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November 25, 2009

New T-Shirt: Jesus Turtle Now Available!

Filed under: Donkeyshines Announcements — Tags: , — Ryan Klemek @ 3:13 pm

It took a bit longer than usual, but the Jesus Turtle is now available at the low introductory price of $16.99!

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It’s printed on super-soft Next Level Apparel shirts, which I actually like much more than any other 100% cotton tees I’ve tried. All of their styles are side-seemed and they are  roomier and less tight. Much easier to breathe, and it doesn’t cut off arm circulation like some other fashion shirts out there!

In addition to the new T-shirt, I am once again selling Holiday Cards, at a reduced price of $15.98 for a 10-pack.

Also, from now until the end of the year, you can get 40% of of EVERYTHING in the store with coupon code: donkey40. So come to Donkeyshines and do some X-mas shopping!

November 18, 2009

More Story Premises

Filed under: Story Premises — Tags: — Ryan Klemek @ 1:15 pm

I am still trying to come up with an idea for a Webcomic. This process has led me to write some more story premises:

  1. A flying saucer crashes in the jungle. All passengers are killed except one little baby alien. A tribe of gorillas adopts the little orphan, raises him and teaches him the ways of the forest. The gorillas grow super intelligent from the crashed ship’s radiation, and the alien becomes like Tarzan.
  2. After arriving home following a particularly brutal loss, an aging prize fighter finds a mysterious package on his doorstep. Inside the package is a pair of old, dirty boxing gloves. Having lost his own gloves due to his ever increasing absent-mindedness, he begins using the strange gift during his training sessions. As time passes, he finds his reflexes improve, as well as all of his cognitive faculties. He correctly assumes the gloves are magic, yet sees no reason to question where they came from or how they became so magic. He is happy with the results, except for one unfortunate side effect: He grows six huge, female breasts. This is a trade-off he’s willing to live with, but will his new sensitive and inconveniently located body parts prove to be a disadvantage in the ring?
  3. When an undercover cop with a severe lemon allergy starts working in a Sprite bottling plant, he uncovers a shocking secret. There is no real lemon flavor in Sprite! This knowledge forces him to make a difficult decision. Should he risk blowing his cover to expose the lie, or does he allow the company to continue deceiving it’s billions of customers? Also, the floor manager of the factory is an evil lizard-man.
  4. A middle-aged married couple decides to spice up their sex life by having a threesome with an Internet stranger. Awkwardness abounds when the person who answers the ad turns out to be the priest from their church who married them. He shows up wearing a ski mask and tries to disguise his voice, but the couple recognizes him immediately. In order to avoid humiliating him, the couple decides to pretend they don’t know him and they all go ahead with threesome. Well, it turns out that the whole thing was a sting operation! The priest secretly recorded everything and plays the tape to the entire congregation at the next mass! Somehow, the church members don’t realize that the masked man is the priest, but they demand severe punishment for the deviant couple. The church mob eventually chases the couple out of town with pitch forks and torches. However, the couple gets revenge by borrowing a monster truck from a neighboring town and drives it right through the church. They run over the priest, but because he’s made of rubber, he’s totally fine. However, being run over by a monster truck was just the wake-up call he needed to see the error of his ways. He apologizes to the couple and explains the whole story to the rest of the church. He then declares that, from hence forth, November 11 with be known as Threesome Day. Every year on this date, all church members are encouraged to drive monster trucks through their living rooms. Ironically, instead of doing that, most church members just have threesomes on that day.
  5. A magician’s beautiful assistant and his rabbit are tired of playing supporting rolls in his act. When they decide to set out on their own, the magician falls into a deep depression. He begins to drink heavily and his work suffers. One morning after a show, he’s found dead in his motel room. Police say it was suicide but the former assistant and the rabbit aren’t convinced. As they attempt to solve the case, they learn strange secrets about their former employer’s past. Like, for instance, he liked to suspend 5lb weights from his balls.
  6. Everyone thinks this one minotaur is a douche because he dresses like a hipster, but he’s actually pretty cool and down to earth. The slightly pudgy, but cute art chick should totally try talking to him. Maybe she could invite him to her opening reception, because he totally likes art. First, though, she must overcome her extreme shyness, and also her fear of bulls. Her father, a matador, was killed during a show, after some jokester secretly replaced his sword with a floppy rubber one.

I guess a few of these are so long that they actually becomes stories, not just premises…There will be more some time soon.

November 11, 2009

So I’m Planning to Start a Webcomic

Filed under: Artwork,Donkeyshines Announcements — Tags: — Ryan Klemek @ 1:40 pm

It’s kind of strange that I haven’t done this yet. As a kid, I loved comic books, and really wanted to be a comic book artist when I grew up. I made up all sorts of superheros that were rip-offs of my favorite Marvel characters.  Superheroes were how I first got interested in drawing the human figure. Yet at some point between junior high school and now, I stopped collecting, reading and drawing comics. I never lost my appreciation for them, but chose to consume them in their feature film format. I think I would have still considered making my own stories, but the idea was daunting. Since I stopped reading them, I lost touch with the current comic art styles, and forgot how the rhythm of graphic story telling worked. My own painting and drawing styles didn’t seem practical for sequential art, and I figured it would take me a month to do each panel in that way.  Also, I never liked prospective drawing, so drawing exteriors and material environments for my characters seemed tedious and unenjoyable. Plus it didn’t seem realistic that I could pitch a graphic novel idea and get someone to publish it. But recently, I discovered Webcomics. Obviously, these aren’t new, but I was always prejudiced against them. I moronically thought that any comic worth reading would be in print format, and that digital publication was for amateurs. Now I realize that nothing could be further from the truth. The freedom that comes with self-publishing on the internet means artists are limited only by their imaginations (and not by this cliche I used to describe it). And since opening my mind, I’ve discovered comics that are way more wacky and original than anything I’ve ever seen printed on paper. One pleasant surprise was the huge number of different art styles out there. I was especially happy to see that some artists totally get away with fudging perspective lines when drawing backgrounds! They don’t even use rulers sometimes. Most webcomics are much more raw and unpolished than printed ones, partially because web artists have to do everything themselves, and often churn out multiple finished pages in a week. I’m still not sure if I can work as fast as these other artists, and I’m not even sure what style I will adopt to tell my story. Come to think of it, I don’t even know what my story is going to be just yet. Or even what kind of story. Oh, and then I gotta build another website. And then I gotta maintain that website. And find a way to get people to it. And find a way to make them keep coming back! I guess I have a lot of work to do…

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