[blog] Year 3, Comic 16 - Help Wanted
★ Notes on Year 3, Comic 16 - Help Wanted ★
Later!
= SMH Group Chat =
Lardo: New bylaw. Musical theater in the Haus is sin bin-able.
Holster: I’m welcoming our new manager
Lardo: Go to sleep
Holster: and I’m a great captain
Lardo: stop making noise
Holster: who wants everyone to FEEL WELCOME…SUPPORTED
Jack: Is she even in the Haus?
Holster: LMAOOOO Are you even in the Haus????
Lardo: we can undib you.
✓ UHHHHHHHHHHH NEW MANAGER??? FORD! This freshman has clocked countless hours backstage and knows how to manage people who are dramatic, loud, and unusually comfortable with nudity. (“FORD. I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU TO MEET SHITTY.”) Ford is stepping away from theater so she doesn’t get burnt out, and if her high-developed skill set can actually get her paid, why not hang out with the biggest loudest weirdest dudes on at Samwell University? She’s trading shows for games, dressing rooms for locker rooms, and the backstage for the bench. I’d give her one solid week of chirping before she gets the hang of it.
Ford: All right. (clicks pen) When do you guys have rehearsal?
Lardo:…Practice.
Ford: That’s right practice is rehearsal for sports.
✓ Wait…Ford is another tadpole. And her name starts with an F. And she’s wearing a shirt with a Fox. What did I say so many blog posts ago, my dudes? “There’s no Foxtrot amongst these hockey players!” And that was true! Like, come ooooon, she’s in the tweets I wrote a year ago. Of course there was going to be a Foxtrot…but she wouldn’t play hockey! But how will she get her NATO alphabet nickname?
And shout out to Jess Marfisi who helped me amp-up and fine-tune the designs for Ford! I really wanted Ford to have a new and distinct feel to her character, so asking a friend to design her seemed like the way to go. (Jess is awesome and kind of does this for a living too!)
✓ WHAT IS CONSULTING??? That is a great question, and to be honest, I’m still not entirely sure. I have friends who do consulting who still really can’t explain consulting. Basically, consulting is helping companies optimize processes and output to make more money. Ransom would describe it as 80-hour work weeks, wearing a lot of suits and seeing Excel when you close your eyes to go to sleep. Firms like Bain and MicKinsey recruit undergrads their junior and senior years. Then, they woo them with high salaries and promise them a working environment that’s an extension of the undergraduate experience. Through an arcane combination of spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, meetings, and Emails, you help Nike increase profits by .05%? And like, every Friday they have some trendy yuppie experience and happy hours and go on ski retreats!
Take a look at Bain’s about page and read about the salaries these guys make. SOUNDS LIKE FUN, RIGHT? (<_<;) Picture Ransom and Holster and Shitty in suits, drinking at some bar in Boston, reflecting on how just months ago they were playing strip flip cup, already nude.
✓ Is Lardo okay? Oh, she’s fine! Just a senior art student with no certainty and overwhelming familial expectations. That sound you just heard was me chuckling softly and then sighing and then crying.
✓ TEAM BREAKFAST! Oh yeah! (And the following is from my patreon behind-the-scenes blog!) This is the third time I’ve drawn SMH team breakfast. (Comic 1.02 and then Comic 3.03.) Breakfast in Samwell Commons is arguably the most important meal of the day for these hockey players. They are buzzing from endorphins, are still a lil’ cranky from waking up to be at Faber by 6AM, and oh my god, they’re all in one place! It’s like if Group Chat became a meal you have 4 days a week. In Bitty’s tweets, we see #TeamBfast as this space for sharing news and gossip and stuffing eggs in one’s mouth like Cool Hand Luke.
✓ And one last thing–those FLOWERS? Oh, jeez, Jack Zimmermann, what a weirdo. When you put the tweets and the actual events of the comic in order–things make no sense, so don’t even try. The roses in the first panel are in fact, flowers from Jack Laurent Zimmermann’s first attempt at an unenthusiastic Valentine’s day.
Jack: Well I wasn’t going to get just one
Jack: So I thought three was a good number
Jack: Then I saw that they had this deal, buy one get one on every bouquet so that ended up being 6
Jack: Then if you got 7, the cost per bouquet went down so much.
Jack: Thought I round it up to 10 since that’s a nice even number. Also some of the boys might need some.
Jack: Then I remembered your number was 15 so that was just 5 away.
Jack: Sorry
☆ Up Next: Dibs! Who deserves a room in the Haus more…William Poindexter or Derek Nurse?
☆ ☆ ☆ NEWS ☆ ☆ ☆
☆ Shirts are back in the shop! We finally have restocked shirts! GO GET ‘EM! (And Huddles too!)
☆ The Year Two Kickstarter. If you’re a backer, please check out the backer updates for info! We’re launching the second phase of fulfillment, where backers get the rest of your rewards. The slowest moving process is still manufacturing jerseys. Because jerseys are brand new additions to Check, Please! apparel, we have to design them from scratch and are doing rounds of edits with factories overseas. But rewards like prints and stickers seem to be going well!
And the most FAQ! If you’re looking to purchase Year One or Year Two or any non-exclusive merchandise from the Kickstarter, it will not be available until fulfillment is finished. Then we will put items up on the online store and also have merchandise available at conventions.
☆ Speaking of conventions, here’s an updated list of all the shows I’ll be doing in 2017!
★ Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (CHICAGO!)
★ Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF!!)
★ ID10T (Silicon Valley, still confirming!)
★ Anime Expo (Los Angeles)
★ Flame Con (Brooklyn)
★ New York City Comic Con (NYC)
★ Staple! Independent Media Expo (Austin)
Okay! Look for an update in the next few days or so! I’m finishing up the next comic while starting another! Thank you guys for reading!