Since my roles as opinions editor, back page editor, technical guru, and comic designer for the West Jordan High School JagWire have now ceased, I sometimes find myself wishing I could draw a few comics again of my beloved and favored monkees: Eedie and Roobix. I’ve been kicking a few ideas around in my head about them, and am now going to put them out on paper (or… web page, as it were).
They are well-beloved to me and at least to a few who know them or who have read the comics. I’ve been thinking of taking up writing a comic here and there again– advancing their adventures into a more idiosyncratic, funny, sometimes soul-searching, and ultimately more exciting world than that of the United States Presidency. Indeed, in the last episode of “Eedie of Aberswyth” that appeared in the WJHS JagWire, Roobix forsakes the presidency, leaves his hat and the White House behind, and both Eedie and he make their sudden and much-desired way back home to Aberswyth– a better and quieter place. Perhaps I could begin a new season of Eedie of Aberswyth in which they come home to find Aberswyth altered somehow… at any rate, I’ve created Fascistbook pages for both Eedie and Roobix. I believe I may try to promote the comics on those pages as well as on IPF² (I’ve also been kicking around the idea of a separate writing page) by uploading the comics to both pages. Ah! Another idea has come to mind, not specifically for Eedie of Aberswyth but about IPF². As mentioned earlier, I intend to find a few more authors to write content for IPF², meaning that this blog will slowly transition from a personal one to a more corporate one (while still maintaining a personality and uniqueness about it). When this happens, I believe I’ll make a Fascistbook fan page for it as well as a Twitter feed that will automatically post updates. Sadly enough, Twitter and Fascistbook are both becoming very handy free (sometimes paid depending on the services) tools for promoting businesses and such.
As IPF² becomes less and less a personal blog and more and more a sort of area where authors who love to write about any subject at all can share thoughts and ideas to a growing community (it’s still relatively small– I’d guess no more than 10-20 people read IPF² regularly or even just from time to time; the bulk of page views comes from people who are searching that stumble across it and the nigh-on 200 people coming to download WJHS music) and where a community who subscribe to and are interested in this variety of writing, thoughts, and ideas that IPF² will present (say all that in one breath!), I will need to alter a few of my traditions. First of all, I’m planning to write true personal posts at a new blog– The New H (the idea for the name comes from the title of a story about Wishbone I made when I was probably five or six on my old Macintosh Plus). Of course, the time to migrate isn’t just yet, so any truly personal posts (more about myself or people I know and not primarily meant for a wider audience) will still be written here. Also, once (and if) I can get a few new authors and a larger audience, I intend to move IPF² from this subdomain (ipfsquared.wordpress.com) to my own personally hosted domain (ipfcubed.com or .org) where I can still use the WordPress system (it’s downloadable for free) but tweak it and add some extra features (there are literally hundreds if not thousands of WordPress plug-ins). I may implement advertisments on this new site to pay for the hosting and to pay the authors, though I’d prefer to simply have a PayPal donate button as I hate mixing advertisements and beautiful writing. I’m rather excited about this venture, and, if I decide to implement advertisements, it could be slightly lucrative (depending on how big of an audience we get, which won’t be quite so much for a long while). We could also sell mugs, t-shirts, and other whatnots and thingomabobs. I’m liking this idea more and more as I think about it. Prospective writers about any subject: if you like to write about one thing or a variety of things and would like to volunteer with a chance of one day being able to make moneys but at least will be able to get some writing out there into a wider audience and get their names known, please contact me.
I’ll be posting advertisements on Craig’s List soon, I think, and I’m looking into domains and hosting options as I write. The actual website, though, most likely won’t be up for another four or five months to two and a half years (I would prefer to be home to manage the site, but I may be able to entrust its management to someone for two years).
This is going to be quite exciting.
Bah. I have too many projects. I need to work harder on Winter Eternal, not to mention I have two reviews to finish for OSNews that are just rotting away on my netbook.
