It's been a while since I made any posts here, but I have some great news: I'm starting up 3 new comics. Yeah. THREE. Two of them are once a week, and another is scheduled at random.

[link] Horrible Game Comics! Updates Saturdays. Starts 9/5 (TODAY!) I'm making a gaming comic! I know you're thinking "Big Deal", Right? Well mine is trying to stand out by being as stupid and low-brow as possible because most gaming comics suck anyway, so I figured what the hell

[link] Gunk & Brunkle, the comic! Updates Sundays. Starts 9/6. Based on my animated short. Following the insane adventures of an inbred wearing a pot on his head, and his abusive best friend.

[link] Ryan J. Smith Toons! Updates on weekdays as often as possible. Starts 9/7. Completely random gags that pop into my head, really. In the same vein as web strips like Perry Bible Fellowship, KC Green's "Gunshow", [link] or Dave Kelly's "Big Ones." I also intend to use this website as my "main" hub with my online portfolio and everything. You can still find that stuff on ronnieraccoon.com for now: [link]

As for Ronnie Raccoon, truth be told, I just haven't been sure what I want to do with the guy. I'm not abandoning him, I want to develop him into something better, I've just been too lazy to go through with it. What I really want to do is put him in print. I think that'll eventually happen.

In case you haven't heard yet, I'm on Twitter! [link] Follow me for any updates on the comics! As well as anything else I'm working on, or anything that's on my mind.

Not that I've been all that productive on the internet lately, but I figured since this will probably be the last chance I get to make my announcements....

First, I'm moving out of my apartment and going back home at the end of the month. I was just informed by my roommate that the internet will probably be shut off by tomorrow, so I likely won't be online at all until the 1st of June. Which will actually be a good thing, because maybe I'll stop playing around with Facebook and actually work on updating my art and website for a change.

UPDATE: Apparently I still have internet access. Still, I should be focusing on artwork.

Now for the important announcement, "Gunk in Abductard" was accepted into the New Jersey Film Fest at Rutgers University and will be screened on June 6th. It will be the first official public screening that I will attend myself.

Hopefully I'll have some new material to show when I return.

Can you believe these movies came out a whole freakin' DECADE ago?

The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
Austin Powers 2
The Mummy
Office Space
The Iron Giant
American Pie
The South Park Movie
American Beauty
The Blair Witch Project
Being John Malkovich
Fight Club
Dogma
Idle Hands
Pokemon the Movie
Man on the Moon
Galaxy Quest
Stuart Little
Sleepy Hollow
Toy Story 2
Star Wars Ep. I, The Phantom Menace

I have more vivid memories about some of these movies than some movies that came out THIS decade. Some of these movies I own on tape. TAPE.

Hey everyone, I entered "Abductard" [link] under the student films portion of the ASIFA-East 40th Annual Animation Festival: [link]
The student film screening is in New York, at the School of Visual Arts next Tuesday, March 10th, beginning at 6:30PM. As an ASIFA member, I'll be going to see the premiere and vote on the films. If any of you can go, I'll see you there!

I'm going to be visiting the New York Comic Con tomorrow, looking for companies to hand out my DVD reels and resume to. I'm just gonna be walking around. I don't have a table or anything, but there are a few people from the Kubert School who do, so I might hang with them for a while. I already know Scott Kurtz and the Penny Arcade guys are gonna be there, and I'll have to look at the guest list to see who else I'll want to visit. If you're gonna be there, you actually know what I look like and happen to run into me, come and say hi, I'll try not to be too creeped out. I'll be showing off my sketchbook too. If you wanna know what I do look like, I'm tall and fat with shaggy hair thick square shaped glasses. I also wear an awesome bucket hat.

One more thing: I joined Twitter recently and I tend to post things there a lot more often than I do here. So come and follow me, and if you're not signed up, then join.
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