#the anthem of that 30 page comic I did

[nonetoon]

Your clown curse art is so good that I want to make a 2012 style angsty amv so so bad

If there is ever enough Clown Curse content to make an angsty amv someone has to make one to Airhead by Honey Revenge it’s the law

[zpxlng]

Hello everyone, did I mention my new Tobias and Jube comic? I can't recall. Anyway, it's called Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery and the first chapter is up on the Stela app right now! It'll run for five weeks; one chapter per week. It's basically 50-something print pages, in total — a little book, like an Asterix book! It is also, would you believe, suitable for all ages. And 'all ages' doesn't mean 'children', it means ALL AGES — I'm looking at you, Granddad! You think I can't see you curled up on the floor behind the recliner? Granddad? Oh, the old silent treatment, eh? The old silent and motionless except for sporadic twitching treatment, is that it, old man? Pathetic.

I'm exceptionally proud of Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery and excited for you all to enjoy it. It's not free — you do have to buy it (god, I know) — but at least you can buy it without leaving your house! FRESH LAUGHTER AND NATURAL HUMAN DELIGHTS, EVERY WEEK. And phwoar, look at those gorgeous colours by Lin Visel. Pages of that good stuff. Get into it.

BUT WAIT. Did you think that was all? "Oh, he's made the funniest comic in the history of the medium, surely that's enough for one man" — was that you just now?

[shakes head sadly while throwing head backwards in flamboyant laughter]

"I don't think I've smiled this much listening to an album... ever? Ever."

"I would say this feels like the soundtrack to a mysterious, quirk-laden Japanese PS2 game, but it's the soundtrack to a wonderful comic!"

"I almost choked on my own snot listening to this. Patrick you are wonderful. My new anthem here."

"This unironically owns."

"That record is like some evil corrupt maniac formed the second coming of the Bonzos just to corrupt the minds of children."

"That was brilliant! ... What an inventive track, nice to hear something different."

"Holy shit! This is hilarious and great!"

"The most fun you can have without burning down a church."

— Comments already received from authentic fellow humans

Yes, Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery is also a 30-minute album of amazing songs, subtitled The Euphonious Companion, which makes quite a long and grandiose title altogether, but I promise it's not prog, IT'S NOT PROG. It is a POP album but WEIRD POP and oh my goodness, remember how the comic is the #1 and sole greatest thing I've ever done? Well the album is also the #1 and sole greatest thing I've ever done! How is this possible? It's not. It's a miracle.

Bandcamp! iTunes and Apple Music! Spotify! Google Play! Soundcloud! And Amazon and Deezer and even Saavn, and other places too — just search for the album. And you can even Shazam all of these songs, which is really cool. If you play my songs at a party, people can go, "Siri, what is this stream of pure, rainbow-flavoured delight? I must know!"

It is a DELIGHTFUL album; that is the word I keep using. You will be delighted. It's only a short album — go to Bandcamp and have a listen. You will feel delight, I promise. This isn't cartoonist music, this is cartoonist AND musician music. You've been waiting for it, bored with everything else, and now, here it is.

"Patrick I bought the album and subscribed to the comic, I am into this Tobias and Jube thing, help me!"

Tobias and Jube prints and goods at redbubble! Tobias and Jube stamps for Line messenger! Old-school Tobias and Jube comics that I'd hoped to have rescanned and recoloured by now, oh well! You want more?? Tell me about it! No, actually tell me about it. Thanks.

Thanks for enjoying my work, and thanks in advance for telling your friends and social networks about it! It makes a big difference; you have no idea.

tl;dr: Lots of new Tobias and Jube stuff! Here and here. Hooray!

[justgotham]

It’s a beloved DC comics supervillain that made a huge resurgence in 90s pop culture with peak Uma Thurman and Joel Schumacher’s oh-so-campy! Batman & Robin. She’s Poison Ivy, a Gotham City botanist who moonlights as the most seductive eco-terrorist the world has ever seen.

One exciting creative decision made by FOX on Gotham’s just-wrapped third season was the abrupt aging up of Ivy Pepper—renamed for the series, in a departure from her comic book alter ego Pamela Lillian Isley—in the premiere episode, setting the stage for the orphan girl’s gradual transformation into the villainess Poison Ivy we’re all familiar with. In what’s lovingly referred to as “SORASed” (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) in the world of daytime television, 15-year-old actress Clare Foley bowed out with 28-year-old newcomer Maggie Geha assuming the mantle.

Geha’s career is still very much on the up and up. After getting her start in the business as a recurring guest star on the soap All My Children and featured roles on 30 Rock, in Beyoncé’s “Pretty Hurts” video—she’s also a model, duh—and Ted 2, Gotham is her biggest score to date.

Anthem met up with Geha for an intimate photoshoot in New York last week in advance to our interview. In the kind of rewarding chat where we know very little about the person going in, we sit down with the actress to discuss her early days, the big career lessons, and season four of Gotham.

Gotham returns for season four with its premiere episode “Pax Penguina” this fall.

To start, tell me about this table read you were at today.

So I just got back from the table read for Gotham season four, episode one, which is very exciting. We start shooting the very first episode tomorrow. The gang’s all back together. We had a great hiatus. I think everybody was really happy to see each other and get the new season underway.

It must be a different feeling coming back to a show as opposed to starting on it fresh.

Yeah! It kinda felt like coming back from school vacation and seeing all of your friends on the first day. I look forward to seeing how the writers evolve Ivy’s character for season four.

Do you have a pretty good sense as to what your character arc will be this new season?

You know—I think that varies per character, per show. In my experience, it’s always a different story. I didn’t know too much going into season three. Occasionally, you’ll get bits of information from a producer here and a writer there. I think that’s because it’s very much a collaborative effort. I mean, obviously, there’s a method to the madness. Some of it’s like, we’re all trying to figure it out as we go along. So I don’t know anything at all about what’s going to happen in season four—for Ivy, at least. I’m just kinda figuring it out as we all get the scripts.

I would think not knowing where it’s going leaves room for both anxiety and excitement.

Totally, yes. It’s mostly excitement for sure. It’s just really fun getting the scripts and being surprised to find out what happens. And then it’s like, “Oh my god, I can’t believe I actually get to do this.” You read it on the page, we do the table read out loud, and for a lot of us, it’s the first time we’re finding out about things that happen. It’s just exciting!

The scope of TV is obviously so big nowadays. There’s so much good stuff out there. Does it feel like you’re shooting a really long movie when you’re on a show like Gotham?

[Laughs] Yeah! Well, we have 22 episodes in each season. That’s a long season, with a pretty short hiatus. I think Gotham is very cinematic. It’s shot like a beautiful film. So yeah, in some sense, it does feel like an extra long film, which is nice! You just have a little longer to enjoy it.

You were on All My Children and soaps are very fast-paced. Gotham must be very different.

Oh yeah, very different. I have endless respect for actors that work on soaps. I only worked very briefly, but I can tell you that those actors probably work harder than anybody else in the business in terms of how fast-paced it is. Their memorization muscles must be really strong because they learn all their lines and then immediately shoot them. You get one, two takes—tops. For Gotham, we shoot smaller sections, we have to know less lines day of, and we get several takes. And on a movie—usually, depending on the schedule—you get even more takes and even more time.

How did you get Gotham? Did you go through a traditional auditioning process?

Yeah! I was out in L.A. for a couple years just auditioning. I also moved out there for a change of scenery from New York. I got the self tape [audition] request from my agent, so I just put myself on tape in my living room and that was pretty much it. I met with the casting department at FOX in L.A. I went into their office and had a meeting. Essentially—they actually said this—the meeting was just to make sure that I was a real person and looked the same as I do on tape. [Laughs] And that was it. There was a little bit of a waiting period and then I got the call nine o’clock at night from my team that I got the job. About a week later, it was back to New York to start working.

It’s crazy what Marvel and DC has become in our culture. It was big when I was growing up, but in the ways of cartoons and action figures. The live action stuff we get now—to this extent—were really unthinkable. The fanbase for Gotham must be pretty intense.

Oh yeah, it really is. One of the nice things about being a part of the comic book world now is that, as actors, we get to go to these awesome conventions where we get to meet fans of the show that we’re on. And not just the shows, but also comic books in general. We get to meet die-hard comic book fans. They dress up in these incredible cosplay outfits. The whole comic book world is fairly new to me and I just find it fascinating. It’s amazing to meet the fans because they’re incredibly loyal and some of the sweetest people I’ve ever met, honestly.

So you’re going back to work on Gotham tomorrow. What’s the shooting schedule like?

We wrapped season three at the end of March, so we were off in April, May, and part of June. We pretty much shoot all year. We have two-and-a-half months off, basically.

How do you like to manage your day-to-day, given the erratic nature of an actor’s life?

That’s one of the hard parts, at least for me. I can’t really speak for other actors. It really depends on what project you’re working on. For Gotham, it’s an ensemble cast and there’s 15 series regulars so there’s a lot of us. It’s not like every single one of us is working every single day. It depends on your role, where your character is in the storyline, and what they’re exploring at the moment. I personally did have a lot of downtime, so it is important to sort of structure your day and make sure you use your downtime wisely. It’s tricky not having structure in your day—a nine to five or something like that—because you can find yourself becoming lazy or unproductive or twiddling your thumbs not knowing what to do with yourself. But I think it’s something that you get used to as an actor. You do learn how to structure your own day and be your own boss, basically. I mean, I fill my time with other creative endeavors like auditioning for other smaller roles if I can do them outside of Gotham. Friends, family… Trying to make myself a better person… [Laughs] Studying, working on your craft, always trying to learn and grow and be better… With these conventions that we do, we have to travel and stuff like that. There’s stuff to do outside the actual shoot. Even today, there was the table read. We have fittings and stuff like that.

What one big realization have you made while working in the industry?

That there’s no limit to what you can achieve in life. Growing up, for some reason—I don’t know why or where I got this from, and I don’t blame my parents or my upbringing—I had an inferiority complex. Like I said before, I didn’t think becoming an actor was an attainable goal for me. It sounds cliché, but going through my career thus far, it has taught me that the sky’s the limit. A dream that might seem out of reach really isn’t. You just have to take risks and work hard and be patient. Anything is possible. I’m throwing around clichés, but that’s the biggest thing that being in this business has taught me. You can do whatever you want to do if you put your mind to it. There’s no reason to assume that something’s out of your reach.

All clichés are born out of truth—including what I just said.

If you had told 13-year-old Maggie that she would be playing Poison Ivy on FOX with Warner Brothers, I never would’ve believed you. I would’ve laughed at you because, at that point in my life, I just couldn’t imagine that I could actually do something like that. We can really do anything we want, anything that we set our minds to, as long as we work hard and believe that it can happen.

What kind of roles, stories, and genres do you hope to explore going beyond Poison Ivy?

Well, I love this question because I’m at the beginning of my career and I feel like I’m sort of a newbie. [Gotham] is my first television role as a series regular, so I have pretty much everything else in front of me to do. I would love to do something involving my musicality. I love to sing and I love music. I also love dancing and grew up with it. I would be head-over-heels excited to do something like La La Land. I’ve always wanted to do a Western. I would love for my work to allow me to travel. I would love to do a period piece, more than one period piece—every period piece. I would love to do a good comedy where I can play a weird supporting character, kinda like Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids. I also love sci-fi: Alien, stunts, fighting… I would love to do something “badassery” à la Wonder Woman. I definitely don’t limit myself to one type of genre or character. I can only hope that my career will bring a whole lot of versatility, and help me to grow and challenge and stretch myself as an actor. I can’t think of too many things I’d turn down.

I have a lot of respect for actors because so much is at stake for the individual. It could all go so wrong. There’s compulsion to it. For a lot of actors, they have to do it.

Totally. So much of our job is dealing with rejection, too. You and I both, man. I also have a lot of respect for actors. I ask myself this constantly: “How… Why am I doing this?” [Laughs] It can be maddening being an actor. But like I said, I think it’s just embracing the fact that whatever role that’s right for you is gonna come your way as long as you put in the hard work. That’s what I always tell other actors. If you give up, you’re never going to work. Don’t give up.

[njawaidofficial]

How Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" Dethroned "Gangnam Style" as YouTube's Top Video

http://styleveryday.com/2017/07/13/how-wiz-khalifa-and-charlie-puths-see-you-again-dethroned-gangnam-style-as-youtubes-top-video/

How Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" Dethroned "Gangnam Style" as YouTube's Top Video

YouTube’s increase in users racked up views on this catchy pop hit, the music video reaching nearly three billion looks as of Monday.

Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” music video featuring Charlie Puth didn’t inspire any viral dance crazes, shatter any cultural barriers or attract the attention of leaders around the world.

So how did the video, set to a clip from the Furious 7 soundtrack, became the all time most-viewed video on YouTube with nearly 3 billion views Monday, usurping the most-viewed throne from Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” which had held the record for nearly five years?

At 5:30 p.m. ET July 10, the “See You Again” video hit 2,894,026,649 views over 826 days since it was released on April 10, 2015, and whereas “Gangnam Style” was a catchy and comical viral hit that exposed the world at large to K-Pop, “See You Again” is emotional hip-hop ballad used to pay tribute to the late The Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker (and his character), who died in a car crash in 2013. 

One reason: YouTube has simply racked up a lot more users.

In 2015, YouTube published a report noting the increasing pace at which videos were reaching the billion-view mark, and between 2015 and 2016, YouTube’s music users grew 17 percent up to 1.2 billion, according to Mark Mulligan, music industry analyst at Midia Research. There was also a 25 percent increase in total YouTube music video streams and a 7 percent increase in average monthly music video streams over this time. 

“It’s pretty crazy that it impacted so many people,” Wiz Khalifa tells Billboard.

Another factor helping “See You Again” average more than 3 million views per day in 2017: Vevo, the music-video ad-sales platform owned by Universal Music and Sony Music. Mulligan says Vevo has been driving more music views lately with its recommendation algorithms, while YouTube’s autoplay function is resulting in more music-video plays per viewer session. The advancement of messaging apps that account for 7 billion monthly users globally have also driven discovery and link sharing. 

“So, in short, expect records to get broken more routinely,” says Mulligan, who estimates the video has generated about $2.9 million for the rights holders.

For an example of what’s to come, one need look no further than the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” is making a strong case to be crowned this year’s song of the summer. The chart-topping hit’s video has more than 2.5 billion views racked up since it’s release in January and, now averaging more than 20 million views a month, looks on track to dethrone “See You Again” before long. 

Ironically, when the “See You Again” video was first released, it wasn’t even on YouTube — it was on Facebook. The campaign was the first of its kind, partnering Khalifa, Puth, Diesel, Walker’s estate and Universal Studios to world premiere the video concurrently on the artist, actor and studio Facebook pages. The result was record breaking in itself, creating the biggest video premiere ever on Facebook, reaching 40 million views in just 12 hours.

A week later, the video was release on YouTube and was viewed 175 million times there in the first month, hitting the 1 billion-view benchmark in six months and going on to be the year’s most-viewed new music video, according to YouTube. Since, the video also saw viewership spikes around New Year’s Eve after Puth and Khalifa performed the song during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2016, as well as the release of Furious 8 this past April, which grew daily views by nearly 50 percent up to present day. 

“I wouldn’t ever underestimate the power and the loyalty of the Fast and the Furious fans,” says Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing at Universal Pictures. 

Along the way, Kevin Weaver, president of film and TV and executive vice president of Atlantic Records, says “multiple billions” of pieces of user-generated content helped boost the song’s performance, along with incredible support from the Furious 7 cast and franchise, which included Diesel singing the song onstage at awards shows. Meanwhile, the track spent 12 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and ruled radio airplay. 

“It was a hit song the way hit songs used to be,” Puth tells Billboard of his breakout track. “It became such a monster overnight, I’m pretty sure hit songs don’t happen like that anymore. A week after it came out, everyone was already singing along.”

Through it all, the song began to take on its own life, separate from Furious 7 and Walker, becoming an anthem much like Puff Daddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” for anyone who’s had to say goodbye to a loved one. Only here, thanks to the massive reach of the film franchise, the international reach was huge — just 15 of the total views are from the United States with viewers, on average, watching about 75 percent of the video to completion, according to Atlantic. 

“I think the reason it had such an impact and it continues to have such an impact is the personal connection that everyone who experiences the video has with it,” says Weaver. “It resonates with people in such a personal, profound capacity.”

“The song has taken on so many layers, layers that I never even fathomed when I wrote it,” adds Puth, to whom the most-viewed title holds particular meaning having begun his career posting videos on the platform. 

The song “See You Again” closes the Furious 7 film in a touching scene where Walker’s character, Brian O’Connor, literally drives off into the sunset. Knobloch tells Billboard that although the song was released ahead of the film, its video was held until after its release so that the fans would have that association with it rather than something conjured from the music video.

“We wanted people to see the film first to experience Walker’s character’s sendoff,” Knobloch says. “Then the video was meant to be a souvenir piece to recapture that sentiment — strike the same chords but with the right context of hopefully the first experience of it being from the film.”

And while soundtrack songs are often trying to “level up” from the “basic standard template” of a music video cut with film footage, Knobloch says, with “See You Again” the feeling was that “people would probably want to have that retrospective film footage from shots of the movie.”

Weaver echoes this sentiment telling Billboard it was essential “that we conceptualized something that had an aesthetic, sense, feel that ties to the film.” To achieve this, he pointed to them even bringing in the same cars featured in Furious 7 and generally making sure it tied “into the fabric of the DNA of the film and the brand and what the moment at the end of movie was with Paul.”

While the sentimentality of tributing Walker has surely helped boost the video’s success, Knobloch is sure to state repeatedly that element came from an entirely earnest place and was not exploited as part of a greater marketing effort. 

“We were very careful to not force feed this to people,” he says. “Vin [Diesel] and there other cast members, everyone’s well utilized in the marketing of the franchise and each new release of the film. This was not approached with that strategy play in mind.”

Puth expects he will “definitely” be dethroned soon. “But I’m just enjoying it right now,” he says. 

Says Wiz Khalifa: “I think as an artist you hope, or at least I hope, that I can make music that people love for years to come.”

This story first appeared on Billboard.

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