I know most of my strips cater more closely to a male demographic, so I figured I'd try to do something special for my female viewers out there with today's strip.

So ladies, this one's for you.

Enjoy!

-Ed

Okay folks, here is that Geek Tragedy news update I’ve been talking about for a few days. I’m not going to say that there maybe typos and spelling mistakes within it like I usually do though. A lot of you know me too well at this point, so it’s largely unneeded for me to say that every time. Beside, it’d be a lie anyway, as I don’t think there’s any "maybe" about it.

Master of my own domain name…

When I first considered going with the name Geek Tragedy for the strip, I made sure that I searched the web for two things before I went ahead with anything that may set the name in stone. The first was to see if there was already a webcomic out there named Geek Tragedy. And while granted, there were more hits for the term "geek tragedy" than I ever thought there would be, thankfully there wasn't a webcomic with the same name. 'Cause if there was, I most definitely would've been going back to the drawing board.

After all, the last thing I would have wanted to do was step on someone else's toes, or look like I lacked the forethought to do the most basic of research for my idea of a title. I mean sure, there may be a few thousand webcomics out there, but it’s not that large of a community that someone should have to worry about having two comics of the same name at this point, right?

The second thing I looked into was what "geektragedy" domains were open. I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed to find out that geektragedy.com was already taken. So disappointed in fact, that I almost reconsidered using the name altogether. Lucky for me though the .ca domain was still open, and being a Canadian, it was kind of a perfect fit.

However, that still didn't stop me from making a note of when the current registration for geekragedy.com was going to expire, and in turn checking the status of it every damn day once the renewal date had passed.

Well I'm happy to report that my obsessive compulsive lusting for that particular domain has finally paid off. And as of earlier this week, www.GeekTragedy.com is all mine baby! And while I have no immediate plans to switch over from my current domain, and will in fact keep the .ca as long as the GT universe is around, I will most likely use it once the new site design is complete.

Speaking of which…

Building the Tragedy…

I’m still plugging away at the new site design every chance I get, and it’s shaping up kinda perdy(ish) if I do say so myself. I’ve been able to show a few friends what it’s looking like, and thus far the feedback has been rather positive. Granted, that may be because none of them have the heart to tell me the truth, but even if that’s true, at this point I’m perfectly happy living in the illusionary world of non-suckage that they’ve managed to construct around me.

One of the big things that I’m trying to accomplish with the new design to make it so you guys can finally click back and forth through the strips without having to go over to the archives. Also I’m making sure the archives it self works a little bit more to my liking.

Unfortunately I still have no definite date as to when the new site will be launched. For the most part it will depend on how quickly I can narrow down a service provider that I think will work best for me at this early stage of the comic’s growth.

I’m sure you’re as sick of hearing this as I am of saying it, but…

Geek Tragedy T-shirts are coming. At this point, I am basically just waiting to hear back as to exactly when they’re going to be finished.

I know some of you have been waiting patiently for quite a while (a few months at last count), but trust me when I say that I am more anxious than anyone to get these things out there. Plus I’ve come up with ideas for at least two more shirts that I’d like to get made as well, but until I see exactly how well the first one is received, I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself. The last thing I’d like to see happen is for me to wind up with a stockpile of shirts just sitting in my already overly cluttered office.

While we’re on the subject of stockpiles building up in my office…

A little piece of me…

I currently have an ever increasing number of Geek Tragedy strips kicking around, and so I’m thinking maybe it’s time that I part with a few of them. So here’s what I want to do. I’d like to make up little packages of select GT strips and offer them for sale on the site.

The first part of the package will obviously be the original artwork for the strip it self. Now, when I do the strips, I draw them out and ink them by hand so all of my original work is in black and white. Which means, most of them pretty much look like this before they’ve been scanned into the computer.

As you can see, the original art doesn’t have any colour, words, or backgrounds. So the second part of the package will be a glossy, full colour, signed print of the finished strip that will better represent what you’re used to seeing on the site.

They last part of the package will be a small, original pencil sketch of any one Geek Tragedy character of your choosing. I’m not sure what the size limitation for this sketch will be, but I’ll be sure to have that all worked out before the strips go on sale.

I’m also kicking around the idea of having these all pre-mounted together so that they could be easily framed or whatever. But that’s just getting ahead of myself at this point I think. After all, I haven’t even worked out a price for these packages yet, nor if there would be any kind of demand for them to be offered in the first place.

Two things I’d like to mention about this idea before I move on. First off, let me just assure you that the idea behind this isn’t an attempt on my part to be able to retire early. Nor is it a way for me to begin living a life of leisure filled with ample amounts pizza, Diet Dr. Pepper, and whores (though truth be told, even if I had money, I don’t see myself as the whore mongering type). Rather it’s born out of my desire to be able to generate just a little bit of money, so that I can in turn put it back into the site (though I wouldn’t mind having the funds to splurge on a pizza from time to time either).

The second thing is, I have absolutely no idea when these packages will be available. Until they are though, you may see some weird things happening on the store page every now and then. Please ignore any shenanigans you notice there. Even if it looks like something might be up there for sale in the next little while, unless I’ve posted info indicating otherwise, it’s just me doing some tests.

And thanks to my need for sleep…

I think I’m going to stop my blabbing on and on, and wrap this up now. I did have a few more things to mention, but nothing that I can’t save for another day.

Later all,

-Ed

It's Thursday, and that can only mean a new strip has arrived.

26 / JUL / 05 - 1215 CST : "Grey Area - Pt. I"

Today's strip is now up.

The new strip is now up.

The new strip is now up.

For this reason I'd like to make mention of a local Winnipeg writer who has teamed up with a local artist, and has taken such a plunge.  If you have a minute, you may want to check out what Sean McGinity has been up to.

Hopefully by the end of tonight, or sometime tomorrow, I'll have a series of Frank sketches that stretch from around three years ago right up until the site started up.  They're in a similar vein as the ones you saw with the "Evolution of Noname" write up I did a couple months ago (which you can still find in the "Meet the Geeks" section).

Just about to post the new / old strip.