October 25, 2004
blog entry 1000
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.)
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!
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.
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.