Lying-Ade
Wednesday — March 10th, 2010

Lying-Ade

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POSTED BY ben - March 10th, 2010

Lying-Ade

Andy and Jeff are really trying to make progress in the lemonade-making area. Check out this week’s Lemon Inc. to see how they’re doing so far.

Here is the second part of my interview with Tim Lai. Now, remember, Tim is from Canada, and Canadians are difficult to understand because they like to mix English and French words in the same sentence in order to feel superior to foreigners, who they typically look down on with disgust. So, after each response I have translated what he said into American.

WAH: What is the main goal you’d like to achieve for yourself with your webcomic?

TL: My main goal is to have fun with it. That’s an important one. My other main goal is to have a creative outlet that I can use to motivate myself to improve my art and writing by giving myself deadlines and a potential audience to put me in a better position to embark on me next creative endeavor.

Translation: We are secretly amassing an army to take back what you call “Alaska.”

WAH: What is the main goal you’d like to achieve for your fans with your webcomic?

TL: I would like it if, years from now, my readers could look back on my archives and see that the characters have changed and grown. I’d like them to feel that they understand each of the characters’ unique qualities and love and hate each of them for different reasons. Of course my comic loses all appeal if the characters change or grow at all in a literal, external way so I’m considering putting them through an extreme amount of emotional, internal growth while they’re still children. This would play up my comic’s premise which is about what it really means to grow up. I think it will create some (hopefully many) funny moments as well. This would allow me to tell the kind of jokes where you laugh, not because the guy farted, but because Jeff farted, and you have a strong emotional connection to Jeff, and by association, the fart. I haven’t had much sleep recently…

Translation: We are also seriously considering building a border fence in order to make it harder for you to enter our country illegally. All you Americans seem to do is take jobs away from hungry Canadians while burdening our health care and school systems. And you smell funny.

The final installment of my interview with Tim will be on Friday. Stay tuned.

- Ben

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POSTED BY ben - March 11th, 2010

Seattle Or Bust

I’m sorry there aren’t any late-night reviews this week. It’s been pretty crazy. But I will take the opportunity to do two things:

First, Paul and I will be at Emerald City ComiCon this weekend. We really hope you can visit us at the TNP booth.

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Second, it’s time to catch up on Late. If you missed the first episode you can watch it here.

- Ben

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POSTED BY ben - March 9th, 2010

Happy Anniversary to Us!

It was exactly one year ago today that Paul and I debuted Woody After Hours right here on this very spot. It was a crazy whirlwind of a day in which eight people visited our site and saw our first strip. Sadly, seven of them didn’t understand it. But, there was no denying that they had caught WAH fever.

Since then we’re happy to report that our audience has increased a whopping 2% per month. That’s 24% for the entire year! That means we’ve got 9.92 fans. We’re closing in on double-digits folks!

And, believe it or not, that’s not even the best part. We’ve made so much advertising revenue that we’ve purchased three polar icecaps, two galaxies within 500 trillion light years of Earth, and we’re currently the high bidder on a bridge in California.

Our momentum is at an all-time high, and it’s because of our great fan base. So Paul and I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making this a great first year. We’ve got ambitious goals for this year, but I can only share one of them with you right now: new t-shirt design. That’s right, a new t-shirt! Can you feel the energy in the air?

Ok, I’m going back to bed. See you tomorrow.

- Ben