Affairs of the Heart....

Hello Cheese Curds!

I think the lesson fug is about to learn here is to NEVER meddle in your mom's AFFAIRS.....
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Regards,
David Jones
Creator of Just Say Cheese

Fug Goes Viral

Fug loves tinkering around in cyber space.  One night while watching reruns of Star Trek, Fug watched a commercial for a dating service, 1 800 HotGals, and decided he could create his very own dating service for the town of Okrapolis.

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Thanks again for all the support.  To see the next strip, go to the cartoonist studio and vote.  Vote up to 4 times a day!!!  Registration is easy.

Regards,
David Jones
Creator of Just Say Cheese

Cheese Being Served at Comic Con!!!

Okay Cheese Curds, I have some exciting news! Just Say Cheese's creator David Jones will be a guest at Austin's Comic Con in November! Dave will be drawing Cheese Doodles all day and giving them away for FREE to anyone who wants one.

ALSO, there will be a door prize at the end of each day for a FREE CHEESE SHIRT!*

If anyone wants to set up an appointment with Dave for interviews, syndication discussions, movie offers, or licensing possibilities, please contact Dave at fugcheese@earthlink.net.

The Austin Comic Con will run three days, November 11, 12, and 13, 2011, at the Austin Convention Center.

*T-Shirt sizes are not guaranteed. One shirt per day will be awarded. Winner must be present at time of drawing. Time of drawing is yet to be determined but will be posted at the show on the day of each drawing.

Update on My Characters

The stars of my comic strip are busy in and out of the padded panels of my insane world. The rock band the Okra Pods have announced that they are headed to Nashville next week to record their next studio album, Pod and Country.

Derik and Paulsey sat down with me this afternoon about this new project.

“This is going to be our first parody album containing country music,” reveals Derik Hamm. “We cut a demo of She’s a Sleep Walking Woman and our record company went nuts. They immediately got us in contact with a producer in Nashville by the name of Marty Moonshine O’Rourke. We are told he is one of the best producers in all of Tennessee!”

“The real problem now is that the record company expects us to cut an album in three weeks and we only have the one song written”, whispers Paulsey.

“I know!”, exclaims Derik. “The song is a great parody of She’s a Good Hearted Woman… but that is the only country song we really know. The record company has demanded a parody album of nothing but country songs. We are listening to every Country album we can find. We’re cramming everyone we can into our ears. We’ve listened to Johnny Cash’s catalog last night. Today we listened to a ton of Willie. Tonight we are going for some Merle… and tomorrow Waylon is on our list. We want the raw, hard country for our album.”

When more information becomes available about the new album, you will hear the details first here! Subscribe to this blog for all the latest on the Okra Pods and on my comic strip Just Say Cheese!… “She’s a sleepwalking woman perplexed ’bout her all-over tan…” This is going to be a HUGE hit!!!!

Time to Get Famous!

This is it. Nine months worth of work going out to the syndicates! At least now I know that I tried to follow my dream. If this is as far as I get to being syndicated, so be it. I will continue to just publish online if I never hear back from anyone.

I feel like my comic strip Just Say Cheese has so much to offer over other strips. There is not a lot of depth to some of the current strips. Unfortunately, space is limited and the comic strips that are being published are very good. It has been a long time coming for a strip like mine to get published. The story packs such a punch with the two kids sharing a bond because they have both lost a parent. We watch the two forget about the real world through some crazy, twisted adventures. It starts out dark, but the audience becomes too wrapped up in the mayhem to really dwell on the past.

Who knows. Maybe I’ll be surprised pretty quickly and get picked up. A total of seven syndicates are receiving submissions. Five are pictured here. Two others were sent electronically over the internet. I am very excited about my comic strip finally making it to the syndicates… but I know the chances of ever hearing back are pretty slim! The syndicates receive THOUSANDS of strip ideas per year. I’ll be lucky if I even get looked at!!!!!

Not having tried is worse than being shunned after trying.