So yeah it looks like I'll be doing a comic here every couple of weeks, maybe? Who can say for sure. Not me.
Here is a drawing of Guile from Street Fighter II, or possibly Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix:
I drew it for the hilarious and now available for purchase Tootleg Boy by fellow genius Ben Hutchings. I wrote about Tootleg Boy and how wonderful it is right here. If you enjoy Hilarity Comics, you will certainly enjoy Tootleg Boy, and everything else by Ben Hutchings ever! Like this for example:
‘Hilarity Comics’ Returns With Vengeance, Slaughters Thousands In Bloody Reprisals
THE INTERNET, Computers – October 20 – Thinkers, artists and aesthetes shat their pants in unrestrained bliss today, upon learning that Patrick Alexander’s Hilarity Comics have returned to the internet. “Oh me oh my,” they went, rolling gleefully in their own wet filth.
Imagine the intensity of their incontinent squirtings when they learn that Hilarity Comics have not just returned, but returned TWICE! Oh, what a mess, what a mess.
* EEGRA, that website about videogames, will feature Hilarity Comics about videogames, like it did before! Except smaller!
* A second, parallel series of Hilarity Comics will appear at a brand new website, simply called ‘Comics by Patrick Alexander’, which also incorporates Raymondo Person (currently frustrated).
Cartoonist Patrick Alexander, described by onlookers as ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’, emitted the following statement:
“Piss and farts and tits and balls –
“Hilarity Comics has it alls.”
* About Hilarity Comics *
Patrick Alexander’s Hilarity Comics were originally created for EEGRA, “the internet’s premier website for making you feel bad about liking videogames,” and read by probably about 250,000 self-hating nerds. Frequently described as the videogame webcomic for people who don’t play videogames, Hilarity Comics is now both not about videogames anymore and still about videogames, making that description even more paradoxical and confusing, and therefore apt.
* About Patrick Alexander *
Patrick Alexander spiller musikalsk gennemtænkt singer/songwriter pop/rock, med stor troværdighed og engageret intensitet, både når han fremfører sangene i et sparsomt akustisk set-up, og når han spiller med sit godt sammenspillede og kompetente elektriske backingband.
* Contact *
Madeline ‘Chicken’ Parmigiana, Public Relations
press@chickennation.com
Patrick Alexander, Cartoonist
panic@chickennation.com
1) This review was originally published in Hyper magazine a month or two ago. I'm republishing it here because a) it's content, and b) most of our audience is American, and therefore wouldn't have seen it before. Big thanks to Hyper, and Daniel Wilks in particular, for letting me do this. If you live in Australia or New Zealand and don't read Hyper, then stop being silly and correct your mistake.
2) Speaking of stuff I've written for places that aren't here, I also reviewed Brütal Legend and Research and Development over at games.on.net. I'll probably be doing a bit of work for these guys over the coming months, so make sure to check back there often.
3) We are doing comics again! Starting this Thursday, Patrick will be posting new Hilarity Comics every week. Since they're the only reason most of you bother coming here, I can only assume this counts as good news.
4) Yes, we are still doing t-shirts. And yes, they will be available sooner rather than later.
Note to American McGee: This is how you edgify children's entertainment. Look at that Mickey - that Mickey is badass. If that Mickey met your Alice, Mr. McGee, he'd jam his brush into her eye socket and paint the world with her brains.
Note to Warren Spector: If you haven't already, feel free to put that move in the game.
Here is a thing that is not an Eegra thing, but will be of interest to Eegrans and Eegroids alike.
Here in Australia, the national broadcaster is preparing to launch a new children's television channel: ABC3. They held a competition to find presenters, which, since I wasn't busy drawing comics or designing t-shirts or anything, I entered. The major part of each application was a one- or two-minute video, and here is mine:
Astonishingly, my entry wasn't successful, but at least we got a fun video out of it.
Feel free to browse the 'Related Videos' on YouTube and see a bunch of other mongs who entered. I really am better than other people! I mean, just sort of generally and objectively.
Oh, uh, the video had to have a '3' in it, in case you're wondering what that was all about.
Hello everyone. About those Hilarity Comics t-shirts: I've scribbled some very rough ideas for designs, and we'd appreciate your feedback, either in this forum thread, or by email.
Remember that these designs are far from final, so tell us your immediate, gut reactions -- "Yes, I'd totally buy something with that character; no, that one's total shit" -- and feel free to make suggestions or requests. Once again: forum thread; email.
If you live in Australia and are interested in seeing me and some othercoolpeople discuss the exciting world of videogame blogs, then make sure to tune into Good Game on ABC2 at 8:30 tonight. I don't know exactly which parts of mine made it into the segment, but I'm pretty sure there's going to be at least one shot of me typing obscene nonsense on my laptop, so that's something to look forward to. Also: I managed to get through the whole interview without once bad-mouthing Kotaku. Quite an achievement, I think!
(Note: the show will also be available via the Good Game website, so you can still watch even if you don't live in Australia or don't have access to a TV.)
By the way, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to the "call-to-arms" we posted last Friday. I haven't had time to read all the emails etc. we've received, but based on the ones I've seen so far, it seems most of you are interested in buying t-shirts with funny pictures on. That's cool – we can do that. I can't say when exactly, but hopefully we'll have some designs for you to look at in the next fortnight or so. In the meantime, I'll get a PayPal donation button up on the sidebar over there. Feel free to use it whenever the mood strikes you.
You may have noticed that Eegra hasn't been updating much lately. The reason for this is straightforward enough: we can't afford to. From talking to you guys via email and on the forums, we get the impression that many of you think Eegra is a hobbyist blog that Dan and Patrick run in their spare time. It's not. Eegra is a business. Right now, with ad revenue (scrunchies!) and the occasional t-shirt sale, we don't generate sufficient income to guarantee our continued existence.
We are currently in the process of courting potential investors, and though initial responses have been encouraging, this whole global recession thing has made the process a little longer than we expected. In the meantime, what we need is a little interim cash - enough to maintain a reduced update schedule until we secure more substantial financial support. This is where you come in.
Basically, we'd like to know if you're willing to spend money to save Eegra. If you're not, that's cool. We understand cash is tight now, and we know that frivolous gaming blogs aren't exactly high on most people's list of priorities. Totally understand. And, hey, even if you can afford to give us money but simply don't want to - well, that's okay too. Assuming you see something you like, maybe you can click an ad or two? We've gone to a great deal of effort to ensure we don't run terrible ads on this site, and though we've made a couple of mistakes in that respect, it's unlikely that clicking on – or even just un-blocking – our banners will destroy your internets. I'm just sayin'.
But enough about the non-spendy types. Here's a question for those of you who are willing and able to support us financially: how would you like to do it? We've already had a few ideas.
Donations! This is the most obvious route, though probably the least attractive from your perspective. But let's say we did put a PayPal donation button on the sidebar there - would you use it?
T-shirts! Let's say we made a T-shirt with something from the Hilarity Comics - would you guys be interested in buying them? We could even do a pre-order poll of sorts, meaning that we'd put up a bunch of designs for you to choose from, and only the most popular ones would end up getting produced.
Hilarity Comic prints! Pretty self-explanatory – high-quality prints of your favourite Hilarity Comics. (Patrick is very particular about this sort of thing, so you can expect they'd be classy.)
Other things! There are a few other ideas we've been tossing around: custom comics, selling virtual shares, prostitution. At this point, we're more or less open to anything, so if you have a suggestion, then please – let us know.
As you can see, we've set up a new poll with options for all of the above. If you have the time, we'd appreciate your vote. Or you can just email us your views directly, if that's what you prefer. Whatever the case, we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
THE EEGRA PEOPLE
(Oh, one more thing: can anybody recommend a hosting service that might be willing to host our site in exchange for promotional links/banners etc.? )
If you live in Australia and are interested in seeing me and some 
