I recently got an email from Jenni over at One Thing. She wanted to tell me that several of her kids are fans of Bitmap World. In particular, her 12 year old daughter was so inspired by it that she started her own webcomic. Right now, Jenni is featuring her daughter’s work every Sunday on her blog. But who knows what the future will hold! Perhaps Jordan will have her own site in the future.

Jordan uses Paint to do her comic, something Jim/Ravenswood would be proud of. I know there is a lot of negativity about Paint, but it really is a great free utility for those starting out. Even though Jim uses Paint Shop Pro, he still does the majority of the work in Paint.

It really does warm our hearts to hear that our comic is loved by kids, and also inspires them to be creative. In fact, we have learned that 2 separate schools (one in the States and one in Europe) offer classes on how to do comics, and Bitmap World is included in their reference curriculum. We are very proud of that, because our goal from day one was to create a strip that would be safe for kids to read, but still enjoyable by adults.

Anyhow, thanks to Jenni for letting us know about the strip. Here’s a link to Jordan’s comic. Kudos to her, and best wishes for a long comic career!

You know, when we created the BYOC, we never imagined it would be the greatest “save-face” for us! On days when things just get too caught up, we can create a filler strip in 10 minutes so that YOU, our fans, have something to read until we can get the new strip up. Now, we don’t always put one up, but when we do, we always have so much fun with it. I do have to give credit to Jim, because he is the one that does them the most…and I think they are just hysterical. He truly is a great comedy writer.

Just to appease your curiosity, Jim and I are working on 2 projects: 1 personal and 1 freelance that will bring us in some much-needed money (can’t blame us for that). Bitmap World is still very important to us, so we want to assure everyone we do make every effort to stay on schedule. But, when we can’t, we’ll still try to entertain.

See you tomorrow!

In addition to everything else that’s going on, Michelle has come down with strep throat. So you’re getting a rare blog entry from me. When it rains, it pours. Except it’s actually snowing around here.
 
We feel bad when we deliver a comic late. And we feel really bad when a Booyah is late. So, we wanted to put something up.
 
In case you’re wondering, No Rest for the Wicked, MegaTokyo, Absurd Notions, and Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life are four webcomics which are famous for being late or missing updates. Although you probably guessed that already, but mentioning it gives me an excuse to link to all of them.