Cheer Up, Emo Kid is a webcomic centered around life, love, and loss; whose mission is to bring to light the rarely acknowledged humor found in the most terrible of situations — be it heartbreak, depression, social awkwardkness, loneliness, or anything in between; and something to keep you company when no one else will.
Cheer Up, Emo Kid contains violence, nudity, strong language, lowbrow humor, and suggestive themes including but not limited to revenge, sex, drugs, depression, suicide, racism, cannibalism, beastiality, and the constant, relentless ridicule of fat people. It is not suitable for anyone.
Cheer Up, Emo Kid is currently not being updated regularly.
So I’ve been a bit busy lately with a lot of things and naturally am completely and infallibly inept at managing my time correctly, but the excuse I want to use is that the workload at school is getting a bit heavier on top of a few other things. We’re still alive, though, but I’ll have to reschedule the updates for now from the regular Monday, Wednesday and Friday routine to Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, designed to work around my class & homework schedule. We’ll see how long that holds up, I guess. In the meantime, some stuff.
If you’ve never heard of The Boondocks, it’s one of the few strips that appear in newspapers that’s actually funny. Funny enough to have an animated series made that’s even funnier. It’s kind of old now, though, and I haven’t seen or heard of any new episodes as of late (and I don’t know how to read, so scratch keeping up with the newspaper comic) but it’s definitely worth a watch.
Someone aired part of a porno to Comcast subscribers in Tucson, Arizona during the superbowl. Epic win.
The obligatory cute kitten video oh my god they’re fucking adorable I want one oh dear give me a kitten please.
One side of me says, baww, that’s adorable. The other side says, bitch, you dumb. What do you think?
The operative word being “happy”, of course. Since I have nothing new or interesting to report, here’s a couple of YouTube videos and pictures.
Facebook Stalker Rap
Tetris is for Chicks
Emo Song of the Day: “Best I Ever Had” by State of Shock They have the obligatory slow-motion instrument playing in the rain scene, what more could you ask for.
Holy shit it’s a duck with boots on that is so fucking cute I want one
Did you know that the most gym enrollments come right after new year’s, when everyone makes a resolution to “lose weight” and subsequently work out? The first few weeks afterwards, gyms see the busiest hours they will see for the entire year. Afterwards, visits start to dwindle as people get lazier, and eventually it becomes business as usual. Not that the gyms are complaning or anything, since they make the most money this time of year.
Update 12.22: Turns out, I hate Vanilla. I’m looking for a better alternative.
Update 12.20: The forum is up and running at its most basic level, check it out.
A couple of things. I was going through the web statistics for Cheer Up, Emo Kid this morning and noticed a ton of links from Plurk.com. Turns out, it’s just another social networking site, which I can only describe as Twitter on crack, and I was intrigued, so I signed up. Unfortunately, nobody I know uses Plurk, which brings me back to the question — who’s linking to CUEK? HUH? Come out of the woodwork and add me. =) I’ve always like as much as possible to keep in touch with people who comment on my work and stuff, so I wouldn’t mind catching up with a few more faces. (And also, I have no friends. SELF-ZING.)
Who came up with the name Plurk, anyway? As cool as the social network is, the name leaves a little to be desired. You can say “just Facebook me”, or “hey, did you catch my Twitters?”, but when I tried out “I’ve been Plurking for the last few days” it sounds like I contracted some sort of stomach infection. But I digress.
Secondly, if I were to make a message board, would anyone post on it? I’ve fucked around with phpBB in the past but never really had enough content to justify the software, so I was thinking of adding something more lightweight (like Vanilla or bbPress) because I want it to be a repository for visitors to come and post their own depressing stories. Kind of like a PostSecret/OneSentence thing, except you don’t really have to be anonymous unless you want to be. The pitch is that if enough people like your story, I’ll make it into a comic strip! Woo hoo! Yes? No?
Thirdly, watch this if you’ve ever wanted to get revenge on your ex-girlfriend.
Anyways, I’m heading down to Cali tomorrow for a day, so the strip for Wednesday might be late. In the meantime, check this out. A Canadian man built a robot girlfriend.
So I was happy when Cheer Up, Emo Kid was accepted to Is It Funny Today?, a place where readers can find & rate webcomics daily, with the funniest ones for the day receiving the most exposure. I was thrilled when the majority of the feedback I received was positive, and ecstatic when CUEK started moving up the charts
And then I checked the website during class and noticed it had crapped out. Less than thrilled, I quickly checked No Spring Chicken, and it was up and running, which made no sense to me since they’re hosted on the exact same server.
So I checked the web statistics and . . . Apparently, what crashed our website was a link from Digg.com, and how about 45,000 people had tried to access us all at once. Holy. Shit.
So suffice to say, I’m really happy, and want to give a big thank you for all the support & feedback. I hope I don’t disappoint in the future!
- Enzo
I blew up some of the drawings for today’s strip so you could see the details and stuff.
I might want to put this on a shirt and have the gray wrap around. And the text can be changed to anything!
If you were redirected here via nospringchicken.net, the change is temporary. The forum over at NSC was broken because of a recent database upgrade, and since the Cheer Up, Emo Kid comics are the only updates that are happening there, I figured it was time to begin the migration to WordPress. So nospringchicken.net will be down for the time being — In the meantime, enjoy the CUEK comics.
I’m writing a graphic novel of sorts, which will be updated once a week on NSC once I get a good headstart on pages. It’ll be about a girl (surprise surprise), so stay tuned for that.
