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gapingvoid 2.0: why i’ll no longer be blogging new cartoons.

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gaping­void 2.0: Why I’ll no lon­ger be blog­ging new cartoons.

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1. In May, 2001, I blog­ged my first car­toon on gapingvoid.com. This is my TENTH year doing it.

Back then, it was like the dawn of a new era. The idea that I could doodle at night, and have the entire world see the work the next mor­ning, was ama­zing and libe­ra­ting to me. Cheap, Easy, Glo­bal Media.

Blog­ging chan­ged my life. It also allo­wed me to share my work with peo­ple who unders­tood and valued it. For the lon­gest time, I felt as if gaping­void was almost a “club” of like-minded, pas­sio­nate, smart peo­ple. And whe­re­ver I tra­ve­led, blog­ging allo­wed me to meet lovely, smart, fun peo­ple who sha­red the same world­view. The blo­gosphere felt like a group who were going to change the world. And you know what? In our own way, we did.

2. But like a lot of the folk who have been blog­ging for a long time, I’ve star­ted to feel that over the last few years, that the blo­gosphere has just got­ten too big, noisy and anony­mous. I’ve star­ted lon­ging for the days when things were ‘sma­ller’, ‘club­bier’, inti­mate and, well, human. When the peo­ple I met were truly like-minded. This was one of the rea­sons why I ori­gi­nally star­ted the “CDF” news­let­ter last year. I wan­ted that fee­ling back.

Though I’ve not emai­led you guys con­sis­tently, we con­sis­tently get new sign-ups and I get emails daily that rein­force the idea that we are into the same stuff, whether we’re “artists” or not. We unders­tand that what is gib­be­rish to most peo­ple, is actually cool, power­ful stuff to us– and somehow fits into the weird, exis­ten­tial angst of work, AND rela­tionships, AND 21st Cen­tury life.

3. So, I’ve deci­ded that I really only want to share my new work (car­toons) with ‘us’ i.e. Y’all. The folks that really dig and sup­port what I do. Call it “Get­ting back to my roots” or wha­te­ver. But star­ting imme­dia­tely, my new car­toons will be going out first to this email list, which will really be “Hugh’s Daily Car­toon”- a new car­toon emai­led first thing out every day, so y’all can start with a bit of a chuc­kle when you open your Inbox. Sim­ple. Easy.

Also, by making the car­toons avai­la­ble by sign-up, I hope that we can build this group and maybe do more together– Twee­tups, con­fe­ren­ces, geek din­ners, drun­ken nights out, whatever.

4. These are still early days– there’s still a lot to figure out. But “Phase Two” of gaping­void is now begin­ning, and it’s all very, very exci­ting stuff!

5. Feel free to blog, tweet, for­ward along these new e-mail car­toons at your lei­sure, make a friend smile etc.… and yeah, if you find something that ins­pi­res you enough to want it han­ging on your wall, you can buy the print (Yes, every car­toon will come with a link to the gaping­void gallery, where you can buy the print ver­sion if you wish). Regard­less, the same Crea­tive Com­mons terms still apply.

6. Feel free to opt out and unsubsc­ribe at any time. I think it would be cool if one day there were 100,00 like-minded peo­ple who get the car­toons every mor­ning.  So again, feel free to share etc.

Wish me luck with gaping­void 2.0,

Thanks for your sup­port
Gods­peed,
Hugh