I'm a Bit Closer to Believing

[thehefner]

After my week of struggle and angst culminating in the latest LJ entry, leave it to chickenhat to make my day:



I'm utterly moved. As Bloo remarked, "I want buttons."

And speaking of Bloo...

In addition to my new poster/postcard design, Bloo and I started batting around a couple other ideas. She was wondering if there was some way I could play with that "in the shadow of Hugh Hefner" motif, maybe having the shadow of a bunny (HARVEY-style?) behind me or something. I turned down that idea, then jokingly remarked that I might hand out black postcards, just pitch black, and say "That's a photo of me in the shadow of Hugh Hefner."

Then we came up with doing a separate series of teaser postcards. No image, no info on the front, just black matte postcards with the sentence, "Meet the Black Sheep of the White Bunny Family." The text would be white, but the word "black" would be in a darker shade of black than the rest of the card, and glossy too. That just might stand out and pique curiosity amid all the other postcards.

Two sets of postcards. Yeah, this just might work after all.

Now I'm just going to need to step up the marketing of HOW HEFNERIAN when I do it in Orlando. Maybe do an illustrated guide of what is and what isn't Hefnerian, ala those "Do/Don't" pictorials. Do it in three columns of images: "Comedy," "Tragedy," and "Hefnerian."

Heh. Once I get back to work after my break, let's bump this shit up a notch. Bam!

Comments

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

Not at all.

I think people want you to take the obvious and easy path. I think it would cheapen the brilliance of your work. Just my opinion.

And I really don't think that people wanting you to push the Hugh thing puts you further into his shadow.

Most of those friends, when they hear "Hefner", probably think of you before they think of him. That puts you further out from his shadow.

BTW.. did you see where I made a bunch of scans daily kids cry in the Watchmen post today?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Agreed, and while some will argue that the obvious and easy path is what it is because I have a rare and golden opportunity that 99% of other artists do not and I'd be a fool not to use it... I'd rather try to make it as a fool first.

Aaaaand I just read it. Yeesh, you shoulda bailed out from the start, pally. That's just everyone digging themselves further in. I agree with your snark, but hey, the person reading it hasn't gotten very far (she thinks they're going to continue Jon's blue wang), so she's yet to see the brilliance. Let's face it, if WATCHMEN were coming out today, and this was the latest issue to come out this week (as new to us as it is to her) those pages would totally have been posted up on scans_daily. She's just catching up, methinks.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying.. one snarky comment and they all start crying like a 6 year old girl with a skinned knee.

Take your midol, kids.