Gnomeo and Juliet

February 24th, 2011

So I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I’ve heard some interesting stuff about Gnomeo and Juliet. I’ve been trying to talk my 5year old into going but he’s just not interested. Despite the fact that he’s obviously a gnome aficionado. He keeps telling me we should just buy it on dvd – I’ve trained him well.

When I first heard about it, I had mixed feelings. On one hand if it’s good, it might make the demand for gnome-related entertainment go up (I know, how can it get any higher, right… we’re in a gnome renaissance) which can only help gnome-themed comic strips. But on the other hand, if it sucks it could potentially put people off of our pointy-hatted friends. After thinking about it a bit, the fact that decent money was invested to make a movie about gnomes has to be a good thing. I’ve heard mixed reviews about it, but it seems like a fun story… even if they got a lot of the facts wrong :)

So I’m looking forward to checking it out. If anyone has seen it, I’d love to hear what you thought.

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200

December 6th, 2010

Wow, 200 strips. One hundred was a big deal for me… two hundred is huge. It’s been a bit of a bumpy ride over the last year with some things going on in my life, but it’s always nice to take a step back and look over the state of the strip to see how far it’s come. After doing this 200 times, it’s pretty crazy how different things look (almost hard to look at the early strips). All in all, it’s been a pretty great year. The first book was published (still have a really good sale going on, by the way), I had a lot of fun at the Baltimore Comic Con, I launched the redesigned site, and got a bit more focused on the strategy of the strip.

I’m really looking forward to what’s coming up for Gnorm and I’m also pretty excited for some other projects I’ve started working on as well – 2011 should be a fun year. So I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for continuing to read and support As the Grass Grows. Especially my wife, Sarah, for not only being my biggest fan, but also keeping me from getting down on myself when things were tougher than I would like. If you have the urge to create a comic strip and publish it on a regular basis online, I highly recommend having an awesome and supportive wife ;)

-Brad

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