Posted: Friday, December 7th 2007

Being "the guy that does GU" isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Private matters of my friends, family, and loved ones occassionally come under scrutiny, even though they have nothing to do with me or the comic. And even the fact that I've been divorced comes back to haunt me through the bitter typing of people who never bothered to get my side of the story. Not that I would have told them anything anyway, but still making an effort is making an effort.

People like to try to garner attention for themselves by clinging tightly to the back of someone who has made more of a splash in the world. What gets me is that I haven't made much of a splash. GU is barely more than a sub-ripple of something much larger. Yet here I am being reminded near daily that I exist in the public eye and will probably never be able to get out of it. I mean, I'd say that if I stopped producing GU maybe I'd get my privacy back; but, I doubt it. Bitter people are always bitter and they seem incapable of letting go.

The only other option would be to offer up my coat tails and invite the hangers on to continue hanging on. Why shouldn't they get a little excitement out of life by slinging mud from my shadows? Well, kharma for one... if you believe in it. One day I hope to achieve some semblance of normalcy. Where the things I am not uniquely responsible for do not get tossed back at me. Or, at the very least, those things that do not pertain to GU are not ignorantly associated with GU. Ultimately though, I understand that's asking too much.

My advice to you few who are reading this though is avoid living any part of your life publicly. Protect your privacy. And I guess never get divorced and/or let any one around you get in any kind of trouble. It's just not worth the annoyance or pettiness. And for those of you who try to capitalize on your knowledge of someone else I hope someday your own private issues aren't tossed back into your face publicly. Because, I wouldn't wish that on you.

Submitted by Woody | 25 Comments - last comment by: FuzzyBear

Posted: Tuesday, December 4th 2007

As many of you know, I proudly use the Wacom Cintiq 21UX to produce GU and make every endeavor to spead the Wacom gospel any chance I get. It there was any kind of problem I could associated with the Cintiq it was that it was TOO big to take with me to conventions, etc. Not to mention I was scarred the baggage handlers would accidentally break it.

Well, today I got an email from Wacom telling me about a new product: the Cintiq 12WX. It's a 12.1" TFT, 16:10 wide-format, display that weighs just four and half pounds. Like with the 21UX you work directly on the screen with your stylus. But, unlike the Wacom, you could comfortably put this one in your lap.

I haven't been this excited about a piece of hardware since I first doodled on a Cintiq at the Sigil offices. Now all I have to do is figure out how to afford the $1000 pricetag. Like I said, I call it Lust. If it was inexpensive I would have just called it Oooooooo, wrote a check, and that would be that.

Submitted by Woody | 3 Comments - last comment by: necromancer90