Funnies!

I've just been doing one of my all-too-periodic spots of website-updating, and as part of it I put all the Hashtag Funnies strips I drew last year up in one place on my site, so why not go and have a read?

If you remember, the basic idea was that I had to draw a strip each morning, under appallingly restricted time conditions, based on one of that day's trending topics on twitter. I think it's fair to say that results varied wildly, but I really liked some of the strips - here in particular are a few of my favourites: #lieswomentell, #godloveslove, #truthis.

I'd really like to do more of these, but I'm kind of in two minds. On the one hand I loved doing them, and really enjoyed the 'challenge' aspect of having to come up with an idea every day and turn it into a finished strip super-quickly. On the other hand, simply by their nature they mean that the art tended to be very rushed, and being the perfectionist self-loathing artist that I am, I kind of feel like I ought to be focussing on things where I can take my time and produce the best-looking art I am capable of, rather than just rushing stuff out for giggles.

Like I say, I'm in two minds. Your thoughts on this point, dear reader, would be very welcome.

Hashtag Funnies: #isitme

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #isitme

Hashtag Funnies: New Moon #3

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!



Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, New Moon

I don't know what the director was thinking.

Hashtag Funnies: New Moon PART DEUX

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies! This is actually kind of Part Two of something, you can check out Part One here.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, New Moon

Why I am not winning Arts Foundation grants and suchlike with this stuff, I'll never know.

More tomorrow? Oh I think so, yes.

Hashtag Funnies: New Moon

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, New Moon

Sorry for the lack of updates last week, I had flu and then was a bit swamped getting caught up with work. Back now!

So guess who has never seen or read any of Twilight but thought it would be amusing to do a comic about it regardless? Me that's who! More tomorrow if people are still talking about it on Twitter...

Hashtag Funnies: Mike Tyson

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, Mike Tyson

Hashtag Funnies: #OverYou

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #OverYou

Apologies to anyone miffed by the recent absence of hashtag funnies - my kid got the cold, and then I got the cold, and it's not been a great week generally. But hey, look, comics!

Hashtag Funnies: #godloveslove

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #godloveslove

Hashtag Funnies: #unseenprequels

Here is today's instalment of Hashtag Funnies!

If you don't get that last one... that's probably for the best.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #unseenprequels

Hashtag Funnies: THIS IS IT

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, This Is It

Hashtag Funnies: #truthis

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #truthis

Sorry for the lack of a strip yesterday, my back was to the wall with deadlines. Turned out to be a false economy, as without the morning warm-up that #hashtagfunnies provides, it took me ages to get going and I was pretty much useless all morning.

So we've established that doing this works for me, if nothing else.

EDIT: Oh hey, I forgot to say, I set up a Hashtag Funnies Facebook page, essentially so that Di and other FB loyalists can read these too. You can check it out here.

Hashtag Funnies: #lettertomyex

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #lettertomyex

Hashtag Funnies: 'Bono'

Here is today's instalment of hashtag funnies, a comic strip I draw each day as a 1-hour warm-up exercise, based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of the day's trending topics on twitter.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, Bono

I went a little bit over an hour today, I was enjoying myself too much and I lost track of time. (Hairy backs and gorillas are two of my favourite things to draw. Make of that what you will.)

Hashtag Funnies: Balloon Boy

Here is today's instalment of hashtag funnies, a comic strip I draw each day as a 1-hour warm-up exercise, based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of the day's trending topics on twitter.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, Balloon Boy

Hashtag Funnies: #gotacrushon

Here is today's instalment of hashtag funnies, a comic strip I draw each day Mon-Fri as a 1-hour warm-up exercise, based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of the day's trending topics on twitter.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #gotacrushon

Hashtag Funnies: #lieswomentell

Here is today's instalment of hashtag funnies, a comic strip I draw each day Mon-Fri as a 1-hour warm-up exercise, based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of the day's trending topics on twitter.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #lieswomentell

Hashtag Funnies 4: #doyoumind

Here is today's instalment of hashtag funnies, a comic strip I draw each day Mon-Fri as a 1-hour warm-up exercise, based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of the day's trending topics on twitter.

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, #doyoumind

Hashtag Funnies 3: 'Glee'

Here is today's Hashtag Funnies strip!

Twitter links: @neillcameron, #hashtagfunnies, Glee

I think the 'Glee' people on Twitter are talking about is actually some TV show, but I don't know it so went for a different interpretation.

Anyway! I was amazed, delighted and utterly confused to read today a 1,500-word analysis of my social media strategy by the scholarly and erudite Pete Ashton. He makes some very good points, (including a tip about how if I used Flickr I apparently could have saved myself hundreds of pounds GODDAMMIT), and it's generally quite a fascinating read. Pete absolutely gets my motivations for doing things like the A-Z of Awesomeness and these daily nonsense hashtag strips, but explains them much more precisely and knowledgeably than I would be able to myself. Also at much greater length - I think if I wrote a 1,500 word essay here on the subject of ME, the internet would punch me in the face (and be quite right to do so).

Anyway, you can go read it here.

Mostly, I am just delighted to discover I have a social media strategy. Well done me!

Hashtag Funnies 2: #chocolatemilk

Hashtag Funnies

Hello, I'm Neill, you may remember me from such fun stupid internet things as Neill's A-Z of Awesomeness. Anyway, welcome to my new fun stupid internet thing, Hashtag Funnies.

Here are the rules of Hashtag Funnies:

1. Every day I draw a comic strip based on / inspired by / tangentially related to one of that day's trending topics on Twitter.
2. Drawing the strip must not take more than 1 hour. (On account of how I do have rather a lot of actual work to do. This is really just meant as a warm-up exercise, kind of thing.)
   

...that's about it for the rules. I just thought this would be a fun way to do something that I've been meaning to do for a while, which is to draw some comics strips, for fun. They may or may not make sense, or be funny, or be remotely well drawn. I may or may not have any idea what the hashtag / trending topic is actually the hell about. I just thought it would be, y'know, a fun thing.

Today's hashtag was #tellmewhy. This would be an example of a case where no, I don't remotely get what that's the hell about.

Anyway, I am going to try and do this every day, Monday to Friday, until either I get bored of it or one of us dies. Join me, won't you?