My Arrival Marks My Hiatus

Hello, everyone.

I'm taking a short hiatus from Coffee Hyperbole, as you may have noticed. I'm going to Chicago for a few days, and preparation must be made.

I'll admit, part of my hiatus is due to just plain slacking off. Not all of it, but part of it.

And so, readers, I bid you adieu. I'll be back in June.

Liam

Broken Drawing Tablet

Hello.

As you may know by now, my drawing tablet is broken. It's very discouraging to have a busted tablet and no way to get your good ideas out. I had the best April Fool's comic ready and you would have loved it, but I can't show it to you because of my dumb tablet.

It's really not the best idea to use a drawing tablet for a webcomic anyway. It's much more efficient, I assume, to scan your drawings and then play with them in photoshop before uploading them online. Unfortunately, I do not have a scanner, and I do not see a scanner anywhere in my near future. I would like a scanner, it would be very useful, but I don't have one. I have to put out crappy comics that I hate and I know everyone else will hate because they don't make sense, they suck, and they're drawn on a freaking laptop trackpad.

It really sucks, and it sucks for any readers I have, too, because I've been doing this for close to a year now. It doesn't feel like that long, but I guess it has been. Those of you that have been sticking it out from the very beginning: good work. I mean, you didn't really do anything, but it's nice to know that you may or may not exist. Happy trails.

I want to do bigger comics, better comics, funnier comics, longer comics, but I don't like to do that on a computer. I like to do that in real life. On paper. It's very frustrating to have to make comics this way.

I'm a bit frazzled or something at this moment, but I'm getting my thoughts out here. I've been posting my comics later and later in they day instead of automatically uploading them, because I have dumb school and dumb homework and dumb things to do and I categorize comics under work. They shouldn't be work. Work is something you generally don't like. Work is something you do for something in return. I don't really get anything in return, I don't make money off this, in fact, I lose money. I'll paraphrase Craig Benzine here: I operate under the principle that the work I do is for the sake of the work itself. I make comics for the sole satisfaction of making people laugh, and these lazy trackpad comics just don't give me that. It takes away the point of my work from me.

I want you to know that I'm not slacking off. Well, I am, but it's not my fault. I mean it is my fault, but it's only partially my fault. Let me try this bit again...

I want you to know that my drawing tablet is busted, and I'm searching for new ways to make comics.

Hang in there, guys.
Liam

it's 2:22 am hooray for me

good morning scuba divers

i can't sleep

as you have probably guessed by my apparent disregard for the english language and capitalization, i am not taking this post seriously and am a teenage girl


what i meant by that crossed out text is that if you are reading this you might be asking yourself 'is this person a teenage girl' well to answer your theoretical question:

no

it's now 2:25

i made a video earlier today well technically i guess it was yesterday

the video is okay i mean it's not great and i'm still not going to link you to my youtube channel because i'm still a little nervous about it and i'm not quite sure what i am doing with this or why i am doing this

i mean isn't a blog and a webcomic enough well to answer your/my question:

no

school is boring everyone knows that
because of this i need creative outlets with which to share my thoughts and creation with the world
however since i've only made around three coherent or vaguely interesting blog posts nobody is catching on
sometimes i feel like i should advertise the stuff i do but as everyone knows nobody likes advertisements and neither do i
therefore i do not feel the need to force content down people's mouths hint hint youtube and television

it is now 2:28

i think from now on i am never going to take this blog seriously

i will probably take my webcomic at least a little seriously but am i going to take this blog seriously well to answer your/my question:

no

see look at that i'm repeating my jokes in an effort to make them funnier

it's a thing

you will see this tool is used in many popular youtube videos
i mean they're not that popular but at least i like them
other people like them too

it is now 2:30

i should probably be in bed but i got up at 12:45 this morning and i have been awake for about 14 hours and i am not tired yet

i will regret this in the morning since i get up at 5 every day

there is now a buzzing in my ears
how do i fix this problem
help me internet

it went away

nevermind
an excellent album by nirvana

but really never mind

it is now 2:31

i don't think i am even going to bother editing or re-reading this blog post

it is now 2:32

maybe if i don't make this a big deal in the morning my problems will go away

it is now 2:33

the creative juices are running low
that sounded so scottish cliché

look at that i can't bother to capitalize or form sentences correctly but i feel the need to continually use apostrophes and put accents over letters
does this make me a nerd well to answer your/my question:

yes

oh shoot i broke the chain

what happens now

it is now 2:34

mickey mickey you so fine you so fine you blow my mind hey mickey

hey mickey

xkcd

i don't know the artist of that song i just know the lyrics and that the song was referenced in an xkcd comic

that's right

i read xkcd

eat it

did you know that when i first started reading xkcd i used the random button and kept pressing the random button every time i wanted to read a different comic

this left a gap in my xkcd intake so i had to start from the beginning and read all the comics again

i found maybe three or four new ones

the process took me about one and a half hours

the first xkcd comic i ever read was open mic night

did you see what i did there
i used the power of html to subliminally enter a link into your subconscious or something

so now it's official that i'm lazy enough to not capitalize but not lazy enough to not do html wizardry
intentional double negative

it is now 2:39

i think the creative juices are kicking again wazowza

that could be a catchphrase

wazowza

use it on cooking show or something interesting

actually it would probably make the interesting thing not as interesting as it was previously
yeah just use it on a cooking show

sometimes i wonder:
do people really watch those well to answer your/my question:

no

it is now 2:40 wait no the clock changed while i was typing that it is now 2:41

so i searched 'i can't sleep' on youtube and i stumbled on this guy's channel

see that i did it again woop there it is
see what i did there
oohh im getting freaky

no im actually just tired

im totally rambling now
i could be a vlogger
that's what vloggers do
right
i would put in a question mark but i'm afraid i'm too lazy to do that sorry

actually on second thought there is always the possibility that i might not yet have the ability of a vlogger, which is to make crap up on the spot
not true
they write scripts
the real truth is that i can be camera shy

why are you still here
are you skimming this

i hate skimmers
unless you're drowning
if you're drowning dori has some advise for you

how many links is that
three
i think thats right
three

it is now 2:46

i am getting tired now i think it is time to go to bed so i can get an almost survivable three hours of sleep

tomorrow is going to suck

it is now 2:52

good night scuba divers
my name is not philip defranco and you've just been filled in wazowza

Dvorak

Right now I am typing with the Dvorak keyboard layout. I am going cold turkey from QWERTY, despite my ability to touch-type on it already. I estimate I'm typing at a lightning fast speed of 10 WPM.

I don't want to type anymore, but at least I think I'm making progress.

Liam

Rambowlings

WARNING: THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS INCESSANT RAMBLINGS THAT MAY MAKE SOME UNCOMFORTABLE. PLEASE CONSULT A DOCTOR BEFORE READING FURTHER IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN HANDLE IT.

I made a YouTube account a couple days ago.

I won't link you to it yet, since it doesn't have anything on it, and it might not have anything on it for some time.

I mostly created it for the name:

"omnomono"

If that isn't the best YouTube name you've ever heard me blog about, then you must live in the future.

So anyway, not really sure what I'll put up there. Maybe extremely-edited songs made with random objects? Some might find that too Mystery Guitar Man-like. I tried to vlog earlier while making tea and utterly failed, so that's not an option.

I didn't really plan to put anything on there in the first place.

I draw things. Not film things. Although filming things is certainly a hobby I would take up if I was any good at it.

I'm going to stick with CH as my primary hobby.

Speaking of which, I've recently been doodling a lot of comics that break the comic-space continuum by interfering with other panels or just destroying the frame in which my doodles live.

I don't know why that's important. Just thought you might like to know.

Liam

Priorities

Personal priorities in order of importance†:

1. Food

2. Warmth

3. Internet connection

4. Clothes

5. Family

6. Education

7. Comic updates

8. Sleep

9. Friends

10. Music

*skip a few*

39. Homework

40. Shoes

41. Blog posts

†Subject to change

Awp

So I haven't made a blog post in a while.

God, I always hate that. When people start off by blogging "oh well I haven't blogged in a while so... sorry 'bout thaaat", but I guess I can't really complain, since I just did it.

I stopped doing the 365 Project a while ago now... can't quite remember when. I mean, it was great and all, and a good creative outlet for my inner desire to go into photography, but it was just cutting into my life. Besides that, on the days when I didn't really do anything--like on weekends--I had a really tough time coming up with ideas.

I think that I adjusted my priorities a little bit, and decided that this--my blog & webcomic--are far more important than taking pictures every day.

I can't believe this. It's the 19th, and I'm whining about New Year's. I guess that's what blogs are for, though.

whinewhinewhine

Anywho, no more photography. Only drawings.

Speaking of which, lots of people have come up to me wanting t-shirts with my comics on 'em. That's great and fine and all, but I have no way to get t-shirts to the people. I'm thinking of getting one of those online stores that provides a secure address for you so you can ship the orders yourself, but they're really expensive and I don't know if I have enough demand to even open one of those.

So t-shirts. Let me know in the comments.

Yah.

-Liam