Monthly Archives: November 2007

New Happysad t-shirt design!

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Let’s give this another try…

You may well remember how lots and lots of fans were asking for Happysad tees, how I finally uploaded one of the most popular cartoons (the Lost in Translation one) to Cafepress.com, to see what would happen.

What happened was: ONE person bought the t-shirt. Can you possibly imagine what a unique item this person now owns? The only Happysad Lost in Translation t-shirt in the whole wide world! I don’t even have one of those! And can you imagine how incredibly filthy rich this person will be when they put it up for sale on eBay in a few years, when I’ve become world famous?! The best part is: they will be incredibly rich AND own a Lost in Translation shirt, because they ordered it twice! :-)

So do you want to be rich too? Well now ‘s your chance! I finally followed the advice of all those visitors who suddenly felt a bit less like buying a shirt “because it was too detailed”, and I’ve uploaded a new design. It’s a slightly reworked version of the desktop background image I once posted here. It even contains… a dash of colour!

So go and check it out now, at http://www.cafepress.com/kartoen !

If this isn’t nice, what is?

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Hi. How are you all holding on out there?

To quench your thirst for golden nuggets of wisdom about life, and in anticipation of new Happysad cartoons, I’d like to share a quote with you. It comes from the book I’m reading, Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut.

[Uncle Alex Vonnegut] said that when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it. He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery, or fishing and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door. Uncle Alex urged me to say this out loud during such epiphanies: “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

It just so happened I read this bit in the most perfect of circumstances. It was a calm, sunny Sunday afternoon. I had just been raking leaves in MY garden and cleaning up a bit in MY house. I put some music on, fixed myself a drink and sat down in my comfy chair, while the sun beamed down on me through the skylight. And then I read that paragraph, and it all made so much sense to me. If this isn’t nice, what is?

Sure life can be a bitch sometimes. But as that other (more famous) quote says: “Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length”. And to finally quote myself: I’m not always sad and miserable, you know :-)

Maybe I’m still with you… (#500!)

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If I haven’t lost count somewhere, this should be the 500th Happysad cartoon!

And now this one’s published, I’m going to take a break. Yes, I really need one. Digging so deep every day has been therapeuthic but also quite exhausting. I’m kind of worn out now, so I just want to have a rest, reload the mental batteries and look for some new inspiration.

I don’t know for how long this will take, could be a few days, could be a few weeks… but I’ll keep on checking the comments here and maybe publish some other stuff in the meanwhile. So don’t go away, I’ll be back!

Jeroen