clearin’ shit up
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008I’ll be tabling in Portland at the Stumptown comics fest this weekend with Sarah Glidden and Marinaomi. Then I’m headed to San Francisco where I’m going to cry into many beers at Zeitgeist. later bitches!
I’ll be tabling in Portland at the Stumptown comics fest this weekend with Sarah Glidden and Marinaomi. Then I’m headed to San Francisco where I’m going to cry into many beers at Zeitgeist. later bitches!
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
You know how this makes me feel but I wont be able to get pissed off at you in person until we’re in Portland. Raaaaaaaaar!!!
This “San Francisco” had better be made of rock candy and gold with rainbows flowing down the streets. Or like THIS .
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
aaaaah that video is amazing! the rock candy reference is even extra good cause we used to refer to SF as the big rock candy mountain because of all the crackheads.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
This is the first comic I have actually laughed out loud at in months.
Also, that is exactly what Portland is doing to me. Shitting on my heart.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Have you seen the making of?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bEOtpqYpA
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Many years ago, I moved to the other coast with promises of a fine job. The job was fine, but I found myself pining for the previous coast. My friends were there. I grew up there. The other coast was weird. The ocean was on the wrong side. After three years I realized I made a serious error and moved back to the previous coast. While it hasn’t been skittles and bourbon, I still believe some fifteen years later I made the right decision to go back.
If you feel similarly then my “worth less than a cup of shit at Starbucks” advice is to go back.
(Full disclosure: “other coast” for me was Northern California. “previous coast” was New York and Washington, DC)
Good luck,
Fuzz
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Yeah, New Yawk will do that to you
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
were you a vice intern?
my husband slaved for them for an entire year (6 month for the label, 6 months for vbs.tv) before getting a job offer as a video editor…to which he responded by asking them to shove their “8 bucks an hour” up their collective assholes.
also, thobey owes me a fuckload of vodka for giving him haircuts in the office bathroom.
glad you escaped before they ate your soul.
also, if you met the adorable canadian equipment manager named dana - he was our roommate for a year. i want to keep him in my pocket and feed him treats.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
When New York shits, it retracts Long Island up into its asshole. This is a fact.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Yeah, Zeitgeist! I think you need more tattoos. And I think that I might not let you go back to NY… See you on Friday! WOOT!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Did you try the Chinatown pork buns? They are glazed with butter and baked and have pork/ onion yummy mix inside ‘em. I think they are cheap too. If you find them, mail me one.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
if you wanted delicious pizza you should have moved to chicago
April 24th, 2008 at 12:10 am
This is basically what SF has done to me. Fine city as far as most things go, but whose dick do you gotta suck around here to get a decent goddamn job that allows you to pay rent?
April 24th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I never realized how much New York State resembled a penis until just now.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am
You know, upstate New York is quite lovely.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
So i am reading between you and liz baille at guapo. ooof. grumpy girl sandwich.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:49 am
I am new to your comic, Julia, but finding it after hearing your interview on fanboyradio, I now know it’s awesomeness!
Sorry NY is being so crappy to you. I’m glad you’re gonna fight it out, hopefully, you kick it’s ass and then it gives you everything you want.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
What is Julia thinking of in her thought bubble in the second box, the one where she is a bartender?
April 26th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Wow, it’s comics like these that make me excited to be moving from So Cal to Queens in two days…
April 26th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Man I’m from the nice little town of Athens, Georgia and I’m living in New York and I feel the exact same way. That which is cheap + cool is vanishing from the big city very fast. And people are distracted and work too hard.
Yeah, it’s awesome if you can overcome the challenges and enjoy life here. But at some point you have to ask yourself: does enjoying life need extra challenges?
If you need to be here for a particular industry or artform that doesn’t exist anywhere else in America, then by all means. And I could see where it would be a cool place to be rich. But to be young and take it a little bit easy? Nooooo.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Reading your comic has made me think… maybe New York isn’t as great as those Woody Allen films made it out to be.
Thank you, Julia. You have opened my eyes.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Grumpy Girl Sandwich!
April 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
(I got a book from you today! It is so excellent.)
Move to Portland, like you were gonna! That’s what I did (yesterday), I am not regretting it, yet. One of my bestest buds is moving to NY this summer, I told him the same thing. NY is for suckers; PDX is for winners. The end.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
You know, don’t know what it is about SF. fucking hated the place when I lived in the bay area. But holy shit balls, I am now back there every quarter and wonder why I left. then I go back to my house in the desert, remember why, and get pissed all over again.
glad to see you are back to making comics.
and remember, Voltaire needed France. perhaps you need SF.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Ashley,
she’s thinking about comic strips. See the tiny Julia speech bubbles in small boxes?
what the hell are Fucky buns is my question
May 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Shit, I just actually came to the end of the comics after hours and hours of seemingly endless entertainment (something about this site apparently inspires Fart Party crash courses). Now I have to be like the long-time readers and actually, y’know, wait for updates. Real-time is weird.
Also, I’ll add to all the love this site generates and throw out a big You Kick Ass, Julia. You’ve inspired me to eat cheese for the past hour, and now it’s more than time for a shot of whiskey and a beer.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
One of the reasons I love your comics is because I made the opposite move. I left NY for the bay area. It’s interesting, heartening and just too funny to find out what it’s like from the other perspective.
This is my first time commenting, but I love this comic quite a bit.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I like how New York shit on your heart through the asshole that is Long Island.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:46 am
I don’t know how i came acoss this website but this comic strip is really funny and good. LOL. I like your sense of humor. Hope to read some more. Will ome back soon. BYE.