UPDATE: I’ve also included a pricepoint where you also receive a character sketch along with your poster. If you’ve already purchased a poster and want to upgrade, let me know (wiigii at gmail) and we’ll get it figured out.
Newwwww product!
My wife and I don’t get to vacation a lot. Sure, I’m on the road all the time for conventions, but usually by myself and to always to make a living, since this webcomic is my job. So I figgered, you know what, I will make an awesome poster and put the proceeds into the Willis Vacation Fund. Best case scenario, we’d raise enough quick enough to put in for a room for the second JoCo Cruise Crazy, which Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue would reaaally like because he and his wife are going and he needs me around to help introduce him to famous people like Wil Wheaton, but rooms are dwindling, time is short, and, really, Maggie and I just need to get out there anywhere this coming spring. If we don’t JoCo, that’s regrettable, but the Getting Away is what’s really important. Actually I have just been alerted by Joel that if I don’t go to JoCo with him, I will be murdered. All right. Well, folks, that’s on you, apparently.
And so we have this awesome artwork of the denizens of Dumbing of Age cheering at one of their university’s football games! Most of everyone’s favorites are there, plus a few I wanted to make sure appeared in a poster who hadn’t yet managed, like Danny, Amber, Mike, and Ethan. (I’m not sure who my favorite character in this particular artwork is, since I have to choose between Mike’s interesting spirit-wear choice, Walky’s toplessness, and Dina’s giant foam pointer.) You can see progress shots of the artwork on my Tumblr, and the original suggestion for the theme was offered here by crazymusician320.
A zoom-in of the artwork
You can get the poster mailed to you for the fund-raising price of $20, which includes shipping within the United States, or for half that you can choose to be mailed a URL where you can download the art at desktop wallpaper size. (I’m thinking 1280px across, but if I’m wrong in that estimation, let me know. Easiest thing to accommodate.) These are signed and numbered 1 through 100! The poster will be mailed after Christmas.
Thank you for your consideration! If you want to contribute to our vacation fund, that is great. And if you don’t want to or you can’t, that is also great. I’m just happy you’re on my site reading my stuff.
(Oh, and since when I asked for poster ideas, folks kept on suggesting “beach” or “swimsuits,” I should probably mention the “Monroe Lake” poster which has been around for a while.)
(Oh oh oh, and apparently I can’t shut off postage fees for the wallpaper option, so if you’re from outside the United States, I’ll have to manually refund you that $3. Grargh.)
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why don’t you just lower the price to 7 bucks then and have the $3 as the top up?
I will have to wrap my brain around how that will affect the other options. That might cause more problems.
Seriously, could Mike get any more awesome! Time to donate to the cause…
Ordered. Do print purchasers get the wallpaper also, or is it a totally separate thing?
I could do both! Just let me know and I’ll send the URL along. (Meaning, this comment specifically directed towards you, I’m on it, Cholma. Give me a second. 😉
If enough of the poster-buyers want both, I could make it part of the deal.
It would save one the trouble of scanning in the poster…
Awesome. I already ordered the poster, but would love to have the wallpaper also.
Check your email four hours ago. 😉
Strange. I never received any email. I checked all 3 of my email addresses. Did you send it to the address on the PayPal order?
I work for the Dean’s Office at the School of Medicine, and we’re trying to figure out where we could hang this up. It’s a hit.
If we’re able to put it up, I’ll send a picture along to you.
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I think Mike should really have been wearing a Kentucky shirt in light of that amazing basket ball game this weekend. Though, I can appreciate that this was probably finished before we beat UK at the buzzer.
Except that IU and Purdue are Looooooong standing arch rivals. Central Indiana college sports fandom has been pretty evenly split right down the middle for years, at least until a couple years ago, when Butler actually started being a contender.
God help me, I’m not even a sports fan and I can’t avoid knowing about it…
Even my family is split into IU/Purdue rivalry factions.
You say “Kentucky,” I say “Kentucky who?”
I’m aware of he Purdue rivalry, but if you could have seen the mayhem after the win on Saturday, you’d understand. http://vimeo.com/33466457
Any chance you can throw a couple up on ebay for $20? I have a $25 ebay gift card I could throw at this but otherwise I’m broke til after christmas.
Heh! An interesting request, and if you’re serious, I could indeed.
Yea, I’m serious, or if it saves on fees, I could just send you the gift card instead 😀
I don’t think that eBay would approve of such a back door deal.
eBay gets its money from folks who set up auctions, not folks who spend money on auctions. What Roshan spends the gift card on is irrelevant to them. In fact, Roshan inspiring me to start an auction for the express purpose of using her gift card on it PLAYS DIRECTLY INTO THEIR HANDS. It is the eBay’s BEST POSSIBLE RESULT of someone having an eBay gift card.
And for my second point, who the fuck cares.
Would you be able to get it big enough to make it across an obtuse desktop like this? Right now I have a picture only on the centre screen from Dresden Codak.
That’s one 1600×1200 CRT (for colour/contrast) in the middle, a 1024×1280 (portrait) panel on the right, and a 768×1024 (portrait) panel on the left. All windows are full screened.
P.S. Portrait panels are kick-ass when you do a lot of PDF reading.
Or maybe at least two of them?
That’s… roughly 3400 pixels across, altogether? That’s doable. Image might be a bit too tall, though.
Your source artwork must be huge. Maybe if I can do two of them, that would be cool. Actually, even if I can get a huge image and re-size/crop it myself in PhotoShop. As you can imagine, it’s just impossible to get pictures for this setup.
Yeah, I draw at 600dpi and at actual size, so the original image is over 10,000 pixels across. I’ll upload a 3400px version for you.
I’ll send you monies on pay-day (as in, Friday). Starving student and all.
You a mac, or a PC guy? Just curiosity, really XD
PC.
Nothing beats pulling random crap out of the basement and augmenting your system. My side monitors are one my mother retired and another I got for doing some tech work.
Seems most artist-types use Mac these days. Good to see someone recognizes that PhotoShop is just as good either way XD
Back on the artwork thing, I live in British Columbia. It’s probably going to be a little cost-prohibitive to actually ship a print, eh? I’m pretty happy with the digital.
I need an adult!!!
I try to order the download only option and upon entering my country of origin, it adds shipping! My mind, it derps.
Yeah, read the last parenthetical. Because of how the store software works, I’ll have to refund you the $3 after the transaction goes through.
Will it just let me say I’m from the States, or does that bugger it up more?
Idea: maybe you can keep the 3 dollars and upload the hi-res stock of the print we discussed via email a while back.
I like this idea better, actually.
Check DevianArt!
You’re the man. Keep the change 😉
It’s SPECTACULARGE!
I thought Joel and Wil Wheaton were already buds?
THE JOKE, SIR
went right over my head and wound up somewhere in the stratosphere, apparently. I feel much shame.
Shh… Joel hasn’t figured out yet that he’s had a professional Wil Wheaton impersonator foisted off on him to keep him away from the REAL Wil Wheaton.
Mike x Ethan OTP. This poster confirms it. He could be glaring at everyone, but instead he’s looking right at Ethan. You all see it!
I think he’s still glaring from when Ethan said that he didn’t want to room with him.
I love that Dorothy and Joyce are buddies. Look at them being buddies!
It’s not a Big Ten(12) wallpaper without an African-American poorly photoshopped into the picture to try and demonstrate multiculturalism.
Geez, Willis, get with the program!
One quarter of Walky was poorly photoshopped in. (All of Sarah’s actually there.)
Does this mean a future storyline will take place at an IU/Perdue game? Or would that be too obvious after the beach poster?
I dunno, I still have to stick the “Pool” poster somewhere into continuity first. (It’s much harder now that my characters change clothes every day.)
I just can’t wait for the porn edit!!
…ah…wha…how? I mean, Rule 34 finds a way… But my brain is boiling….
Maybe I could just drive up and get it from you that way 😀
After all I AM in Cincinnati
1) Dina appears to be getting accidental second base
2) I can only assume Joe is off Joe-ing one or twelve cheerleaders. From the opposing team.
And his own team, of course. Can’t leave them out of the fun, right~?
*eyes the hands of the ladies in the front row*
Okay, Dorothy/Joyce I can see, but Billie/Dina? That’s not even an option in the poll!
I know this is just a fantasy comic strip because Indiana’s football team scored a touchdown.
IU might not win, but your comment just did. 🙂
I have no idea what you’re talking about, yet I know exactly what you’re talking about.
Wait, how did Walky manage to chest paint “IU” both backwards AND upside-down?
Backwards? Sure. Mirrors. And he’s kinda doofy. But upside-down?
Look at your own chest. Draw “IU” from your perspective.
Maybe he’s planning on doing a headstand?
…so I just saw this, noticed Billie’s arm looked like it was around Dina, and the fangirl in me went crazy. I don’t think I’ve actually had a really big ship in DoA before…but for some reason, my brain finds this a hundred percent adorable. 😐
Hmmm…. I’d be much more offended by this poster IF I wasn’t such a big fan of B.K. – and also went to I.U.N. for 3 semesters before doing another 8 wearing black and gold.
The IU/PU rivalry has always been a good one. After living in the South for a while, you’d be amazed at the number of people who can’t get passed it. You’d be even more amazed at the number of people with less than 16 total teeth will bring guns to football games to look for opposing colors in the parking lot, despite their never having finished 6th grade.
These people can’t even conceptualize a campus like IUPUI or Ft. Wayne, that share facilities, don’t over-duplicate degree programs, and make great graduate school alternatives because of the different emphases.
I never made it to a Little 500, but then, I only went to one Grand Prix… and left early! I’ll have to give this poster some thought. Perhaps with a brown marker on the hair, I can make the Purdue guy be ME!
😀
Mike’s done your mom – for a nickel.
You mean… Mike is my father?
Walky painting “IU” upside-down is priceless. 🙂
My cousin is getting us all to donate our soda cans and bottles for money so she can go on vacation too. Maybe try doing that also?
That is a great idea! …however, I haven’t bought pop in that format in a long time. Mostly I try to not buy pop at all, these days, though I’m not very successful at it.