It’s been a while, I know. I had to take a detour from the Emo Haircut story line. Due to my setting some ambitious production goals, I have gotten bogged down a little. I will finish the EH story soon.

A special thanks to the Precocious Little Deuce for guest-starring in this week’s comic. You can see more of her work here.
Thanks for reading.

Nathanael “Radthanael” May helped out with the lighting for my shots on this comic. He has been staying at our house the last two days. We don’t get to see each other often, so we made a checklist of all the things we wanted to accomplish. We made a video about that. We are pretty proud of it.

To make good on last week’s lapse, I’ll post two comics this week, one today, and one on Wednesday. Seriously, thanks for your patience.

Also, say hello to my sweet, gorgeous, wife Andrea. She agreed to guest-star in this story line and class the place up bit. Who’s got his caps lock on and married up? THIS GUY!

PS: I just got a good look at my meat-hook of a hand there in panel one. Anyone need a jar opened?

Hi gang, I’m planning to get a run of die-cut vinyl stickers printed up of the Biz Fairies. Initially I’m only going to do one of them and print the other as I sell enough to pay for the next run. The stickers will be about business card size, which makes them perfect for adorning your laptop, sketchbook , Trapper Keeper or automobile.

Not having the hard production numbers yet, I’ll not commit to a price, but I plan on offering something like a 3-pack of stickers for somewhere under $5. It will be fair for stickers.

I need your help. Since you guys will be the ones buying the stickers, I want to make sure the first Biz Fairy I print is your favorite one. So, if you could take the poll below, I would be grateful. Here’s a side-by-side shot as a reminder.

In other news, I created a Facebook Group for LOLZIES!!1@!. I’ll try to keep it fun. I’ll upload scans from my sketchbook and other little extras as well.

I don’t use traditional forums myself (They are kind of ugly!), even for things I’m really into, so it seemed like offering a group on Facebook, where many of you already have accounts, would be handier for you than asking you to sign up for yet another forum. And don’t worry, I’m not going to pout if there’s not a new post every week discussing the literary and artistic weight of my comics. I’ll keep it more about having fun with generally funny discussion, photoshop tennis, videos, scavenger hunts and stuff like that. I’ve got some ideas for how we can have fun with the stickers too.

Thanks for reading.

Charlie

This will be either a four or five part series, so that means a little break from the Biz Fairies for a few weeks. If you guys revolt or something, I might drop one in between somewhere.

Stay tuned for my asking you about your real feelings for the Biz Fairies in the next few days. I’m pricing some die-cut, vinyl stickers of one of them. They will be small enough to slap on your laptop, CPU tower, car and should be a real gas.

Thanks for reading.

The week’s hiatus has been due to our second daughter finally making her grand entrance. When I’ve not been squirreling away extra hours of sleep, I’ve been nibbling little cheeks. Good times.

If you’d like to learn something about the ideas in today’s comic, please enjoy the Wikipedia article on Self-Actualization.

UPDATE: 10-09-08
I forgot to include this link yesterday, but if you’d like to get a better look at, and/or buy, the “crass t-shirt” in this comic, enjoy Stabby McKnife over at Threadless. But take your sense of humor, or you might get mad at me.

Hopefully we will see at least one of Strawbs’ shows. Geraldo Rivera’s Mustache might drop in now and again as well.

As for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, I can’t stay mad at those guys.