Happy Halloween everyone! Make it awesome and make it safe!
A special thanks to the magnificent Emily Chan for this wonderful holiday card! Be sure to check out her delightful StupidFox comic – as if you hadn’t already 
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We had a lot of fun with this week’s pinup. I had been wanting to do a series of homages to movies and pop culture moments that I love and cherish for quite a while now, and how perfect is it that the wonderful artist Robyn Seale had not only the chops, but the inclination to humor me in this silly obsession of mine? I love her style, especially her colors, on this pinup – I think it captures the mood of the film, while of course, letting the characters of Hot Mess have their own fun.
Just in case you missed them, here are links to our first two pinups:
“Scooziecat is Displeased” by Emily Chan, and
“Spring Day” by Ben Chamberlain
Robyn comes to us from her own webcomic called “The Watcher of Yaathagggu” (pronounced yah-THAG-goo) which I love for a variety of reasons. First, I’m a nut for all things Lovecraftian. If you give me a choice between silly slasher movies and “R” rated stuff like “Saw” or visually tame, but psychologically frightening movies and books, I’ll take the latter every time. For my money, my imagination can scare me far worse than anything I see on screen, which is why the works of H.P. Lovecraft, with their insinuations and suggestive language rather than outright graphic horror, work better and stay with me far longer.
Robyn plumbs the depths of the Lovecraft mythos and gives it her own spin, and what I love about her art is the way she uses color and light to great effect. She’s also proof of my “Grand Theory of Webcomics” – if you have a story you want to tell and are willing to do the work, you can have your very own webcomic that has the potential to reach fans around the world. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never had formal art training, or you have no idea how to create a website. Modern technology has made it so easy to create and publish on the web, that the barriers to entry that used to stop a comic from getting out into the ether (i.e. having a publisher, a distributor, advertisers, etc.) no longer exist. It’s something I’m working to cover more in depth in my blog series of “How to Make a Webcomic” which I hope to launch soon.
From the Yaathagggu website:
Yaathagggu (pronounced yah-THAG-goo) is a city surrounded by eldritch horrors and absolute darkness.
Pieta Gaolwynne is a perimeter watcher, tasked with guarding the city by keeping her lighthouse running and survey the ocean, which stands as the greatest threat.
But things aren’t right with her tower or with the city, and one unlikely protagonist is thrust into a plot of mystery, intrigue and madness.
And below take a look at a few of her pages… enjoy (and click through to see them on her website):
Thought it might be nice to give Anna a moment to soak in Hunter’s good deed. Enjoy it now, Anna, because it probably won’t last 
Thanks to you, we’re still climbing up in the rankings (we’ve cracked the top 120 as of this writing). You can help us with our (very modest) goal of breaking the top 100 by just clicking on the button below. Even if you’ve voted before, remember, you can vote once a day.
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Interesting how people don’t think through a “joke” until it teeters upon the edge of ruining someone’s life…
Diana has a little to say about the flip side of this trend in the blog.
On a brighter note, you awesome readers have been great about voting – keep it up! It’s super easy, no sign up, and takes about two seconds. You can help us with our (very modest) goal of breaking the top 100. But who knows how high we can go? Maybe even the top 99? Just click on the button below! Even if you’ve voted before, remember, you can vote once a day. And thanks.
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And finally, I can’t tell you how proud I am of all our wonderful, creative readers who keep the contest entries coming… take a look at Category 1 (personal avatars) and Category 2 (riffs on the Hot Mess characters)! We’d love to see your entry!
…ok, so we fixed 47… and additionally <hem,haw> I also altered the script just a little. So this is either an insight into the writing process, or you can look at this as a total mess up by me. Either way, I hope you enjoy it. Consider it… a director’s cut!
