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Writing Exercise: July 2013
(After leaving Elan, I kept various journals of my thoughts, I am going to start posting ones that I can dig up. This is exclusively for you Patrons because I truly appreciate your support. This particular one is interesting because it was one of the first times I started putting my experience into a "literary" form. )
MIKE, 0 months in Elan
Currently sleeping in his bedroom
Mike wakes up, its 3:30...
2019-11-15 21:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostWriting Archive: September 17, 2010, 6:29 pm
(After leaving Elan, I kept various journals of my thoughts, I am going to start posting ones that I can dig up. This is exclusively for you Patrons because I truly appreciate your support.)
The thing about getting Shotdown in the Elan school was the randomness of it. One day Fred was COD (Coordinator On Duty), running the house and maybe making your life miserable and the next day Fred was Shotdown cleaning the toilets before and after you used them. Many would get Shotdown fo...
2019-11-14 21:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostPersonal Archive (I wrote this 6 years ago)
After the General Meeting (pictured above) the rest of my first day in Elan blended into a gray haze. I guess that is how your mind reacts when put into an environment so foreign and strange. It just seemed to shut-off, as if its only goal was the self-preservation of my sanity. I never thought a place like The Elan School was even possible.
I went to sleep in the "dorms" with my Big Brother still inches away from me. My plan was to fake sleep to see if there was a chance to slip throug...
2019-11-14 03:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostRead this to enhance your comic experience and make it even more terrifyingly real. Good on Details magazine for being one of the only publications that tried to expose Elan while it was still open. It took forever to dig up the text from the suspiciously missing page of this article, but I got it!
Chapter 36 NOW!
https://elan.school/36-the-score/
Password (case sensitive): Available
2019-10-15 21:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh 35! Early Access for Patrons
Chapter 35 is now available at https://elan.school/35-hell-to-pay/
Everyone else needs to wait until Friday, here is the password to unlock it (I think it is case sensitive):
Family
2019-10-02 22:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostCh 34: "The Before Time" READY
https://elan.school/34-the-before-time/
2019-09-14 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I am Joe Nobody AMA, Pdf (download)
Reddit archived the thread so nobody could ask any more questions, so I decided to remove it from public so I can offer it here to Patrons.
Its about 71 pages... so... lots of reading for anyone up to it.
2019-08-02 20:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 30 ready early for Patrons!
https://elan.school/30-destroy-something/
2019-07-05 23:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostTo My Patrons from Joe Nobody, Please READ!
Hey all, I need to get some things off of my chest and I think you, paying Patrons, would appreciate hearing some of these things.
The comic has become something amazing, I never knew it would become like this. The next chapter is chapter 30! And let me tell you, I have plenty more to go, I would guess this thing could easily get to 100 chapters.
That being said, if you go back and reread from Chapter 1, you will see that there is a lot of new content. Many new art slides an...
2019-06-27 00:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A for Liz
I was recently asked some questions by a Patron and I wanted to answer them publicly so that everyone could see it. Sorry it took me a little while to answer but finishing this last chapter on time had me wrapped up.
1. Did you ever see or hear of anyone who was ever able to convince their parents to pick them up and take them home?
Elan was really good at controlling the information that came to us inmates. So only after Elan, looking back, was I able to infer that this did indee...
2019-05-13 14:42:45 +0000 UTC View PostYo Patrons, check updated chapters 1 - 9
The more I did Joe's Journal, the more I thought about all the small details that many of the readers would probably find interesting.
So I went back to the beginning and added another narrative voice. Hope you like it. Updated some artwork and added another panel or two as well.
Will probably keep doing this until I really see my vision. Because I still have a lot left in me.
Thanks for your support everyone.
Just posted Chpt 26
House of Notebooks was meant to be a two-part. It was taking a while so instead of waiting, I just posted half last week, but here is the second half.
2019-04-26 01:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostJoe's Journal, at the end of the Chapter
I am up to Chapter 4. Just an FYI in case you wanted to get some more insights into the story behind each chapter.
2019-04-22 17:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostA powerful post from an ex-Elan resident
I am a part of some ex-Elan groups on various parts of the internet, this was recently posted and I think it describes how many of us feel. (Note that not everyone was sent to Elan by manipulated parents, that was just one of the many ways that Elan filled its houses.)
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Imagine being an Elan parent. It must be absolutely horrible. I know that my folks searched high and low to find the perfect place for me to finish high school. This was before the internet and Google existed. ...
Chapter 24 Now Ready
Chapter 24 is now ready for early access to all Patrons.
Here is the link: https://elan.school/24-communication-breakdown/
Use the password: Led Zeppelin (yes, with space between)
Thoughts on "The Ring"
I saw the Ring on many occasions, even as late as the year 2001. It was a really sick thing to watch.
When I first got locked up in the cult called Elan, I was pretty disturbed by everything I was witnessing but for some reason I thought that the Ring would be something that was actually cool to watch. I guess that is just how teenage boys thinks. And of course, what I was picturing in my head was very different from what I actually saw.
I remember hearing one day that we were hav...
2019-03-22 00:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23 "Encounter Groups" is now ready for all Patrons!
https://elan.school/23-encounter-groups/
Password: Elanosphere
2019-03-12 01:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostFollow Me On Instagram (if you have it)
Instagram also seems like a more convenient way to show little quick leaks of upcoming chapter art.
So follow me if you have an IG account!
AMA Question: what was your reaction to the outside world after you got out?
It sucked, really. Everyone, even me, thought that the second I left, it was going to be like heaven. But it was honestly more like that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where the older man doesn't actually want to leave the prison by the end, and when he gets out the world really scares him. Obviously it was on a less intense scale than spending 20 years in prison, but I think that movie nailed the very real idea of being "institutionalized".
Institutionalization becomes like a weird ...
2019-03-09 23:46:24 +0000 UTC View PostAMA Question: I remember reading that residents were discouraged from behaving in a truly friendly and therapeutic manner toward one another, so "talking down" a violent/deranged kid must have been a delicate balancing act.
Yeah, I can remember many moments of potential violence, particularly while on the corner SP, where it seemed completely hopeless to be able to talk someone down, especially because even they knew it was all a mind-game at that point. Many times, people had at least one or two people in the house who everyone knew could get through to them, so many times we would have to send for that one person. Basically, the one person that even that particular corner kid would not bash with a chair, becau...
2019-03-09 23:44:29 +0000 UTC View PostAMA Question: Were corner kids allowed to bathe regularly and change into clean clothes, or were they just left there to rot like carcasses?
Corner kids were allowed to shower, but that was more for the sake of everyone else. Actually, after being in the corner for months and months, they didn't want to shower or brush their teeth anymore because they were becoming more animalistic in nature.
We brought them down after waking them up very early in the morning (even earlier than the rest of the house) and we threw them in the shower, but they were only allowed a minute or two under the water. Just enough to get the point acro...
2019-03-09 23:43:16 +0000 UTC View PostAMA Question: What red flags, as someone who was on the inside, would you recommend that outsiders be on the lookout for to avoid programs like this?
I think it all has to be about communication. If a program wants to put restraints on any form of communication: letters, phone calls, visits, etc... then it is probably a bad place.
Parents should be able to visit their children any time they want. People should be able to make phone calls without going through a switch-board or having another person listening. The US mail is supposed to be a right for every citizen, not something that a person can "earn" or have taken away from them.<...
2019-03-09 23:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Early Access
Link: https://elan.school/22-catching-feelings/
Password (case sensitive): Patreotic
2019-02-27 02:05:29 +0000 UTC View PostComic Redesign
Hello my Patrons. For one, thank you all so much. I have made it this far thanks to your love and support. I truly appreciate your belief in my project.
Many of you have likely seen the post I made on reddit about my redesign of the comic layout. (If not, feel free to leave any constructive criticism or feedback as a comment here).
I truly want this comic to be the best it can be and after some thought, I have decided on some changes. Nothing too big, but at the same time, big ...