june 16 A couple of items: first, Dubmarine is going to return to updating with new installments twice a week for a limited time. This change will begin tomorrow, and new comics will now appear on Tuesdays as well as Fridays. That is good news! Secondly: I've put up some things on eBay for the first time in a long while, and just thought maybe some visitors to the site would be interested. I'm probably going to be putting up plenty more stuff as time goes on, and maybe even some original artwork eventually? We'll see what I can dig up... june 5 For the longest time, my favorite webcomic has been Muertitos. The art is hand-drawn (on paper!), the humor is innovative and clever, the characters unique, plenty of effort goes into the substance of the backgrounds, and the new strips appeared with the regularity of a Swiss watch. In my eyes, there was nothing wrong with it. Until this week, when it suddenly ended. Muertitos, you will be missed. I'll probably be going back and rereading a lot more of these in the weeks to come, but let's not forget that S. Sakurai is still working on another comic! Here is my all-time favorite: Fatty Arbuckle's filmography. may 29 Here's one for the "Oddities" file. I've been informed that a TV show called The Simpsons, perhaps you've heard of it, used a joke remarkably similar to one from my own comics recently. I guess it involves alphabetizing a bookshelf which contains only two books, and the episode in question first aired two weeks ago. Please compare to this comic from last year. How about that? Surely a coincidence, as the idea of writers for this show stealing from me falls somewhere in the gap between "highly unlikely" and "nuh-uh!!". Still, thanks to Bryce for catching this! may 2 I'm sorry, but the comic for the week will be delayed until this weekend. UPDATE: And now it's up. So that's good! On another note, if you're in the Amherst, Mass. area, you may want to check out this concert on Sunday. My friend of fifteen-or-so years Andy Ward will be performing, and I made the flyer. I'm also probably going to be there, since I've never seen Andy in concert before! apr 25 The new comic has a new font in the second panel. It's a new font I made, and it's free and available for download right now on this site. Right here on this page, way down at the bottom. I suppose I could have placed an anchor link down by it, but your scroll buttons work fine, don't they? Scroll buttons? You guys okay? apr 10 Unless you watch Monk, the only live-action scripted TV series I follow with any interest, you probably aren't aware of who Stanley Kamel is. Maybe if he was a little more famous than that, his recent death would have gotten better treatment. Like, OMG! Some old, unpretty TV dude died! Nice work, Yahoo. apr 1 It's April Fools' Day? Already? Looks like I have to come up with something... Okay, I got one! Let's see if you're fooled by this. *ahem* In a shocking turn of events, I have sold my website to a person or group that I have previously expressed nothing but disgust for. Even though this is extremely unlikely, it is the truth! The entire website will be taken down and replaced by something which I would never promote under normal circumstances. Well, how did I do? Were you "fooled"? I hope nobody else thought of that one first, otherwise I would end up looking like a complete hack. That would be bad! mar 18 Here's hoping your St. Patrick's Day was a good one! As it just so happens, I have some Ireland-related news. In 2006, I drew a Dubmarine comic in which Fawn explains to Maxine that "leprechauns don't say 'ach du lieber'". Turns out, I was wrong about that. Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report (a show which used my original Kremlin font in their "Cold War Update" graphic sequence) is now hunting for buried Nazi gold in Germany, and his graphic for this segment includes a leprechaun Hitler who does in fact say "Ach du leiber!". Clearly, I cannot argue with Stephen Colbert. My apologies go to the audience for misleading them. I'll try to be more careful about this sort of thing in the future. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _