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piyotycho ‘s Hornpot

piyotycho ‘s Hornpot

superhappy:The previous mainstream comic I spent money on was...

superhappy:

The previous mainstream comic I spent money on was Amanda Connor’s Power Girl run and that was about 5 years ago.

Before that? Harley & Ivy, about 1000 years ago.

This’ll likely be the one I spend money on next.

Lookin’ forward to Babsgirl

Rebbklb

ghostvomit:nevvymaster:When I get bored, I start thinking...

ghostvomit:

nevvymaster:

When I get bored, I start thinking weird thoughts.

Like, “what if, instead of classic inspirational quotes, Zen Pencils made dynamic comics around dril tweets?”

Original comics/art by Gavin Aung Than

Words by dril

HOLY SHIT

The previous mainstream comic I spent money on was Amanda...

The previous mainstream comic I spent money on was Amanda Connor’s Power Girl run and that was about 5 years ago.

Before that? Harley & Ivy, about 1000 years ago.

This’ll likely be the one I spend money on next.

Lookin’ forward to Babsgirl

slipshine:Thanks to all the artists for their submissions to...

slipshine:

Thanks to all the artists for their submissions to Slipshine’s 2014 open call. Our previous open call was about two years ago and we received around 75 submissions. This time, we received over 300. We were quite blown away!

When I first started Slipshine back in December ‘01, I was fresh out of college and not entirely sure how the rest of my life would go, so it just seemed like something to try. At first, it consisted of nothing but my own crappy comics, and while I did plan to bring in a few others on it from the get-go, I didn’t really expect it to become more than a little thing that would help me barely get by…

So, looking at it now, after Slipshine has published so many artists, and helped a great deal of them live off comics… It makes me feel pretty proud. And now it makes me even more proud to see so many artists want to be a part of us… It really goes to show how far things have come.

Truly, I originally went with porn comics for Slipshine simply because I felt it would be easier to get people to send money to a comic site if they had sex in them. After all, 99% of the sites behind paywalls were porn sites. And ya know, in a way, it is true… But what isn’t easy, is publishing porn comics and getting people to respect them, for people to see them as more than clickbait, fap material, or soft sells… And all-in-all to see them as a legitimate form of storytelling. This is something that become Slipshine’s goal more and more as things progressed. It started with the simple goal of focusing on the positive side of sex, and throughout the years we’ve tried to take in artists who could really push things.

In that area, it wasn’t always a smooth ride, and I’ll admit there were certain decisions I could have made better time and time again. But it’s really beginning to feel like Slipshine’s becoming a site people respect now. They’re certainly talking more about it and obviously more artists want to be involved with it than ever before. It’s a really good feeling and I just know that things are going to get even better.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us get to where were are, from our great artists, to the readers who helped spread the word, and also the other fine smut artists out there like Jess Fink and the Oglafs and the Filthy Figments and the Smut Peddlers, all of whom have been working to earn sexy comics a little more respect alongside us on this vast, wide web.

So! Everyone who submitted to this open call should have got a response by now. Those got accepted should be getting some more emails later tonight. There were some tricky decisions this time around, and we had to turn down more than a few really good artists this time. We regret that we don’t have the resources to publish comics from every single talented smut artist on the web… We’re working on it.

Thank you and good night!

-Joshua Lesnick, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Slipshine

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Joseph Stillwell, COO

Woc, Assistant Editor

Amanda Lafrenais & Lin Visel, Associate Editors

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zpxlng:morebadbookcovers:zpxlng:silentgarfield:Stolen...

zpxlng:

morebadbookcovers:

zpxlng:

silentgarfield:

Stolen ending

I’ve seen this gag a hundred times and it never works. Books don’t work that way! Mystery novels don’t end like…

his eyes finally fell upon Lady Penelope, whose face was immediately flushed with affrontage.

"Nor," said Inspector Goopsing, "was it you, Lady Penelope. Certainly you hated Mr Corpse, and no-one could blame you, what with all the shocking things he did that I found out about merely incidentally while investigating this murder, such is my observational and deductive genius. But no. In fact, the murderer was…"

Here the Inspector whirled around and pointed an accusing finger at Col. Windpipe, with an air of certainty and conclusiveness. A surprised puff of smoke escaped from the colonel’s pipe like an ejector seat.

"…Col. Windpipe’s brother, Dave!"

"It’s a fair cop," said Dave.

THE END

The mystery isn’t solved on the last page! The detective has to explain why and how the murderer did it, then the other characters react, then there’s gotta be a denouement, even a brief one. And after that there might be a couple of pages advertising other books from the publisher’s catalogue — almost definitely, in fact, in a cheap paperback like most mystery novels are.

Even when I was a little kid, this joke never worked for me. I could try to suspend my disbelief, but I had read any book before.

Gag writers, I know it seems like a funny idea for a joke; truly I do. BUT GIVE IT UP.

There is a simple solution to this.  Jon is reading Encyclopedia Brown.

FFFFFUCK!!!!!!

This Garfield comic seems to be a new version of a comic Paws Inc. themselves drew in May 1988… Updated for a new generation of fans, and for a new generation of Paws artists who couldn’t be bothered to draw Jon actually reading the fucking book, opting to describe what is happening in a complex and contrived jumble of words while off-camera.

I am somewhat surprised they even drew Garfield holding the page in the last panel, since it seems they didn’t have a pre-rendered template for that. They could have easily copied and pasted the first panel, throwing a thought balloon over Garfield’s head saying something like “I have hidden the page of that book under the rug where Jon will never find it and he will now never know the mystery which is too bad for him!”… It would have earned them a few more minutes of golfing time, but no… Paws went the extra mile. Paws is a company that cares. They care.

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Newsflash to the idiots in the Sailor Moon Crystal tag

sirkowski:

troublesomeknight:

This is not the 90s anymore!

Yeah, I know. You miss the silly expressions from 90s Sailor Moon, but no one does that in anime anymore. At least not to that degree. The animation style for Sailor Moon crystal is more Seinen, so the expressions reflect that. Just because Usagi doesn’t have a mouth as big as a frog’s doesn’t mean she’s emotionless! Do you ever see any of that stuff in any other anime that’s come out in recent years? I didn’t think so. She still spazz’s out and trips over her own feet all over the place, so it’s not like it’s not still Usagi.

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that stuff. I kind of miss it, but that’s not how it is anymore.

 

no one does that in anime anymore