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HISTORY OF WICKED UNSCRIPTED:
(as of July 2008)
Wicked Unscripted actually started years ago,
back in 1999 when some friends in High School said something so
funny we all nearly bust a gut. It was those dumb things you say and
everyone laughs. I made a comment about how I wish we had images to
go with the story. I was told “why don’t you just draw it”?
At the time I did, it was bad, it was stick
figure-ish, it was corny, I have no idea what happened to the maybe
20 or 30 drawings that made up the first Wicked Unscripted.
Back then Ctl+Alt+Del [www.Ctrlaltdel-online.com]
was brand new. Tim still lived on Cape and we talked on AIM a few
times. He also encouraged me trying to do a comic even if it was
just for myself. Again, I tried I lost the pages somewhere. Sucks
too, some of it was funny.
Zoom ahead- 2007. At dinner with my friends Dan
and Erik they both went on tirades and the waitress said someone
should write this stuff down. I grabbed a napkin, snatched a pen and
suddenly WU was re-born.
I loved The Devil’s Panties [link] and I
thought “why not make another reality based web comic?” my friends
are funny as hell, and besides I NEEDED a new creative outlet. I was
desperate for one actually. So over coffee with Pete I pitched my
idea and told him I had gotten really good feedback on my DevArt
account (where WU was originally posted). He offered to gift me a
website and work as my admin pro-bono, (as a way to make up for
accidently breaking my heart a year before).
Thus
www.wickedunscripted.com was born. Pete designed the original
site in about an hour and a half one night and we went live. But as
things happen, he eventually got so busy with work and life and such
that no matter how many people bugged him (girlfriend included) he
just didn’t have the time to update my site, my archives and
everything else for me. Hence the first hiatus.
August 2007- Juli and Pete have now broken up,
Juli has moved in with Justin, Lindsay and Alex and she has joined
SoulGeek.com where she meets Mike. She shows people WU (including
Jennie Breedan of The Devil’s Panties) and gets great feedback,
people asking nay begging for more. Mike let’s her know he’s a site
admin for plenty of people and will do her site for free so long as
she keeps the art coming.
DEAL!
Juli hands the site-duties of WU over to Mike
Sorensen and he goes to freakin’ town re-vamping the whole look,
feel and general coolness of the site. Juli had liked Pete’s design
but Mike’s layout she felt touched closer to what she wanted. Mike
got Juli’s art, and became a big fan of it. In fact, he’s one of her
closest friends these days and a great big sounding board for “Hey!
Mike! Hey! Is this funny?”.
Her roommate at the time, Ikkin wanted practice
with Photoshop and Juli was getting sick of her handwriting filling
in the speech bubbles. She thought it looked like crap. So Ikkin
offered to do that. It wasn’t uniform but it worked for Juli and you
could ACTUALLY READ THE COMIC!
Hiatus #2:
Tried as she might to get stuff done, updated
and ready Juli fell behind due to college, illness, a relationship
and of course working 2 jobs. She had to let WU slide for a while
but kept writing idea’s in the infamous “big grey book that barley
fits in a purse but is somehow convenient”. To date she has gone
threw 2 of these books and the second one houses over 75 undrawn
ideas, and counting.
She got cracking, she started to draw again, 12
comics done- no site updates. Why?
VISTA SUCKS $%^@! Actually, no the laptop she
got for college decided “I don’t like this AC adapter I’m NOT going
to work!” Frick!
Pete took pity on a PC-less Juli and let her
barrow his laptop for some time. But, he needed it for work and took
it back. ENTER PICKLES!
Hiatus #3:
Pickles, or Matt lent her an awesome lap top.
Problem was, it ran on Linux. Linux is Juli’s preferred platform for
an OS, but it doesn’t exactly agree with most programs used to
“make” the comic, like her scanner.
Here comes Cilla and John. Cilla and John take
on the duty of scanning for Juli so she can get the art done. Cilla
even went back and re-photo shopped ALL of the archives so Juli had
typed in text in every comic (has that even made it on the site
yet?). But Cilla then left for boot camp. Pickles then offered to
take over Cilla’s task.
“My site needs merch!” It was bound to happen,
Juli said it, Mandi heard it. An hour later Juli had a WU store on
Zazzel. Mandi has kept her word and runs the WU Merch shop. Juli
says an idea, or Mandi pitches one and she approves and what do you
know? New stuff for the geek-savvy to buy!
Pickles takes the laptop he loaned Juli back,
to give to Cilla. He loans her a desk top… it lasted 3 days before
it committed seppuku. You’d think with all her “tech-support”
buddies Juli would have gotten it fixed right? Well, she’s broke and
they’re busy. So no.
And well… Pickles, still has yet to photo shop
anything Juli has sent him, it’s been a month. So she went to John.
“Pleeeeeease?” John agrees to help. She goes over to his place, they
scan, he enters text and tadaaaah WU goes live again.
That is the story thus far.
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