Someone is impostering my ass.
I woke up to find someone impostering my ass at the Daily Grind forums- see here. Yeah, you remember the Daily Grind right? You know, that contest that we’re totally winning while the losers lose? Yeah, that one.
I hate even mentioning it here and sending any traffic their way, I’d much rather folks visit our sponsors. But seriously, that was pretty funny, someone taking the time to post as my “big fat ass” . It’s worth a chuckle.
I’d like to go on and on about what a GRIND should be. A Grind isn’t “I’m going to be gone for 10 days, so here is enough panels to cover me technically” — that isn’t a grind. REAL Grinders don’t take vacations. You actually WORK. Sure you can do other things besides draw your comic! You may have a full time motherluvin’ job! Or a family to take care of! Or responsibilities and bills / taxes out the ass like normal people not living off their parents or in college. A “GRIND” to me is being disciplined enough to produce something of quality for your readers. And not make lame excuses or take “breaks”– there are no BREAKS in a GRIND CHALLENGE. — But it’s become apparent, that they only used the name DAILY GRIND IRON MAN CHALLENGE as a jokey name. It should have been called the “Hey, look at me, I’m updating my website 5 times a week, kinda sorta challenge” — BAH!
I should start our own GRIND. Show you what a GRIND really is. For those out there who think they got the chops to do it. It’s not about encouraging others to put up as much CRAP as possible to cover their asses.. it’s about disciplining yourselves. Whether your comic is your job, your passion or your obsession. Learning to do it, control it, so it doesn’t ruin or overtake your own life, THAT Is “THE GRIND.”
Forgive me for having a little passion about what I do, and taking a competition so seriously at times. It’s really just a joke.
August 12th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
Being passionate about ones work is great.
August 12th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
if being passionate is what produces yirmumah and other great comics like it, then hell yea. keep it up.
August 12th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
DJ, you should definitely start your own Grind competition. Show them fools what it ought to be. Hell, you wouldn’t even have to make bets or anything, just a competition for bragging rights, or maybe a free multi-month sponsorship on all the losers’ sites. Something only the true comic-makers/competitors would be interested in. Hell, it wouldn’t even necessarily have to be a 5-day only deal, make it a minimum of a 3 day SET schedule, no guest comics, no fillers, no nada, just pure, unadulterated comics. Anyone misses a schedule, and I don’t care if a MWF comic updates at 12:01AM Tuesday morning, they’re out. Set up a council of a few interested comics and choose unaffiliated judges to watch over stuff. Hell, I’d judge. I’ve got the spare time. And it doesn’t take much to do so, just check them all every day they’re scheduled and make sure they fulfill the requirements, then move on.
August 12th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
I agree with you DJ, their pussies.
August 12th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
So, you make damn funny comics almost every day of the week, and that’s “passive aggressive” and “immature”. But someone posting as your big fat ass is okay?
Hey, Daily Grind Fucks: What color is the sky in your world? Sheesh. What a bunch of dumbasses.
August 12th, 2005 at 1:46 pm
Dont worry, I gonna send them a nasty post later!
August 12th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Cracka Keith is On The Case!
August 12th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
how about 7 days a week, 4 panels, full colour?
August 12th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
Fine.. Since some strips are setup to work with varying panel amounts, the rule would have to be, no one panel strips, and you can only have one two panel strip a week. Other than that they have to be 3-4 panel strips in a traditional comic strip style. no artsy fartsy experimenting or sliding by.
I’d like to see cut and paste deals totally left out. No short cuts. No stick figures.
August 12th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
well in that case I’m gone.
Competition in webcomics is a floored concept. Its all too opinion based
August 12th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
Would you do it for $10,000???
August 12th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
i really don’t know what a “grind” is, unless it has to do with a “core”.
August 12th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
What’s the problem? Was the ass to ugly or too pretty to be your actual ass?
August 13th, 2005 at 6:31 am
Give the GRIND a little credit..
It brought me to your site, until then I didn’t know you or yursite existed..
I stuck around because of you, at first.. The bragging, the needling of the other contestants..
But I read your strips, and realized they were pretty good, and kept coming back..
Of course, I’m flat broke and a f’king retard, but what the hey..
August 13th, 2005 at 7:53 am
That’s so stupid! You’re not an ass. Just because you have readers and you’re proud of it doesn’t make you an ass. You’ve got passion and a spark in yah…that’s not being an ass…that’s being ALIVE dammit!
Fuck dude…I think that guy has more hot air and is WAY more capable of teraforming Mars. HA!
Fuck’em! YAH!
August 13th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
You tell ‘em Deej! Fucking art-school dropouts…oh wait.
August 13th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
No GRIND is complete without 4 hours of preemptive jamming to Sonic Youth and The Jesus And Mary Chain. Remember that DJ.
August 13th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Yeah, I thought the GRIND was pretty kickass, figured I’d get to see a lot of different webcomics out there update and some of them update at DECENT times (I’m looking at you, Mr. Kurtz), but instead it just turned into a suckfest.
A real exercise in asshattery, if you ask me…
Even though you didn’t.