Wednesday — August 20th, 2008
Wednesdays are my favorite days. Today’s piece comes to us from the ever-cool Jamie Baldwin, who does an awesome strip called Sudden Valley, which you should go and read through immediately if you haven’t already. The robot Gui is talking to in this picture is so adorable that I think I might make it a regular! Hey Oscar — we don’t have a ‘nervous-bot’ in the strip, do we?
This is the last piece of fan art that I’ll be posting here before getting back to drawing my characters myself 
. Next week will be a commission piece I did for a good friend, which I’ll post for all of you to see, but after that (starting Sept. 3), RCM will resume with a regular Wednesday schedule. I will do everything I can to make deadline, but you know how these things go. Work, kids, general illness, day-to-day stuff. I appreciate your patience, and even if an RCM page doesn’t make it up here when it’s supposed to, I’ll post something so that you’re not left waiting.
Have a good week, kids.
August 7th, 2008
Ok, so I figured out what I’m going to do with Hurfadurf’s ad space.
Rather than using Project Wonderful, what I’d like to do is charge $5 per month for the tower ad, and $2.50 per month for each of the smaller ads at the bottom. I’ll make more money, and it’s super cheap advertising for whomever wants it for an entire month. A few rules, though:
1. Your ad must either be for a web comic, or at least tangentially relevant to the same types of people who read web comics.
2. No porn (sorry, Josh — but hey, you get a free Girly button on my site forever and ever anyway). Mature content is fine to a point, but outright porn is no good.
3. I won’t link to any site that bashes other artists or their work. I don’t mind if someone has a personal opinion or wants to take a jab at something (like this whole “X minus X” meme that’s been going around), but if your site is dedicated to insulting someone’s body of work, then it’s a no deal.
That’s pretty much it. This is going to happen on a first come, first served basis: if you give me a button/banner of appropriate size (check the dimensions of the existing ad boxes for reference) and throw a Paypal donation my way, we’re good to go.
July 3rd, 2008
Hey, so me and Oscar recorded the first RCM podcast last night. It’s a little longer than we wanted (I think it caps out at about 45 minutes) because we sort of went unscripted — but have a listen. We talk about Strip #1, my own artistic hangups, robots we love, robots we don’t, and many, many tangents. Download it here!
June 16th, 2008
In the spirit of building a community here, and to get a chance to rebuild my bank of strips, I’m making the call for fan art! If you want to send us your drawings of our three dudes, we’ll post them here with a link to your site/email addy! The deadline is July 26 of this year (because we’re going to start posting them on July 27. Everyone is welcome to send in something, and after the fan art series is over, we’ll build a Gallery page, and store the work in it for all to see. A few rules, though:
1. You can make your piece as tall as you want, but it needs to be resized to 700 px wide, and in GIF, JPG or PNG format.
2. No cussin’, no lewdness. We try to keep it PG-rated around here. 
3. …That’s it. That’s all I got.
So send us your stuff! You can send it to me personally, or to the site’s email: sharkpeople@hurfadurf.com — and remember — the deadline is July 26, 2008!
Peace out,
–JL.
