[Monday, August 04, 2003 - 7:19pm PT]
Greetings my fellow bored individual, and welcome to the very first comic of OJStrips. There's a strange lingering of ambivalence in the air as I'm writing this. I can't really tell what it is, but I'm guessing it's the combination of perplexity and intrigue. It could be because I have yet to actually achieve anything relavent to the site, or maybe the fact that I'm writing this almost a year after I first created the comic.
I think I can still recollect some feelings and ideas which drove me to first think of making a webcomic. It all started off with Toastyfrog's Webcomix. However, they are not longer available for viewing becuase Jeremy Parish, the Toastyfrog webmaster, has decided to shut the site down. However, the site is still up and he is currently working on the Toastyfrog ZM.
Sorry, I have a bad habit of rambing off into little tangents. Anyways, I found it interesting to read comics based on Parish's web characters. The comics are shades of black and white, which give it the old feel of a comic, and the layout (verticle pannels) was just a tired copied effort of Parish's comics.
Yeah, I admit, however hard I try to be original, at times I end up copying someone else's hard work. Usually what happens is that I get a good idea, but I just don't know how to finish it off, or how to publish it. If I get into a block, I abandon my brain and any effort to think of something for myself. Surprisingly, sometimes that doesn't happen, and I am blessed with some strange concoction of a product.
Aiya. Tangent again. Where was I?
I'm prone to bordem and my orange juice character hasn't really been used much over the site. So I thought that maybe with the production of web comics, maybe the site could develop more depth and my character, now named OJ Cupenheimer, could serve more of a purpose than just some mascot.
As for the plot, I thought I'd get inspiration from life and events that has happend to me. Although I'd rather stay home than go out and actually do anything, I find some way to escape my safe abode and venture out into the evil satanic danger that is "outside". Since the primary purpose of me leaving is to go to work. This actually has never happened (just in case you didn't know), but I did get the idea from A&W's slogan "See the bear, taste the food". It was late in my shift, and bored out of my mind. I was eagerly searching the walls for something that would grab my attention away from the idleness of work, and so I found a poster which hailed that slogan. Due to to my fatigue, I guess I accidentally read, "See the food, tast the bear".
-The Henrimeister |
