Chippy and Loopus!!!

Blog Closing..Everything must go....to the new site!!!!

Hey folks!

  I will be shutting down this blog and the old Phloo! blog very soon. Why? Well, I have the new site up and running like gangbusters thanks to Nicolette, and this blog actually costs me money. So..down it goes!!! Please visit the new site, as 99% of the content of this site is already there, as well as most of the content of the Phloo blog. Thanks so much for your patronage. See you there!

Chippy and Loopus.com

-John 

Yes!! It is LIVE!

Go to ChippyandLoopus.com. There is a new strip there waiting for you. There will be another on wednesday. I will continue to make modifications and tweaks, but for all intents and purposes, Chippy and Loopus now have a new home! Thanks to everyone who stuck with it while we were here! I will leave this blog up for a while...I may even keep it. Who knows? I haven't quite figured out how to do everything over at the new site, but I'm learning fast. 

  Thanks all! 

 See you over there!

   http://www.chippyandloopus.com/

        -John

It's Happening!!! ChippyandLoopus.com is a go!!!

It's ugly, and there are still a few bugs to worked out, but as of today, I have imported all the strips from the old Phloo! blog and all the strips from this blog INCLUDING comments to ChippyandLoopus.com!!!

 Now, the site is not much to look at, but don't blame Nicolette, blame me. There is a very good explanation for not only this, but my absence for the past few months.

  Back in October, Nicolette was working on the site like crazy. Slowly but surely, I was sending her artwork to be included in the site. Then, work got outrageously busy, AND the house I've been trying to sell for the past 10 months ACTUALLY sold...for about $60,000 less than I owe on it. This means we had to go into a short sale. I will not bore you with any further details. If you want to know what a short sale is, look it up. They are happening all over this great nation of ours due to the fact that the economy is in the toilet (Thanks GW!! Don't let the door hit you in the ass!) Anyway, I stopped working on the strip AND the site, and when I started again, I couldn't get a hold of Nicolette. She's probably angry, and rightfully so, and has most likely moved on to other projects. If you are reading this, I am deeply sorry, Nic. Shoot me an e-mail if you wish! I'd love to hear from you.

 Anyhow, I've decided to get the strip going and the site up no matter what, and with the help of some online tutorials and some nice tech support people, the site actually works...kinda. You will notice that a few of the strips are cut off. In order to see them in their entirety, just click on them and they will appear in a pop-up window all nice and pretty. 

 New strips will appear soon, as well as a brand spanking new Banner!!!

In the meantime, I took some pictures of my desk with a bunch of the new strips piled on it, as well as a few process shots. Hope you like them.

    See you soon! 

  Go check out ChippyandLoopus.com!!! Click through the archives! It's fun!

    -John

New Episode: Meanwhile; back in the present...

Hey all!! Work on the new site continues. Nicolette is really out doing herself. As I said before, I will make a big announcement when it's up.

New Episode!: The men in my little girl's life...

Hey all! Sorry yet again for all the delays, but work has been busy. I gotta say though, I do love it here. I love Southern California and I love the new project I'm working on. This is truly, the most fun I've ever had in my entire career. Hopefully, that fun will translate to the screen.
In other news, Nicolette is working busily on the new site and hopes to have it up within the next two weeks. Once the site is up, I'm going to be working hard to post more often.  This may mean I may have to go back to a faster method of working. I might have to eschew the brush and ink for the speediness of the brush pens again, not to mention drawing a bit smaller. Right now, I'm drawing the strip at roughly the size that Charles Schulz drew Peanuts, about 5"x25". It's easier to ink with a brush at that size, but it involves more pencil mileage. I'll post more on this later, as I'm probably boring the shit out of everyone but the process junkies.
 I do have a plug: The new Metallica album Death Magnetic is AWESOME!!!!!!
If you are a fan, go buy it!!!! NOW!!!!  My favorite cuts are "The End of the Line," "The End that never comes" and "This was your Life". These songs make me want to drive fast and break things. More importantly, they make me miss playing bass with "Plot Device".
   Gotta go! I'll let you know when the new site is up!
   -John

New Episode!!!: Requiem for a Peeler

new episode- a dark, and terrible future...

Yes, I'm still here...and other news

Hey all!
Just wanted to write a quick post to let you all know that I'm still here and will be posting new episodes starting next week. I also wanted to let everyone know that although I don't have a table or a book, I will be at the San Diego Comic Con on Saturday to circulate and pass out flyers promoting the strip and the upcoming new site. I have a lot of other things I'd like to talk about, like work, the new(old) house, some great comics I picked up recently ad well as some cool new friends, but I'll save that for future posts. Stay tuned for further updates on the new site. I'll let you know when I make the jump.
-Thanks!
John

Progess....kind of...

Hey everybody! I am writing this as I watch the movers load the second batch of stuff out of my Walnut Creek house so that it can be taken back to Burbank. Last night, I worked on the new site for a whopping 15 minutes before collapsing in an exausted heap at the foot of my bed. I still have no idea how to change the colors on the site, or add a custom banner, or anything. Tyler Martin, if you are out there, please write me back, as I need HELP! This web design crap is hard and there is nothing easy about ComicPress. If only TypePad would make a more Webcomic friendly template.... Oh well. If any one else out there can help me, lemme know! In more strip related news,

Changes! Changes! And a question for you, The READER!!!

Hey all!
I am alive and I am well! I had to take an unplanned hiatus from the strip due to some unexpected changes in my professional life. It seems that my time at Pixar must soon come to an end. Without getting into too much detail, it is an amicable parting but it became quite clear in the past year that Pixar wasn't quite the place for me. So...Sara and I will be returning to Burbank, as our house there never sold and is there, happily waiting for us to return. To tell you the truth, we never quite adjusted to the Bay area and missed LA terribly. What can I say? We love the sun, the beach, the awesome movie theaters, and all the great restaraunts in Korea Town.
Now, some of you are thinking "Oh great, now we get another 4 or 5 months of bellyaching about unemployment". Not so!!! I already have a brand spanking new job waiting for me with lots of old freinds at Dreamworks. I can't talk about it now, but I assure you, it's a great project. The next few movies out of Dreamworks are going to be pretty spectacular. You'll see what I mean when "Kung Fu Panda" comes out.

Once I get settled in LA, I am going to launch the all new Chippy and Loopus site, and begin posting once or twice a week, and then ramp up to posting 3 times aweek.
Now, the question. Due to work, home and a thousand other pressures, my posting schedule has been erratic at best for the last year and a half. It has been damned near impossible to maintain a narrative thread. The original intentions for the current story are lost somewhere in my subconcious, and frankly, I woudn't be surprised if you all felt the same way. The way I see it, I have 2 options: One; dig deep, roll up my sleeves and write my way out of this corner I've painted myself into and drag all of you along for the ride OR
bow out of the current story and start over fresh when I launch the new site. What I would do is consider the old 2x8s a dress rehearsal, and start over, re-drawing the strips that work, and working new material in whenever and wherever I can, eventually working up to the time travel story. The downside of this is that many of you will be saying "haven't I read this before"? However, the upside is that it will be easier to get new readers on board with the shorter stories and bits I did in the beginning. After all, this is the reason for the site redesign: to make it easier for new readers to jump in
What do you all think?
Thank you for your continueing patience!
-John