COMICALLY INEPT.

I've been overwhelmed by the numbers of cartoon bloggers who would like a review on this site. Fighting his way to the top of the list this week (should it be a weekly thing? Maybe it should?) is Joe from Comically Inept. I do feel duty bound to warn people that this site could be considered as NSFW, and it has some rude words scattered around it.

Joe is a willing victim. The following reviews may not be, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

© COMICALLY INEPT

Comically Inept is an interesting form of cartoon blog as it's very personal to the author, and his struggle with alcohol misuse and avoidance, but that is not to say that it's not amusing. In places it's highly amusing, as a mirror of real life. Self deprecating, witty and regularly updated. Drawing style is naive, but I think that's something that suits the subject matter the most. Listen to me? Like I'm an expert on art. This isn't art. It's real life humour, in all it's gritty reality. Enough of my waffling. Thank you Joe for being the first willing victim to a plug/review on clangnuts. Visit his blog here (if you haven't already clicked on one of the previous links). Better still, visit it, then subscribe to the RSS link.

For some reason the title of this blog looks a lot better in CAPITALS, than lower case. I don't know why this is.

If you have been affected by the issues mentioned in this blog post, and you would like your cartoon or humour blog featured, please contact me before next Tuesday. clangnuts@gmail.com

Come with me...

A NEW BLOG?

The purpose of this blog when I first started it 5 years ago was to showcase some of my cartoons. I had all sorts of unrealistic ideas about being able to update it every day, then every few days, then at least once a week, then sporadically.Currently is updated very sporadically.

It's not that I'm not drawing any more. I am. Sporadically. But most of the drawings I'm doing these days are being saved for rejection by some very big names in the magazine publishing industry! I don't feel it's proper that I post cartoons on here, and THEN offer them for first publication rights to magazines.

So what to do with the blog? It still gets a healthy amount of hits, which stay quite constant, apparently unconnected to how often I update it. 4,000 visitors per week is the norm. 

Since starting clangnuts.com cartoon blogs have continued to become very popular, so I've been playing with this idea for some time. What if, instead of just using clangnuts.com to promote my own (sporadic) cartoons, I used it to promote all the brilliant web comics out there instead? I have been collection hundreds of bookmarks to some truely exceptional cartoon blogs and web comics over the last few years, so there's plenty of choice.

Advantages would be:

• Regular updates to clangnuts.com
• Introduce some very good, but relatively unknown cartoons to a wider audience
• Less crappy cartoons from me (although I may still post the occassioanal one)

Disadvanges could be:

• Some cartoonists might not want to be featured here
• Creating hits for competing websites.
• Less crappy cartoons from me (although I may still post the occassioanl one)

Is this a good idea? Has it got legs? Would it be better to just fill the content with photos of kittens or something?

If you are a web cartoonist, and you'd like a review/feature or whatever it is I'm going to do, then please get in touch. clangnuts@gmail.com 

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Well I thought it was funny.

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Oh HELL. It's HOT.

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This weeks entry in the Cartoonist forum contest. The theme was set by wiLbur, last weeks controversial winner. The theme was simply 'HOT'. Struggled with this for the whole week. Got this done moments before the contest deadline. Quite a few hellish cartoons this week.

Surprise

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Yeah, you know what this is. It's my entry in this week contest. Thought I'd do this one in colour. Some brilliant entries so far.

Will 50 be enough?

This weeks entry into the very special 50th Cartoon Caption Contest. There's prizes and everything, so I've tried really hard to make this one funny. Unusually I drew this at the last minute, and I had a peep at some of the other entries - which was good, because one of the ideas I had had already been posted. Saved myself a lot of bother there. I finished this one 20 minutes before the deadline.