To my highly esteemed and greatly treasured 97 Betty Blonde subscribers:
We have one whole year’s worth of Betty Blonde comic strips behind us! One whole year’s worth! One year of no skipped days, lots of cheesy jokes, a good chunk of character development, puffy hair, rockin’ neighbors, mysterious closet dwellers and the occasional morbid observation! One year that would never have been what it is if it weren’t for the following people:
- Dad! Dad is the magic behind the puffy hair. He has scanned and erased and suggested and pushed and pulled and programmed for an entire year, all for Betty Blonde. He was the one who suggested I start drawing a comic strip in the first place, he was the one who organized the layout of the strip, he created BLEAX (Betty bLondE Accumulator of Comix– it’s a software program that puts together my comic strip), he was behind many of the jokes, he erased countless of inked drawings and did dozens of other things for Betty Blonde. It literally would NOT be here today if it weren’t for dad!
- Christian. The voice of reason, or lack thereof. He knows my style, and even more importantly, he knows when a joke is really rotten and never hesitates to tell me so, something for which I am very very grateful. Christian also was a major help with the t-shirt.
- MOM. For being mom. Only my family would understand.
- The inspirations for my favorite and best characters, Hannah (for Betty), Cousin Julia and cousin Kylee (for helping me find Bart and for Mr. Nobody most of all), Coach (for Coach), Christian again(for Quirk of course! who else!), male knitters and American soldiers (Hank) and all of my super-smart homeschooled friends (Faith, Hope and Charity)
- Bill Amend, Stephen Pastis, Bill Watterson, Herge, Johnny Hart and Scott Adams. These cartoonists are my inspirations. By studying their work (studying… mostly comprised of sitting around in Borders on Saturday afternoons laughing at The Simpsons comic books) I have learned a lot, and I hope to learn even more!
- Most of all, a thousand thanks and more to my 97 subscribers! I honestly would not have kept it up for a year if it weren’t for your comments, support, and suggestions. Thank you thank you thank you and thank you again for everything!!!
For the very special 97 subscribers who thought Betty Blonde was cool enough to read every day in their inbox, I am starting a BETTY BLONDE T-SHIRT GIVEAWAY. Here’s what the design looks like:
If you signed up to receive Betty Blonde every day through e-mail, then you are automatically entered into a monthly drawing to win this special t-shirt! Only e-mail subscribers will be entered into the drawing. The first drawing will be held this August. Stay tuned and do tell your friends!
Or don’t. It will increase your chances of winnning. 😉
You can subscribe to Betty Blonde here. If you don’t win a t-shirt, then you can still purchase one here. Unfortunately they are a bit pricey, but it’s totally worth it to be able to sport a picture of Spike (and friends, but mostly SPIKE!) on yourself. Comments, suggestions, criticisms (of the constructive sort), and new subscribers are very welcome! You can e-mail me about Betty Blonde at bettyblonde@chapmankids.net.
Thanks to everyone for being supportive and helping me out!! Here’s to another great year of Betty Blonde! Tell your friends!
Love,
Kelly Chapman
Betty Blonde
Big Wilma
Quirk
Mr. Nobody
Spike
Wolf
We did not finish the cat tower, but we got the first two towers up. The cats were so pleased we thought we would put up a picture anyway. We are getting close, but we ran out of rope for the tall tower so we will have to