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The moment you have all been waiting for– the end of this blog post– is a mere sentence away! But before you go, enjoy the video I have created to promote my new Kickstarter, which launches November 25th December 2nd! Please share!!
Ohhh, things are coming together now! Look at all the Pixar level animation you can expect from my video!
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Okay… this doesn’t look like much YET. But soon enough this sketch will become the cover art promoting my next Kickstarter!
Death Ray 2020 it shall be called! And it will be an opportunity for you all to earn some new exclusive goodies while helping me stay afloat in 2020 so I can pass up genuine paying work and really devote my time to creating the projects I hope you are all looking forward to, including Weapon Brown: Aftershock and the finale of The Hero’s Journey!
I anticipate launching this campaign on November 1st, so stay tuned!
He’s going in for the kiss.
It was rough going for a while, and I’ll admit that I did have a concession speech prepared.. but what do you know? Sometimes your get lucky! And no one is luckier than a guy who has fans like mine!
So yes indeed, my Kickstarter made it’s goal and then some! The last-minute enthusiasm was beyond my greatest dreams! (Okay, not beyond the dream where I’m flying naked over a land of birthday parties while shooting my enemies with blue eye lasers… but still, pretty awesome!) This means that the Weapon Brown graphic novel will soon be back in stock, and that an all new Weapon Brown comic book featuring tales of your favorite Weapon Brown characters is on its way!
Beyond that, the success of this Kickstarter is greasing the skids for all my upcoming projects, which will all benefit from my having Weapon Brown to anchor my publishing agenda. So if you enjoy Peek, Deep Fried and all the rest, good news! Everyone wins!
Thank you to all who pledged to my campaign, spread the word, or who just reads my work! Occasionally, as a creator, I have to pass the hat through the audience, and you guys were anything but stingy! This one’s for you!
The final week of the Aftershock Kickstarter is here! If you are reading this, you know what to do! Pledge! Then… take up your machetes and kill my enemies! (But pledge first, absolutely!)
Also, I am now on Instagram and posting like a hung, horny teenager who just learned how to share his dick pix! (Yes, that IS how I think of my comics!) Follow me @death_ray_graphics for stuff you’ve never seen before!
After the flu tried AND FAILED to kill me last week, delaying the launch of my Kickstarter, I rallied! I can now report that the Weapon Brown: Aftershock Kickstarter, which has been up and running all week, is doing just dandy!
As I write this I am closing in on 100 backers and nearing 25% of my goal. I’m feeling confident enough to even be thinking about the next item on my agenda in this Year of Death Ray Graphics, which is the second issue of Peek! But first, I guess I ought to reacquaint the public with that project.
Beginning next week, I will start putting out the entirety of Peek the First as a daily strip, running Monday through Friday, until the whole mess has been shared. There will be lots of great random humor for you to enjoy, and it will all lead up to the complete “Take Me To Work Day” Clarissa story that so many of you have been jonesin’ to read on this site!
(I have also, at last, put Peek the First up for sale in my store as a digital edition. Why read it for free when you can pay me for it??)
In the meantime I have begun working in earnest on the new material for Peek the Second, which I hope to have out in comic book form this summer. And you will soon be able to purchase the second issue of The Hero’s Journey as well. That one’s almost ready to come out of the oven!
There are just so many ways for you to give me your money that I can’t believe you have any left! GIMMEE!!
Friends, Romans, countrymen… all are falling victim to the flu that is ravaging our nation, and I am no exception! And so, the Kickstarter I planned to launch this week to fund the reprint of Weapon Brown must be put off one week while I let the mysterious elixir known as Nyquil fight the battle I am too weak to fight on my own.
So, tune in next Monday for the launch! And here is a glimpse of some of the glory that awaits you when you do!
The Year of Death Ray Graphics (that’s what the Chinese are calling 2018, at least) is underway! If you did not know that, then I curse the mainstream media for distracting you with nonsense like that “Nunes Memo” shit. Damn you, Nunes!
But it’s true! It’s my year and you’re just living in it! And the first stage of my endless 2018 product launches is the upcoming Kickstarter to fund a new run of Weapon Brown! Yes, my hated fans have bought up all of my Weapon Brown graphic novels, forcing me to run a Kickstarter to buy more! This is capitalism, folks! An endless cycle of never-enough-for-anyone!
The campaign launches Monday, February 12th, and is not only designed to put Weapon Brown back into print, but to fund a brand NEW Weapon Brown product as well! That comic book will be called Weapon Brown: Aftershock, and it will be a 48-page epilogue to the Chuck’s journey, telling tales out if school about your favorite round-headed sonofabitch. I’ ve had this idea on my mind for a while, so finger’s crossed!
I will have more details and promo art to share soon, but in the meantime, get excited! And if you feel like adding your name to my mailing list (right below the weekly), you may receive a special goody right before the campaign launches, just to prove that I love you (or don’t love you, as my goodies ultimately reveal. Hey, I was raised by emotionally distant hobo parents! What do you expect from me??)
The following is the conclusion to a series of exchanges I have had this week with author Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day, and his publisher, Castalia House, on Beale’s website. These exchanges (which I authored under the name Vox Diabolus) were all in regards to his ongoing crowddfunding campaign for a “comic book” project titled Alt-Hero (I will not link directly to the campaign, as it is supported by a network of white supremacists). You can read Beale’s own impressions of our exchange here.
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Markku, Vox darling—
My mission is accomplished and I shan’t trouble you any longer. I have posted this open letter on your website, and despite the fact that your site’s comments section is now littered with your responses to comments of mine that you have since ghosted, I still hope you will leave my letter up just a little while. What’s the harm? Haven’t you already proven that which I have never disputed, that you are raking in the green with your pledge drive?
(And anyway, the joke was always on me. The work on my own comic project has been greatly delayed by this week’s distractions, and as it is bound to have far fewer anonymous sugar daddies to support it, my labors are now increased.)
Let the record show that while I am suspicious of the overall quality of the final product that will be Alt-Hero, I have at no time suggested that Vox is duping anyone. And besides, a well-cultivated fandom willing to empty their wallets into one’s bank account at the tinkling of a small bell is the legitimate goal of all creators. The donors will learn for themselves whether or not they are the proverbial fools.
One thing that I have proven is that if you ask a question often enough, you can force an answer from Vox (though apparently you cannot get him to put it in a FAQ). And so we now know that yes, the written novel unlocked at the 70K stretch-goal level will be extended gratis to his six wealthiest donors.
This seems odd to me. I have never seen a crowdfunding drive where all or nearly all donors were not fed the fruits of the stretch goals they made possible. But if you consent to kneel before a “dread lordâ€, your expectations of generosity are probably a bit malformed.
I suppose I can recognize that using this devious crowdfunding platform of Freestartr was a smart move. At first I was surprised that Vox chose to lose an additional five percent of his funds (over Kickstarter) to a service with few if any tools to assist the donors. (According to one donor, you can’t even enter overseas shipping data… will that be the first of many hiccups related to shipping, I wonder?) However, since Vox chose to spread the Confederate flag all over his campaign, I guess he’s been proven shrewd after all. And the world itself benefits! Keep the campaign, like the comic book, inside the alt-right ecosystem. Never let it out.
But drip-by-drip, the donors to this campaign have revealed that they are yet under some illusions about what the final payoff of Alt-Hero will be, and I still insist that Vox owes these dedicated fans some clear answers. Several donors have now commented that they are trying to whet the appetite of their local comic shop owners for Alt-Hero’s eventual premier, as though it might actually wind up in their pull pile beneath the latest issue of the Walking Dead. Come clean with them, Vox. A FAQ from Day keeps the REEEEEEs at bay!
-Vox Diabolus
Gaze on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! The mug-crafting outfit known as Horror In Clay is raising loot through Kickstarter to produce a tiki mug that I helped design, one overflowing with monkey goodness!
Pay the campaign a visit… and tell them Chico sent you! (They won’t know what that means… it’s just one of my many head games!)
MWAH!!
I’d like to offer a big “thank you” to every visitor to Whatisdeepfried.com who has helped make the Kickstarter campaign for Peek! a success! The funding goal of $8000.00 has been met, and with still a week to go, there are stretch goals that may yet be reached!
It’s always perilous running these campaigns. It takes a lot of sweat, brews up a lot of stomach acid, and in the end, you are basically shaking your tin cup in front of the same handful of people for 30 straight days. I’m not surprised if it gets annoying to some, especially those who want to know why they ain’t gettin’ the Deep Fried updates that they come here for in the first place!
Nevertheless, you guys have come through for me! You’ve also done yourselves a favor as well, because Peek! is going to look awesome and be packed with the sort of rude shit you know only I can provide! I am grateful always to know that there are people out there who want that.
What’s Next?
Next week, as the campaign draws to its close on Friday, I will be posting some more cartoons from Peek! (M,W,F). I will also be submitting these as links on Reddit, and I hope when I post those links you will help me get some attention by going to Reddit and upvoting them. This will hopefully drive more traffic to my campaign (plus, will you get to read some of those funny, awful cartoons that this effort is all about).
And after next week, once I have slept off my absinthe hangover and have kicked all the hookers to the curb, Deep Fried will be back in business with new cartoons on June 8th. See you then!
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Rejoice! Rejoice! You have no choice!! The Peek! Kickstarter has begun!
“What the ever-loving monkeyhell is ‘Peek!‘” you ask, using your most colorful language? It is the new comic book series I am trying to get off the ground that will feature all sorts of new, awful humor, starting with the brand new Clarissa story I have been promising for eternity3!
Unbeknownst to you, I made the decision last year that the Deep Fried comic book will focus exclusively on the Beepo and Roadkill stories. This means that I need a new place to put my assorted humor, and Peek! will be that place–a homeland for cast-off comedy!
My plan is to publish Peek! annually, and bring in other cartoonists to collaborate with as well. But that can’t happen until the first issue squeezes through Kickstarter’s birth canal, getting it’s humor slime all over you!  Please support this Kickstarter, and if it is not asking too much, TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT IT 826 TIMES A DAY!!!
My Kickstarter prep is almost done, and I will be launching the campaign in the next two weeks. I’m working on the next Deep Fried strip right now, and things should be back to normal once my Kickstarter launches. In the meantime, enjoy this piece of work-in-progress!
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If you have been wondering when the hell the next installment of Deep Fried will drop, I have been wondering myself! As usual, you can blame my other cartoon projects for delaying your enjoyment of the greatest web strip ever to go so long without a single award!
The good news, however, is the imminent arrival of the Kickstarter that will, with the help of almighty Satan, fund the publication of Peek no. The First!
Formerly titled “Suicide Note #3”, this deluxe format mini became it’s own entity as I developed it, and so it seemed appropriate that it should have its own name. Peek will be loaded with the best kind of funny badness, all leading to its raison d’etre, the premier of Clarissa’s new story ,”Take Me to Work Day”. And it will be MC’d by your favorite of my third tier creations, the Peeker himself!
I should be ready to announce the Kickstarter in about two weeks, so start warming up your credit cards!
In the meantime, if you have forgotten how awful my voice sounds in interviews, I’ve a new one for you. courtesy of Jeremy Fein and the HunnicoutCast.
I have at long last mailed the remaining orders owed to my heroic Kickstarter pledgers, thus completely wrapping the Weapon Brown Kickstarter campaign in time for next week’s debut of the redecorated Whatisdeepfried.com!
If you were a pledger, thank you again for all your dedication! This vid’s for you!
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Comic Book Resources has an article up about how crowd funding is changing the face of the comics market. Among the stats featured are those showing Weapon Brown crushing it in November as the fifth most funded comic book campaign that month! And where did the Noam Chomsky graphic novel wind up? Thirty-fourth! Sorry Noam! That’ll teach you to shit all over capitalism!
At last the moment I have held my breath for has arrived! The money from my Kickstarter  has been deposited in my bank account! I am no longer merely a hypothetical success! The precious numbers have officially teleported from one open browser window to another, and that 1000px journey is the difference between imagination and cold hard cash! Ah, commerce!
More importantly, if I blow all that beautiful green paper on an outrageous vacation to Australia to run naked through the Outback covered in eucalyptus oil while the koalas lick me clean, it will now be fraud instead of my oldest masturbation fantasy!
My life is now like Richard Pryor’s in Brewster’s Millions. I have to spend as much of my loot as I can this month for it to count towards business expenses in 2013 and not caviar money. So, Â that means buying T-shirts, sketchbooks, ad space, nipple implants, stickers and magnets as fast as I can! Holy shit!… Â I still have to put out a graphic novel too!
You know what? This is just too much responsibility! I’m a hobo at heart! Folks, just… take back your money JUST KIDDING! I’m an artist, not a hedge fund manager ONLY KIDDING! This was a fun experiment, but it’s too much for a simple country cartoonist like me to handle SHUT YOUR HOLE! I WANT TO FEEL A KOALA’S VELVET TOUNGE ON MY NECK!!
My precious website, how I have missed you! I’ve been spending so much time with that dolled-up Kickstarter site that you may think I have forgotten  the dirty old whore who got me to where I am. But  I could never forget you, my scrappy site. With all the crow’s feet of your coding glitches and your gloppy CSS mascara, you are still the only website for me.
WIDFdotC, you do not have the pizazz of Kickstarter, that Las Vegas casino where the foolish dump their money and their seed into one waiting slot after another. Instead you are the cozy, dingy saloon that lured in so many prospectors over the years to witness the burlesque of my cartoons for the first time. Yes, then Kickstarter came along and gave those grizzled nomads a taste of the big city highlife, but here is to where they will all return. Your warm hooch and player piano ditties (not to mention that soft cot in the pantry) are what make you the place tens of dozens of people call “home”. And though that mean old bank up the street keeps threatening to call in your mortgage, you’ll pull through somehow. You always do.
(Thanks to your connections with the local opium concern.)Â
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So… man! I wish I could spend some time swimming around in all my  gold coins, but  there’s just too much to do! if I though the stress of the Kickstarter was going to end with the Kickstarter, I was smoking too much (or not enough) of those choice green nuggets that the majority of my haul will eventually be spent on! Now I’ve got to mail surveys, compile mailing lists, negotiate prices and hunt Ukranians through the streets of Cleveland (the last thing I expected!)
Suffice to say, success is a nightmare I wouldn’t wish on anyone! Success is a cheap fraud foisted on our culture’s consumer zombies! So send me more of your money and unburden yourself from the chains of success! Let ME take up your sins!!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll just wade in my gold coins up to my knees before going back to my plow.
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