I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle

Heads up everyone, the ‘Create a Jeanie’ Contest is almost at it’s end.

If your unaware, here’s the DeviantART post,

http://sunmk.deviantart.com/journal/30866422/

This contest is to create a genie that will be used in the comic. If your interested, you have till the end of hte week to make a submission.

Here’s the objective.

There will be an appearance of a new female genie character in the up coming comics. This new genie has to be female, a bottle genie, and she is currently on/in the ocean trapped in her bottle.

Beyond that I leave her design, history, bottle design and even her name up to you. You can use any guide you want, the TV show, comic, or make a Genie completely of your own.

The contest will be open till the end of April (2010).

The prize
The prize will be a selection of ‘I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle’ items from the DA prints/store.

How do you submit your entry?
Post your Genie entry on your DeviantArt page, and add a message (with the link/url) on this journal entry for all to see. The entries will be judged by myself and a select group of impartial judges on design and concept. Artistic ability will not be a deciding factor. Include as much or as little information about your genie as you want.

Rules and conditions,
1) You can submit as many entries as you want,
2) The winning entry’s character will be draw into the ‘I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle’ and may appear in future comics,
3) The winning submission design may be modified to fit the comic’s style and story. It will also be allowed free use for the comic and any future continuation or publishing of the comic,
4) The winning submission creator must agree to free use of the character,
5) The winning submission must be PG rated in appearance.
6) The submission must have a graphical picture of the Genie, but artistic ablitly won’t be judged.
I look forward to reviewing your submissions.

You’ll never guess what happened. I was working on the comic today(Sunday). And while in the middle of it, got called into work. I figured I’d be back in the evening so I could finish the comic then. Well, not so. I got back home at 11:23 PM. AND I have to be back in to work for 6 am tomorow. So I’m going to hit the hay tonight and attempt to finish the comic tomorrow.

This is not a promise, but I will be attempting to complete a I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle Comic every weekday this week. So stay tuned for daily updates.

This is for this week only, I intend to go back publishing as I can, next week.

OK, lately I’ve been getting a bit of slapping around about spell checking and grammar.

I’ve been accused of being everything from lazy, incompetent, to being dyslexic. So let me point out a couple things.

First of all, I have never been diagnosed as dyslexic. If you want to believe I am, I don’t really care, but it would be nice to stop posting I am. Most of my spelling and grammar mistakes are common mistakes that can be made by anyone. I’ve never excelled at spelling in school and guess what, lots of people suck at it.  Some people are good spellers, some aren’t.

I’d love to have a buffer of comics and proof readers, but the rare times I do get a buffer, it gets used up and I’m back to rushing comics before deadlines. Which means the spelling is sometimes overlooked.

Second of all, I make comics as a HOBBY! I like drawing and I like making comics. I don’t generate enough revenue for it to be anything CLOSE to a job. For my actual job, I fix equipment that costs millions of dollars. I’m trusted to maintain and keep devices working that thousands of people depend on and some depend on for their very lives, and I often work in very hazardous conditions and locals. And you know what, I’ve dam good at my job, I enjoy it, and I probably make more money then most of the people who read webcomics.

I’ve poured a lot of time, finances, and energy into making these comics. Because I enjoy it, and I’d hope others would enjoy reading them too. I don’t rely on income from webcomic for anything other then helping with promoting the comics.

If my spelling upsets you so much, I have a very simple solution.

STOP reading the comic.

I mean, I don’t get it. Who’s forcing you to sit in front of a computer and read poorly spelt comics?

I have no problem with people pointing out spelling errors. Even though I sometimes feel like crap for missing a obvious mistake, at least I’ll know about it so I can eventually fix it. I do try to fix mistakes but fixing them is a lot more work then just going in and altering a picture. I have 3 digital copies of each comic. You only see one of them. When I fix the spelling on one comic I need to fix the others to, which ends up taking time.

It you want to be a troll or a smart ass, I have no problem banning you from the site. And if it becomes a big enough bother, then I’ll stop making the comics all together or focus on making comics to publish on Lulu or some other self-publishing site. People who WANT to read my comics could buy them instead of reading them for FREE online.

Remember, ‘I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle’ was suppose to be a one time comic. It’s only being continued because fans want it continued.

If you’ve been following my Twitter, you’d already know I’ve left japan and am at a midway travel point before returning to work in the middle east. Tomorow is the final leg of my journey back. If all goes well, I will be back at my computer tomorrow evening.

Hopefully I can get a sailorsun.org and Jeanie comic pumped out within a couple days after my return. As well as make cleaner scans of the drawings made while on vacation.

Thanks for all of you for waiting and watching without updates till I am able to get back to the comics

I keep checking some of my favorite webcomics, and I see more and more slowly slipping into long-hiatuses or even non-existences. It’s a sad thing to see the passage of time slowly taking away the things we enjoy so much. While others start up and die quickly, many have stood the test and have proven themselves to the public, only to be stopped by the creator/author/writer/etc skipping an update, then two, or three, then a week, a month, a year goes by and no updates.

Every so often I chat with other webcomic artists, who tell me there reasons for not updating, “I have work”, “I can’t find the time.”, “I don’t have the energy.”, “I’m depressed.” All valid reasons to delay updates, after all, the comics are a hobby, not a job for many of us. And the whole time in the back of my head I’m thinking “Really??… If I can be in a WAR zone and keep updating 2 webcomics (even though the updates schedules may be delayed), you can’t update one once in a while? or at least buckle down and make a conclusions for the fans?

Though I get writers block and delayed at times for various reasons, I’m glad that you haven’t given up on me, because despite how busy I get, or where I am, I plead to keep both ‘I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle’ and SailorSun.org going as best as I can, till they are concluded and not before.

Hello All, I’ve decided to jump on the face-book bandwagon.

Anyone wanting to be-friend me, I’m listed as ‘C.d. Rudd’,  since ‘CD Rudd’ isn’t acceptable for some reason.

Well, after most a year in the middle east (Afghanistan) I’ll be heading home before the end of the month. There is a family event in Europe which I have to attend at the end of August, but with any luck I should be returning to a semi/normal schedule in or right after August.

This does mean I’ve effectively missed the CON-Season. The only Con I know of that I hopefully will be able to attend is Hal-con in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. As such I’m curious if there are many Halifax fans (or fans attending Hal-con from out of town) of SailorSun.org and/or I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle.

If there are a number interested, I’ll see about setting up a Meet & Greet somewhere near by the convention. I use to live in Halifax, so I have a general knowledge of the city.

Hey all,

I’m looking for suggestions on improving ‘I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle’. What do you think should be added or removed to make the site better? More artwork? pages? etc…

Well, Hal-con was lots of fun, and the couple days I took to spend with friends and family afterwards equally enjoyable.

Now I have to get back to the buisness of posting comics. My computer’s Operating System has to still be re installed which means I probably won’t be able to get any comics made till the weekend. So I’m setting the date this upcomming week (Tuesday) comics will resume as per normal on BOTH SailorSun.org and I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle.

Thanks for understanding.

I’m sure many of you have noticed that the updates on Sailorsun.org and I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle has been less then regular. I hate to say it, but updates may be less frequent in the coming weeks.

For the past couple weeks I’ve been putting in a lot of long days at work, which translates into less time to make comics. One of the reason for the long days have been preparing for a trip to Virgina (United States). I’ll be there for just over 2 weeks. I do plan on bring my comic making things, but I don’t know now much time I’ll have to actually WORK on the comics; nor do I know if I’ll have internet access, so there may not be updates till I get back in March.

I recently learned of a Kindle book written and illustrated by fans of “I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle”.
Now it’s not a fan-fiction of the comic, or of the TV show ‘I Dream of Jeannie’, but there is a scene involving a a genie, a date, and 3D glasses… (apparently 3D Movies are good first dates for Genies).

If your looking for more Genie-ish reading material and have a Kindle, IPAD, or any other electronic reader you can read Kindle books on, you may want to check it out.

Three More Wishes : Be Kind To Your Genie @ Amazon.

I’ll write more after I’ve finished reading it myself.

Well, It’s been a while since I’ve done a contest, so here’s the newest one,

Inside the Bottle!

We all know Jean gets stuck in her bottle when she tries to sleep. We can also assume she’s eventually going to end up trapped inside her bottle at some point.

So here’s the challenge, design what the inside of a Genie bottle is like.

The category bottles are:

1.     the inside of Jean’s bottle as it is now (despite Jean not spending much time there)
2.     the inside of Jean’s bottle (after she re-decorates when being stuck inside for a while), or
3.     inside of Araceli’s bottle.

You can enter either a drawing of what you think the bottle’s interior should look like, or create a blue print with a layout of where things are (No written descriptions). Artistic skill is not a factor.

Things to remember…

• Jean’s bottle’s living area is ovalish, while Araceli bottle has a cylinder bottle;
•  As much as I’d love to let you all go with the Doctor Who idea of bigger on the inside then out, try to keep in mind it’s a bottle and the Genie shrinks to fit into it, so limit yourself  to one ‘room’ with limited space;
• again, it’s a bottle, so the walls should reflect the pattern or design of the bottle.  Jean’s bottle is Blue with Red ovals all around, Araceli’s is a solid black glass ;
• Bottle’s are not necessarily going to stay standing up right… so consider that when having objects that might end up being projectiles when the bottle is knocked over or shaken.

Entries should be uploaded to a website and linked either in the comment of this post, forum post on 910CMX or on the DeviantArt’s journal entry

Each person can only win in ONE category, but can enter any/all and submit multiple entries.

Now onto the good part, prizes…

The winning bottle design will obviously become the designed used in the story.
The winners of each category will get a custom commission piece by myself of any SailorSun.org, I Dream of a Jeanie or other CD Rudd character.

(No comics, over complicated commission, Non-CD Rudd characters will be considered depending on the complexity, and no adult commissions)

Contest end date will be June 30th, 2012, so don’t wait till last minute.

Hello all,

Sorry I’ve been missing the last couple updates on both SailorSun.org and I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle.  Last week, I had a couple fast balls at work and in my personal life that had to be addressed ASAP (Nothing extremely serious, my family and what not are all fine).  Between all the fast-balls, I’ve barely had anytime to myself, hence the comics had to pushed to the side.

I’m hoping to have everything resolved mid this week and updates will resume shortly after that. Also first chance I get it’ll mail out the donation image for those who have not yet recieved it.

Thanks all.

This Event is now OVER!

We raised over $1000! Yippy!

You can veiw the artwork created, at http://charity.910cmx.com/gallery/

December 1st (Saturday), I’ll be participating in the Web-Charity fund raiser. Where a bunch of talented artists will be online, drawing and raising funds.

I don’t know what time slot I’ll be given yet, but I’ll post it when I get it. There will also be a bunch of other great artists on… (not quite sure why they want me there)

You can find details on this event HERE.

The Venue will be HERE.

I hope to see you all there. I look forward to chatting with Fans and Answering questions… Maybe I’ll slip and give some useful tidbit about the current stories.

Sorry all,

There won’t be a comic published this Thursday. (I may publish on the weekend if I can get ahead of my current obligations).

The reason… well, I flew home today, and was planning on making Thursday’s update when I got hom. Unfortunately my bag (with comic comic making hardware, mainly my laptop/cintq power adapters) was delayed in Boston.This pushes all my plans back a day at least. Hence, the delay.