other peoples characters sure takes a lot of time and effort, I have new found respect for Tim Buckley. Why can’t your comic be more like XKCD I’d be bloody done by now :P, but seriously keep up the good work it’s really good shit.
Is it cool if I skip out the drawl, I’m fairly sure English people are incapable of writing like that, or at least this one is
Good luck with moving!
And I’ll try to think of something for a guest strip x)
I think I’d like to attempt this…hopefully I can get a strip done in time.
*salutes* I’ll do my best.
Which is nothing, apparently.
Come on, you only gave it three days. TRY HARDER. (omg that was a total “that’s what she said” lol sorry…
I’m working on one now, and here’s hoping it gets done in time!
Can’t guarantee purdiness or coloredness or accuraciness…BUT I’LL TRY!
Hey, I’ve been following your comic for a few weeks now and really dig the main idea of it. I found you on deviantART when I was researching anatomy tutorials and it really helped me… When this came up, I decided to get involved. Hopefully my take will be funny and I keep faithful to your characters… Also, a slightly big fear in the back of my head is that you had the exact same idea for a comic and already did it and I somehow missed it this whole time… Let’s hope not… I just have one question, though: Your font in the lettering. What do you use?
Thanks… I’m already done drawing, now onto coloring and lettering… Oh, also, I tried to match your style as closely as possible. I hope you don’t mind. I think that’s an important skill to possess…
Jamie
Uhm, I think the font is just Tekton Pro, I set the options so that all of the letters are caps, but the actual capitals are bigger than the lower case letters. I think I work with size 14, but I also work at 150 dpi 1300 pixels wide.
I will get a pen and paper and take this all down.
Done! Sent in! Here’s hoping you like it even if you don’t use it!
Likewise.
Now comes the waiting…
If you got a submission from an email address that looked like it might have been a spambot earlier today, it was probably from me. I need a new email address…