JASON WEAR II

"The simpler the object is, the less information it conveys." -James Gleick

"Information is surprise." -Gleick (again)

Blaise stopped by my studio yesterday to have a talk with me about my last post.  He reminded me that our "brand" hinges on being "outside" the "conventional wisdom" of comic-nerd qualititative analyses.  My beef with Ware (coldness, dullness) was, in other words, boring.  My character's role, though, is the blathering, spastic one so, of course I would periodically misstep & that's OK.  OWATEGUSIAM.

The better tactic, we decided, would have been to criticize Ware, the person, for falling into the standard cartoonist trap of overwork, depression, curmudgeonliness. I should've explored better how the narrow path of craft stems from his philosophic substructure vis a vis his social awkwardness and despair.

Ware is cool but not "cool."  He is scalable form, not content.  He doesn't reconfigure himself or his work to suit its context.  He is not involved in "reality."

We have adopted CF as our mascot because he is cool in the wider world/nom-comics-centric sense, and we hope that by surrounding ourselves with "coolness," we can elevate the medium to the level of sexier disciplines like film or music.

To acheive this locally, I will make comics about drugs, apple products, popular music blogs, etc.

I apologize for that last post.

-sent from my iPhone (dumb joke)

Errata: Blaise=shark & JO=amoeba