2996 Marcy Pottinger

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Firstly, if you don’t follow any of the update links, RSS, or whatever, go back one page for the B-B-B-BONUS PAGE!!!

Secondly, if you already took part in my crowdsourcing adventure, thank you for you input. I’m not 100% sure how I’m going to use it, but I’ll figure it out. If you want to leave your input and have only just found out you can do so under this blog, or any other page really. I’ll find it… It is very difficult for most creative people to sell their own work because our culture, in the US anyway, teaches us that it’s not right to take pride in what we do and we should always downplay our work as not real work, and so on. Over the years I have realized that this is most likely because keeping creative people overly humble allows them to be taken advantage of. Even so, it is very difficult to break free of that kind of thinking when it comes at you from the majority of your society. Now we have AI to contend with, which is basically the ultimate insult to artists in that it allows anyone to experience a facsimile of creativity minus the decades of work it takes to git gud. Of course a basic understanding of fundamental art concepts is going to give you an advantage in the future but all that is still on the near horizon. In any case I intend to go down swinging. We’ll see how that plays out in the future. Won’t that be fun?

Thirdly, I have the great pleasure of revealing a new character. I know my cast is already pretty large and it annoys people that their favorites have to sit on the sidelines while I noodle about with whoever has the spotlight. Unfortunately I have a mighty need to keep introducing cute girls forever. I actually had the idea for Marcy many, many, years ago, but didn’t want to slow down the introduction of Rulette with a character I hadn’t fully thought out. She’s not really meant to do anything than serve as an employee for Rulette, but I’m sure she’ll get a little screen time eventually. Mostly I just wanted to establish her existence on this page since it’s connective for where this whole bit is going and it serves that purpose well. Evrina can’t always be the one to mind the store when Rulette needs to step away. Especially since she has her own store to deal with. All of this stuff just establishes connections in the world that make it feel more lived in and real. Since I’ve already established that Rulette and Edward are approximately the same height this means that Edward is no longer the shortest character. Marcy is smaller than Brooksie too. At least height wise.

In any event I see that it is time to post so I will wish you a pleasant weekend. Stay safe out on those mean streets. I’ll be back on Monday with more comic. Until then, engage in some yestalgia instead of nostalgia.

32 Comments

Always nice to see a new character, and hopefully the feedback is helpful in some measure for you.

(As for my luck even though they are heading to the store they aren’t there, so my joking streak of comic character guesses from Monday comes to an end haha; still thanks for the laughs provided even though it wasn’t intentional.)

Marcy,…and [Peppermint] Patty?

Sometimes you’re humor can be really mean, Jackie.

I kid! I kid!

Hee, hee, hee!

:D :D

Affronting Dump is the name of my new punk cover band
Question is, who’s the Chuck with this patty/marcy dynamic?

Someone even shorter than Patty? Ouch! At least Ed has someone else to commiserate over his height issues with.

Always happy to see new characters, but I sure wouldn’t mind an update to the cast page for when I forget about someone and don’t want to scroll back forever

The sites code is 15 years old and very hard to change because altering anything sometimes causes disasters and there’s no dedicated IT for it anymore. I won’t say never though. It just depends on if I can secure help if something goes wrong.

I was thinking of another “In a world where a corporation …” but I’m guessing it’d be somewhat dated. “Where broke nerds could go;, catch up on their reading for free, play guitar hero and rent movies once in a while. See how those employees got by behind the scenes. “

I have realized that this is most likely because keeping creative people overly humble allows them to be taken advantage of.

Never forget that you’re a creative who makes things fun. Easy fun is hard work, whether written, drawn, filmed, spoken, or acted.

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PS Any intended link between the name Marceline and a town in a neighboring state?

I agree.
In my views:
most attempts to make professional art or entertainment, are hard to do, while, in my words- making that product appear to be “this fun + enjoyable thing, + casual thing, for people to enjoy”, is also very hard.

Making mainstream…successful, and profitable- [art and e.] is hard, at least it is for most people.

A way to find that out- is to join, without experience: a high school’s or college’s song and dance group, and: learning its routines, + keeping up with the group, if exercising or dancing for many hours a week is not your thing. [Believe me-it’s not mine].

I wonder how many artists, straight out of high school, or straight out of college- have made an art portfolio, and, looking for a job, sent that portfolio to DC Comics, or Marvel Comics, hoping to get a reply from them,…a reply that didn’t come, and will not ever come to them.

There’s a much-used or common phrase said, about top-of-the-line, professional dancers: “They make it look so easy”.

(By “top-of-the-line” dancers, I mean people like: Fred Astaire, Dick Van Dyke, The Denver Bronco’s cheerleaders, Broadway dancers, and similar people.)

To me, + to many others: doing professional art, professional webcomics, + professional entertainment is hard.
It’s a not-often, traveled road. that not many can keep up travelling on.

Please support, if you can- your favorite webcomics makers, and favorite entertainers, with lots of funds + emotional supports.
*stepping off of the soapbox for now*

Respecting yourself only goes so far unfortunately. Creative work attracts many more people interested in doing it than the people running the businesses are willing (or even able) to pay a fair living wage. Abuses like ghostwriting and the casting couch have only been possible because they exploit the difference between the number of people who want the job and the number of jobs there are to do, to say nothing of the broad, long-standing expectation of artistic poverty that is so entrenched it’s tradition.

A sustainable path to self-respect for artists looks an awful lot like what you’re doing now, cutting out 99% of the business and marketing involved to get rid of the suits who eat professional artists’ lunches and toss them some leftovers occasionally.

Yup, it’s just a lot harder and more uncertain in the short term than signing that deal with the rent-seeking devil.

It took me long enough but I remembered finally that Rulette’s real name is Patricia.

Patty and Marcie. I get it. I got that reference.

The way you introduced Marcy reminds me of that college professor who just kept throwing shade at this one girl while praising Jess.

I’ve decided to keep my creative work a hobby I do in my off-time. Maybe someday I’ll finish something, but I love working on things and talking about working on things. Hopefully someone can at least read something I wrote someday.

Huh, must be due to the double layer shirts from before that I didn’t notice but Rulette’s got some CAKE.

Lordy, I wondered about the “sir”, but now my fellow commenters have clued me in to the Peanuts reference. I’m sorry to say I’d’a missed it, so thank y’all. My first impression was more along the lines of Velma Dinkley’s sweater.

“I have a mighty need to keep introducing cute girls forever.”

Something you share in common with Jeph Jacques along with me being a long-time reader.

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