Free Ride, Seaside
I make comics on the internet so it should be assumed I have a poor self-image and low self-confidence. I also have an overwhelming desire to "keep it real," to stay the way I am and reject the lures of "selling out." But despite all that here I am, about to go to the Hollywood World Premiere of Snakes on a Plane and do interviews with the DVD crew at a fancy hotel (I signed papers that permits myself and my comics to appear on the DVD bonus features of the movie). Weird how it all turned out.
I know deep down this isn't gonna change anything and when I get back Sunday life will be regular again and I'll go back to being the same dude you know who runs around a mansion half naked and hangs out with a drug addict and a hysterical bimbo. But it's kind of a big thing for me deep down, a boy from Locust Grove, Oklahoma somehow endin' up in this spot. If it does change a little, it'll change for the best. And for me, the best is being able to make more and better comics for you all!
So anyway, thanks everybody for being with me through all this -- the friends I have and have had, the people who emailed and posted, and the majority whose silent presences emanate from all points in between. I know a lot of you have been reading my comics since way back in the "When I Grow Up" days and extra thanks to y'all. Up to this point it's been a life I consider exceptionally less ordinary, and I expect it to get a lot weirder. I hope you continue to hang around!
Guest comics will be running here Thursday and Friday from some surprise interwub artists. Nas ne dogonyat!
40 Comments:
Man, J.Ro, I hope you have the most rockin' time in Hollywood! They will not laugh at you, they will bow at your feet. I cannot wait to see your red carpet pictures!
You better say interesting things to the DVD people because I will have to ship it all the way to Italy.
Small town folk everywhere (and I include myself in this) aspire to reach your level of AWESOME.
Knock 'em dead!
I LOL at you comic. In a nice way, not in a sarcastic mocking manner, as LOL usually implies.
I am also an Oklahoma boy, and I wish you the best.
I am sure Locust Grove is an absolutely beautiful place. However... I have to be honest here, the name is a little weird.
Uh, Locust eat... well, everything. They are a biblical plague. Do you know the story behind the name? Because it ranks right up there with Hell, Michigan.
Which is another lovely place, by the way.
GOOD LUCK!!! I love the comic, and this is the first time I've commented. But, yeah... SoaP will cower under your presence. =)
I was watching samuel l. on the daily show as i read the comic. SoaP is everywhere, man!
PS I NEED A JOANNA!
Wow, Jeffrey, you are hitting the big time.
I am starting to feel alone and insignificant.
Good luck with the SoaP premiere. I hope they end up putting you on the DVD.
I think you have probably added maybe a quarter of a million dollars to the revenue of the movie. Just by...doing your thing.
We love you J.Ro. Keep making your wondermous interwub comics.
Hearts,
Alex
Ya soshla s uma, Jeffrey. Ya soshla s uma!
I've never heard (read) you say (write ) "y'all" before. Maybe you really are from Oklahoma. Myself being from Texas, I know how hard it is trying to keep that word out of one's vocabulary when cavorting with non Southerners. Best of luck to you.
You may not have asked for all this SoaP-related attention, but we all know you deserve it. You run the best webcomic on the interwebs, and it never fails to cheer me up when I'm down.
I grew up in Cameron, OK without a computer, and now I do tech support and draw/write a webcomic of my own. On behalf of all cyberbillies, I salute you. :)
Ostanovite napisat na Russkom yazike!
Dude, you just gotta look hollywood in the eye and kick it's ass. Everything's gonna be a'ight.
Is this what you wanted to be when you grew up?
You write two of my favorite comics. You are awesome, and that's all I have to say about that.
You're an inspiration to us all, Jeff, and an important lesson to the kiddies that great things can happen if you stay in school^H^H^H^H^H^H comics!
As they say in teh Hollywood, get out there and break some legs.
J-RO,
All you gotta know to survive in Hollywood is that people there are dead on the inside. Yes, it saddens me to tell you that they are completly hollow and souless. The reason? Botox. No kidding, it might give you a wrinkle-free facade and the facial range expresions of a manequin, but it also feeds on your soul. It needs tasty, tasty souls to work its dark magic of youth and deceit.
So right there from the get-go, you got something they will never be able to regain. And once you realise that no amount of false compliments or back-handed critism they throw at you can take away your uneaten botox-free soul you will overcome them.
So J-Ro, dont be afraid. Even if you forget to put the johnson back in the barn and everyone laughs at you as you walk down the red carptet while hooting and throwing bacon slices on your back, we all stil gonna be here, asking for funny drawings to keep the rest of us wage slaves entertained long enough to file another TPS report.
Wow, that is so cool that you'll be on the DVD. I can't wait. This is gonna be all kinds of awesome, including the good kind.
Congrats, man! This is big stuff!
Also: I think you might have accidentally added an "r" to the end of "you" in the third panel.
Best of luck, sir! May the future bring you much to show your beautiful smile to the world and then interpret that and show it to us.
(In other news happiness is using web detective skills to work out who'll guest-comicking and smiling like a patron of doom.)
I wouldn't worry about impressing the crowd of people impressed by a movie that can be fully described in 4 words. How good could those fights be? Snakes only got one limb, and Sammy L's only power is yellin real loud.
I think the thing is to chill, not take it too seriously, and chuckle at the people who are. Have fun, mang.
--Ron
http://scribblestrum.livejournal.com
Dude you can totally wear an "I am made of poison" tee shirt to this premier. It is all about propogating your "media image" which is an image of a webcomic artist who is also a billionaire psychopath with a zombie cat and a weedmaster P. That image can wear a self promoting tee shirt to this thing.
But you should probably wear a tuxedo jacket over the tee shirt. Otherwise you will look like some country boy from oklahoma.
Feel the love! Distilled essense of comments = Jeffrey Rowling is awesome. Your fans are not wrong.
Even though we've never met, I live vicariously through you. This is more exciting than the time my third cousin stepped on Phyllis Diller's toe at the DMV.
Better yet, why not just wear a t-shirt with a picture of your face on it? I'm sure that'll get a lot of peoples' respect.
Ooooh, I know! Go to the premiere as Chris Ganes!
*wets pants* Oh man, I'm so excited for you. I'm a Louisiana girl, so seeing someone from the silly South rise up to Hollyweird is great!
Oh man... too excited to speak. I've been reading you for whiles and whiles now, and I'm still here (and buying the DVD especially for you!)
I'm incredibly thrilled to you. If anyone deserves it, it is your fine self.
Rock out with your cock out!
Or words to that effect.
Love you, boyo.
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GO JEFF GO! Three cheers, represent the common folk.
Once upon a time the great Internet Jesus Warren Ellis told me that if I wasn't reading Overcompensating and Dieselsweeties, I wasn't truly living. Once again, as always, he was right.
You da man, Jeffrey, you have the blessing of Warren himself!
We will so sincerely miss you. Give Paris Hilton a kiss from me.
Dude... you made me go through all the horrible crap in order to leave a frickin comment. I don't even know if I'm doing this right. For all I know, I just started a server fire somewhere in alabama. What I'm trying to say is, dude... good luck and this cheese head has your back. It may be waaaaay back, but I got it covered.
Go find you some Parker Posey and have a good time. Oh, and Samuel L Jackson said "blogosphere" on the Daily Show. heck yes....
"Tony said...
Feel the love! Distilled essense of comments = Jeffrey Rowling is awesome. Your fans are not wrong."
He lives so vicariously through you as he said, that he can legally change your name. I'd be scared.
dude, i just have to say:
how many of us ever get to experience the sweet conundrum of what to wear to our first hollywood event?
are you kidding me!? ENJOY THIS!!!
(as if you're not)
love, stacy
I just signed up for Blogspot so I could post here. I just wanted to say that you're amazing, Mr Rowland, and you have inspired me since the day I first discovered your work. And enjoy the premiere! Hollywood has never seen anything as awesome as you!
listen man
you aint got nothin to worry about
because everybodys more alike then you think
you say your just going to go back to your place on sunday, run around your mansion half naked, and hang out with an addict and a bimbo!
what the hell do you think they do in hollywood? you'll feel right at home!
Jeffery jeffery jeffery, Sam jackson wears your t-shirts! you have allready been excepted by the badass of hollywood, no one will laugh at you and if they do they'll have to answer to mace windu
JEFF-REY JEFF-REY
Show hollywood who's boss
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