You’re Fired.
Some Yirmumah news of note. As club members already know, a monthly Yirmumah COMICBOOK will be coming to the site. The first issue will have all the full color strips from January plus some bonus stuff. I’ll write more details about this later, but the basic idea is, you’ll get the comics direct from me through the site. I have plans to have each issue include a one of a kind sketch “built-in” just for you. Why? Because I fucking can.
Best of all… this will be affordable and very portable. 
I’m not really doing this for anyone else but me, as I think it would be cool for fans of Yirmumah or myself to look back at the year with 12 issues of solid material in a little collection. I mean, the comics are totally fine on the site in full color, but WOW they look SOOOO nice in print……. Plus, it’ll be fun to keep the monthly comic book alive, independently of the crappy comic book system that’s out there. It won’t be in comic shops unless I personally deal with the shops, and And unlike that broken direct market system, when you order something from me you’ll get it within a couple weeks of ordering, NOT two stinking months later. For Pete’s sake, comics need to start doing things like it’s 2006, not 1986.
PEACE!
PEACE!
January 26th, 2006 at 3:22 am
A very cool idea, and I can’t wait for the comic.
And while I applaud the Drama Llama lighting up Trump, I was a little disappointed his toupee didn’t get up and run for its life first…
January 26th, 2006 at 5:39 am
Maybe Drama Llama should try copyrighting the phrase: ” You’re on Fire !”
January 26th, 2006 at 6:35 am
Man you should do an online comic artist on fire. I vote for that ctrl alt del guy, the whole wintereen thing just gets on my nerves but not as much as him constantly going on about how great it is tha people have embraced it. Honestly, i havent seen mention of it anywhere but on his site and i read a lot of sites!
January 26th, 2006 at 6:43 am
RANT:
Boy, I’ll be honest, I’m just really sick of the whole “webcomic community” thing and all the made up drama — no one does really give a shit outside of the little internet halls– and it’s a real waste of time. I have nearly 10,000 people a day reading and only a very small portion of people respond here or e-mail in. And an even smaller portion gives a crap about the webcomics world.
I think some comics will share readers, but I don’t think that many of the creators actually have anything in common besides drawing comics and secretly either being jealous of each other, OR lurching around looking for ways to get ahead on other people’s ideas. It’s quietly cutthroat.
Recently, I was going to out a so called professional, syndicated cartoonist who has a daily comic who talked some trash on me in a private forum and it got forwarded to me but I thought about it and just reckoned that he’s bitter and a little frustrated that a comic like mine is doing well, and he has to watch his Ps and Qs every day. — and he said something about how classy it was having a strip cutting off Dick Clark’s head. Blah… Yeah, his weak ass audience wouldn’t have a clue at WHY to laugh at that
Anyways… thanks you guys for reading.
January 26th, 2006 at 8:11 am
No problem, DJ; we think you’re awesome, and that’s what matters, right?
Anyone who says that any one comic is better than any other is obviously missing the point. I would say that I only really enjoy the work of many folk here on the Intertron; folk who bring it simply because it needs be brought… those folk with a real passion for creation simply for the sake thereof.
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I would put DJ firmly in that group, and laud him for it strongly.
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January 26th, 2006 at 8:41 am
cool news man. a monthly Yirm book is a good thing. That “system” of distribution, if you can even CALL it that, is MORE than efhed up. I just picked up Season of the Witch #3 yesterday at the shop (was at the printer the first week of DECEMBER) and it’s just now in stores. You’re not far off in that whole 2 month delay. Even books like the new Shadowhawk that Valentino is doing is not coming out consitently (and it has NOTHING to do with creators or publishers) really glad to see you bypassing the whole distribution thing man! Rock on!!!!
January 26th, 2006 at 8:56 am
I’m delighted to hear about the upcoming dead tree edition! What method/supplier did you pick for getting them printed?
January 26th, 2006 at 9:09 am
I have a friend doing the printing for me. The distribution will be ALL ME.
Just the way it should be.
January 26th, 2006 at 9:40 am
ooh! ooh!
I vote for Bill O’Riley as the next celebrity on fire!
January 26th, 2006 at 9:47 am
I second kapoo’s movement to “enlighten”
Bill O’Riley.
Then do Micheal Moore and Ann Coulter.
Mikey’s lard will make him burn like a candle for days on end, and Ann Coulter would go up with a spritzing of holy water.
If people like them keep polarizing American
politics into hard-set “liberal” and “conservitive”
camps, it’s gonna lead to a civil war!
January 26th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Good point in your last paragraph, Blue Eagle… but wouldn’t your idea be the proverbial “adding more fuel to the fire?”
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Feel free to groan all you want at that.
And DJ: You still rock! Feel the love. Feel it!
January 26th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Great idea for the monthly. I’ll buy it — fuck, I’ll subscribe!
I’m doing something similar with my own comic — which is episodic, so every 22 pages is a complete story. I have the current one online as well as the previous one, and the earlier stories will be available only via hard copy. I’m sending the first of these off to the printer now, so we’ll see how it works out.
And no, I’m not pimping my site here. No mention of the name, except that I am a Yirmumah advertiser and I get a BOATLOAD of traffic from the link here, so if you have a webcomic, buy an ad on Yirmumah right now.
Also, candidates for roasting:
Al Sharpton
Michael Moore
Katie Couric
Hillary Clinton
Bill O’Reilly
Pat Robertson (please have Jesus light him up)
January 26th, 2006 at 10:40 am
I love this idea of your own books! Notice I didn’t say pamphlets :). There’s something satisfying about turning pages and laughing.
Can you torch Tom Cruise too?
January 26th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Wasn’t the Cruise missle already taken out with mass quantities of venom?
Ah, screw it, add injury to insult! Light em up!
January 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
My vote is for Larry Lucchino
January 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Man I cant believe it…all this talk about setting people on fire and no mentioned the worst TV reality “star”…Simon Cowell has to the next to taste the flames. Actually how about the whole American Idol show. And yes Paula too..just for that crap ass video she did with the cartoon fox.
January 26th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Congratulations on the print book DJ. You’ve got my money! And you’re absolutely right about the BS “drama” going around in webcomics! Is it really necessary?!?
One more thing, SET JOAN RIVERS ON FIRE!!
January 26th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
I’d like to throw in since we may be roasting Tom Cruise again - and frankly, he can’t be killed enough - can we roast the entire cast of The View? Just ’cause, you know.
January 26th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Joan Rivers is made of Naugahide and will prove quite fireproof, most likely.
Yeah on the book DJ, I’m up to buy one.
COngrats on the Dark Horse thing. It does have me scared that the book industry is starting to see the talent and dedication of several web comics icons and is starting to sponge them away with little — paying — jobs until they take them out entirely.
Conspiracy Theory!!!
Waldo~
January 27th, 2006 at 9:24 am
I’d vote for Michael Jackson on fire, but that’s already been done. Unless you do a retrospective on burning celebrities, in which case you can include Richard Prior. Maybe Hunter Thompson, who was fired from a cannon post-mortem.
George Carlin said that when he died, he wanted to be blown up. Why wait?