Firstly, Isabel did an
interview for Tangents a little while back.
Secondly, the store is down due to technical issues we were having. We're looking into other options.
Thirdly, back when I was writing
Literature, I wrote up most of this but never posted it. For context, the story is about one of the Lounge Guys being a reclusive author. This ran shortly after J.D. Salinger died. He wasn't inspired by Salinger, but that got me thinking about such things.
More importantly, it got me wondering if I was a reclusive author. I mean, we don't do conventions; we tried it and found that it wasn't really our style. It's been a long time since I've given an interview (yes, it is ironic that Isabel's interview is item #1 in this news update, but I wrote this up a year ago and it's still not the same as interviewing me). Then again, it's been a while since anybody asked me.
So, being curious, I started reading up on reclusive authors. Turns out there are a lot of them. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Harper Lee, and a number of others who I hadn't heard of. The phrase "greatest novelist of his generation" was mentioned in relation to many of these people, making me wonder if it was a matter of correlation or causation. It might be that being a great author causes reclusiveness. We can't exactly ask them; that's kind of the point of being a recluse. Or it might be that avoiding publicity creates an air of mystery, and people are more interested in a "secret" than in more public information.
One of the writers - I think it was Cormac McCarthy, but it's been a while and I'm not sure - was flat broke. He had a few books out. He and his wife were living in a shack in the woods and eating canned beans. A school offered him $2000 to come speak about his book. He turned them down because all that he had to say was already on the pages. That was when I decided I wasn't reclusive after all.
Fourthly, we've got poll results!
When did you start reading Namir Deiter?| Back when Joy was single | 397 (56%) |
| Back when Joy was dating BoB | 175 (25%) |
| Back when Joy was dating Dr. FF | 63 (9%) |
| Back when Principal Hertz was hitting on Joy | 19 (3%) |
| Back when Joy was dating Isaac | 25 (4%) |
| After Joy broke up with Isaac | 29 (4%) |
Votes so far: 708
How many other webcomics do you read?
| Hundreds | 62 (10%) |
| Scores | 157 (25%) |
| Dozens | 216 (34%) |
| A few | 147 (23%) |
| Hardly any | 19 (3%) |
| I don't even read these comics; I just search internet for polls. | 36 (6%) |