October 25, 2004

blog entry 1000

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This is my thou­sandth blog entry on this Mova­ble Type plat­form.
I star­ted it last January (2004) some­time, so it ave­ra­ges about a hun­dred blog entries per month.
Gaping­void star­ted off in May, 2001 as just a car­toon web­site; the blog­ging star­ted slowly about 18 months later.
Roughly half of the entries are just new car­toons; the other half are writ­ten pie­ces, usually deco­ra­ted with a pre­viously published car­toon.
Some­ti­mes I’m more into the car­too­ning; some­ti­mes the wri­ting domi­na­tes. It varies.
At latest count there were 2122 com­ments. Not bad at all. Anything over 1000 I would con­si­der very good. As the blog gets more esta­blished I enjoy the “inte­rac­tive” side of it more and more.
One thing I really like are com­ments and e-mails from peo­ple who live very far away from me. Something really cool about get­ting a mes­sage from some­body in China, Esto­nia, Argen­tina etc.
I first star­ted publishing car­toons back in college when I lived in Texas during the late ‘80s. For the life of me I couldn’t get prin­ted beyond the ‘local’ alter­na­tive mar­kets– Aus­tin, Hous­ton, San Anto­nio etc. Mus­cians often have this pro­blem– they get “big” in their local mar­ket– Seattle, Texas, wha­te­ver– but can’t seem to take it further, in spite of their best efforts.
Get­ting stuck in the ‘local scene’ is something I can pain­fully relate to. I sup­pose it’s one of the main rea­sons I like the inter­net so much.
The car­toon above is enti­ti­led “Vanished”. I guess it’s pro­bably my favo­rite. Seems an appro­priate choice for the occa­sion.
(PS: For those of you new to the site, there’s a big collec­tion of my favo­ri­tes in the “About” section.)

3 Responses to “blog entry 1000”

  1. Brian Puccio says:

    Con­grats on the 1000 entries! I’m not a long time rea­der, sort of new, but thanks for all the work you do to keep it up. I (and many others, I’m sure) find you very funny and a little bit of laugh­ter helps more than anything.
    Thanks and good luck!

  2. jeff says:

    I’m not in adver­ti­sing, and half the time have no idea what the hell you are tal­king about…but as a wor­king artist your little illus­tra­tions really hit home with me. I just laugh end­lessly at how per­cep­tive they are.
    You know, I’d even buy a few if they weren’t 50,000 dollars a piece.
    long time fan.

  3. Chris says:

    Con­grats Hugh, Like Jeff I have no idea what you are tal­king about most of the time. But some of it’s great. Espe­cially the “How to be Crea­tive” stuff. Thanks for all the laughs.