Podcasting Day: The Man vs. The People of Comedy, with Jason Pargin 🌭
Added 2021-06-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
Joining us this week is friend of The 🌭 Zzone and beloved author of Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, Jason Pargin! He, Brockway, and I (Seanbaby) share stories about how easy it is to bully cowardly publishers into taking articles down, and we're trusting the world to use this knowledge only for good.
Listen here! Or wherever you get podcasts! Review and like! Buy Jason's book!
And speaking of both buying things and copyright strikes, be sure to visit our online store to get a new-and-improved NOT Popsicle Pete. With brand new art by Rusty Shackles!
Our first version was taken off the store from what we thought was a trademark violation, which was strange because no company claims any ownership over this unliving parade leader of limitless cosmic suffering. How could they? How mirthlessly silly would Pete find such hubris to be? As you may know, the word we often use as a generic term for "flavored ice pop" is aggressively trademarked, but if that wasn’t it, why did they take it down?
Can you solve the mystery!?
You're right! It turns out when Popsicle Pete became a top seller, some world wide web e-shirt executive noticed it and said, "That print is low quality." So it wasn't a copyright strike (yet). They just didn't think the scan I made of a two inch misaligned print of a murder puppet from a bleeding 1949 comic then blew up to the size of a human chest looked very nice. So we paid Rusty to draw us a new one and then I made him look all fucked up in a hopefully more "intentional" way.
If you bought an original, congratulations! It's a collector's item-- wear it carefully! And maybe buy this new, replaceable one for any knife fights or sexy car washes you're attending. We're also pulling some designs next week: Teamworking Dog, Punching Dog (all versions), Reading is Fucking Crazy, and Meatloaf problem are all going away. This is your last chance to get them! Okay, enjoy the podcast!
Comments
Fun fact! Rusty Shackles and I started to collaborate on a comic 13 years ago, but the rest of the world realized what a treasure he is and he got crazy busy. I am an avowed fan of Mr. The Shackles.
Brendan McGinley
2021-06-23 00:58:17 +0000 UTCHe has such a nice Lake Woebegone manner of speaking you have to remind yourself he's cracking the darkest jokes.
Brendan McGinley
2021-06-23 00:55:46 +0000 UTCJason Pargin is a freakin' legend. Always enjoy listening to & reading him.
GeoRayzr
2021-06-18 10:20:28 +0000 UTCYou can literally feel the night winds call out for more screams when wearing the original Popsicle Pete shirt.
Curtiss
2021-06-17 21:44:27 +0000 UTCIt's up TODAY! We reprinted it here for Reflecting Day. https://www.patreon.com/posts/reflecting-day-52455759
1900HOTDOG
2021-06-17 18:35:02 +0000 UTCEasily my favorite part of Man Comics is reading the redubs of all the old ads, especially the ones where you sold crappy magazines or soap or whatever and got points to exchange for prizes.
Clifford Tunnell
2021-06-17 13:04:39 +0000 UTCThat one's a royal pain in the ass to find because it was only up for a couple days. Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20190624171526/https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-mobile-app-scams-that-just-keep-getting-worse/
Sebben
2021-06-17 07:59:52 +0000 UTCI feel like I'm in the Mandela Effect or something. I remember Sean's article which mentioned the Turkish (not Hungarian) app developers Teknasyon and their "sneaky subscriptions" model, but I can't for the life of me think which article it was in. I've gone through the Wayback Machine to look at old frontpages of seanbaby.com to try to remember but drawing a blank.
Daphne Lawless
2021-06-17 07:22:22 +0000 UTCThe new design does a great job at capturing the disturbing whimsy of Popsicle Pete, but the original design is an actual portal to the most accursed plane in the multiverse.
Dave Dalrymple
2021-06-16 21:42:00 +0000 UTCI love the blurry Popsicle Pete shirt, it makes me wish I had ordered two of them.
Curtiss
2021-06-16 21:29:31 +0000 UTCI actually was going thru the website archive last month and read the article. It was pretty funny.
Flippant Sausage
2021-06-16 21:24:50 +0000 UTCCongratulations. You finally made me buy a Reading is Fucking Crazy shirt. All you had to do was make it rare. Good job!
Bonnybedlam
2021-06-16 18:57:11 +0000 UTCIsn't this also how Carol Baskin put the Tiger King in jail? If I'm understanding correctly, what a fucked up system, I only hope the dick from the minis listens in. A sincere thanks to Mr. Pargin for sharing his wisdom, you are a true philosopher Sir.
LyraV
2021-06-16 15:12:49 +0000 UTCI was listening to older episodes while waiting for this one to drop. The diebel verse one was playing and I decided to answer Brockway’s question of what the guy sounded like. What I did find was that all his frito lay flavor submissions have been deleted from his Facebook page. Which tells me he listened to your show.
DeltaFoxtrot
2021-06-16 14:57:39 +0000 UTC
