more comics about presidents and beer
Ok, so, general heads-up state of the comic type thing, which I was going to do on this comic’s birthday but events kind of intervened. I’ve stuck with a new coloring scheme of sorts for the last several comics and I think it’s going to work and be flexible enough for further experimentation. To me, Nobody Scores! just doesn’t feel right as a full-color immersive comic… for some reason it needs to stay on a schematic plane and full-color doesn’t always do that, so I am still restricting it. Bored yet? Yeah me too. What can you say? We are the cartoon generation.
The twice-a-week thing is going to be a standard schedule change I’m afraid. Putting out Nobody Scores! like I did the first year was definitely a full-time job, by which I mean “stressful mid-level designer pulling 50 hrs/ week type job”, which is cool but Nobody Scores!, mostly unlike professional design work, is not a source of money and I am starting to need that stuff again. (Yeah, I specifically took time off from working to get a comic started. I have strange priorities.) Anyway I need to pull back a bit from the comic so’s I can eat. Eating is delicious. Twice a week, usually Tuesday and Friday, we’ll see.
The reason this latest comic went up on Monday is because I am going out of town and won’t be back until next Tuesday, the 24th. I may be able to finagle access to a scanner (though coloring w/o a Wacom will be a bitch) so a comic may go up later this week but no guarantees. If I do not post a comic later this week I will post make-up comics during the week of the 23rd because I will have already drawn them. For example, there’s something I want to follow up on with the Man For President comic.
It’s not this, this is a separate issue. It has been brought to my attention that the “votes for beer” idea has been tried before quite recently in Germany. Upon perusal, however, it’s my contention that such an event could not possibly have been a real serious go of it, and that as described it was doomed from the get-go, fundamentally a case of poor framing, as election-losing guru Thomas Frank would tell us. The German political party in question had named themselves the APPD, which I am told stands for the Anarchistic Pogo Party. The framing error should be very clear. No red-blooded citizen would possibly expect an “Anarchistic Pogo” Party to be able to organize a beer party of substantial volume. There may be weed and shrooms and probably glue available in small bags, but industrial routing of beer for mass debauchery, I think not. So we are confronted with a case of a party that is clearly incapable of following through on its central campaign promise.
No, to do this right, one must first “frame” the party correctly. Call it the American Party. (This may or may not work in other countries.) Directly sell out your leadership to the major beer companies. These are the first two steps and they must be very public. Then, when you propose your campaign, be sure and outline the massive government subsidy for beer that your policy promises. In this way journalists can know that you are serious, and your campaign stands a real chance.
I predict victory will be enjoyed for a full week and a half before impeachment proceedings commence on grounds of public buying of votes. Resignation will be the preferred option. Then, in lieu of speaking engagements or international charity work, the candidate can live comfortably for the rest of his life shilling in beer commercials, which space should be about ten years on account of cascading global warming.
Party on!