Last Week for Prints and Original Art
July 19, 2010 - Monday
After this Friday, I won't have prints or original art available for sale for the foreseeable future. I have a lot of other responsibilities that I need to tend to, and I'm just not going to have the time to fulfill these orders. I wanted to give everyone a heads up about this instead of suddenly removing these items from the site and store without warning.
Artwork by Keong Chan
July 15, 2010 - Thursday
There's about a day left in the Gulf Coast charity auction. Remember, 100% of the final sale price goes to helping the Gulf Coast, so please get your bid in now!
Also, here's some great artwork that I received recently from reader Keong Chan. It shows the Calamities gang in a way you've never seen before. Click the picture below to see the full-size artwork in all its glory. Thanks Keong!
Auction to Help the Gulf Coast
July 6, 2010 - Tuesday
A bunch of webcomic creators have joined forces to raise money to help the Gulf Coast in this time of tragedy, including Calamities of Nature. Please bid on this signed original artwork from a recent comic of mine to help out. The art measures 17 inches wide and 7 inches tall on bristol board, and the auction runs until July 16th. Given the polarizing nature of this particular strip, some of you may want to win this auction just so you can burn the comic! Either way, 100% of the final sale price will go to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, which is what's most important. To anyone who bids, thank you for supporting this important cause!
Top Comics of Year Three, Part 2
July 3, 2010 - Saturday
Here are the top five most popular comics from last year. You can see my look at numbers 10 through 6 here. How does this top ten compares with your own personal favorites? Click on the pictures below to see the full size comics.
5. Ho! Ho! Ho!: In all honesty, I was pretty surprised to see this comic in the top 10 because I didn't think it was particularly good. I guess it just goes to show that as a creator it can be difficult to predict what your audience is going to like.
4. Hot Debate: I'm always looking for new and interesting scenery ideas to add to the backgrounds of strips. Someday it would be fun to have a map of the Calamities of Nature world, which summarizes where all these locations are in relation to one another. Any takers?
3. Living in the Moment: A definite highlight of last year was being linked by one of my favorite blogs, Bad Astronomy. Since this blog usually deals with topics of science and skepticism, you might have thought that the readers from this blog would gravitate toward comics that deal with similar topics. Although that was somewhat true, in fact, this comic was the one that everyone seemed to be most enthusiastic about. It has since become one of the most popular comics when readers order prints, and it's also available as a bookmark.
2. Generational Protesting: Living in Berkeley, this dichotomy is pretty obvious between the students and the baby boomers (many of whom used to be idealistic students themselves many years back). This was therefore an easy comic to come up with.
1. Which Would You Deport?: This comic is unique in a very particular way, but even after all the hundreds of thousands of times it's been viewed, I haven't had one email or comment mentioning this fact. Can you guess what it is?... This is the only Calamities of Nature strip ever made that doesn't feature any of the main characters! It's somewhat ironic that for the top two comics on this list the main characters play little or no role. Hopefully this isn't a bad sign for the Calamities cast!
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Here's your chance to own your very own original Calamities of Nature comic! Each strip is a hand-drawn, one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. Standard strips are 4 by 12 inches on a 7 by 17 inch piece of bristol board and cost $80. Double sized strips measure 8 by 12 inches on 11 by 17 inch bristol board and cost $120. Each strip is signed, and if you would like, I will personalize it as well. Just email me if you have special instructions.
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