For those who feel the need to complain with the frequency of updates – join the eff’ing RSS feed and then you wont have the ‘hassle’ of having to type in the address to actually go to the site to see if something has been uploaded – it might make your obviously busy and important lives a bit easier. After all you do seem to have ‘too much other crap’ going on.

As for the guest comics, I think its great to see the different styles and methods that other people have. If every single graphic novelist/comic writer had the same style, then the world of web comics and the likes would be a very dull place indeed! I enjoyed the submission from the Blue Jester and I enjoy the submissions from the guys at BNS.

As for Tony G – I wait with baited breath to see your attempt at a guest strip as you obviously have the calibre and talent to offer advice to fledgling artists on how to sketch and where to advertise their work not to mention the expert advice given to professional artists on how to run their site.

Guys as BNS – Keep up the very entertaining good work. See you when you get back from Europe!

Sure thing. It was this one here: http://www.uglyhill.com/d/20080405.html

Greatest webcomic ever? Hardly. Fun lark, though.

I don’t think Ramon (sorry that I can’t throw a squiggly over the o in your name, I don’t know the alt-code) wants to throw in the hat, but I also agree with the people complaining because well, sometimes you come to a great website and have to deal with the guest comic posted above.

Blue Jester, sorry, but I’m gonna have to pull a Kanye West on you. While I’m happy that you got a guest comic posted on Butternutsquash, it really isn’t appropriate for a comic website of this quality. I want to encourage you to continue working on the comic craft (I need more comics to read), but I think there are better venues for you to advertise your work until you become better skilled.

I don’t have a webcomic. It’s not that I couldn’t…I’m a graphic artist, a stand-up comic and a professional copywriter at my day job. Plus, Paul Southworth published one of my guest strips once, so I know I’ve got the goods (and yes, it was a regular strip on his main page during a rare scheduled guest week when his wife was giving birth).

But I don’t have one. Why? Because I have too much other crap going on, and I know that if I started one, it’d go for week or months without updates…Kinda like BNS. And I’m not interested in disappointing people that much.

So, better not to start one in the first place than start one, build up solid characters and a good storyline, get a following, and then just say “screw it” and blow it off backpacking across Europe for a few months. If you can log in to make excuses for why there’s no strip, you can upload a strip. If not, then put it out of its misery, and hang it the hell up already.

@ Myraani – “They’re not obligated to not have a life so you can enjoy their work.”

Right you are. However, there is a happy medium. And I DO expect that dropping by once every month or so to check up on what’s supposed to be a “weekly” strip will yield fresh content on occasion. But I just went back and counted. Do you know how many original, in-continuity strips have appeared on BNS in the last year? Seven. That’s right…SEVEN. Dismal. And yet, the masthead still says “Wednesdays.” Give me a goddamned break.

If you wanna go ahead and defend an output schedule like that, fine. But it’s indefensible. To take a hiatus that’s nearly a year long, then come back and post six strips (three of them with major corners cut on the art) before taking off again? Then slapping up the occasional half-assed guest comic? I’m sorry. These guys are LUCKY they have day jobs. For chrissakes, some people put up DAILIES, and still manage to go to work. I don’t do it because I know I wouldn’t be able to keep up even a WEEKLY schedule. These guys are averaging one strip every two months, and it’s STILL too much?

Time to take BNS out behind the shed and do what needs to be done, already. Better that than this zombie of a strip, shambling around refusing to admit that it’s dead.

Really? What’s your webcomic and we can all start the RSS feeds and complain when it doesn’t get updated when we want to. We are the Fans, that’s all, BNS can take us or leave us. And if you followed the other blogs of Ramon you realise the dude has a…oh what’s the thing…brings in money, helps pay the bills…a real job.

@Myraani

Well said and seconded.

And you my friend have to realize that webcomic artists do this in their free time for little to no profit, so if life comes at them, so be it. They’re not obligated to not have a life so you can enjoy their work.

@Ramon I hope you enjoyed what few people ever get to do in life and know that I am entirely jealous ^^