Three Pieces of News

Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009

My first piece of news:

The brain behind the comic turrbull interviewed me.  It was fun to be interviewed and Patrick seems like a real swell guy.

My second piece of news:

Michael Firman’s Moe Comics is really fantastic.  It displays a wit, humor and economy that I could only dream about.  Everyone should check it out.  This one is my favorite, I think.

A bit of a funny story how Moe Comics came to my attention.  I was checking out
isitfunnytoday when I noticed this comic.  Seems awfully like the less well crafted Cowbirds in Love comic Love bites?, I thought.  I called this to Mr. Firman?s attention and I got this real swell email apologizing for the similarity.

He speculated that perhaps he read my comic and subconsciously used the same joke, but I prefer to think that this was just a case of two geniuses of webcomics coming across the same great joke concept.  And if you check out Moe Comics you will discover that, in fact, Michael Firman is a webcomic genius.

My third piece of news:

Spam bots were spamming up the comments on news feeds, so Gabe added this swell anti-spam question.  As far as I know, “yes” is an acceptable answer.

  • It sure is.

    By Sanjay on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • It sure isn’t.

    By Reverend Mike on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • (Checking up on that whole “yes” thing…)

    By J on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • That’s so much better than those annoying “captcha” things.

    By E on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • “Cold” didn’t work. That’s culturally insensitive to those of us in Canada :-).

    By Mark on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • That interview was pretty flattering.  When you make it to the big time, Sanjay, remember us little people.

    By Matt Fendt on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • Isn’t temperature relative? So fire might be cold compared to, say, the sun.

    By on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • Matt, your comic is pretty funny, too. Sanjay should always remember the funny little people.

    By Patrick on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • It is the official position of Cowbirds in Love that both robots and residents of the sun are not welcome to make comments on news items.

    By Sanjay on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I?ve tasted of desire
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice,
    I think I know enough of hate
    To know that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.
    (The answer “cold” should work too, I think, if it’s good enough for Robert Frost.  It doesn’t.  For shame!)

    By Austin on Thursday, March 12, 2009
  • That poem gave me an idea for a comic.

    By Sanjay on Friday, March 13, 2009
  • f

    By on Friday, March 13, 2009
  • Coolness. yay for news..

    By William on Monday, March 16, 2009
  • Moe is pretty rad. But you are too!

    By Tom on Wednesday, March 18, 2009
  • haha!

    By baaaa on Tuesday, March 31, 2009
  • argfsdg

    By asiuodh on Tuesday, March 31, 2009