Huh, you addressed the fall of Beatnik Vampire from characterization of cool’s ideal to pasty lame-ass without us having to complain for an explanation.
Now, can you bring him back to former glory, or is cool really dead along with my childhood?
It would have been interesting if this cartoon had addressed Art Shift… drawing the characters as they used to be. But I see Cat has glasses instead of goggles and Girl has antenae hair. Using the original art style would have addressed the wrong kind of meta, I guess.
My web project is produced by various stages of me. New pages are made by my present self who is indulging in personal amusement and self-expression. Later on, like an echo, various future versions of myself will revisit the same page, keeping the intention essentially the same but revising certain things for the benefit of other people. Having a half-page picture of Megatron on page four isn’t as clever as I had thought at the time.
It’s the same kind of thing that’s going on here, but I won’t create any paradoxes if I change things.
I really like Catandgirl! The best part is that while I have something to say about just about everything, I am frequently speechless about the Cat And Girl Cartoons. Really, no BS. You got it.
The most frightening thing about the current electronic nature of our correspondence and creations isn’t the loss of control once it gets on the Internet, but the infinite capability for revision. Now, we can do more than just misremember every old item to coincide with our current self image. We can reengineer it all to fit with the us we wish we were to begin with.
What we did then was good enough for the us then. But who we were then isn’t good enough today. Erasing any proof of who we used to be is now a real capability. The unbearable lightness of being someone else.
February 24, 2011
Vampires are cool again, no?
*burns Twilight for warmth*
February 24, 2011
Huh, you addressed the fall of Beatnik Vampire from characterization of cool’s ideal to pasty lame-ass without us having to complain for an explanation.
Now, can you bring him back to former glory, or is cool really dead along with my childhood?
February 24, 2011
My flock of Seagulls T-shirt is not aging well
February 24, 2011
looking kind of like the count there
February 24, 2011
Only Vampire has changed. And Cat’s started drinking instead of smoking…
February 24, 2011
Wait, so…the one that ages is the *vampire*?? ;-)
February 25, 2011
It would have been interesting if this cartoon had addressed Art Shift… drawing the characters as they used to be. But I see Cat has glasses instead of goggles and Girl has antenae hair. Using the original art style would have addressed the wrong kind of meta, I guess.
My web project is produced by various stages of me. New pages are made by my present self who is indulging in personal amusement and self-expression. Later on, like an echo, various future versions of myself will revisit the same page, keeping the intention essentially the same but revising certain things for the benefit of other people. Having a half-page picture of Megatron on page four isn’t as clever as I had thought at the time.
It’s the same kind of thing that’s going on here, but I won’t create any paradoxes if I change things.
February 25, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (observed) GIRL!!!
http://catandgirl.com/?p=1379
And many happy returns (observed)!
Hugs and kisses (observed), Jacob
February 25, 2011
shame is filling your liquor bottles with paint
February 26, 2011
I really like Catandgirl! The best part is that while I have something to say about just about everything, I am frequently speechless about the Cat And Girl Cartoons. Really, no BS. You got it.
February 27, 2011
I always felt like the years had been tough to beatnik vampire over the course of this comic. And now I see the poor guy can’t even face his past.
February 27, 2011
If Vampire’s past is his enemy, he chose to face it, and not wait until it seeks him out. Good, good… Also, I do miss my parka.
February 27, 2011
The most frightening thing about the current electronic nature of our correspondence and creations isn’t the loss of control once it gets on the Internet, but the infinite capability for revision. Now, we can do more than just misremember every old item to coincide with our current self image. We can reengineer it all to fit with the us we wish we were to begin with.
What we did then was good enough for the us then. But who we were then isn’t good enough today. Erasing any proof of who we used to be is now a real capability. The unbearable lightness of being someone else.