Bearmageddon is of course about the conflict between bears and humans, but it is also about other conflicts between ideas. It’s easy to believe a lot of sunny ideas in our comfortable world where bears are not trying to kill us, but once the bears attack we have to ask ourselves where we stand. Plus it just makes the story more fun to force two polar opposites like Nigel and Dickinson into the same bear infested hell.
In other news, I have been working on some art pieces to attempt to sell on eBay. I don’t have a lot of experience selling my art on eBay but I wanted to give it a try and see if it can help me generate more income. Below is an Octo-Bear I did. This is 18×24, Charcoal, sumi ink, walnut ink, acrylic ink… and other stuff.
"Octobear Frolics in the Pond" by E. Nicolle
I have some others, and will be making some more. I’ll do some Axe Cop, some Bearmageddon, and some other stuff. If you would like to commission something in the higher price range, I might be willing to do it. Send me an email and we can talk. These are not quick little pieces in bulk like at Christmas though, so please don’t expect those prices.
And if you ordered a Bearicature, please make sure to reply to the email you were sent and attach a photo. I have been trying to reply to most of them to confirm I got them. If you get any doubts feel free to check, I did miss a couple orders with the Christmas orders and if people had asked earlier I would have gotten them their stuff on time. This is a little different. It will be a week or two before I start drawing any of the pages with “extras” on them and months before they post. So be patient, your time will come.
Also, if you didn’t order a Bearicature because the good ones are sold out, order a bystander and just let me know in your message that you want to upgrade if one becomes available and I’ll put you on a waiting list. Bystanders are the positions I have the most of and I have sold the fewest of!
If you haven’t clicked “like” or shared Bearmageddon with friends recently, please take a moment to do so. I was looking at traffic and it’s not bad, but the number of new visits is starting to get lower. I know there’s more Bearmofos out there who would be excited to read this comic, they just need to find out about it. Of course you guys are the OGBs (Original Gangsta Bearmofos).
Alright, I feel like that was a lot of talk about money and traffic and numbers. I need to write a real blog. Maybe next time. Today was all business!
Ethan
I love this. I can already see a frenzied Gogs pointing a rocket launcher at a somehow finally incapacitated octo-bear, while Nigel steps in front of it protectively demanding “put that down immediately!”… 🙂
Is no one hungry or needs to pee? Well, come to think about it, they all probably already peed. I like how Nigel is presenting a pretty lame straw man argument and doesn’t even realize it.
And anthropomorphism too.
Nigel isn’t hungry.
You should put a Google+ button on the pages so we can +1 Bearmageddon.
I actually like Nigel’s reasoning here, though I don’t think he realizes he just implicated himself as responsible for all the deaths due to his gross negligence as Team Leader.
Right? If you truly believe in the equality of animals and humans it might be a valid argument.
I’m talking just the human deaths, but I guess he’d be sorta responsible for the bear deaths too by teasing them with hipster kabobs and prompting a situation where defending humans was necessary.
I understand that PETA is suing to have whales declared persons with all the rights of people. They are claiming that places like Sea World are placing whales into slavery. Following that reasoning kind of leads one to Planet of the Apes, no?
I hate Nigel oh so much… I am anxiously awaiting his imminent death at the hands of some super bear with chainsaw paws
Loving the pages so far Ethan. Man – I remember asking you months ago if you’d be interested in drawing me into Bearmageddon getting killed and I see you ran with that idea where people can buy comic cameos to generate income – that’s wicked. Hopefully it gets people interested and helps out financially man – loving the comic as always. take care,
Oh yeah the ninja bacon guy was kind of you. I tried to draw you from memory then I later looked at your pic and realized it was a bit off. I’ll throw in somewhere along the way. Yes after getting this request a couple times somewhere along the crazy idea of monetizing kicked in. It was mainly realizing that I did not have enough money to may bills
Feed the crunchy granolas to the bears and everyone is happy. Bears are full, granolas are happy they are well fed and we don’t have to hear their yammering.
Simple, elegant and gory.
I like this guy’s idea.
Damnit, Nigel… He seems the type who would offer himself up as dinner to a poor starving bear. Can’t let it go hungry, now can he?
I know where I stand! KILLDEER 2012! American needs positive GORE to lead it through the long shadow of the horrible bear menace!
For sellig art, you may get better luck out of Etsy. It’s basically eBay but dedicated to art. My mother had a lot of trouble selling work on eBay, but since she listed on Etsy, she basically can’t keep up with the demand.
Thanks I’ll check that out, maybe I’ll experiment with each.
I want to slap Nigel so bad.
I knew it. That is all.
Wednesday > Life drawing in the evening, get home and find a freshly baked bearmageddon page to enjoy 🙂
Oh sure, these bears just ate two people and tried to kill two of your friends. That’s a perfect time to be advocating animal rights.
Shouldn’t they all still be in shock? Like “Holy sh*t, we almost just died?”
Oh, but they are. First step? Denial! Plenty of room for the jacked-up adrenaline to get them bickering at each other. The part you talk about comes later after they wind down, and actually realize in quiet corner “Holy sh*t, I almost just died”…
Always when I start to enjoy the comic…
Nigel is a stupid strawman. I am sympathetic to what he is supposed to be fighting for, but I dislike his arguments, I fell he doesn’t know at all what he’s talking about, I dislike his personality and I dislike how he has no problem at all with suppressing the choice of others just because he thinks he knows what they should do.
Up to this point I kinda liked Andrea. “I’m with Nigel, this guy creeps me out”. I don’t even know what’s up with her. It doesn’t make sense. The people I know might say “This guy creeps me out” but agreeing with Nigel on that matter is out of the question. We know the thrill of pushing our bodies to their boundaries in one way or the other (yeah, certainly not in the life threatening way Killdeer did here, but you can at least try to extrapolate), we know the momentary rush of excitement and although some might think that it’s kinda disconcerting that he might find that joy in killing a bear it would be considered pretty superficial to judge a person to the point where you want to get away from it as fast as you can from what they’ve seen alone.
To make things short: Nigel and Andrea seem to be incapable of empathy.
I’m with you on this one…I kinda expected that kin of behaviour form Nigel, but after the events on this page, I’m really starting to dislike Andrea.
She’s agreeing with his assertion from the panel before that he’s dangerous and possibly homicidal. He’s actually got a point there, even though he supports it with ridiculous reasoning. Just because the psycho rescues you, doesn’t mean the psycho’s safe or friendly.
Never mind that he’s exactly what they imagined themselves to be when they set out on their excursion,
There’s something rather awkward about that sentence structure in the last panel. “This isn’t kids, Nigel. This is bears that wanted to eat us.” Maybe that’s just me.
Dude, I’ve figured out a subtitle for the comic: Pride and Predators.
HIGH-PAW =CE
“bears are the kids of other bears too”… classic.. you can’t argue with it, yet he’s still clearly the less sensible one.
I just noticed the coloring in this comic is completely spectacs.
Anyone else think Andrea is on the make with the guy to her left in panel 1? I mean she seems to be eyeing him off quite intensely.
Gah! Panel 5, not 1. Scroll up fail.
hard to say, her eyes are gynormous….
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6577627/bearshark This remind me of Bearmageddon xD
Wow, collegehumor totally stole this idea from homestarrunner.com
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail145.html
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail81.html
I thought it was Space Ghost who first established bears and sharks as Nature’s Best Friends.
Love the comic, and just purchased a slot!
How did I know Nigel would have some problem with having his life saved?
I hope Dickinson kills and eats him.
Joel and Gogs ought to badger ol’ Nigel about wanting to snitch to the man. “You idiot wanna-be hippies meet a REAL nature boy and you want to piss yourselves! Screw that, this guy’s my hero. If we even see a dude with a Smokey Bear on his head, we’re coming back and chopping your legs off. Make sure you give that bear a hug while he’s tearing you apart, alright?”
To me, the disconnect is incredible. Nigel is responsible for the death of a couple of his friends due to him swallowing the key and yet he is offended at the man who saved his very life. I’ve had conversations with people just like him and I’ve walked away stunned that anyone could be that ungrateful.
I like it!
I assume that Joel will change over the story.
I’m interested in whether Nigel’s character will change at all over the story.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
I am now officially waiting for the day where Nigel stops a character from killing a bear, then gets killed by said bear.