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9-29-01 (3:39pm) I'm too swanky looking today for my own good. Yesterday, I went to see "Zoolander" with Amy. Later on, I got to see a full episode of "Invader Zim"! Yay! Wednesday is the big release date of all the new books. Chauncey #4 + #5 and Dirty Josh Chronicles #3 will definitely be out. If all goes well, I might have a few new books as well. That's it for now. Skadios. -josh! 9-26-01 (3:46pm) I'm back to give you more nonsense you can't honestly use. Lawrence Arms is playing in Detroit on my birthday. I wish I could be there. I'm going to be 20 on the 13th. Hoorah for me! Then, they're playing the 19th with Honor System and Leftover Crack! Why can't I be in Nebraska when that happens? What a show that's going to be! LA signed to Fat Wreck Chords. That kinda stinks because Fat Wreck's roster is comprised mostly of shit but I love Lawrence Arms still the same. Nick and Jeff are moving down here and are staying with me for a bit. They'll be here on Friday. I'm at 88 books now. My plans for the next couple months are as follows: Dirty Josh Chronicles #4 and #5, Stick-People Scum-Bags #6 + #7, Chauncey #6 + #7, Josh Sullivan Adventures #19 + #20, Mini-Comic #32 + #33, and (Not So) #13 + #14. That'll bring me up to 100 books. I'm then going to make the special 5 year anniversary poster to give out to all the fans; all 3 of you. After that, who knows? I'm going to be working towards more of a professional look for the books and staying on track with art jobs. We'll have to see what happens. I love you. -josh! 9-24-01 (11:10pm) Another new pic is up on the Art for Sale page. I suck at writing something of worth lately. I have nothing to say. I'm a drawing fool. -josh! 9-23-01 (9:42pm) A couple new comics are up that were in DJC #2. Issue #3 is almost complete. -josh! 9-22-01 (6:19pm) There's now bigger scans of the new art on the For Sale page. Check them out. I'm gone. -josh! 9-20-01 (10:14pm)  9-19-01 (1:44am) It's the same old thing here in Joshville. How is everyone? Sign the gbook or e-mail me. I'd love to hear from you. -josh! 9-18-01 (1:11am) Chauncey #5 is now done. I went down to The Globe to work on it. It's either my 87th or 88th book. I'm not sure. I have a good feeling about getting to 100 by December. Bling! Bling! -josh! 9-17-01 (4:57pm) "Too Ugly For the Prom" sold! Yay! Buy some stuff off the Art for Sale and support the printing costs of Dirty Josh Chronicles since it is a free 'zine. I have a lot of issue #3 done. I'm not mailing any out this time unless I get a special request for one. I save postage that way. I got so much stuff in the mail from Asian Man Records just now. I love them. I got four shirts, ten CDs, four records, and some other stuff. The Globe is almost ready to open. It's at 6 tonight. Go there. I'll be there. Bye bye. -josh! 9-16-01 (part 2) (10:52pm) I forgot to put that I went to IHOP with Mitchell and Eric this morning. They make me laugh so much. Mitchell kept getting his order fucked up. I have a damn headache again. I've been going through and organizing all my original art, which includes the comic art and flyers. Send me an e-mail ( sullivanjosh@hotmail.com ). I'll send you one back. -josh! 9-16-01 (1:23pm) Last night, I departed my boring self to venture out into the world to see Fang-Shooey play. It was really good and they played for about 2 hours. Before that, Lauren and I hung out at my place but it turned into the usual "Can I use your computer?". I acted really different around her. I hadn't seen her in 4 or 5 days and I just seemed pretty happy to be doing my own thing. I always sulk and become depressed around her. Later, she called and left a message wanting to know if I wanted to go to party. I hate parties and she knows that. I'm missing Detroit. I want to be there so bad. Fuck! I'm going to draw. Damn the Daily Words! -josh! 9-15-01 (2:43am) It took me awhile but I have a new Chauncey animation up. It's not the one I've been working on. This one is better. -josh! 9-14-01 (9:18pm) There's a lot of little junk from the storm laying around. I slept through a lot of it. Thunder woke me up early this morning but I went back to bed. I liked riding my bike around in the rain and the wind but Tropical Storm Gabrielle wasn't much. There's not many people outside. Hoo-rah! -josh! 9-13-01 (part 2) (5:27pm) I'm sooooo glad I just bought a bunch of food. JoEllen took me to the grocery store (Thank You!) after I painted some more of The Globe. It's raining like crazy now. That storm is expected to head our way now. We have a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch because it might be a hurricane by the time it hits us. They said it could be as little as 24 hours. I don't want to evacuate. I love 5-6 blocks from Tampa Bay. The waves were getting bigger. I noticed it getting more windy last night because it's never real windy here. I might head over to the water in a few. I'll wear my awesome pancho that makes me look like Batman. I love you. -josh! 9-13-01 (1:10am) I stayed off the computer all day so I could get any phone calls from anyone. I heard from JoEllen who kept telling me to come in to work later and later and then nothing. I'm a little scared about that. I got the odd phone call from Ken who was frantic in telling me that he's going to start paying me money back. I hope he's being truthful. I'm having a hard time trying to get more saved up ever since the comic con trip took most of my money. I was just not in the mood to be doing anything today. I think I fell asleep about 5 or 6 times during the day and now I'm still exhausted. I've been going for about 2 hour blocks before I tire out. I hope nothing is wrong with me. I don't have a huge variety of food in my apt. I keep eating cereal and ice cream. I need to force myself to go get groceries tomorrow. There's a storm coming our way it looks like. It might even be a hurricane if not a tropical storm. This was around the same time last year that Hurricane Gordon skirted us. It's just way too quiet in this world. I have one more month of being a teen. I'll be 20 on October 13th. -josh! 9-11-01 (part 2) (10:54pm) I wasn't going to write anything but I just read some stuff on Emily's site and decided to. I woke up and found out about all the events that went on with the terrorism. I freaked out because I hadn't heard from my boss who came back from Los Angeles last night and I called her cell phone a couple times but there was no answer. She then called me soon after. I was glued to the TV and I was watching the Spanish channel and they were showing people jumping off the World Trade Center which made me feel queasy. I left to go get the new Leftover Crack album and the new They Might Be Giants album because I had been waiting for them for so long. I ran into Jessica and it was really quiet out here in St. Pete. They closed all the colleges and malls and MacDill Air Force Base became a topic of interest to all of us because of it being pretty close by. Everyone was acting nicer and it just kept feeling eerie. I got home and just stayed hooked on the TV. I drew a little but this was too big. I just now got it in my head that I'd never want to be drafted into any kind of war. I hope that doesn't happen. I talked to my mom and my sister. My dad was scared because he thought I was in NYC. My mom said gas shot up from $1.59 to about $1.90 and then she said it was to go to $3.00 a gallon. This is weird news because I haven't heard any of this down here. There's a new Tropical Depression 8 that might head our way. Bye bye everyone. 9-11-01 (12:59am) This just in; Josh Comics are now good for trading stuff!!! Here's from Jen: "Hi! I bought an Aquabats CD today, and in a strange and twisted way you helped me get it for $6! The place I bought it at had it for $8, but I gave them a stack of your comics to hand out and they liked them and said that since the comic was so cool that I could have the CD for 6 instead of 8! Whee! So thanks!" How cool is that?! And an Aquabats CD to boot! I love them guys. They put on the best show. I wrote about that show somewhere on the Star Booty site if you are interested in reading it. I'm chatting with Mandy and Jahsh, so hi! I drew a CD cover for the band Ballistic and all is good with it. I drew the 5 year anniversary Lou comic. It's weird and funny, I think. I'll have it all complete soon and up on here. That's it. E-mail me. I love you. -josh! 9-10-01 (3:55am) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BASTARD CHILD LOU!!! I forced myself to sleep and I'm glad I did. Usually, I'm just going to sleep around now or 5am. I'm going back to sleep but that means I'll be up nice and early to put stuff back in order at the beautifully painted El Globe. Josh Griffith wrote sort of a synopsis of my little comic history. Maybe I'll post it. It's way better than something I'd come up with. I hope writing about me won't quelch any chances he has at getting a newspaper job he definitely deserves! -josh! 9-9-01 (part 2) (11:38pm) I just found out that some of the people that are ending up at the Lawrence Arms interview page (one of the most popular pages on my site, probably due to the fact that LA is way cooler than a Dirty Josh) are doing searches on "Asian Chicago Hookers." HAW HAW HAW! This is funny because the search engine is taking some of the words out of the interview. LA is on Asian Man Records, they're from Chicago and they made a mention of hookers in the interview. -josh! 9-9-01 (11:00pm) Things are beginning to build up and are making me want to hate everything again. Earlier, some ass pulled my laundry out of the washing machine and put it in some basket even though the clothes had just finished being washed. Fuckin' impatient motherfuckers. Then, I went to put them in the dryer and the damn thing ate my money so I just let them air dry in my apt. Now, my computer chair is wet and it's making me mad. Last night I saw Leeroi play drums for the first time. Damn! He's awesome. I love Lee. If I wasn't looking for a girlfriend, I'd want him to have my butt babies. I was just at the Plea for Peace/Take Action Tour. I donated a can of beans to a food drive. I thought I wasn't going to have an ok time but I did. I hung out with my Star Booty lovers and I hung out with the fabtastic Marck Generous of Sink Hole 'Zine fame. I also ran into Cristy Road of Green 'Zine fame and who also has art appearing as the cover of Dirty Josh Chronicles #3. Mike Park played first and that was good because I was only there to see him and Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio. I ended up meeting Mike and I gave him some of my comics and he said he liked my style. Yay! Fast forward to Matt Skiba playing acoustically. He started out with "Goodbye Forever", the only Alkaline Trio song Lauren and I know how to sing together and I was tearing up a little because I think of it as our breakup song. She was at the show and she drives me bonkers but I miss her so much. Arrghhh!!! I should've just let loose and cried. I hold all my emotions in so much and when they come out it's like an explosion. Matt then played "My Friend Peter" which is another favorite Alk3 song of mine. The last song he played, he was joined by Hot Water Music (who I hate) and it still sounded good. I took off and walked back to my abode. I thought about many things. I thought about how I might want to move away or how I want to get a car for the simple reason of me driving across Florida in the middle of the night to be away from everything. I'd love to do that so much. I'm eating cheese and crackers right now. I miss Jen. I miss the old days. I'm going to begin work on the five year anniversary of Lou comic. He came into being 9-10-96! That comic paved the way for this whole mess. I don't know whether I should celebrate or strangle myself. -josh! 9-8-01 (part 2) (9:29pm) Man, the pages on my site have been viewed a total of 36,000 times now and I'm almost halfway to 25,000 hits! Yay! Thank you! -josh 9-8-01 (9:13pm) I fuckin' hate IE 6 more than I hate a lot of things right now. I just typed all this stuff on here, then everything froze. I tried to close one window and everything closed with it. Fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finished Chauncey #4 but it seemed more like a chore than fun. I hate when I get like this and I hate all my art crap. It makes me question why I'm still doing this junk. Arrghhh!!!!! Saturday night headache! Why do I get them on Saturday nights?! Is it so hard for me to go through a week without getting a damn headache? I wish the stray lizard in my kitchen wasn't scared of me. I have yet to name him. I sure hope I can get all my art stuff done that I've been putting off so I can sulk and brood alone in my apt. Hee hee. I'm still happy with mostly everything, though. I'm going to eat cheese and crackers. I still have yet to drink pop and my fingernails are looking swell. -josh! 9-7-01 (2:43pm) I had so much fun being on the radio!! I thought I'd be nervous but I wasn't. Dewey was totally awesome and it was great talking with him about the comics. I can't wait to hear it for myself to find out how bad I embarassed myself. I'm going to be DJing with him coming up on the 26th now. I'll try to throw a little ska/punk in there. That's it. The fumes are starting to get to me a little. Go see Leeroi play at The Emerald tomorrow!!! -josh! 9-6-01 (part 2) (10:29pm) Well, the second third of the Globe has been painting. You see, my work is closed for 2 weeks and I'm painting the floor and doing other stuff there. My head has been killing me from the fumes. I went with Lauren as she got another tattoo today. I still need my first one. I'm trying to break some of my habits. I've stopped chewing my fingernails, drinking pop, and I've cut back on TV. I need to get ready for tomorrow and prepare what I'm going to say on the radio. Eep! 9-6-01 (3:26am) I've spent so much time tonight going through everything of mine that wasn't in order. I now have everything taken care of such as stuff I had left to mail out and papers/ideas that were laying around. I have an immaculate apartment now. Yay! I realized I have very few art things left to do, which is another yay! I'm going to begin painting again. Most of the paintings will be for sale. Help support this mess by mailordering some junk. Jason called earlier and I talked to him for a long time. He's such a great pal. I might stay up all night. Hmmm...bye bye. -josh! 9-5-01 (1:22pm) Go to http://www.wmnf.org Friday, Sept. 7th from 11am-Noon EST to listen to me talk about the comics and other shenanigans with Dewey Davis on WMNF 88.5! Hit the "On-Air" button and I'll be on somewhere in that time. If you're in the Tampa Bay area just turn your dial to 88.5. If anyone can record it, let me know. That's all for now. 9-4-01 (part 2) (11:35pm) I think I'm finally going to get around to doing some artwork. I watched my new Little Rascals stuff all night last night and then I did some stuff at work into the evening. I'm getting lazy but I'm going to change that around. -josh! 9-4-01 (1:28am) I got kidnapped by Mitchell and I was gone forever. Somehow, a one-hour thing turned into a whole day thing with me being suckered into help move furniture. I got yelled at by some lady at Steak and Shake at about 2am. She told me to look at her when I spoke. I bought some more Little Rascals tapes today. What a find, too, because they have some of the silent ones on them. I got them at the air force base. Being on one of those is like being on a whole different world. Military time, no tax, it's nuts. -josh! 9-2-01 (part 2) (10:29pm) I forgot to put that STASH Magazine will be no more after one last special issue comes out. This is my little tribute to it. I was very happy to be given the chance to work with a great group of people and have the chance to write my very own column, which was something very important to me. I was a jerk for not getting in gear on a lot of things involving magazine work but I had fun. Thank you Steve, Dan, and everyone else with STASH for making one of my dreams come true. -josh! 9-2-01 (10:12pm) HAPPY BIRTHDAY STUART!!! I talked to him a little while ago and also with Adam. I slept awhile today after Steve came over and we played video games and talked shit about people on TV shows. I went over to Star Booty and hung out with Leeroi and Steve was there, too. I came home and started moving my art stuff into my kitchen, making it into a little studio I suppose. That's it. -josh! 9-1-01 (4:33pm) Oh man, how'd it get to be September? I'm reading some of my older words. If you want to as well, the links are at the very top of this page. I'm sort've thinking about things I want to do today. I put a bunch of little toys all around my kitchen. I can't wait until I buy an awesome house someday so I can decorate it. Sheesh, Stu-ee turns 21 tomorrow. I can't believe that! I've known him for 14 years and he's the bestest friend a baby like me can have. I'm going to see Ruckus in a bit because I'm taking care of her while Lauren went out of town. Dirty Josh Chronicles #2 is doing really good. I like how it turned out. I have 15 more books to do by the end of the year. I might post a new animation in a little bit. I love my randomness. I know Holly and Mandy do, too! I'll be back. -josh! 8-31-01 (2:16am) I'm all better now! Thank you everyone who was concerned about me being on my death bed. I'm now facing bad headaches now, though. Yeesh! I made Dirty Josh Chronicles #2 earlier today. Send me some stamps for one. I printed up Joe's 'zine today, too. It's called 5 Minutes of Glory. That's it. I'm a little tired. -josh! 8-29-01 (9:09pm) Well, I'm not getting better. I'm still pretty sick. I want to get my new books done. Arrghhhhhh! -josh! 8-28-01 (10:41pm) I'm getting better. My fever seems to have broke. Anyway, yesterday was a big day for me. I got the chance to go check out the office of the National Comedy Hall of Fame. I went in there and I was blown away at some of the awesome comedy things that were inside. There were even puppets! I met Tony Belmont, the director of this effort, and he was really nice to me. He pulled out a scrapbook of Tommy Bond's because I told him how much of a fan of Little Rascals I was. He played Butch. I was looking through the scrapbook and Tony called up Tommy! I got the chance to talk with him for a minute and I was a little freaked out by it. I was in awe. I couldn't think of anything to say. I was speechless. I saw plans for the museum when it gets open and many other things. Tony gave me some free stuff, and I gave him a comic. He really liked it. I then bought a really nice hat and the book that Tommy Bond wrote. I stayed up all last night and this morning reading the whole thing. I didn't do anything else the whole time off from work and then I went to work and was miserable. I got done with my first shift and went home. Lauren called me and wanted to know if I needed anything. I told her I was going to come over and get medicine but I didn't want to bother her. She said she'd be over a little later. I slept and kept dreaming that I wasn't sleeping which was a little irritating. Lauren came by at about 5pm and brought me some vitamins and cheered me up for the whole minute she was there. I miss being with her. I think about that often. -josh! 8-27-01 (12:35am) I am really sick. I haven't been eating or sleeping. I got the chance to sleep somewhat today but everyone kept calling me and I didn't turn the ringer off because I'm a moron. On Saturday, Mitchell and I went to a flea market and I bought an Atari 2600, some Nintendo games and even a Harold Lloyd film. I'm happy. Joe and I worked pretty much by ourselves at work and it was the busiest night ever last night. I had a great time, too, with all the new and exciting people that were making their way in. I'm printing up copies of Joe's 'zine and it'll coincide with the release of Dity Josh Chronicles #2, set to be out by Friday. Chauncey #4 is on it's way, too. I wish I wasn't sick. It's killing me because I always want to work on stuff. I don't have anyone around me at home to say: "Stop you little bastard before you pass out!" Shit, I feel horrible...I'm going to be doing Holleywood and Brewski comics coming up. Those are the guys who put together the Rude Squad/Fang-Shooey show the other night. I guess they liked my stuff. I cooked some food earlier. I want French toast now. I might make that. I should sleep. -josh! 8-24-01 (1:27am) Oh man! I had such a great time at the Rude Squad/Fang-Shooey/Busdrivers show. It was so good. I hung out with Nina (Hi Nina!) and saw all my pals and had so much fun listening to great music. Everyone was really good! I won a gift cert. for a free tattoo. I might get a Nick the Knife one. I'll write more later. -josh! 8-22-01 (8:50pm) I'm really really excited! I was doing a search on Little Rascals/Our Gang material early this morning and I came across a site telling me about plans to open a Comedy Hall of Fame around here and it was being headed by Tommy Bond, who played Butch in Our Gang! I e-mailed them and I got a response that they're looking for other cities to have it but that I could come by the office and look through all sorts of stuff if I wanted to. That includes material from the vaudeville era and silent films! Yay! I might even get the chance to talk with Tommy Bond! Oh my goodness! I'm flipping out here! -josh! 8-20-01 (part 2) (10:02pm) Let me know if you like the new stuff on the site. -josh! 8-20-01 (2:22am) Geez oh ass Crust! It's the 20th?! Today, I spent the whole day helping Jessica put little sticky dots on mailouts for her work. Yahoo... Jen came by to see me before she left. She's leaving for college in the morning. She's going to CO. I'm going to miss hanging around her. I just went down to the Bay to watch lightning from a far off storm and I got attacked by a bunch of ants. Damn them! The lightning was pretty. Hi everyone! Thank you for signing my gbook. -josh! 8-18-01 (3:43am) What a fabtastic day! My pal Jen and I went to Publix (the supermarket) and I was acting totally obnoxious and for some reason talking like Lucky from "Gumby" who in turn sounds just like W.C. Fields. I kept yelling in the store and being sarcastically nice. If you don't know what that is, it's when you act really nice to people but act extremely sarcastic when talking to them. I pulled this trick a few times and decided to run around with very few items in my shopping cart. I asked this old bitty REAL sarcastically where she got her Goldfish crackers and she pointed off and said "Over there." I told her I would probably be able to find them with all that information she gave me. I ran into her later and yelled thanks for telling me such vital information. She mumbled something and told me to get a life. I then told her I had more life than her and proceeded to purchase my goods such as a broom and some plastic flamingos! I put those bad boys in my hip pad. One of them stares at you when you sit on the toilet. So, it was really busy at work tonight. There was a Circle Jerks/U.S. Bombs show at Jannus Landing and the U.S. Bombs and a Circle Jerk came in for food. I gave most of them comics and they really liked them and one of them wants me to send him Chauncey books in the future. After work, I rode my bike home feeling really good. I was listening to "7 Hours" by Horace Pinker and having fun rolling down towards the Bay. I love riding my bike. Bye-bye. I love you. -josh! 8-17-01 (3:19am) I've come to the realization that I'm getting irritated with all the site stuff I'm doing. If I didn't spend so much goddamn time on here then I think I would be happier. I might shy away from this shit for awhile...but then again, I might not. Listening to the K-Dog Masters. Go here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/223/the_k-dog_masters.html. You'll enjoy it, Potsie! My hand is hurting from using my mouse. Carpal tunnel syndrom, take me away! Oh well, write me if you want. -josh! 8-15-01 (2:13am) Yay! I sold more stuff on the Art for Sale page. The Globe site is doing good. JoshG made more excellent icons for me. Yay! Chauncey #3 is done. Lots of stuff is done for the next issue of DJC. Yay! -josh! 8-13-01 (part 2) (6:03pm) I'm listening to Atom and His Package right now. I sent out tons of comic stuff today and got mail from my fan in Puerto Rico. The new COW is up. -josh! 8-13-01 (1:29am) I was just listening to Softball. Ooo..now LTJ's "Big." I love Asian Man Records radio. Well, it's 2 months until I'm 20. Yippee...Join my new club. I'm going to see how that works out. There's a lot of fun to be had on there. People can upload pics and stuff and there's lots more, too. My head is killing me. Hopefully, I can make more comics before this alien chews away at my face. -josh! 8-12-01 (4:42pm) I added some new stuff to the site. Look for it today! I added a pic of the Chauncey button on the contest page. They arrived yesterday and I already have about 20 pics. That means there's only 80 left so get to drawing if you want one of these pretty pins. I'm going to be adding a bunch of stuff on the Art for Sale page. bye bye. -josh! 8-9-01 (7:37pm) Okee, what's new? I drew a CD cover for Banned From Society and a new flyer for something involving Fang-Shooey. Dirty Josh Chronicles #1 is out. Send me some stamps and I will love you and I'll send you a copy. Issue #2 is getting filled up, too, and will be out next month. That's about it. Nothing else to say. Have a lovely day. I hope you go and play. I think I'm done. -josh! 8-7-01 (1:33am) Well, hey! I just got back from a fun day of hanging out with Lauren and her family up in Citrus County. We took off last night with the fabtastic super-dog Ruckus (she won't stay in the back seat for anything) and we drove up there and stayed at Lauren's grandma's. I couldn't go to sleep at all. The dog kept looking at us, too, expecting to get fed or something at about 2am. Anywho, I took my work with me so after we woke up, I caught up on all the mail stuff I've put off for the past 8 years and then completed my tax stuff I had to do from the con. The whole lot of us: Lauren, me, her cousins, uncle, and aunts went to Ocala for a shopping frenzy. Three things people can buy me are a big George Forman Grill, the big Freddy Krueger motion figure that's about $50, and the comic shop playset with Comic Guy from The Simpsons toy line. I ended up buying this strange monkey night light at TJ Maxx. So, it was fun. I have lots of other stuff to do. Hope you'll all come back. -josh! 8-5-01 (part 2) (3:59pm) New animation is up starring that Chauncey bitch. -josh! 8-5-01 (2:23pm) Hmm...hiya! Let's see what there is to talk about. I'm chatting with Philly Jean and Mandy right now. I have a Gigantor-like list of junk to finish. I'm about to add more to my Comic Jerk page. I think I'm going to start writing more on here like I used to. I can't believe it's already the 5th. The Summer is dying on me. I'd like to go to the beach again. Maybe I can stomach the crappy one I live by. It's not that crappy, just small and not as interesting. I'm happy at myself for spending the whole day yesterday going through my piles of paper I've had laying around for awhile. Now, I can hopefully get a little more work done. Listen to me...I sound like a goddamn old man. Why am I inside my apartment most of the time working my ass off on stuff? I know the answer and it's really obvious. I try my harderst to get people to notice my comics and art and then I do a bunch of other art "chores" so I can keep getting my stuff out there. I suppose that's simple. I'm listening to the Asian Man Records radio that they have off of their site (http://www.asianmanrecords.com). It's really good. Listen to it and you'll hear a lot of the stuff I like. I love Asian Man. They're the best. Korea Girl is playing right now. Don't know what I'm talking about? Go there now. You can get a healthy dose of the best music. In a few, it's the Back to School party at The Globe. I'm excited. I'm wearing my Devil Puppet "Burn in Hell" shirt. I'm going to miss Liz and Alexis (my co-workers and good, good friends) when they go to school. I guess that's enough for now. Bye! -josh! 8-3-01 (part 2) (5:30pm) There's a bunch of new stuff up on the site including bloody versions of the buddy icons, new pictures, and almost all of the paintings. I'll be adding more art in the next few days so don't fret Potsie! -josh! 8-3-01 (1:16am) Gerry Fried, America's favorite lovechild has just informed me of his site he's doing. It's http://www.geocities.com/gerryfried. It is to be the home of Chauncey and other hilarious Gerry shenanigans. E-mail the little scamp: gerryfried@yahoo.com. Wow! -josh! 8-2-01 (2:21am) Well, tonight was my big dinner party thing and so many people showed up. Thank you! Afterward, Lauren, Ryan, and I went bowling. It gave me a reason to wear my M&C bowling shirt. I cut my hand during dinner and when I was bowling the damn thing was bleeding like crazy. Thankfully, Ryan got me some more band-aids. I got a scanner from Phil, the guy who got the tattoo on his ass. Thank you Phil. Now, everyone can look at you. Bye-bye. -josh! 8-1-01 (1:30am) The Fang-Shooey show was so good! I had such a blast. Jessica and me were acting so weird and we loved it. We switched shirts. -josh! 7-31-01 (part 2) (7:58pm) I'm horribly happy because the new Leftover Crack album is finally coming out on Sept. 11th! I love them as they are the spinoff band of the dearly departed Choking Victim. I'm so tired but the Fang-Shooey show starts soon. I'm hungry and it is raining. Sigh am I. -josh! 7-31-01 (4:53pm) There is finally a new Comic of the Week up. It's one I had on my computer for awhile. I drew it when I was working at Midtown. I used to make comics of these guys named Mike and Brian constantly. I hope you enjoy. 7-30-01 (11:26pm) Lauren and I wandered around all day buying all sorts of glorious junk. She tried making the iron-on transfer shirts but they didn't turn out too good. We're going to be silkscreening some stuff very soon. The shirts will look good. I started on Chauncey #3. It's an emotional issue about emotional issues pertaining to everyday youth. That's it. I'm going to go change the site. -josh! 7-28-01 (9:03pm) Hi kids. Just changing crap on here once again. -josh! 7-27-01 (part 2) (7:07pm) I wrote about the comic convention. It's the fifth column entry on my Writings page. I still plan on transcribing my journal I kept to the Daily Words page. Chauncey #2 is out for a quarter. I made the copies today. Bye-bye. -josh! 7-27-01 (12:17am) Back when Jessica and me had the art show I sent out an e-mail promoting it and I put "Art Show (a polka)" as the subject. I told everyone I'd give $2 to whoever figured out what I meant by it. Jen wrote me this: "What the Subject Meant" by Jen Thompson. The subject meant that polka is an evil thing. The word polka is ridiculous and nearly useless, for two reasons. One is that the fashionably attuned persons in the clothing design industry have virtually outlawed the usage of Polka dots when designing new runway lines, because of the horribly offensive nature of the gathering of brightly colored dots. Therefore, polka is useless in the apparrel sense because it is so tacky. The second reason that the word is both evil and useless is that the actual MUSIC that has been dubbed "polka" attracts very few listeners under the age of 80 who are due to pass on soon anyway, thereby making them a minority, thereby making the music obsolete, and thereby making it useless and evil. And have you every heard a polka that didnt sound like an oompa-loompa set to music? So, the point of your subject line was an attempt to project your true feelings about this impending art show, about which it can be assumed that the awful feeling of anxious anticipation and irritation, and downright bad feeling that you have about this art show (which, I am sure, is an unfounded feeling because the show is going to kick ass), and using the phrase "a polka" helped you cleverly, quaintly and subtly state that you are losing sleep over this matter. Thank you. I liked this so very much I thought I'd share it with everyone. I really enjoy polka. I love it! The right answer is that "Art Show (a polka)" is the name of a Johnny Socko song. bye bye. -josh! 7-26-01 (11:56pm) I'm working on my new column which just talks about my experience in San Diego and then when I'm done I'll put it up on here. My last column will be up here, too, after that. Chauncey #2 is done. Look for art I did on the new Fang-Shooey flyer, Rude Squad flyer, the new issue of "Burn Brandon", the Comic-Con souvenir book, and a theatre unity party invite. As soon as I get the new scanner, all will be good. Bye-bye loyal readers. -josh! 7-25-01 (part 2) (2:32am) Just so I don't forget this myself, but almost every title has sold out on the comics. I only have about 10 of the 81 comics available. They went fast at the con and after giving away a lot of stuff, I managed to make a little over $100. "Chauncey" and "Why can't I hate..." sold the best which is surprising because those were the worst drawn. I don't know what to say. *sniff* -josh! 7-25-01 (1:45am) I'm back! Actually, I've been back since this afternoon but Lauren and I went to get the doggie, Queen Ruckus and I spent time with her and her family. I have soooooooooo much to put on here but in the favor of waking up in time for work tomorrow, I'll do it later. Thank you Holly and Mandy and all my new pals I made in San Diego. I'm really happy because of you. I kept a journal and I'll add most of it on here coming up. I got lots o' pics as well. -josh! 7-19-01 (9:00am PST) San Diego is fun. Mexico was fun. I'm having fun. The comic con was a bunch of crap so far at Preview Night so I didn't stay long. Oh yeah, for more stuff I wrote about, look at the message board and guestbook. I'm going back over to the con in a little bit. I got my art I drew in the big fat program guide! I bought the Milk & Cheese bowling shirt, by far the coolest thing ever that I've worn. I'm beat, I want to be back home, and I'm just not in the mood to be hanging out at a con but I love it all the same. I'm going to ge rid of most of my comics some way. I'll end up giving them away but at least I won't have to lug the heavy ass things back with me. I've made some cool friends here and a lot of people are wearing the buttons, so yay! Bye bye. -josh! 7-15-01 (part 2) (6:36pm) I found something funnn-ee! What hardly anyone knows about is that I used to keep a audio journal for the first few months of me living in Florida. I'm listening to the tape for the first time since I made it. It's great to hear how excited and scared I was to be alone in a new place. It talks about meeting Jason, JoEllen, and hanging out at The Globe for the first time. It talks about meeting Bill Nord, Sara, and Joan at the Mephiskapheles show that didn't happen. I talk about meeting Marcus, Jrive, and Cassandra. It's interesting to listen to me talk about seeing new things and being heavily influenced to draw. There's the excitement of getting my first apartment, hanging out with my first crush down here, Sara from Midtown, and trying not to yawn so much into the tape player. I used to work sooooo much! I was never awake for anything. Packing for my trip is taking forever. I have so much stuff. I have a billion comics and a gargantuan amount of clothes I want to take. Bye bye. -josh! 7-15-01 (6:48am) I just got back from having the most interesting conversation about bands, women, sex, video games, Globe people, and tons of other stuff with Steve, Eric of Rude Squad, and Mitchell of Fang-Shooey. We were hanging outside of my work after I got done a little before 4am. It was so fun. I haven't laughed that hard since the last time I did. The digital camera pics of Phil's ass didn't turn out. I'm getting the regular camera pics developed later today. Bye bye. -josh! 7-14-01 (4:03am) I'm slowly coming to the realization that there's a lot more people that look at the site and read this stuff than I thought. That makes me feel weird but still generally happy. Anyway, on Thursday I was put into the filming of this anti-drug video that these people were filming at my work for some high school awareness thing or something. It was funny because I looked like the little blue-haired punk kid who might've done drugs. It was me and some other professional (?) actor people. We all bitched about stuff. I acted like a loon. There was a clock that they didn't know to be set on 4:20 in the background. It didn't work. At work earlier, I was hanging out with my new buds Peter and Aaron, and we came up with a bunch of stories for my new strip I'm doing called "Peter and the Apartment". I think you'll like it. rst_ack, the very famous co-conspirator of "Nomad Lost," came in to the Globe to give me a huge surprise and make me smile like a fool the rest of the night. He got a big version of the button logo of comic Josh tattooed on his left ass cheek! I feel like an accomplished artist. I'm going to take pics of it and they're going to be used on comics, postcards, and definitely for the site. Thank you Phil for doing such an awesome job at showing your support for these little things I think are comics. Serious props go to him for having something of mine (WOW! THAT'S AMAZING!!!!!!) that's going to be on him for the rest of his life. Babs, this whole section is for you. Isn't that great? Yay! Yay! Yay! Read on, faithful people. There's more to adore. Oh yeah, Frank Crank played Bungle tonight. Hoo-rah Dave! Anywho, I'm making a new painting. I'm getting a bunch of Garbage Pail Kids cards for it...so there! -josh! 7-11-01 (1:53am) Hiya. I am the new webmaster/art director for stashmagazine.com! Yay! Barbara, this awesome girl I just met the other day after giving her a button/pin thing is going to make me a Josh Comics lamp shade 'cause that's what she does. How rockin'! Bye. -josh! 7-10-01 (4:50pm) I got me the one CD I've been wanting to get for quite some time, The new Lawrence Arms/Chinkees split and I love it! It has my favorite "off of the computer" LA song "Hey, what time is Pensacola: Wings of Gold on Anyway?" I got me some ska, too! Thanks Scott and Manny! I got the old Scared of Chaka CD and the Eels single for "Novacaine for the soul". Chauncey #1 is going really quick. The buddy icons are hits. JoshG, you did well. I'm getting my art jobs done, too. Yay! Yay! Song I'm listening to right now: "Pay Some Dues" by Spring Heeled Jack. -josh! 7-9-01 (part 2) (9:30pm) Ok, I'm working on an unfunny Chauncey animation but my mic is kind've messed up and it's making some static. But, to quench the thirst of the millions of Chauncey fans out there, I made a new low class animation, "Chauncey's Dance Video"! Chauncey #1, the mini-comic, is now offically out as well for a quarter. Yay! Look for the other animation after I get a better microphone. Hi Jen! -josh! 7-9-01 (11:26am) Hey, how about those buddy icons? They're great! Thank you again, Josh! Spread the Josh Sullivan Comics craziness if you have an AOL IM. More later. -josh! 7-8-01 (4:17am) Well, what can I say? The art show was one of my top three events in life! Jessica and I may have bickered and fought and almost killed each other but we came through to pull off a really cool show. I'm so happy that all my friends and Globe family went to it. There were about 50 people in all. All of my paintings sold and I made $250. Thank you! I will have some excellent pictures to put on here. The music of Lee and Electric Ricky was so good and I was even up there acting weird and acting like an alien with my spoken word(?). My new buds that I met the day before brought me a cardboard robot head to wear that one of them made. Who knows, maybe the second art show will really happen. We might be doing one in Orlando. Some other news is that I'm getting to do more Fang-Shooey and Rude Squad flyers. I'm taking over the Fang-Shooey site so I can help them guys keep it up to date. I'm happy because of another reason but I'll write more later. -josh, the happiest comic freak ever. 7-7-01 (4:05am) Wow! Wow! Wow! What another day! I'm so happy, excited, and a little nervous. The art show is in 11 hours. I made some really cool new fans who, in turn, helped flyer for the show. I spent the day with someone who makes me smile. There are people that are going to be getting tattoos of stuff I've done. Just so you know, Chris J has made a mention of making a Josh Comics calendar! I'll let you know what happens with that. I might be making more prints and getting some posters made up through STASH Magazine. Ten, count them, ten t-shirts are going to be made with the logo of comic Josh and the blue background found on the joshcomics.com homepage on them. There is such a small quantity because I'm making them for the comic convention (9 days away!) and I'm going to see how they do. Chauncey #1 will be out on Monday. It's a quarter. Bye-bye kids. Wish me luck with the art show! 7-6-01 (1:17am) Wow! What a day! I worked most of it but I haven't felt this good in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng time! Yesterday, I did Chauncey (the half-emo pig dog) #1. That is my 81st comic! I woke up today and made French toast, one of the most wonderful foods ever. I went to work and it was really busy. My awesome friend Jen came by and waited for me to get done and she said she was going to take me to comics. We had gone to watch fireworks and lightning the day before. By far, the best Fourth of July I have ever had. This was amazing to go see comics, though, because I've never even seen any comics down here; I haven't been to a comic shop because there really isn't one in St. Pete. She took me to this bookstore that had comics set up in the back room. I was so happy! I didn't buy any but I bought a book on Ed Wood, a couple on old movie stuff, and some children's books. We then bought ice cream and hung out before I had to go back for my second shift I was covering for Alexis. Thank you Jen! So, I worked more and ran around. I saw all my Globe friends and then Liz came to work with me. I love working with everyone at my job. Liz is great! I got done and went outside and hung out with Ryan and Mitchell of Fang-Shooey and watched them play acoustically. It was so good. I climbed a tree over and over. I have scratched up arms to prove it. I danced and sang goofy songs. I drank pop. Some happy news is that I get to do the cover art for the band Banned from Society and then Ryan asked me to do some comic stuff for the inside of the next Fang-Shooey album! Yay! Yay! Yay! Jessica is doing their cover. Our art show is so close. It's going to be a mad house. Laurel is dying my hair more for it and I'm even getting to wear Ashley's crazy purple pants if I want. I'll be wearing a suit, a bow tie, and a smile. Thank you for reading this. Thank you everyone. I'm happy! 7-4-01 Oh, the crappy Fourth. Last year, I got really sick and thought I was going to die. I'm staying up all night tonight (it's 2am now) and I'm drinking coffee. I want to play video games. The one and only Katie Godfather has put a beautiful collection of stuff together on a site. You know where to look if you want to see it. I laughed so hard earlier tonight over and over when I got to hang out with Leeroi, my twin. If you ever are in St. Pete, go to Star Booty and hang out with Lee. He is so awesome. I'm excited because I get to work with him like the good old days this weekend. That's it for now, g-dogs. Bye! -josh! 7-2-01 (part 2) The new comic, (Not So) #12, is officially out for $1! Yay! Hoo-ray! Eat hay! -josh! 7-2-01 I forgot to put that I went and saw Fang-Shooey on Saturday night. They were great! I wish I could've stayed to see Rude Squad. Those two bands are my favorite locals. -josh! 7-1-01 I think my scanner will never work again. I will get a new one someday. In the meantime, buy all of the new comics! I have (Not So) #11 and #12 available to you at $2 and $1 respectively. ALL of the paintings are done for the art show. I can't wait for that wretched event to be over. Then, there is the big comic con. "she don't like my fuckin' tone...i'm all alone." Just listening to some stuff. I have this big TV that I lugged up a bunch of steps that someone was throwing out. It doesn't work. I want to throw it out my window. I'll get rid of it tomorrow. I slept til 3 today. I'm at 80 comics now. I want to finish JSA #19 in the next few days. That's the Cyber-Sullivan story in the latest books I'm doing. Thank you to all the kind souls out there. Fuck you if you aren't. Love, josh! 6-29-01 I just got back from walking my sister over to the Greyhound station so I have my apt. to myself, once again! Here is some old mail I got. Laugh at it. "i just read "Another Bad Day" in issue #10 of UPRISING! zine. what i'm emailing and asking you about is where your coming from because of the last box that says "Its not punk to have a job!" i dont know if your pissed off at people saying that and are speaking out against it (which i think you are) ?; or are you actually saying that as a statement? Kids have told me that stupid ass sentance before cause i have my number of jobs here and there. I think it goes back to late 70's london where i think it was 60% or people 18 years of age were out of work and just about everyone was on the dole and a lot of people, counting punks, couldn't get a job. then Kids addopted that stamp label of what a punk should be like and that in itself was really fucking stupid because it was all about being yourself. Anywho i've always thought that if someone said "punk is this or that" they were wrong. Because Punk Rock, to me, is what you make of it. Everyone can describe it at a personal level but no one can define it universally. And another thing, if the kid that tripped the dishwasher guy is so concerned about being a poor punk rocker then why is he at a Fancy Restaurant? i have money issues myself and when i do go out to eat with friends or whatever my first choice sure as hell isn't a Fancy Resturant. ps i'm sorry about all the spelling mistakes" How good was that? I was voted to be in the running for Best Artist on some indie comic site last month. Todd Webb was voted for some other month. He should get it. My comics look like yesterday's trash. My scanner broke. Nothing new for awhile. Bye! -josh! 6-28-01 I met the one and only Cristy Road last night. Yay! I have a new comic page done that I think is the best one ever in the world and in the universe. It'll be the Comic of the Week for this week. I have to ink it, though. I'm loving this boy/girl love/hate thing going on with the guestbook. Keep typing away! I'm eating Apple Dapples. My shirt is one Lawrence Arms. I'm reliving 9th Grade by listening to Hum. My a/c is on. I have to work in exactly 24 minutes. I bite my fingernails. Thank you. -josh! 6-27-01 Ok. So, it's just a little into this new day. I'm working on stuff. The female population makes me happy, mad, sad, and nuts. I'm fed up with it and I will work my ass off on my comics because that's all I really can do from going insane. I made my 79th comic earlier in the day. It's a big magazine one so buy one please. It's $2.00. I'm trying to find this letter I got from a guy in Puerto Rico that wants some comics. I don't know where it went. Thank you to all those who look at these rambling everyday. I'm sorry I don't have new Comics of the Week. I've been painting. I'm a lout. -josh! 6-26-01 I'm sad. -josh! 6-25-01 It's 2am and I'm really really really happy! I saw Moulin Rouge earlier with my usual gang of St. Pete hooligans as well as my sister who is down here visiting. -josh! 6-21-01 New animations up soon and the new Comic of the Week will be up by tomorrow. Happy Summer! Last year, I went and saw the sun rise over the Bay and that was really nice. -josh! 6-20-01 Man, I've been away from my perty little site for ten days?! Hi. My trip to MI was fun. Thank you Joe for letting me stay in Chicago for the night! I had a good time wandering around the midwest. I drove back 21 hours straight from good old Suckinaw. My apt. is looking so cool! My hair is getting longer. Buy some buttons. I have 4 or 5 new comics almost done. Go here: http://www.toddbot.com and say hello to Todd. My head is starting to ache. Bye. -josh! 6-10-01 Two years since I graduated! Holy crap! I'll be back here in about a week. Have fun. Go nuts with the guestbook. -josh! 6-9-01 It's 4:45am and the heat index here is still 86 degrees! It's really hot and muggy. A link and my name in on the Lawrence Arms site for the interview I did with them! Yay! I get to also do the flyer for the next Rude Squad show. Double yay! They're this ska band from St. Pete. That is it for now. -josh! 6-8-01 I added a new piece of junk on the animation page. I'm going to do better ones someday. Trust me. -josh! 6-6-01 Wow, the 6th already. A month from tomorrow is the art show with Jessica and me. I need to do three more paintings. I'm working on my next comic. It's going to be (Not So) #11 featuring the comics I did for "Nomad Lost", a new emo comic, the original B&W "Not Your Pet", a new Stick-People Scum-Bags page and more junk than you can stomach. I'm almost done with the cover, which I actually enjoy. I like the way it turned out. I'm probably not going to do any new animations for awhile. I'm very geared to getting more comics out and finishing the paintings. That's it I guess. -josh! 6-4-01 HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHENG! I have a new comic out! It's Mini-Comic #31. Buy one today. It is one quarter. That's it. -josh! 6-3-01 (part 2) The whole front page has been updated with the addition of a third frame. Is it cool? I walked down to the Bay earlier tonight and got the great opportunity to watch lightning from a storm about 50 miles away. It was so peaceful. Anyway, that's it. Bye-bye. Sign the guestbook. -josh! 6-3-01 Well, I finally got around to changing my horrible little site. Tell me what you think. I will write more later. -josh! 6-2-01 My carpet is really soft. The writings I did under the name "Punt" are being featured on the Freaknikzine.com e-zine/site. It finally rained for the first time in about two months earlier. This guy that comes into my work all the time gave me $20 towards my buttons. Thank you, Michael! Todd Webb is making me copies of a bunch of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" episodes. Yay!!!! I like living by myself once again. My bike makes really irritating clicking noises from all the mishaps it's been involved in. I think I am done. Wait! Here's a story: A boy named Gulliver Gonzales was very interested in learning how to build a robot to help out with his chores. He read books and took classes at the local community college and before you knew it, Gulliver had built a gen-u-wine robot! How exciting. He flipped the switch to turn old Mr. Robot on and the big hunk of metal ripped Gully's head off with one swipe. The robot was arrested and sentenced to a few months in jail. Epilogue: The robot leads a rich and rewarding life selling cookbooks nowadays. Bye-bye. -josh! 6-1-01 French toast is good. -josh! 5-31-01 (part 2) I've been spending all day decorating the new place. I'm exhausted. Let me know what's up. I need me some root beer. I'm so good with words. -josh! 5-31-01 I just saw The Toadies. My head hurts. It's early morning. I'm talking with Jimmy. He's hip. I am not. -josh! 5-30-01 Well, this is it! The one-year anniversary of my joyous site! Thank you to everyone who has checked out this crap and to those who have been coming here since the beginning when all you were offered was my Daily Words, some stories, the history of my comics, some links, and not too much else. This is a big accomplishment. I add stuff on here all the time and I love doing it. I love the people all over the world sending me greetings from time to time. The site has allowed me to share my thoughts, words, creativity, art, animations, ambition, love, hate, and anything else. Many of you I've become better friends with because of this place. I'm so happy for that. As I sit here in my new apartment, I think about what a difference a year makes. I'm wiser and I'm getting older. I'll be 20 in October and I can't believe how far I've been able to make it with the rotten little comics. So many of you have been there to share in my little life journey. I want to be famous. I will be famous. I'll be known as "The Comic Guy" to a lot more people than I am now. I'm not trying to sound pompous but I truly think I'm going to make it with my art. Anyway, thank you everyone! I'm shooting for 25,000 hits by this time next year! yer buddy, yer pal, josh! 5-29-01 One more day, kids and I should have 10,000 hits! I need 74 now as of noon today. I'm reordering the buttons today. Sorry to those who didn't get any of the first batch. All the comics I've been putting off will be out within a month. That includes the all-girl anthology "Girl Cahmicks"; "(Not So)" #s 11, 12, and maybe even 13; and some new mini-comics here and there. Get ready for my big speech I'm going to post on here tomorrow. -josh! 5-28-01 Most of my stuff is moved into my new place! Hoo-rah! I'm pretty stanky. I'm sitting on the floor typing here. -josh! 5-27-01 I'm bored out of my ass. It's hot and crappy. I want to move into my new apartment so bad and start decorating it. I'm getting 1000 more buttons made up for $220 thanks to KC at toledopunks.com. Go there and there's info if you'd like to get some made up. They're cheap and it's an easy process. Just send him a design. I should have them by the time I get up north. Yowza! I'm sweaty! I should eat banana split ice cream. Now, that's an idea. How is everyone? I'm glad so many people sign the guestbook and e-mail me. I think I have saved over 300 gbook entries. They're somewhere on the site, Potsie! Man, I can't think of anything to write. I want to add a bunch of junk on here daily but I can't. Ooo..I got it! Here's stuff I want. I'll trade you comics or other cool stuff I have. I want toys, Dreamcast games, neat looking antique stuff, videos of shows such as "Salute Your Shorts", "The Adventures of Pete and Pete", "DBZ", "Northern Exposure", videos of silent film material (Patrick, send me SJ!!!!!!!), any medium-sized t-shirts that I might like, art supplies, random sugary delights, and comics, comics, comics! That's all for now. Bye-bye. -josh! 5-26-01 (part 2) I'm at 9800 hits! The Small Press Publishers Workshop tunred out really good. I felt good sharing my experiences and telling people about making their own comics. I got banana split ice cream today. Yum! I'm drinking some coke and watching my Slapstick reunion show tape. Life is good. -josh! 5-26-01 All the buttons are gone. I'm glad everyone liked them. I'll have some more on order. The Iggy Pop show was really cool. I'm glad I got to see him. That's it for now. In twelve hours it's the Small Publishers Workshop. I have to get ready. A lot of people are coming. Sheesh. -josh! 5-25-01 (part 2) Yet another new animation has been posted. It is almost the one-year anniversary of the site! Hoo-rah! Get me to 10,000 hits! -josh! 5-25-01 For you Phil, a Dukes of Hazzard animation. I'm pretty happy. I got my buttons! They rock. I got my ticket for the Toadies show next week. Everything is taken care of to move in my new apartment. I sold a bunch of comics today. I got on the guest list for the Iggy Pop show tomorrow. The tour manager came into The Globe and bought comics, dug them, and said he was going to do that for me. I bought CDs today, saw tons of my pals, and had a good time. I made a new comic page. Yay! Happy Josh! Bye-bye. -josh! 5-24-01 Austin, glad you dig the new animation. It's 2 minutes into this glorious 24th day. I just finished the fourth painting for the art show. It looks really cool. I hope they all sell. We got the plane tickets for San Diego. I took care of most of the utility stuff for the new place. I'll be in next week. Hoo-rah! That is all. More later. Enjoy the new Comic of the Week. -josh! 5-22-01 I got the apartment. I move in next week. Lauren and I were watching this French movie, "Hate". It is so hot and muggy. Um...that's it. -josh! 5-21-01 (part 2) I just got back from my first official softball game. I did ok. I screwed up a little. It was fun. I got my shirt that says Central Blockheads on it and my essential lucky #13 on it. I'll take a picture sometime of it. I'm exhausted. Word has it the buttons might be here tomorrow. Yikes! -josh! 5-21-01 I'm probably getting this really awesome apartment. I just turned in my application. The landlord rocks. The area rocks. It's in the Old Northeast section of St. Pete. Nice and quiet. I spent about 5 hours last night cutting the rest of my full-sized issues and I stapled them this morning. Some of them need to be signed, though. Do you want to buy one? More later. -josh! 5-20-01 Hi. I thought I'd type out some stuff before I went to bed. It's 3:41am. A lot of things have changed in my life. I miss the whole feeling of everything being new down here. It's definitely not how it was last year. I had Jason to hang around with. I had just met Lauren. I was having a great time. I'm really deadset on getting my stuff known and out there. I have to take a break, though, because I think I'm wearing myself out. I need a new apartment. I'm going to miss being around Lauren everyday. She's been there a lot for me. It's sad. We made most of the plans for San Diego earlier in the day. Her and I are going out there. I'm glad she's going because I think of her as being one of the few people who can endure my crap. As funny as it seems, she does understand me. That's funny because I don't really understand me. The walls are so lonely here. All of my stuff has been taken off. This little era is almost over. I want to cry. What the hell am I going to do when I grow up? I want to make the comics, make money off of the art, and I want to be very happy and content. I can't wait. I want a house. I want to be loved. I hate so much that that seems ridiculous. Am I just to be a sad, lonely person? I sure hope not. I have my babies: the comics. Man, I'm going to miss being around the dog all the time, too. She's wonderful. I'm hugging her right now. I smell like smoke from work. I get so irritated at people there sometimes. Fuck them. I'm growing up. I keep saying that over and over to myself. I don't want to. Being a kid and acting like one is so important to me. Why did it always bother me then when Lauren called me a boy? I'm confusing. I'm confused. This is one of the longest entries ever of mine. Thank you for reading this. I'm glad I have people that take time to see what's going on with me. I'm very grateful. I might not show it but I am. Where does the time go? Ha ha ha. 5-19-01 There's a new animation up finally. I hope you like it. The chat room is back up! That's all I have to say for now. -josh! 5-18-01 Isn't the new blue stuff so cool? Oh boy. -josh! 5-17-01 I put the message board back up on the site so have your way with it. I have to write the column. Bye-bye. -josh! 5-16-01 To my pal Austin: NEW ANIMATION SOOOOOONN!!! Hee-hee! Seriously, there are. Two years ago I was in Novi as a guest at the Motor City Comic Con. I miss those three days. I met Joe Kletz there. I played softball tonight. Man, I stink. I ache. Go here: Um..all out of words. New emo comic up as the C.O.W. -josh! 5-15-01 Blee-arghhhh! My head hurts. It's hot in the apartment. I didn't get the apartment I had looked at. Boo-hoo. I can't move out yet. My buttons are on a huge delay because they got sent back to OH. I'll get them someday. Hmm...I have ice cream on my face. -josh! 5-14-01 Hiya kids! I'm working my ass off on stuff. I drew a fabulous comic penned by Bill Nord himself. That's right...Bill Nord of Flapjacks and Fannypacks fame approached me to draw a comic he wrote and it's going to be in the next issue of (Not So) Quarterly Comics. How 'bout that? I also inked a rst_ack comic for it. I inked some of the comics for the "Girl Cahmicks" book I'm publishing. Those two should be out soon. -josh! 5-12-01 (part 2) I'm having such a good time working on my latest comic column for the July/August issue of STASH. I'm laying in bed reading my favorite comics and then I'm writing about them! Yay! I should've done this before. That's it. -josh! 5-12-01 Hmm...Noon. What a strange time during the day. I didn't sleep very well. Stupid people calling me. I think I'm going back to bed. I'm packing stuff today and hopefully drawing. Waffles be calling out to me and there aren't any there. Sad be me. The dog just looks at me like I'm crazy all the time. She's hungry. I'm hungry. I hope I can get something done today. I'll write more later. -josh! 5-11-01 Oh boy! Hi! Thank you for taking the time to read my daily words. The emo comics are up. My buttons still haven't arrived. I talked to Lisa some more and Ken and my dad. I took the rest of my stuff off the walls and I can't wait until I get into a new apt. It'll be the first time I've been on my own since July, when Jason was staying with me. I'm really really happy to have everything about to be "new" again. Fuck love. It's so much trouble most of the time. I know a bunch of you have been reading this stuff. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are awesome. I'm taking the next great step in my life. I'm concentrating on the little bastard comics and I'm having so much fun. I'll write more tomorrow. I just cut my hair. I want to dye it but it's such a pain in the ass. My shitty blonde hair has been looking so cool lately anyway. Bye-bye, kids. -josh! 5-10-01 (part 2) I'm all happy because I just talked with Lisa for two hours about all sorts of stuff only we seem to understand. She's getting ready to leave London to come back to the States. We talked about the comics and how far they've come. We talked about the comic shop, everyone's favorite place ever and some other stuff. Hope you like the new pics. I added some more crap, too. Look for it! -josh! 5-10-01 I've been hanging out with everyone under the sun. I've been getting e-mails from everyone, too! *hugs* Thank you and that goes especially to Lisa who I know reads this. I love the perfect thought placed as the subject: "Banana Milkshake". That was so good and I thought I'd hate it. It's been so long since I've done lots of stuff. I hung out with Dan and we made copies galore. So, Nomad Lost is out and get one, you! I made copies of some old minis and other junk including my new comic entitled "Emo is Cool?" It's an emo bashing comic. Not violent, just hateful towards the sorry saps. Check out the updated Catalog page for the insane amounts of stuff I've been doing or have had my work appear in lately. Let me say hi to these people: Lee-ska-doo, Todd Webb, Jahsh (maybe SKAdam), Skater Dan and Phil, Austin, Mr. Hoyle, JoEllen, Bill..who else looks at the words? So...I got the copy of Green 'Zine #10 today from Cristy Road. It's such a great 'zine. I'd love to hang out with her and Bill Nord. They seem so fun. I know Bill is fun. I've hung out with him before. He's a tubular dood. Tubular Luggage? Sara(s)? What? I started practicing my softball skills today. It was a blast! Dude! I'm going to be really good, I hope. I then put together comics and realized I have an incredible amount of work to do before the comic convention. My buttons might be in tomorrow. I keep hoping. That's all I can do. I get so happy running to the post office and then they aren't there. Sad be me. No love. Bye-bye! -josh! 5-8-01 Ahh...more for you to read. Things have been looking better for me. I finally drew something of worth to my career I suppose and I turned it into a new flyer today. Lauren and I hung out yesterday and went to Tampa and Clearwater, which was nice. I'm forcing myself to work on all the stuff I've put off. I shouldn't stop my work because of some "girl". I took a bunch of stuff off the walls last night in either preparation of or in hopes of getting a new apartment. I looked at one yesterday but I didn't get a call back. No one likes the little comic bastard. Maybe I took the stuff off cause I just wanted to seem pissed. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I get to hang out with Skater Dan and Phil as we put the new 'zine "Nomad Lost" together to unleash on the world. I drew some stuff for it. It's all new stuff. After that, I plan on going to softball practice with Old Skool. I'll play ball really bad but it should be a lot of fun. Yay! Fun! That's what I need. -josh! 5-6-01 Oh boy! Lots to type. It was so busy last night at work and it was really really good for me to be working and I had a great time doing it. I went to a STASH Magazine meeting this morning and then I went over to CORE (Center of Radical Empowerment) for my first day working there. I couldn't get in cause my keys suck and I called Lauren to come down and use her keys. She was already making lunch for me so that was cool. We talked more and I told her I'm looking for an apartment. We each cried a little and it was pretty sad. I can't continue to live with her in the apt. that was "ours" to begin with. If we aren't a couple, it's just making it that much harder to have to deal with it. I'm having my ups and downs but I'll get through this. I know I will. -josh! 5-5-01 It's in the morning and I was just sent an e-mail saying that all the animations now work so check them out for my sake please. I worked last night at The Globe (like I always do but I had to type that so you know the setting) and it was good for me. I had fun acting weird and bopping around and being in the company of friends. The news of the big recent event spread like wildfire and everyone was coming out of the woodwork to make me feel better. I got a couple new comic fans, too. I talked to Sterling about working on a site or two for him and he said he'll even pay me. I got home and played the fabulous Shenmue that I have for Sega Dreamcast and it took my mind off of everything even though Lauren was sleeping in the next room. I sang songs from the CDs I've heard a million times before and fell fast asleep on the floor. Lauren just woke me up so I could sleep in the bed if I wanted to. The dog just looked at me weird and is probably wondering what's up with us. Ruckus is the best dog. She makes me happy for being there for me even though she might not know it. -josh! 5-4-01 (part 2) It's later in the day and I'm doing pretty good. I'm happy and I've been thinking about my future and the future of the comics. Everyone has been real supportive because they know how much I cared for Lauren. I still do but I've come to terms that it's time to move on even with it just being two days later. I'm free as well. She wanted to be free and now it ended up where I have all these options in my life, too. I don't have to worry about the feelings of another and worry in general about anyone but me. I need to work on comics and stuff. I'm glad I can smile. I'm glad I can laugh. I guess I am a strong dude. I wanted to just type some more. It's medicine for me. Thank you. -josh! 5-4-01 I'm very lucky to have friends like you to cheer me up and to talk about things with. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I'm doing better. I've been hanging out with people. I'm going to be playing softball on a team that famed Old Skool John organized. I'm getting through this. It hit me hard and the dog knows this. Ruckus has been keeping me company and making me feel good. We have the dog together and it's going to be rough to leave her but I don't want to think about that right now. Lauren and I are still living in the same apt. for now and we're still friends. We have a few rooms. I'm not angry with her or bitter towards her. If she's not happy then I understand her decision. Earlier tonight, we went grocery shopping together and it was nice. We acted like friends and I hope everything works out for us. I wouldn't want to leave her to pay bills she can't cover by herself. I don't honestly know what I'm going to do now. I'm basing my decision with what comes from the comic convention in San Diego in July. I hope something good happens for me there. I'd love to stay here in St. Pete because I love it here so much but if my calling happens to be somewhere else then so be it. I have this insane goal to be famous when I turn 20, which is in about 5 months. I think I can do it. I've got a lot of opportunities coming at me and they weren't because of Lauren, they were because of the hard work I put into the comics and letting the masses know about them. If you're reading this, thank you. You now know how I feel and that makes me feel good that I can let my thoughts flow on here. I'm sure I'll write more later. It's a brand new day. -Josh! 5-3-01 I'm so incredibly sad. I hate having to type this but maybe it'll help me. Lauren and I broke up. There are many reasons why I guess and I never realized them. I act too moody sometimes or maybe I act like a jerk to everyone. It built up and we never communicated about it. I hate it because I didn't know I was driving her to want to break up. I would've put this up yesterday but I've been crying so much and I'm really hurt. Sorry you have to read this but it looks like this has, once again, become a place for words that don't necessarily have to do with comics. E-mail me please. I need all the friends I can get right now. Thank you for reading this and thank you for everything, whoever you may be. -Joshua Edward Sullivan |