Band Vs. Ambition

I think I’ll just let this speak for itself.

Also: I just unpacked a bunch of costume parts — who wants to come over and dress up as Sourballs with me? The best part is that most of this is coincidental stuff that I had around before I even started doing these comics.

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Oh god, please tell me there are plans in the works to make T-shirts with that image of Honey riding a rocket and the phrase “I got super electric dreams”. Pretty pretty please.

I love this comic. That middle panel is just amazing. I second that shirt-making notion!

Heh, while I was finishing up this one, I texted a friend that it might be the lewdest-subtexted BVB ever…and she reminded me of the existence of this early one.

Let’s actually talk about shirts and things, since it’s come up! I’ve been asked about this a couple of times now, and my thought is basically that there isn’t enough of an audience for this stuff right now. Contributing factor: I’m a designer, and crazy-particular about things, and I’ve worked on a few projects that had shirts, and I couldn’t stand to do this without doing it right all the way: sweet ultra-soft shirts instead of crappy coarse ones, femmy or androgynous shirt shapes instead of those horrible square-ish default ones that always seem built for large men, the inks that dye into the fabric soft instead of sitting on top like plastic, designs that have appeal even if someone has no idea what they’re affiliated with…the works. (Note: I have never gotten my way with all these things in any shirt-design project, which is part of why I’d be hell-bent on it if I did one all my own). So, doing it properly is a (worthwhile) investment, it only starts getting affordable in larger quantities, and there’d have to be enough demand to make it worth doing. Also: side notes: It’s occurred to me that if I ever DID make shirts, the natural thing to do for this World Of Bands might be like rad faux in-universe band shirts, like you bought it at a gig. I was also toying with the idea of doing something smaller, like stickers…I feel like the whole kitschy ultra-feminine aesthetic of these comics is a good mesh with stickering up one’s binder/locker/notes-passed-to-one’s-secret-crush.

also, additional note: re: not enough of an audience….this is essentially a thing I’ve not been doing much about and not sweating…like, the odd thing here and there, but one of my weaknesses is that I am NOT a marketer, and shilling my stuff makes me feel some combination of gross and anxious. I’ve just been concentrating on enjoying making comics, because honestly, I’ve never had a project that I straight-up enjoy so genuinely.

And now I’ve written like a novel’s worth of text in response to an offhand thing, and I must flee — I gotta go have cake for a best pal’s birthday!

it’s too bad that it’s so shirtable . . .

Well, don’t sweat it. Plenty of other webcomics out there who are actually shilling stuff I can buy instead. Stickers would be way neat though!

I don’t think there’s a lot in the way of subtext here… it’s pretty much just “text”. 🙂

I think it may occasionally even verge into SUPERTEXT, if such a thing can exist.

Gives new meaning to the phrase “rocket in your pocket”.

Does that phrase even HAVE an original meaning that’s not some kind of innuendo?
PS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O62jl_VehA&ob=av2e

That was an awesome song. 😀

OK on rereading the earlier Band vs Subtext, boy did I not catch everything in it the first time around. Also I’m trying to decide if I love Turpentine’s or Honey’s lip-biting face more.

I’m still sort of proud of the sheer amount of vulgarity in that one, and the range on the spectrum of subtle/blatant. That was kind of the moment that cemented the direction for these comics…like, I did the first few only thinking it would be a throwaway thing of less than 10 pages, and then it turned into my favorite project and became all centered on wholesome smuttiness and lesbian foemance.

This might be my favorite comic of the whole strip. Or possibly of all time. 😀