Funny! Which webcomic is it for? BTW, instead of "(the guy in front of you standing up the whole concert)" I heard "squee squee, squee squee, squee squee"
The details are all in the original iTom post, but... the strip is Sheldon (http://www.sheldoncomics.com/). Specifically, today's strip. And the "squee squee" is because this is the "Flaco Mix", involving Flaco the Gecko, one of the bestest comic characters EVAR.
Now if only the web comic people would return the favor. I think it would be fun for you to make a guest appearance in "Skin Horse." Maybe they could do the entire FuMP as an evil conspiracy to take over the world through demented music and they meet at science fiction conventions to plot their evil plots, and so their henchmen don't stand out as much (meeting at the waffle house is so awkward, there's never any place to put your zap-lances)
Actually, in different ways many of them have returned the favor. The most obvious one is partiallyclips' fundraiser album, and how many of them helped promote it. kobold had those excellent strips where "A Boy And His Frog" made a couple of his macho characters cry; he also gave me the idea (and the cover, when it's finished) for Herbert West: The Musical. Bill Holbrook has become a friend (and I'll have something regarding that later today), John Lotshaw and howardtayler both make my life better, and I think we all know that the Foglios are aces in my book for a myriad of reasons.
Ain't palenoue great? We're blessed with his fanship over at Skin Horse (http://www.skin-horse.com), and he has an undying enthusiasm for seeing his favorite things go together, kind of like evil mad genius peanut butter cups. (I would so totally buy evil mad genius peanut butter cups.)
Unfortunately, much as part of me would like to work his idea into the plot, the story doesn't actually get to the one musical storyline until much later, where we do a charming and inspiring romantic comedy attrition-horror musical about the Jersey Devil. Maybe if we ever get to that point I'll ask if you take commissions for a brief score, as I can kind of write lyrics but am kind of lost in the actual music part. Do you ever take commissions?
Oh, and hello! I'm fairly late to the Tom Smith fandom -- though I think I'd heard your stuff off and on for a while, I only really managed to coalesce all these vague impulses about you into a recognizable character in my brain when the Foglios did that hospital benefit thing for you. I'm sorry to say that before that point I got you and Tom Lehrer sort of confuddled in my brain. Hope your leg is feeling better. Mind a friending?
Hi there, and welcome! No, I don't mind at all. And, yeah, palenoue is great. I've got a lot of tremendous folks on my LJ.
I'll have to check out Skin Horse -- forgive me for not doing so earlier, but there are lots of corners of the Net I simply haven't made it to for one reason or another. A Jersey Devil musical, huh? ;) And, yes, I do take commissions. I should be revising that page in the next two weeks, actually....
And, bluntly, these days I think all they're selling is evil mad genius peanut butter cups....
And, I have to ask -- how many "Bad Horse Chorus" parodies have you received based on "Skin Horse"?
ETA: Okay, I've checked out the past few weeks. Weird and funny. I've gotta make time for that (and a few other strips, but we'll let that pass). And I notice your commenters have a penchant for parody....
I don't think we've gotten a single "Bad Horse" riff! Which is strange, now that I think about it.
And yes, we've got a couple inveterate song-parody riffers in the comment section, chiefly the inimitable Ed Gedeon, but a handful of others as well. It warms the cockles of my heart to see people using something I've helped put out there as a venue of sorts for their own creative works. We've got great fans. Now they just need to send us gobs of cash in addition to cool fan-art, and we'll be golden, I tell you, golden.
But I _need_ to get filkers and web comics together so I can study the combined effect of the persistent meme inherent in musical puns (that tune you can't get out of your head yet makes you giggle even after a thousand mental replays) and the compulsive addiction of internet drawings (the "just one more web comic" syndrome even though you've been at it for six hours already). Once I've cracked the secret of these two elements I can then genetically implant it into the subharmonic command purrs of my evil kittens (they can get away with any evil deed just by tilting their head to the side and making with the big innocent eyes). Right now all the kittens can do are give the commands "Skritch my ears," "Dangle a piece of string for my amusement," and "Ignore the death ray I'm assembling behind the sofa and watch me take a nap in a sunny spot."
But after I combine filk and web comic technology I'll be able to use my atomic kitten catapults to spread the Little Fur-Balls of Evil® across the world and... then... well, I'll work on that part later, but I'm sure it will be something interesting.
Ha! I am retroactively proven wrong by this Facebook post, dated 10/9/08:
"We work across the nation, under a budget thin With mad science creations, intelligence hum-in But they lack regulation, and that's where we come in A talking dog, a walking corpse (She likes using deadly force) Skin Horse--Skin Horse--Skin Horse Skin Horse Skin Horse"
What, I ask you, is more awesome than fan filk? The answer: NOTHING IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
Oh, I'm not saying they don't appreciate filking, and the few web cartoonists I know are very nice people. I just meant that while filkers write songs about web comics, why don't some web comics have filkers in their strips? For instance, Bill Holbrook has _millions_ of characters, but has any of them ever whipped out a guitar and sung an amusing ditty? (Operation: Desert Storm should have been Ralph's theme song for a while there) I just want to see some convergence of genres going on here.
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Date: 2009-02-03 12:17 am (UTC)BTW, instead of "(the guy in front of you standing up the whole concert)" I heard "squee squee, squee squee, squee squee"
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:13 am (UTC)Indubitably.
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Date: 2009-02-03 01:44 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, much as part of me would like to work his idea into the plot, the story doesn't actually get to the one musical storyline until much later, where we do a charming and inspiring romantic comedy attrition-horror musical about the Jersey Devil. Maybe if we ever get to that point I'll ask if you take commissions for a brief score, as I can kind of write lyrics but am kind of lost in the actual music part. Do you ever take commissions?
Oh, and hello! I'm fairly late to the Tom Smith fandom -- though I think I'd heard your stuff off and on for a while, I only really managed to coalesce all these vague impulses about you into a recognizable character in my brain when the Foglios did that hospital benefit thing for you. I'm sorry to say that before that point I got you and Tom Lehrer sort of confuddled in my brain. Hope your leg is feeling better. Mind a friending?
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Date: 2009-02-03 01:52 pm (UTC)I'll have to check out Skin Horse -- forgive me for not doing so earlier, but there are lots of corners of the Net I simply haven't made it to for one reason or another. A Jersey Devil musical, huh? ;) And, yes, I do take commissions. I should be revising that page in the next two weeks, actually....
And, bluntly, these days I think all they're selling is evil mad genius peanut butter cups....
And, I have to ask -- how many "Bad Horse Chorus" parodies have you received based on "Skin Horse"?
ETA: Okay, I've checked out the past few weeks. Weird and funny. I've gotta make time for that (and a few other strips, but we'll let that pass). And I notice your commenters have a penchant for parody....
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:12 pm (UTC)And yes, we've got a couple inveterate song-parody riffers in the comment section, chiefly the inimitable Ed Gedeon, but a handful of others as well. It warms the cockles of my heart to see people using something I've helped put out there as a venue of sorts for their own creative works. We've got great fans. Now they just need to send us gobs of cash in addition to cool fan-art, and we'll be golden, I tell you, golden.
Anyway, glad you liked what you saw! :)
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Date: 2009-02-03 05:54 pm (UTC)But after I combine filk and web comic technology I'll be able to use my atomic kitten catapults to spread the Little Fur-Balls of Evil® across the world and... then... well, I'll work on that part later, but I'm sure it will be something interesting.
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Date: 2009-02-03 05:55 pm (UTC)MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HEE-HOO-HAAAAA!
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Date: 2009-02-07 02:37 am (UTC)"We work across the nation, under a budget thin
With mad science creations, intelligence hum-in
But they lack regulation, and that's where we come in
A talking dog, a walking corpse
(She likes using deadly force)
Skin Horse--Skin Horse--Skin Horse Skin Horse Skin Horse"
What, I ask you, is more awesome than fan filk? The answer: NOTHING IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
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Date: 2009-02-04 06:30 pm (UTC)So who would _you_ like to converge with?