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The
Quigblog: 2010
Warning:
This is not a real blog so don't expect to add your two
cents. To be honest, allowing visitors to have their interactive
say would be pretty cool but I'm not interested in spending
the time setting it up or running it. So, for now, just content
yourselves with the following chonologically-ordered bits
of Quigmans-flavored ejectamenta.
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8-21-2010
An open letter to Creators Syndicate;
Greetings, Creatorians;
When I was seven years old a man offered me candy to get in his car. All I remember
was that it was really good candy.
Speaking of nightmares that never seem to end, today's Quigmans cartoon was formerly
syndicated on 2-16-2000 and 7-13-2005.
To put this in semi-perfect perspective this means that Buddy is essentially
diving the LA Times and Tribune Media dumpsters and feeding his scroungings
to
you
good
folks
at Creators. You probably deserve better.
But, hey, some people like half-eaten apples and pizza so old it's become a physical
part of the box, so who am I to judge?
You getting tired of my bellyaching yet? Man, I hope not because Buddy seems
to have no intention of meeting his potential.
Or maybe he already has. Lower-case yikes.
Cheers.
=mike stanfill= |
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8-2-2010:
The threatened legal action by Buddy? Bupkis. Just so much hot
air.
Was I scared? You bet. My sister recently had to cough up $80,000
in legal fees to defend herself over a case that had no merit.
None. The only one's who benefitted from the case were the lawyers
on either side. That's
all
I needed was a lawyer with a gleam in his eyes and a patsy with
an axe to grind giving me shit.
But that's not really why I'm here. I just wanted to share Buddy's
latest theft from me.
You see, back on July 21st, 2010, I created a Far Left Side comic about the problems
inherent in the Supreme
Court and offered four ideas of how to solve them. The final of the four panels
looked
like
this:
Then today, August 2nd, 2010, I read the day's Quigmans comic, which was about
finding a new BP CEO:
Need I say more? |
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6-23-2010:
I just got my first email from Buddy.
Ever.
Ever-ever.
Seriously. He's never emailed me before.
And what was the gist of this rare missive? He just
threatened to sue me.
I'm not sure on what grounds he wants to pursue
this course of action but I know why he made
the threat.
You see, for about the past week or so whenever
Buddy recycled an old cartoon I sent a copy of
the originally
syndicated version along with a nice note indicating
it'd been used before... to his syndicate. After
a few days of no response I then sent them a text
list of
all of the
Quigmans
comics
that have been re-used thus far this year.
It was
quite an extensive list.
I'm guessing all Hell
and a
couple of Armageddon's broke loose, as far as Buddy's
concerned.
So that's why I'm puzzled. You see, it's perfectly
legal for Buddy to re-use all of the old cartoons
he wants to, but it's also perfectly legal for
me to point this out to his syndicate.
I wrote back and told Buddy I'd be happy to stop
bothering his syndicate, just as long as he stops
re-using old strips. Seemed reasonable to me.
So what happens next? Beats me. Stay tuned. |
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1-16-10:
So far, for the month of January, there have been
no new Quigman cartoons. So for the sake of those
new to Quigmans.com, allow me to offer the following:
• He has not officially retired from
cartooning. As of 2010, anyway.
• He is not terminally ill.
• He has not lost his hands to leprosy.
• He is not confined to an iron lung.
• He is not running a pig farm in
Zacatecas, Mexico.
• He has not been kidnapped by midget
ninjas.
• He has not returned to Lebanon is search of the
perfect baba ghanoush
• He is not on a world cruise celebrating
the fantastic success of the Quigmans.
From all that I know, Buddy Hickerson leads a relatively
normal existence.
So what's the reason that he doesn't create new
cartoons every day like all the other syndicated
cartoonists?
My educated guess is that he doesn't give a shit about his
job, complicated by the all-too-clear fact that he's incapable
of writing decent jokes. Since he's also apparantly
incapable
of paying
for
jokes that means he's also either poor or cheap.
Your guess in that regard is as good as mine. |
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1-2-10:
Today's Quigmans cartoon elicited waves of nostalgia
from yours truly, not because it features the long-lost
Bob Quigmans but because the original version,
from 1999, bears the legend "http://quigmans.com" in
the lower right-hand corner.
Yes, Buddy Hickerson, cartoon geeeee-nyuss, used
to own quigmans.com, a site at which he
offered nothing much more than his half-assed,
overpriced
clip-art CD's. I've kept a copy of the last iteration of the site and you can
see it here.
I'm
guessing that, after some time, Buddy couldn't find anyone willing to work on
his site for free and so he simply let the domain name lapse, at which point
I happily snapped it up in March of 2000. I haven't
stopped sniggering since. |
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