boozeathon4billion

Two years ago today I started posting comics under the moniker boozeathon4billion. Back then it was a simple comicgenesis site with a single-frame, gag-a-day style comic that updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. They weren’t even colored, just black and white. It was a simpler time… and for those of you wondering why the comic says 2007-2009 and has a higher # on the top of each comic than there are on this site, this blog is what you’ve been looking for…

It all started as a way to use the weird and unpublishable ideas I had for comics while putting off the ones I was doing for my school’s weekly newspaper (it was a small college). Every Thursday night I had to turn in a comic, something fairly small and simple, for the school paper to put in their Friday paper. I would usually start working on it the day it was due, if not as late as within a few hours of when it was due to go out to print… but I would be looking for material all week. The one catch was that it had to be related to the school, so, of course, the best ideas I had each week had nothing to do with the school (or at least nothing that was publishable). My friends at the time enjoyed the off-topic ones I’d done while procrastinating and so I thought, “why not try the wonderful world of webcomics again?” And from December 24th, 2007 until September 1st, 2008, I used the comicgenesis site and simple, gag-a-day format to pump out regular comics.

Those comics aren’t hosted here because, in September 2008, I moved to the story/character based comic style you see now and even wandered on over to my own server so I could use WordPress/ComicPress and have full domain integration… but I’ve been working on the old site some, to make it into an archive of that 9 month period I like to refer to as B4B’s incubation period (and what would end up being the true pre-cursor to Gleeful Nihilism). It’s not fully revamped yet, but it’s at least navigatable again… so feel free to check it out at the above “comicgenesis site” links in this blog… or via the link below:

http://boozeathon4billion.comicgenesis.com

And, as always, thanks for reading!