Debt On

Here’s some of the planning sketches for my recent storylines:

In an effort to promote his campaign, sometimes Bounty will randomly contact people from his myspace page.

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From: ROB-T!!!!
Date: Jul 26, 2006 6:03 PM
Subject: SO ARE YOU THE QIUKER PICKER UPPER!

WHATS UP ? WHATS GOING ON? HOWS IT GOING?

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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 26, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: RE: SO ARE YOU THE QIUKER PICKER UPPER!

More like all the cool shit you get after a robbery.

VOTE BOUNTY!!

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From: ROB-T!!!!
Date: Jul 26, 2006 7:08 PM
Subject: REAL GOOD!

I DONT LIKE PEOPLE WHO STEAL SHIT UNLESS YOU STEAL SHIT FROM PEOPLE INFRONT OF THERE FACE!THATS A DIFFERANT STORY!

I HAD EHOUGH OF YOUR ASS ASS CHEWS SHITS! DIE FUCKEN HIPPIE!!!!!!!

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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 26, 2006 8:04 PM

just watch out for my secret police when they stab your red neck with an ice pick.

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From: ROB-T!!!!
Date: Jul 26, 2006 9:13 PM

here suck it homo!!!!! and if yah feel goodenough i gotta place for your ice pick!!
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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 21, 2006 4:16 PM

some asshole’s been following me around with a pencil… drawing a fucking insipid comic strip about me. i’m gonna hunt the bastard down and feed him to terrorists. you know, grind him up and force feed him to the guys in guantanamo. hey, terrorist food is hard to come by!

www.debt-on.com

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From: Fourtwozero
Date: Jul 21, 2006 4:20 PM

That bastard. I’ll organize a boycott of that site and comic immediately. As well as adding it to as many word filters I can find.

Don’t worry champ, we’ll take care of this asshole.

– Robert

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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 21, 2006 5:10 PM

excellent. you will be well rewarded under my administration.

-B

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From: Fourtwozero
Date: Jul 22, 2006 4:20 PM
RE: RE: RE: fuck www.debt-on.com

Do I see Secretary Of Awesome in my future?

I think so….

– Robert

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From: FUCK YOU
Date: Jul 18, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: feeling shy?

feeling inadequate?

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Do you suffer from shyness?

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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 19, 2006 2:34 AM

I wholeheartedly endorse this. -B

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From: FUCK YOU
Date: Jul 19, 2006 10:20 AM

OMG BOUNTY .. if we both sign with a -B… what are we going to do if we get mixed up or confused about who wrote what??? are you referring to me.. or am I referring to you?? .. this is going to serve as a challenge unforeseen by myself.. and frankly.. i need your inuput about the situation!!
-B
Or maybe ~B..
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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 19, 2006 5:21 PM

What!? I thought your name was FUCK YOU! How did this happen? I have three B’s in my name, you have an F and a Y.

-Benjamin B. mothafuckin’ Bounty

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From: FUCK YOU
Date: Jul 19, 2006 5:27 PM

What?? are you joking MothaFucking Bounty??

Ben or not.. I’m Brooke.. I’m a girl.. so I get dibs on the (clearly feminine) abbreviation of my first name.. FUCK YOU is just a state of mind.. please don’t hold it against me…
~B.. it even looks girly you know.. mutha fucking right!

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From: Bounty
Date: Jul 20, 2006 12:50 PM

Fine, fine, write it girly.

Fuck You is the appropriate attitude for my campaign.

-B

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From: FUCK YOU
Date: Jul 20, 2006 6:42 PM

Awh, You know.. FUCK YOU is a not just a moto.. it’s a lifestyle you know. I have got to keep the FUCK YOU attitude on top all the layers that are me. Yes, yes.. the hard face is difficult to maintian.. and yes.. I know what you are thinking.. “~B what about when you laugh.. you no longer have that ‘FUCK YOU’ impression” .. but what I have to say to that my insightful friend may take you by surprise.. it’s the wrapping up of the moment that I steel the FUCK YOU attitude back.. you see.. I laugh a little.. HHahah.. hehehe.. very jolly like too.. then others laugh with.. ahhaha.. hehehe.. but much more reserved as to see my response.. and then ..I shoot the look of approval.. all caution is thrown to the wind by passers by and BAMN I then wrap it up with an abrupt silinence and classic FUCK YOU face.. all is brought back to normal.. others stop laughing and look around as to find the instigaters of the hooting and holaring… yup.. It’s tough all right.. and i’ll tell ya something *wipes sweat from brow* this job’s not cut out for just anyone!
~B

Hey y’all. Just got back from a late-night flight back to California. Just wanted to drop in to thank Calan Ree of Gingerdead and Friends for drawing today’s comic.

Today’s comic was written by Chris Cooney, a GAW pirate, freelance philosopher and former President of Simon’s Rock College. He has no web site.

Also, apologies to Fesworks for not getting his comic up when I said I would on Friday. I set everything up on autopilot and that slipped by me somehow, and I barely had access to a computer on my vacation. That will go up on Wednesday.

And Friday’s strip is drawn by my friend Vita, an animation student and representative of the New Russian Federation. She collects chronometers and wombats.

So I’ll be on vacation for about the next two weeks. In the meantime I’ll make every update with a guest comic, but since I won’t be at a computer to blog them as they go, here’s the remaining lineup for these two weeks:

To kick things off to the left you’ll see a sweet drawing that Mike Jensen did for the links page at Lonely Fetus, an awesome comic strip worthy of your attention.

The comic for January 1 is by none other than Matt Sandbrook of Chip Shop Adventures! I still crack up every time I look at this. Thanks, Matt! Everybody should go check out Chip Shop Adventures, especially if you have a bloodlust.

The comic for January 3 is by EvilCouch of The World’s Worst WebComic. Couch would say I have terrible taste for saying this, but the comic hardly lives up to its name.

The comic for January 5 is by Handoko of The World of Acoimade. Han’s a great artist and contrary to what the dialogue implies he’s not illiterate, just billingual.

Kicking off week 2 the January 8 comic is by Wendy Wood of Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit, a very cute and wickedly funny webcomic.

The comic for January 10 is a collaboration. The written comic is by Jason Dunstan of Ardra, while the art is courtesy of Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

And the comic for January 12 is by Fesworks of A Pessimistic Sense of Inadequacy. Go check out Fesworks now.

My deepest gratitude goes out to all these awesome guest artists for granting me this badly needed vacation. :)

Things to do if you like Debt On:

I’ve been participating in the Webcomic Battle. Click here to go to the game and remember to vote Debt On!!!

Also, be my friend on ComicSpace. It’s like myspace, but for comics. Greeeat. Just what I needed. (The layout is much more pleasing than myspace. That’s the good news.)

While cruising a couple comics forums this morning I found out that Phillippe “Sketch” St. Gerard of The World of Cottonfluff Hollow posted a review of Debt On for the new blog for Sapo Entertainment:

Debt On does not need a monstrous cast or any situations any more bizarre than those thoughtfully provided by real life to succeed. The situations that they find themselves in make the plight of the characters (to say nothing of ourselves) seem all the more sobering, when you stop to think about it.

Of course, there is the occasional curve thrown by the cast, or even sometimes to the cast that serve the dual purpose of lightening the mood as well as further illustrating the fact that changes are necessary, if not immediately in sight.

My thanks to Sketch for the shout out.

Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Attentive readers will notice I occasionally run late on the coloring, leaving it until the next afternoon, especially on Mondays. This week I really have to work ahead as the next storyline requires some planning, especially visually. And damn it, coloring is boring!

I’m incrementally pushing further ahead, and I’m expecting a little time off soon, so we’ll see how much time I can manage to work on comics. As I said in a recent cartoon, it ain’t easy. And the lack of color isn’t permanent by any means — before long I’d like to go back and color the ones I’m missing now to make the archives more complete.

Also, I’m getting work done on the site again! Like some behind-the-scenes stuff on the blog, and on the links page!

Well, not really. I’ve long known my drawing style wasn’t quite up to par, and sometimes I looked at a strip and thought that something just wasn’t working. So, I hope you’ll all permit me to experiment a little. You’ll notice with these, instead of using my usual flash-bang shading and font routine, I’m hand lettering the strips and drawing the boxes, and using some very simple color separations. I do hope it’s still legible. :)

I just want to try some new things out, and see how they float. If you enjoy the strip, I’d really like to know what your favorite style of the strip has been, whether in full blown out fonts and colors, simple black and white, or with hand drawn lettering. Email me here. I may try to get a comments thing set up on the blog or something.. but they always get spammed!

So, having drawn this strip in the same style for over 200 strips now, (see below) I thought I would mix it up a little bit. Starting this weekend, all the comics on this site will be in full color. BUT in order to make such a momentous change, something else is going to have to go. Also starting on Monday, I will only be updating the strip three times a week, on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.

I realize that many of you have undoubtedly become accostomed to your daily fix of Debt On. But know that on the whole the new strips will be bigger than a single daily, and look prettier. I think this is a good opportunity as we’re kind of moving into phase 2 of the strip, (or was that phase 3?) and the comics will be more comfortable in this format.

So stay tuned! Much more to come! And do feel free to email me your reactions.