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Daggers and Spears and Songs => Fuck-Awful Art => Topic started by: ProvincialTwit on May 20, 2008, 02:52:13 pm
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Perennial lolcow David "DC" Simpson has become a bit of a favorite amongst the Vivisector crew, starting with a thread on CYD back in 2006 in which it was revealed that his murrsona being female just wasn't enough, and he wanted to be one, too. Agents close to Simpson at the time reported information from and misinformation to David, and everyone had a fantastic laugh. Except him, of course, and his overzealous cooing-mother of a boyfriend. (I'm sure someone can link to the thread, I'm too lazy to go look it up). Included the phrase "Soul rape" being used unironically, and comparisons between being mocked and being groped on a subway.
Since then, the eyes of the drama-seekers have been focused on young Davey as he continues to spiral ever downward into his own little world of failure and mental instability, bringing us such amusing topics as Simpson's own admission of his furry shaving fetish, and rumors of an EWS/TDK-like relation between Simpson and an 'unknown artist' drawing porn of his characters. Also his personal edits to Wikipedia claiming that he is a "Notable Alumnus" from Evergreen State Uni, which is laughable on so many levels.
He's made the scene once again in superb ridiculous fashion with this amazingly hilarious (http://www.gull.us/~ozy/garageband/The%20Star%20Spangled%20Banner.mp3) attempted rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. (You may need to copy/paste that URL in case they block referrers from Viv.) Quoth David himself, "I have recorded a cover of the American national anthem, and stuck a short rant in the middle of it about what I think American greatness would mean."
Kindrift's description is a bit more accurate: "...he just breaks down in the middle of the song and starts rambling off things that give registered democrats hard ons like state healthcare."
Listen at your own risk, may spontaneously cause cancer.
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I've always sort of pictured him as the kind of guy who claims to want just a token closer to center in a madly partisan world, but will just never get enough. Bush is hurtling out of his last term, the Democratic congress is finally getting the balls to block his shit, and has even recently called a "matter of national security" bluff with the wire-tapping interum bill... and yet still, whining. What's next, Obama wins, America swings back as liberal as the days of Carter and what? Simpson will still be harping on how the world is so rightist and nothing is being done.
He's a lot closer to asshole Republican pundits than he'd ever want to admit to being, and he doesn't even use metaphors which are half as relevant.
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I'm a big leftie myself and fully support all the things he just shoved in there, but that was about an effective communication of liberal ideals as spelling America with three Ks.
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I'm a big leftie myself and fully support all the things he just shoved in there, but that was about an effective communication of liberal ideals as spelling America with three Ks.
I don't necessarily disagree with him but as you said, this is a pathetic and piss-poor way to try to get one's point across. In doing so he makes every other liberal look like a tremendous jackass like himself.
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I have recorded a cover of the American national anthem, and stuck a short rant in the middle of it about what *I* think American greatness would mean.
http://www.gull.us/~ozy/garageband/The%20Star%20Spangled%20Banner.mp3 I still haven't dared to listen to this.
Meanwhile in true 14 year old fashion
May 19, 2008: I win!
I've won the 2008 Ursa Major Award for best anthropomorphic comic strip. It's my second straight win in that category, and having been in attendance at Morphicon, where the awards were announced, I got to accept in person. (In my acceptance speech, I thanked Satan.)
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I really hate the overuse of the word 'fail' as a noun, especially in phrases such as "epic fail" or "full of fail." But there are no other words that can aptly describe this man. Few people deserve to be trolled into oblivion, and Simpson is right at the top of that list.
(Also this story makes the thread title more appropriate)
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He thanked Satan in his acceptance speech?
What a rebel.
I wonder how many shirts he owns with the Anarchy symbol on them.
Anyways, looks like our buddy has done the furriest thing to do...he changed his 'fursona' to, get this...a prepubescent blue french skunk girl: http://rainedog.deviantart.com/art/More-Claire-sketches-90555055
Hmm...
http://rainedog.deviantart.com/art/Presenting-Fifi-82168028
Welp.
Also, this: http://rainedog.deviantart.com/art/Little-Dana-Claire-90207854
I just...don't...know anymore.
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I really hate the overuse of the word 'fail' as a noun, especially in phrases such as "epic fail" or "full of fail."
Doesn't 'full of fail' use it more as an adjective? I wouldn't use a noun in that phrase apart from 'bullshit' that could make sense.
Also, the Lisa Simpson skunk is creepy when you consider that didn't he stalk Matt Groening to tell him what a kindred spirit he was with Lisa? Although the Fifi thing is also bizarre. Don't we have enough wannabe-politico douchebags who get a stiffy for her already?
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A loving tribute done in Flash
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1532540/
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(http://i38.tinypic.com/33pczz5.jpg)
4/10, try again.
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Resurrecting this thread because this is really fucking creepy. (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1958010)
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petitioning to change the name of this thread to "david simpson and the angry inch"
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petitioning to change the name of this thread to "david simpson and the angry inch"
Done and fucking done
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Since it doesn't seem to be mentioned here, this is his Furaffinity account:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rainedog
Note the Lisa Simpson pictures:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1933568/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2007017/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2007747/
This is his "in character" account:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/clairelamouf/
for "Claire Esmé la Mouf" who is that shaved skunk captain cowgirl mentions. They are 13 years old. :<
Note the picture of them shaving naked in the bath (it's not marked mature/adult, but may not be safe for work due to nude skunk shaving) :<
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2160185
(I've saved the pictures, so if they're deleted for some reason, I can up them for link).
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That little shaved skunk character is kinda cute. :o
It's original at the very least.
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That little shaved skunk character is kinda cute. :o
It's original at the very least.
Get out.
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The thing about Simpson these days is that he's a lot less of a douchebag now that he's no longer the most sexually repressed furry on the goddamn planet.
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I disagree. I think he's risen to SSJ Douchebag Level 3. His presence is a blight on society. He is gainfully unemployed and feels this is somehow due to him via his gigantic sense of self-importance and entitlement. He's less of a tranny and more of a 'female impersonator'. His obsession with Matt Groening and Lisa Simpson has reached new heights of creepiness and copyright infringement. His art has failed to improve over the span of 10 years, putting him on par with such wonders as Ted Rall, RH Jr, Groat, and CWC, and whatever possible storytelling capacity his brain may have at one time possessed has long since been replaced by his shaving fetish and various manic obsessions. His aggravating smugness about skipping the whole psychoanalysis and transitioning thing, and going straight for black-market hormones (possibly surgery? unconfirmed) paid for by his loving sycophants is a piss-soaked slap in the face of every transgendered person who has actually gone about things the hard way and had to continue functioning in society at the same time.
He is a worthless, introverted, useless demotard protected from all the ills of society by his massive reality distortion cloud, living on welfare provided not by the state but by the flock of gibbering fanboys eager to please in hopes that their continuous monetary gifts may win them a scant glance from their almighty. And at the head of his personal fan club stands a poor, misguided faggot, forcefed so much DC-brand kool-aid so as to leave a giant red pitcher dry and lonely beneath the rubble of a brick wall. Those with any good in their hearts can only hope he comes to his senses some day, leaving DC cold and alone, with his fake tits and permanent 5-o'clock shadow, running home to mommy once more.
By the way I really don't care for him.
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you just can't quit him can you
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Simpson is a fool to be pitied, not a machine to be raged against.
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Simpson is a fool
(http://i43.tinypic.com/8y8imu.jpg)
(http://i39.tinypic.com/358neb5.jpg)
http://www.rainedog.com/d/20090410.html
http://www.rainedog.com/d/20090414.html
I recall that on lulz.net, someone posted in a thread a photograph they had of some original Ozy and Millie comic strip artwork. They remarked on how every time they now looked at the strip they were reminded now of his shaving fetish and people did say that DC Simpson had tarnished his/her "legacy" thereby.
on a side note, David Hopkins got in on the shaving skunk girl act:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2198674
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2198672
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2198669
may be nsfw, though not marked adult
I didn't actually notice he had an FA account.
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[img-hamhanded.jpg]
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Ugh, I bet he's one of those people who likes Lisa Simpson more now that she's a flat-character mouthpiece than when she was a complexity of adult reasoning and childish notions. I liked Lisa better when she cried more than complained.
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Well, considering he honestly believes the character is actually based on his life, and he himself is nothing more than a flat-character mouthpiece regurgitating the talking points of his favorite liberal talk show host...yeah, probably.
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I just thought abut it, and that episode where she has gum in her hair and has to get it shaved out... yeah, that's one of his unlabeled, hidden in the corner tapes.
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Holy fucking shit (http://www.rainedog.com/comics/rd20090501.jpg).
This definitely has to be based on actual events in Simpson's life.
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Those people of his very own forum:
http://www.definecynical.net/viewtopic.php?t=7470&start=0
Have not received that one so well.
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Oh my god
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You'll see this in the link, but I wanted to post it here to for great justice.
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4577/collegeraine1.png)
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Pages 267 through 273, give or take, of the PHIZ Webcomics thread (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3103576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=267) (SA account required) are an absolute goldmine.
I can't possibly imagine where this is going from here. Officially a trainwreck now though.
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(http://i41.tinypic.com/21bpqj8.png)
(http://i41.tinypic.com/oazocx.png)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/1zwkvav.png)
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2mxgx9l.png)
props to some fag named Rossfox.
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(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7615/44ca8649d742db4892210e1.png)
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4316/rachewood.png)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8062/newcanvas.jpg)
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As an aside, it's hilarious how insistent he is about putting his full name on everything HAY LOOKIT ME IMMA GIRL REALLY OH GOD SOMEONE JUSTIFY MY EXISTENCE.
As mentioned on IRC, the prevailing rumor is that he went to see at least one shrink and was denied 'real' tranny status. I'm reminded of someone else with the same sort of affliction...remember the bad guy from Silence of the Lambs? Ladies, steer clear of Simpson, lest your skin wind up as part of a 'woman suit'.
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I think there is a mathematical formula when it comes to furry mtf trannies, especially cheaper jobs of them, that goes something like...
UgM*SRS<=UgF
Basically, the ugliness (or lack thereof) of a furry dude, when applied to SRS, is less than or equal to the ugliness he will have as a chick. If lucky, he won't get any uglier, but nothing involving scapels, hormones and asshair plucking can make a fugly guy any less fugly when a chick. Even if they are different values, there is only a sliding scale to go down with there.
In that respect, David wasn't too bad looking of a guy, but damned if he isn't a fair share uglier as a chick.
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What do you do when you catch the family dog puttin' the moves on your son?
Why, you spay her, of course!
http://www.rainedog.com/d/20090505.html
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What do you do when you catch the family dog puttin' the moves on your son?
Why, you spay her, of course!
http://www.rainedog.com/d/20090505.html
Is...is Simpson trolling the trolls?
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Is there a reason he has merchandising for an internet comic that's not even 20 pages long?
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Is there a reason he has merchandising for an internet comic that's not even 20 pages long?
Because he doesn't have a real job. Functioning in society is just too scary for him to function in, so he makes his roommates (his slavishly loyal boyfriend and that poor bastard who draws Newshounds) go out and earn money to support him while he stays at home all day and draws all this crap. Merchandising makes him feel like a real boy an actual successful cartoonist, and while he made some decent bucks with O&M, I can't imagine anyone but his most feverish sycophants are buying anything for the new comic.
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From lulz.net; DC Simpson has now dropped his/her endorsed fan forum, because: "the atmosphere there had gotten, as will happen on internet forums sometimes, extremely toxic, and I can no longer endorse the place."
Reaction:
http://www.definecynical.net/viewtopic.php?t=7481
Honestly, I think DCS is just butthurt that people don't like RD, and that they call h(im/er) on h(is/er) various stupid opinions/actions etc.
Also, this one is called "Coffee and Estrogen", self insert etc etc:
http://www.rainedog.com/d/20090508.html
According to the Ozy & Millie site, he/she is going to start up Ozy and Millie again with some "comic book style stories". Perhaps DC will play it safe and just make them smug and bland.
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Bahahahahaha. Brilliant. I guess I was right; nobody's buying any raine dog crap, so he needs to drum up some extra cash for black-market hormones.
Of course, it doesn't help that he's gone fucking loco, or that the cat's out of the bag re: shaving fetish (and using O&M to satisfy that fetish). He may get back a few fans by starting O&M back up, but I highly doubt any 'comic-book style stories' will materialize. Just more of the same old bland slop - precocious youngsters acting as mary-sues spouting the author's political diatribes.
Also, didn't the two parents in the comic get married before it ended? Woo, step-sibling incest tension ahoy!
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Why does the dog need hormone replacement? WHY? I mean, it's not like she isn't female already, despite the fact he probably wants to allude to how being born without a Chinese back alley cunnie is a lot like being spayed... but I don't see any reason that a hysterectomy needs to be treated long term in a talking dog any more than it does in a four legger... It's not like you'd notice if she grew a mustache.
This comic makes me want to punch a dove in the face.
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Incontinence, apparently. Somewhere in the PHIZ thread is a Wiki excerpt about how some neutered/spayed dogs develop incontinence due to a lack of their gender-related hormone.
See this isn't just a ham-fisted allegory about the struggle of acceptance, it's also meant to call awareness to adult incontinence. Which, if you twist the topic just right, leads to the conclusion that Simpson is also a diaperfur.
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Except phenylpropanolamine is proscribed for canine urinary incontinence, not estrogen. Someone fucked up by suggesting estrogen was a solution.
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DC simpson has posted an explanation surrounding the temporary hiatus of rainedog, at his site: http://www.rainedog.com/ down at the bottom. He's decided that the story would make more sense posted in bundles, as a sort of graphic novel. He also posted a justification and defense of his comic, here is an edited version:
have recent developments in this story startled you? [...] Nearly everyone who's actually written to me has had positive things to say about it; the response, actually, has been extremely gratifying. [...] I did warn you it would be darker than my previous work. And, a lot less funny. More complicated, I would say.
As much as it makes me roll my eyes to even have to say this, though, there is one notion I feel like I should respond to.
One person writes:
> There's been some controversy over your most recent storyline, in particular the
> relationship between the protagonists. A lot of people are labelling the strips as
> an advocation for beastiality, and are particularly shocked as this is coming from
> a long-time creator of a more wholesome comic.
I actually have my doubts that "a lot of people" actually hold that opinion, because it seems transparently silly to me. I suspect anyone saying that is the sort of person who, for whatever reason, doesn't like me and feels compelled to "take me down a peg." I've certainly gotten my share of that, and at this point it's little more than background droning to which I pay little attention.
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If anyone really does think that, I have to ask: do you read Nabokov's Lolita and think he's advocating pedophilia? Do you read Dickens's Oliver Twist and think he's advocating selling children on the street, or picking pockets? Do you read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and think she's advocating necrophilia? Do you read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and think she's advocating legalized rape?
Jeff and Princess didn't even sleep together, they just kissed. (Well, they technically "slept" together in the literal sense of the word, but that's it.)
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the obvious tension that would exist for an adolescent boy owning an opposite-sex sentient animal, who was also his best friend, would have been to leave an important dimension unexplored.
Later, the notion of animal suffrage will play a role in the plot, and somehow I'm not expecting a flood of letters demanding to know if I actually advocate letting dogs vote.
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Something really challenging is always going to inspire anger from some and mockery from others. It actually makes me feel like I'm doing a decent job.
I'm abnormal. I'm a freak. Not only am I willing to acknowledge that, I'm proud of it, and you should be glad I am. Life would be a lot worse if everybody fit the parameters we generally think of as "normal." "Normal" people cause 99% of the trouble in the world and produce 1% of the good ideas and good art, because us freaks are the ones who look at society from enough of a remove to come up with something new. All of us stand on the shoulders of brilliant freaks.
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I think it says a lot that DC has to take virtual 'time off' from the comic, and post multi-paragraph explanations all in the name of 'not caring'. He... sh... oh fuck it, Shi certainly cares, who produces something like a webcomic and doesn't? I mean, art not meant for viewing happens, but nobody ever posted that semi-regularly online.
I think it's kind of sad the (wo)man alienated what little [insert appropriate pronoun here] has left in terms of fans by merely being creepy, and refuses to even acknowledge it. I supposed eventually it'll be just Simpson and boyfriend reading this eventually?
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[insert appropriate pronoun here]
The appropriate pronoun for a gender-neutral being in English is 'it'.
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I prefer the inventive furry hermnouns instead. It makes it all the more hilarious when I imagine the 'holier-than-thou' rants he goes off on being passionately recited by a Cougresque skun herm; while it's megacock is bouncing in the air and it's trampling downtown Seattle.
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yeah you would
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DC simpson has posted an explanation surrounding the temporary hiatus of rainedog, at his site: http://www.rainedog.com/ down at the bottom. He's decided that the story would make more sense posted in bundles, as a sort of graphic novel. He also posted a justification and defense of his comic, here is an edited version:
have recent developments in this story startled you? [...] Nearly everyone who's actually written to me has had positive things to say about it; the response, actually, has been extremely gratifying. [...] I did warn you it would be darker than my previous work. And, a lot less funny. More complicated, I would say.
As much as it makes me roll my eyes to even have to say this, though, there is one notion I feel like I should respond to.
One person writes:
> There's been some controversy over your most recent storyline, in particular the
> relationship between the protagonists. A lot of people are labelling the strips as
> an advocation for beastiality, and are particularly shocked as this is coming from
> a long-time creator of a more wholesome comic.
I actually have my doubts that "a lot of people" actually hold that opinion, because it seems transparently silly to me. I suspect anyone saying that is the sort of person who, for whatever reason, doesn't like me and feels compelled to "take me down a peg." I've certainly gotten my share of that, and at this point it's little more than background droning to which I pay little attention.
[...]
If anyone really does think that, I have to ask: do you read Nabokov's Lolita and think he's advocating pedophilia? Do you read Dickens's Oliver Twist and think he's advocating selling children on the street, or picking pockets? Do you read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and think she's advocating necrophilia? Do you read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and think she's advocating legalized rape?
Jeff and Princess didn't even sleep together, they just kissed. (Well, they technically "slept" together in the literal sense of the word, but that's it.)
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the obvious tension that would exist for an adolescent boy owning an opposite-sex sentient animal, who was also his best friend, would have been to leave an important dimension unexplored.
Later, the notion of animal suffrage will play a role in the plot, and somehow I'm not expecting a flood of letters demanding to know if I actually advocate letting dogs vote.
[...]
Something really challenging is always going to inspire anger from some and mockery from others. It actually makes me feel like I'm doing a decent job.
I'm abnormal. I'm a freak. Not only am I willing to acknowledge that, I'm proud of it, and you should be glad I am. Life would be a lot worse if everybody fit the parameters we generally think of as "normal." "Normal" people cause 99% of the trouble in the world and produce 1% of the good ideas and good art, because us freaks are the ones who look at society from enough of a remove to come up with something new. All of us stand on the shoulders of brilliant freaks.
I like how it turns into some kind of Hot Topic t-shirt phrase readoff towards the end there. Good show, Simpson.
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Bump and all that. Look who's a finalist in Amazon.com's Comic Strip Superstar contest (http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2128878011)! It's a comic called "Girl". About a young girl. Who's basically the most blatant self-insertion yet. The sad part is, even though it's basically just old O&M gags redrawn in that slick-but-lifeless style that DCS has settled on, it probably does have a good chance of winning, and not just because of the furry-fan-suckup factor; the competition is that pathetic.
How much of a prize is getting a newspaper syndication contract, anyway? Can anybody here even remember the last time they bought a newspaper?
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I guess this is as good a time as any to post this recent conversation about said new comic: (names changed to protect the fat fetishist)
<PT> it looks like dcs is starting yet another terrible boring dreck i-wish-i-could-get-syndicated comic
<AR> I saw
<AR> It's even more horribly twee than his other crap
<AR> Seriously, at least Raine Dog was a noble experiment if an awful failure
<AR> I am sure that Girl will be very successful
<PT> at being boring dreck
<PT> see with rainedog and o&m it was easy to make the case for the difference between 'webcomics' and 'comics on the web'
<PT> at least, early o&m
<AR> explain
<PT> early o&m had a kind of essence-of-schultz heart to it. it was written and drawn in such a way that would be easy to accept seeing in a newspaper
<PT> it was also produced with that intent
<PT> and you can very clearly see that
<PT> whereas rainedog is 100% pure webcomic. a vanity project to serve none but the author.
<PT> just like 99% of webcomics
<AR> True
<AR> But I kind of admire that about rainedog
<AR> O&M was just sentimental pap ripping off Calvin and Hobbes and that's why everyone loved it
<AR> Rainedog was obviously something very personal and meaningful to DCS and a big depature from his previous "safe" cartooning
<AR> Of course it was terrible but it was nice that he tried
<AR> Now he is back to his roots
<AR> making twee pap
<AR> I am sure that this twee pap will enthrall the masses just the same
<PT> i dunno i mean
<PT> if RD really seemed at all heartfelt maybe i could grow to like it. well, maybe not me, since I'm biased, but it could become objectively 'good'
<PT> but it didn't feel 'personal' or 'meaningful' in the least
<AR> Well, I think he wanted it to be. It just turns out that, since he's a pompous empty shell of a narcissist, it comes off as trite shit
<AR> I guess I should say that, at heart, he is empty so he is only good at stuff that is obviously derivative of other people's work
<AR> lucky for him, that is what the majority of people want
<AR> They want something that reminds them of something that they like
I had no idea that it was part of some contest with a syndication prize; kind of disappointing really, as there are a number of Goons with nice newspaper-style comics who were probably completely unaware of such a thing and would stand a much better chance of winning (if only due to goon rush). The worst part is that we'll never hear the end of it, should he actually win. Given the competition, it would be a hollow victory indeed; but cross a shallow person with a hollow victory and you get unstoppable hot air.
Also, to answer the question of how much of a prize it is since nobody actually reads newspapers anymore: Well, first of all, it would make him happy, which is a condition to be avoided at all costs. Second, it would give him some sort of idea of legitimacy for his work and continued existence. At least until he starts slipping the shaving fetish back in and gets canceled. Finally...well, I don't have a third thing. Just go vote against him or something.
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Well, DC Simpson managed to win the Amazon contest:
http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Strip-Superstar-Books/b/ref=amb_link_85856211_2?ie=UTF8&node=2128878011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1QSVPWAB5FYER22SYPPK&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=497032431&pf_rd_i=1000442601
Andrews McMeel Universal and Amazon.com are thrilled to announce that Girl by Dana Simpson is the Grand Prize winner of the Comic Strip Superstar contest. Dana's prizes include a publishing contract with Andrews McMeel Publishing, a development contract with Universal Uclick and syndication on Gocomics.com. Thank you to everyone who voted and to all of the talented creators who submitted their work in the competition!
Andrews McMeel publish, amongst other things, collected books of Calvin and Hobbes, The Far side, Dilbert and Peanuts.
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Such fury. Such unbridled fury.
Welp. With any luck someone will dig up his past bullshit or maybe he'll lose a hand in a tragic masturbatory act. Ugh. So disgusted by the internet right now.
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dig up his past bullshit
Seems like someone attempted that here:
http://www.amazon.com/tag/comic%20strip%20superstar/forum/ref=cm_cd_ecf_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx38UYWJM41IM0I&cdThread=Tx3E6Z0I4ECMNBG
You might have to click on the options to view the hidden posts, since I expect DCS's fans were down-voting them, for who else could say such things as: "Dana Simpson is a brilliant writer a beautiful artist and to think that you would stoop so low as to call her a supporter of beastiality is cruel and insensitive." ?
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Marching forth, the armies of the sycophants.
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"Dana Simpson is a brilliant writer a beautiful artist and to think that you would stoop so low as to call her a supporter of beastiality is cruel and insensitive."
BOO HOO BLOO HOO BLOO HOO
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Bump since it came up again in another thread (http://forums.vivisector.org/index.php/topic,339.msg2958.html)...
gee I wonder what ever happened to dave simpson's 'comic' that he supposedly won some contest for
A lot of not-much, looks like. The Ozy and Millie site (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/) has an update saying, "My new strip, "Girl," should be appearing on gocomics.com in a few weeks; I'll certainly post updates here." Of course the notice is undated, so God alone knows when "a few weeks" was supposed to be, and there are no updates. Hey, there's a separate blog (http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/) and it was updated just a few days ago!...with a post saying "The development process can be slow." No shit. A post from a couple months previous (http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/05/2-of-6.html) mentions taking humor-writing advice from Scott Adams (terrible advice to begin with), and displays the results: naked girl! Shaving joke! Rene Magritte (http://funwavs.com/posters/Belgian-Masterpieces/display/389174.html) ripoff! All the way back in April (http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/04/status-update.html) is a message that "Universal has signed me to a syndication deal, and we're currently in the process of developing the strip and building up a backlog of edited strips, preparing for an online launch on gocomics.com, followed later by a newspaper launch." Does it really take nearly a year (so far) to build up "a backlog of edited strips"? I guess "edited" means "not so creepy or repetitious," which would certainly make it a challenge. And there's a Walt Kelly ripoff (http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/04/a-poem-by-dana.html) too. Hey, don't sweat your inability to finish what you started, DCS! Everybody knows it's hard to think of a rhyme for "care," "hair," and "fair" besides "Nair." :(
Of course one outlet for creativity isn't enough, so DCS has spread out to ArtSpots (http://bluerain.artspots.com/), where, apparently, foxes and dragons and neutered dogs are the old new thing and mice are the new new thing; and to deviantART (http://pedantia.deviantart.com/), where the latest is "Dana + David (http://pedantia.deviantart.com/#/d2w03sh)"...no, not that one, the other David, the one DCS is, eesh, apparently married to now, and good luck to them, I guess.
Hey, at least shaving-fetish skunk is still buzzing right along. Look, a model sheet (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4191161)! (Including unshaven pics; there must've been some mistake.) Gotta keep your priorities straight, y'know?
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This is the first time I've seen or heard about the comic strip deal, and from reading the comments in reply to Zi'ir's post on amazon.com, I'm wondering if they weren't also holding a contest to see who could make the most asinine reach to defend D.C. Was Charles Schulz advocating bestiality by depicting Snoopy running around kissing the ladies? Of course not. Was Peanuts meant to be a dark, gritty, in-a-post-apocalyptic-world-where-robots-govern-and-people-can-communicate-with-dogs comic? That'd be a big n-to-the-izzo. Was Agatha Christie advocating murder with her novels? I'd certainly hope not. Were Agatha Christie's novels even remotely auto-biographical? I'd certainly hope not.
I'm deeply saddened that I'm so far beyond the realm of even being fashionably late to post a response to all the D.C. Simpsonites and make them feel ashamed to have such a tight lip-lock on D.C.'s prosthetic vagina.
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I'm just gonna leave this right over here (http://www.amazon.com/tag/comic%20strip%20superstar/forum/ref=cm_cd_ecf_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx38UYWJM41IM0I&cdThread=Tx1XYAF8SMHNT3H) for you to do with it what you wish.
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(http://i52.tinypic.com/11bi6mc.jpg)
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That made my day. 8)
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DC Simpson/Dana Simpson may have won that Amazon contest to have their comic syndicated, yet it has still not launched. DC Simpson had this to say about that, in November 2010:
So the main question people keep asking me is: when is "Girl" going to launch?
The answer is one you will probably find as unsatisfying as I do: I don't know.
Firstly, the way it works: syndicates launch 2-3 strips every year, and at any point they have a number of strips under development, waiting for the green light. I was hoping to get the fall launch slot, but I didn't.
The syndicate let me know, in August, that they were launching "Thatababy," one of the strips I beat in the contest last year, ahead of me (and ahead of several other strips that had been in development longer). They said there were several reasons, one of which was that they had launched two "talking animal" strips in a row, and didn't want to launch a third.
So if I'm lucky I might get in in spring 2011. Cross your fingers for me. In the meantime, I'm getting paid to send them 20 roughs a month, which come back to me with commentary written all over it by several editors.
They also let me know, though, that they wanted me to try some changes to the strip. The title, for one thing. Too generic.
Also, I'm experimenting with the cast. In the most recent strips I've given my protagonist a name and paired her with a little boy.
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/11/status-report.html
RUMOUR CONTROL assures us that the comic hasn't been dropped:
Rumors, o rumors
Reader MM writes:
There's a rumor going around GoComics.com that Girl was dispqualified by dint of the fact that some of the strips were reworked Ozy and Millie 'toons.
If there is such a rumor, there's no truth to it.
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/11/rumors-o-rumors.html
DC Simpson's Wikipedia article states:
"as of February 2011, the Andrews McMeel Universal website displays no evidence of having published Girl or any other work by Simpson."
(Andrews McMeel being the syndicate)
In the meantime, DC Simpson has produced a personal portfolio, and the requisite shaving picture is there:
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2010/11/because-a-personal-web-site-should-include-a-portfolio.html
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/.a/6a01310fea57f1970c013488f5faad970c-800wi
And Raine Dog is being relaunched, restarted and redrawn:
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/girlblog/2011/04/new-raine-dog-pages.html
It begins with Raine Dog being gunned down at a political rally for preaching tolerance et cetera, so hopefully it will be as much a train-wreck as it previous was.
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I hate to repeat a post but that's a pretty hilarious thing to wake up to. Bravo.
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I have never seen Simpson's picture before - all I gotta say is that is one ugly man and/or woman. :(
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/.a/6a01310fea57f1970c0133f32e7ace970b-150wi
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I have never seen Simpson's picture before - all I gotta say is that is one ugly man and/or woman. :(
http://girlcomicstrip.typepad.com/.a/6a01310fea57f1970c0133f32e7ace970b-150wi
(http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/crying3.jpg)
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IT HAPPENED.
Yes! After two and a half fucking years, "Girl" has finally debuted! Well kind of -- the title and premise have both been fiddled with, no doubt in a desperate attempt to salvage it and save face, so now it's called "Heavenly Nostrils" (http://www.gocomics.com/heavenly-nostrils) (whoo what a wacky and random-sounding title that is) and it's about a girl and her unicorn. Yeah.
(http://i.imgur.com/j0vDp.png)
So one's earnest and easygoing, while the other's a snarky smartass...where've we seen that one before?
(http://i.imgur.com/kOGCJ.png)
Haha! Joke stolen from the Aladdin movie, capped with a gratuitous pop-culture reference!
(http://i.imgur.com/GSDxk.png)
Super powers! McNuggets! Oh this is so wacky I may drown in the deluge of monkey cheese. Yup, totally worth the wait.
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I think the Bono joke is kind of funny. To be honest, I thought the world had forgotten about this whole thing.
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I'm actually surprised they decided to go ahead and debut it, considering the whole contest cheating thing.
Writing seems DCS-standard, and at least the art isn't too bad. Although, their art hasn't changed from "not too bad" in years so that's not exactly a good thing.
Character seems a little less self-inserty, so there's that at least.
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Guess what: a fan has pointed out that the whole premise is totally original (http://www.thelandisreview.com/Robertagregory/Sheila_details.html)