| 1930s War Babies |
[Feb. 3rd, 2007|09:57 pm] |
A short film with Shirley Temple, from 1930 something.
I guess somebody considered it entertaining back then. |
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| Piss and kippers |
[Jan. 30th, 2007|07:05 pm] |
Apparently this genius idea of mine - this babies-as-soldiers cartoon thing - ain't as original as I'd liked to imagine.
The esteemed Mr Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy, pitched a very similar idea all the way back in 1988. Nearly twenty years ago. Lovely character designs, too.
I is all of the gutted. |
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| Yes, we have no new comics |
[Jan. 11th, 2007|12:15 pm] |
We have no new comics today.
But something will happen this year. We is sure of it. |
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| Chapter 12 |
[Oct. 24th, 2006|12:17 pm] |
It's online.
http://www.warbabies.net/ch12pg1.html
This will be the last chapter for a while. Probably the last one this year. Real life has become a bit too busy for comicking of late.
But we will be back. The story has only just begun, after all - and I'd like to know what happens next. I hope you feel the same.
ciao for now
Mike |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2006|05:48 pm] |
Manana.
I swear. The pages for the next chapter were finished a week ago - what's taking all the time is the translation into Espanish. But it's done now, so as soon as I wake up, the next bit will show up.
Gracias for your patience. |
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| Chapter 11 |
[Sep. 28th, 2006|01:48 pm] |
Here.
Anyone who was feeling uncomfortable about the continuous infant nudity - which, by the way, is your own problem, not ours - can feel relieved, as the babies are naked no longer.
Blam. |
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| I gif you more loopy anims |
[Sep. 19th, 2006|02:40 pm] |
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| Chapter Ten |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|09:30 pm] |
Managed to finish this chapter off this morning before collapsing back into bed. Prozac is the sleepy-maker.
We're coming to the end of the first... um... volume, I guess, of the story. Probably after the next chapter we'll take a bit of a break while we get the next section started. It's frustrating being late for deadlines, so it'd be good to get a bunch of stuff drawn well in advance of it going online.
Should have thought of that months ago, but we didn't. |
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[Sep. 11th, 2006|07:02 pm] |
Looking for the next chapter? It's on the way. More than half done. Will be up tomorrow.
In the meantime, there's this:
I made it to post on b3ta.com, and apparently a lot of people liked it. The increase in visitors to War Babies has been astounding - so thanks to you if you were one of the people who voted it onto the "popular page" last night, and I hope you'll stick around and follow the comic.
You know, on those rare weeks when we actually finish a chapter. |
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| Computer game imparts interesting factoid shock |
[Sep. 8th, 2006|11:48 pm] |
Ever heard of the Children's Crusade? I hadn't, until today.
According to medieval legend, round about the year 1212 an army of 20,000 children, led by a boy who'd been talking to Jesus, set off from France to conquer Jerusalem. They didn't manage to secure the Pope's blessing - although he didn't try to dissuade them - so it wasn't officially a crusade, but still: crusadey enough to deserve the name.
The kids marched to Marseille, expecting to cross the Mediterranean on foot by way of a Moses-type water parting. When that didn't happen, they somehow got passage on a fleet of ships. Some of the boats were wrecked in a gale, and the children who survived are thought to have been sold into slavery in North Africa. None of them ever returned to Europe.
That, at least, is how the story goes. Wikipedia has a less interesting but more believable explanation of how the legend may have come about.
And there's another chapter of our comic on the website, as of two days ago. |
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| Again with the lateness. |
[Aug. 21st, 2006|09:49 pm] |
But finally, chapter seven is up.
www.warbabies.net and click on "Latest Chapter". |
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| Late update. |
[Aug. 9th, 2006|11:53 am] |
Yes, we missed our deadline. Sunday came and went. Monday passed in a blur. Tuesday is slipping away even as I type.
The latest chapter might be online on Wednesday.
Apologies to those who care. |
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[Jul. 31st, 2006|12:56 pm] |
Getting a chance to look at the War Babies site on many computers this week. Computers that aren't mine.
The colours is all differents!
Sometimes they look better than the colours I think I'm using at home. Sometimes not. But who knows how to make them always be the same everywhere? Certainly not I.
New chapter: http://www.warbabies.net/ch05pg1.html
Mostly expositional. But maybe it's seeding things that will end up being funny in future episodes. Is it possible that the writer could know the story that far in advance?
Only time will tell. |
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| Two worlds |
[Jul. 23rd, 2006|02:21 pm] |
There was a break in CNN's coverage of the devastation last night, and suddenly we got to hear a bunch of people at an aviation industry trade show.
"In the future," one of them was saying, "there will be many more airports. You won't have to go to these enormous hubs anymore. Smaller jets will be landing right in your local town."
"Passengers won't need to be bored on long-haul flights," beamed another. "Commercial jets will contain swimming pools and basketball courts and real shopping malls. It's gonna be swell!"
"The average family will not just have two cars, they'll have a jet as well! Like John Travolta! They'll be able to use it to take the kids to school, because all schools will have runways next to their playing fields."
Okay, maybe I misheard the last one. Maybe I was so taken aback by the optimistic grins on the faces of these futurologists that I didn't get the exact words - but he said something along those lines.
Then the little promotional segment was over, and CNN took us back to the horror of the fuel war.
Anyway, new chapter here:
http://www.warbabies.net/ch04pg1.html
mike |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2006|04:59 pm] |
Good article about the run up to WWIII here:
http://www.writingshop.ws/html/rumors_of_war.html
It's long, but worth the read. And it ends with a sensible, reasoned alternative to constant conflict. Not that it will be heeded, but it's nice to hear it said.
"We must live with the nations that we now perceive as rivals and enemies, because we cannot conquer and subdue them, or impose our will on them. That is what Mr, Bush’s adventure in Iraq has taught them. They have seen the clear limitations of American power, and they will no longer back down.
The alternative to war is therefore an acceptance of our limitations, and a resolve to change the way we live here at home, so we no longer need to quake when things flare up near all that oil. This will also require the same immense scale that we would use to mobilize for a major war, with the same urgency, only it will build instead of destroying. It will transform and regenerate instead of laying waste. What other way is that, you may ask?" |
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[Jul. 15th, 2006|12:40 am] |
It is going somewhere, this War Babies story.
I'm aware that it may not look as though it is; and I'm conscious of how p-a-i-n-f-u-l-l-y slowly the narrative is moving. But it is heading in a certain direction. I'm not just making it up as I go along.
Well, no, I kind of am. But not totally.
Damn, I'm bad at this lying thing.
Anyway, look. There's a new chapter that you can read by clicking this:
http://www.warbabies.net/ch03pg01.html
And afterwards you can make a kind of "oh" sound. Maybe followed by a shrugging of the upper lip. Or a lazy blink. Whatever gesture of bemused resignation you feel like, really.
I'll be hard at work attempting to come up with some funny for next time. |
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[Jul. 12th, 2006|11:54 am] |
I realise I'm not very good at updating this. The problem is the Impending Apocalypse. When the thought of it gets into my head, it makes everything seem futile and I just want to get drunk.
So I do.
Lots of people think that the Impending Apocalypse isn't as impending as I believe. "Relax", they say. "We've got a good few decades of recession and fascism before the starvation and cannibalism arrives. Look on the bright side."
They don't really say that. Although they should. But most people seem to think that life is just going to carry on as it is now, or get better. Like with flying cars and household robots and stuff.
To those people I say this: when we're toiling side by side in the forced labour camp, scraping the barren ground for food for our feudal overlords, I'll ask you to remember how you felt in 2006. When you were living the good life and thinking that it was never going to end, and I - I was huddled in the corner in depressive misery, all my imaginings focused on the terror of life in this bleakest of all possible futures.
You laugh at me now. But in that imminent future, I'll nudge you when the overseer's back is turned, and I'll whisper, "See? I told you so. Now who's laughing, eh?"
Vindication will be mine. Oh yes.
Anyway, there's a cartoon here:
http://www.warbabies.net/cartoon03.html
and the next part of the story will be online tomorrow. |
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| Chapter Two |
[Jun. 29th, 2006|11:48 pm] |
The second chapter is up, and this one is four (4) whole pages long, in both English and Castellano (which is Spanish, to anybody not concerned with the complex and baffling rivalries between the various regions that make up the Iberian peninsula).
Nothing much happens in this episode, just as it didn't in the first one. But something will happen soon. We promise. So stick with it, eh?
as always:
www.warbabies.net |
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