Gene Catlow for life!

Graveyard Greg · Post by **Graveyard Greg** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:38 am

Did I mention how much I love the comic Gene Catlow?

Now if only we can have the comic five times a week.

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:59 pm

On 2002-02-22 02:38, Graveyard Greg wrote:
Did I mention how much I love the comic Gene Catlow?

Now if only we can have the comic five times a week.

That seems to be the #1 item on quite a few
readers' wish lists. If only I had time to...
I would love to make my comic a Mon-Fri strip!

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 4:38 pm

Well, yes, I do wish that too, but I don't really like to manifest it... Keeping a regular schedule in a comic requires a great deal of dedication, and I don't feel comfortable to request something that represents even more of it.

On a side note, since this thread is related to "wishing"... If Ernie is ever going to give any explanation about the Canovian language, can I be there to listen and ask convenient questions?

I'm really into languages, I wouldn't want to lose that!

By the way, I'm a quite challenging asker, some teachers from my past hate me because of it! Well, they didn't really hate me, but they tried to discourage me from asking more questions to them by acting this way. These were the good teachers. The bad teachers didn't completely answer my questions and made me lose interest on them.

Mellotron · Post by **Mellotron** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 5:01 pm

Ooh! I hope I am not butting in here, but...I have just been wondering about Ernie and the Canovian language as well. You see, I am a programmer, and have learned some language theory...

Are they going to keep this a secret? Can he give academic talks on it? I'd like to see that too, Ekevu! If Furriston's college is not already popular among researchers around the world, it soon would be.

Mel

ZOMBIE USER 487 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 487** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 5:13 pm

Naw... 7 days a week with full-color Sundays. (Just kidding...)

Seriously, the three day a week schedule is fine. I couldn't even handle that with my own comic. The fact that you've never missed an update is very impressive to me.

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 8:12 am

On 2002-02-22 17:01, mellotron wrote:
Ooh! I hope I am not butting in here, but...I have just been wondering about Ernie and the Canovian language as well. You see, I am a programmer, and have learned some language theory...

You've learned language theory? *checks his college program* Apparently I don't have anything like that 'till I graduate...

But I did have some language theory while I was still at Social Communication... Indeed, it was my fave class!

On 2002-02-22 17:13, Consul wrote:
Seriously, the three day a week schedule is fine. I couldn't even handle that with my own comic. The fact that you've never missed an update is very impressive to me.

Yes, that's true. The only comic that was still in the status of never having missed an update was 1/0... And it lost it about a month ago.
I like a slow and solid strip much better than a daily one that every two weeks apologises for not having a strip today.

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 5:23 pm

On 2002-02-22 16:38, Ekevu Cheetah wrote:

On a side note, since this thread is related to "wishing"... If Ernie is ever going to give any explanation about the Canovian language, can I be there to listen and ask convenient questions? I'm really into languages, I wouldn't want to lose that!

On 2002-02-22 17:01, mellotron wrote:
Ooh! I hope I am not butting in here, but...I have just been wondering about Ernie and the Canovian language as well. You see, I am a programmer, and have learned some language theory...

Are they going to keep this a secret? Can he give academic talks on it? I'd like to see that too, Ekevu! If Furriston's college is not already popular among researchers around the world, it soon would be.

Mel

I *did* plan to have an explanation of the
ancient Canovian language, but didn't want to
slow down the pace of the comic. If I can work
it in, or present it in a separate venue (GCP)
I will certainly do so!

By the way, I'm a quite challenging asker, some teachers from my past hate me because of it! Well, they didn't really hate me, but they tried to discourage me from asking more questions to them by acting this way. These were the good teachers. The bad teachers didn't completely answer my questions and made me lose interest on them.

As far as I'm concerned, there's never any
harm in asking. I do my best to answer as
well. It's what I would expect if *I* were
maing a request of any creative individual.

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 5:25 pm

On 2002-02-22 17:13, Consul wrote:
Naw... 7 days a week with full-color Sundays. (Just kidding...)

Seriously, the three day a week schedule is fine. I couldn't even handle that with my own comic. The fact that you've never missed an update is very impressive to me.

YOU HAVE A COMIC? O_O You didn't tell me that!
(Or if you did, I forgot... bad cat! *baps
head*)

ZOMBIE USER 487 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 487** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 9:56 pm

I had a comic, called Life by Design. I don't even know if any of it's still up, but it was at http://lifebydesign.keenspace.com.

My art skills were seriously lacking, but I made an honest effort. I finally ended up bogged down in other, more important projects that took up all of my workspace and time. So, it ended, right before I drew what I thought was my greatest comic idea to date.

Someday, I may be able to continue, though.

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 10:25 pm

On 2002-02-24 17:23, genecatlow wrote:
I *did* plan to have an explanation of the
ancient Canovian language, but didn't want to
slow down the pace of the comic. If I can work
it in, or present it in a separate venue (GCP)
I will certainly do so!

I don't know... Speed is important? Does the story have an end? Or you're worried with abusing interludes?

As far as I'm concerned, there's never any
harm in asking. I do my best to answer as
well. It's what I would expect if *I* were
maing a request of any creative individual.

*chuckles* You might change your mind if you ever meet me live. So that you can have an idea, one day I talked to a friend who is an asker like me (actually he's even a bit more) into doing with me a hardware course. We asked him every detail of every technology. When we were in 2/3 of the course, the teacher came into the class and said, "we are not gonna have breaks anymore because I've had to reply so many questions, our program is late." Then the whole class looked at us!!!

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Mon Feb 25, 2002 7:44 pm

On 2002-02-24 21:56, Consul wrote:
I had a comic, called Life by Design. I don't even know if any of it's still up, but it was at http://lifebydesign.keenspace.com.

My art skills were seriously lacking, but I made an honest effort. I finally ended up bogged down in other, more important projects that took up all of my workspace and time. So, it ended, right before I drew what I thought was my greatest comic idea to date.

Someday, I may be able to continue, though.

I hope you do. I always like to at least take
a look at someone's work - it doesn't guarantee
that I'll like it, but I'm always curious to
see how someone with enough creativity to
start a comic will bring it to life. (My big
problem is trying to read all the online comics
I like and still have time to draw MINE!)

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Mon Feb 25, 2002 7:54 pm

On 2002-02-24 22:25, Ekevu Cheetah wrote:
I don't know... Speed is important? Does the story have an end? Or you're worried with abusing interludes?

This first conceptual work does have an end,
yes - though the comic won't (or shouldn't)!
Speed is important only in that I have to
strike a balance between inclusion of important
detail and not being didactic and boring.

As far as I'm concerned, there's never any
harm in asking. I do my best to answer as
well. It's what I would expect if *I* were
maing a request of any creative individual.

*chuckles* You might change your mind if you ever meet me live. So that you can have an idea, one day I talked to a friend who is an asker like me (actually he's even a bit more) into doing with me a hardware course. We asked him every detail of every technology. When we were in 2/3 of the course, the teacher came into the class and said, "we are not gonna have breaks anymore because I've had to reply so many questions, our program is late." Then the whole class looked at us!!!

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Hey. lengthen the class, I say. Or have the
curriculum improved and get more/better
teachers. Practically nowhere else in the
world will people seemingly accept less from
those they hire to do a job than in education.
If a car mechanic doesn't fix your car properly,
you go back to the garage and take action. If
a doctor doesn't diagnose your illness correctly,
you sue for malpractice. But let a school do
a poor job of teaching and it gets disregarded?
I worried my teachers to death when I was in
college and I'd do it again. That was their
job - to teach me. I'm sure evaluated strictly
on how well I do *my* job. >=)

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 12:16 pm

On 2002-02-25 19:44, genecatlow wrote:
(My big
problem is trying to read all the online comics
I like and still have time to draw MINE!)

Hey, it's not like it takes that long. My strip count is currently at 10-26-28 (min-max-total). I take up to 20 minutes to read them all in the end of the afternoon. It's not that hard. How many strips do you read?

On 2002-02-25 19:54, genecatlow wrote:
This first conceptual work does have an end,
yes - though the comic won't (or shouldn't)!
Speed is important only in that I have to
strike a balance between inclusion of important
detail and not being didactic and boring.

Oh, I see.

Hey. lengthen the class, I say. Or have the
curriculum improved and get more/better
teachers.

The teacher did say he thinks it was too little time for too much stuff. But he couldn't change it himself. And he was a good teacher, one of the best I've ever had, if not the best. If you think about it, he said there wouldn't be any more breaks, not questions. We didn't quite stop.

Mellotron · Post by **Mellotron** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 2:23 pm

On 2002-02-24 08:12, Ekevu Cheetah wrote:
You've learned language theory? *checks his college program* Apparently I don't have anything like that 'till I graduate...
But I did have some language theory while I was still at Social Communication... Indeed, it was my fave class!

Hey Ekevu! sorry everyone else if this is way off-topic

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 11:59 pm

On 2002-02-26 12:16, Ekevu Cheetah wrote:
Hey, it's not like it takes that long. My strip count is currently at 10-26-28 (min-max-total). I take up to 20 minutes to read them all in the end of the afternoon. It's not that hard. How many strips do you read?

Eeeesh, I've lost count. More than a couple
dozen, for sure...

Lord_Marable · Post by **Lord_Marable** » Thu Feb 28, 2002 4:35 am

*Hides in the underboard, chuckling.*

Min 25(Tues) 63(MWF)

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 1:52 pm

Who's that in the underboard, chuckling?? >=)

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 7:22 pm

On 2002-03-01 13:52, genecatlow wrote:
Who's that in the underboard, chuckling?? >=)

It's the underboard Lord!

But hey, how much time do you take to read that all?

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Sun Mar 03, 2002 5:24 pm

It's the underboard Lord!
But hey, how much time do you take to read that all?

Did you mean me, or Lord Marable?

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Sun Mar 03, 2002 6:13 pm

On 2002-03-03 17:24, genecatlow wrote:
Did you mean me, or Lord Marable?

I originally meant Mar, but actually I think I should have addressed this question to you too... Then... I'd say both.