You can buy his comics and books by sending a cheque or cash to his PO box, along with details of which issues you want and your mailing address. He will then send you a physical copy of the comic or book.
I still don't believe that he's produced as many of his comics as he acts like he has, there's just no way in hell. Part of me wants to put in an order for a copy of each, but I don't have that kind of money or room if he actually has created 116 of them. Think of the shipping alone!
Somebody send Sweets a copy of Understanding Comics. Or maybe just tell him to quit.
I've been very tempted to do this exactly. Also throw in a handful of comics with singular writer/artists that know what they are doing as examples to study. I know my time and money would be lost on this effort.
Sweets still interests me past his shitty comics, but you all say what I want to so much better lately, so I've kept relatively quiet. In the end I'm not sure why he can't get around the fact that there is no organized system to keep him down. If there was, why hasn't it kept other members of this very board down? If there was a system to suppress loud-mouthed poor midwesterners, that were born in the late '70s, don't know how to dress themselves, and enjoy comics and shitty tv shows, how the hell did I manage not to fail as much as him? I'm not bragging, but even with several wrong turns I'm not sure if I could get down to living his life.
I've always been serious when I say I want to see him succeed and shove it in our faces. I don't think he's too old to turn in around. I don't think he's too mentally fucked up to be helped. I don't think he even lacks the skill to put out a decent comic page (I think if he took his time and wasn't beholden to a self imposed time-line he could cook up something half decent). What he is, and we've said this over and over, is too stubborn to get on with his life. He has a huge ego, but no self confidence. He barely has any self preservation instincts. He has enough so that he won't risk his hide to save his mother from a beat down, but not enough to properly have a hole in his wall fixed after it has lead to heath problems.
Sweets came here to sharpen his claws against what he thought were easy targets. We engaged. He rage quit. Then he came back and rage quit again. He runs back to AJM calling us bullies and speaking of revenge. He doesn't know why we find him interesting. He still doesn't see what makes him a lolcow. He rallies against us all as if we are crack in The System laid bare for him and the world to see, and he doesn't get it that we're just a random assortment of folks laughing at him. I miss talking to him about comic page layouts and getting stories out of him directly, but he'll never come back because he's a coward and knows he can't obfuscate his stories by editing past posts as he pleases.
Jon, if you read this (I know you will, you read them all) I implore you to stop posting on AJM, stop visiting here, sit down, straighten out your finances and get control of them. Get your room clean and that hole in the wall fixed if it isn't. Go visit a doctor and get a physical, give blood and urine and then ask doctor for a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist for your laryngitis. Call the doc a few weeks later and find out the results of all that and what you can do to better yourself, be it drugs or other. Do whatever you can to arrange rides from someone you can trust to and from the doctor! All the time you have at home should be spent either making your life better or taking time on your comic. No one will care if the latest edition of the Belch Dimension doesn't "ship" on time, because the Belch Dimension doesn't ship anywhere. I'm serious. Take up to 3 months on your next issue. Make it the best one you can draw. There's nothing wrong with quarterly comics, especially if they are quality. Do rough sketches of your pages to make sure all the speech bubbles and panel will fit on page the best. In the end I know this will fall on deaf ears (blind eyes?) but just think about it.
