Hello ya eejit! Welcome to the first ever edition o’ The HAiVERiNGS! I’m delighted ye’ve taken the time to have a gander!
So, what’s this all about?!?
This is the place to get eejits COMiCS directly into your peepers (via email or app) as well as occasional news from The Glen.
Don’t worry I won’t be flooding your feed with nonsense, this is an occasional thing, maybe once a month or so. I’m still finding my feet with this app and writing a newsletter, so things may chop and change as I work things out. Stick around and see what happens.
If you are coming here from Patreon - do not worry! This is not replacing The Clan over on Patreon. The Clan will still be the place to get exclusive updates, behind-the-scene stuff and early access to the eejits COMiCS. I am launching this newsletter because Social Media is dead on its ass. It’s getting harder and harder for creatives to get eyeballs on their creations so this is another way to connect directly with fans like yersel.
Now here’s what you are here for - the latest COMiC.
#17 - The SiTOOTERY
The Chieftains are heading off to meet at The SiTOOTERY but someone’s running late...
For the COMiCS ARCHiVE, please pop along to https://www.eejits-online.co.uk/comics
Here’s the HAiVERiNGS!
happenings from The Glen…
BBC IGNITE
Ever since I won the Animation & Character category o’ LicenseThis! (run by Brand Licensing Europe) I have been chasing Animation Studios to try and get eejits made into an animated series. Just imagine the chaos that they’d bring to the screen with their antics! I got soooo close on one occasion but it fell through at the last (or maybe the first) hurdle.
Crestfallen, I stopped pitching and chasing them for a little while. Until one day I caught notice that the BBC were looking for submissions for their IGNITE program - a contest looking for ideas for TV where entrants submit their one page pitches anonymously.
The BBC Ignite animation programme looks for fresh, bold and innovative TV series ideas for a fully funded development opportunity.
Successful creators receive funding to co-develop their idea in partnership with us, developing it into an industry standard proof of concept which we will then consider for a potential commission
Entries were to be sent in by the end o’ January with everyone being told if they had or hadn’t been chosen in June. There were over 1600 entries for 40 places in the first round. Unfortunately, eejits never got picked to advance into the program. Dammit!
I was pretty optimistic, maybe naively. I had taken advice from other pros in the business including one of the winners from last years contest. I thought I had everything lined up and had a good chance. Ach well, it wasn’t meant to be this year. Maybe next…
EXTRA HAiVERiNGS!
from around the web…
This is the section where I will be recommending some cool fellow cartoonists/artists, other Newsletters, products I use and enjoy, helpful apps, trailers/movies that I love or any other groovy stuff I have found and delight in. Hopefully, you guys will love them too. (Full disclosure - some of the links will be affiliate links where I may receive a wee donation for the recommendation)
In this edition we have these delectable delights:
[PODCAST] - Looking for tips and tricks to improve yer comic, yer writing and be entertained at the same time? Then, my friend, the COMICLAB PODCAST is for you. Hosted by Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett, two fantastically funny cartoonists from America (don’t let that put you off!), with years of wisdom in the art o’ making webcomics. I support them on Patreon and get access to their Discord Server as well which has been a massively beneficial resource in making the eejits comics.
Check out the Podcast here!
[TRAILER] - If you have followed me for a while, you’ll know I LOVE cool character design and one of the greatest designs in Horror movie history IMHO has to be that o’ the vampire NOSFERATU. The original silent vampire flick was released way back in 1922 and became pretty influential - the Bram Stoker estate tried to get it banned! But now they are bringing the vampire back from the dead. Looks pretty awesome (but I don’t know why in the name o’ The Glen are they are releasing it at Christmas!). Can’t wait to see it.
Watch the NOSFERATU Trailer here! He is coming!
[PRODUCT] FUSSY Deodorant - I have always hated spraying me pits will aluminium based products and was looking for an alternative that was natural, good for me, sustainable and most of all worked! I stumbled upon FUSSY - a natural and high quality stick o’ deodorant that’s good for yer pits and the planet (their words not mine). You get a reusable case and just buy refills. Simple. I’ve just come back from a holiday in Spain and it worked a treat in the heat (my words not theirs).
Get yours here and get 50% off your first order!
Who’d have thought ye’d have me blethering on about natural deodorant in an eejits newsletter but there you have it. Expect the unexpected.
SiGNiNG OFF
So there we go! The first ever edition o’ HAiVERiNGS - the eejits Newsletter. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please share this with yer mates who you think would like this sort o’ nonsense. If you didn’t, keep it til yersel! Ha!
Until we meet again,
George