The Daily Blink’s Dark Secret
on January 6, 2012 at 2:26 pmHey, Chris here. Tomorrow is a big day for The Daily Blink, though for reasons that people would never guess.
A little history for those unfamiliar: I first created The Daily Blink in 2006 as a joke for the WoW blog that I was contributing to at the time, Metroblogging Azeroth. It became a full webcomic in January of 2010 and co-wrote the strip with my friend CP for the first half of that year, before taking a long hiatus. During that time, Michael and I became acquainted for the first time. We were both members of a mailing list for a gaming organization we volunteered for, and I sent him a message after reading a particularly acidic and funny email he’d sent in. A friendship was formed, and when the Daily Blink relaunched, he started becoming a soundboard for ideas bofore eventually becoming a fully fledged partner-in-crime.
The truth of the matter is that, Michael and I have never met each other in person. We’ve worked over emails, IM, and hundreds of hours of Skype calls, but never in the same room, or even the same state. I started in Iowa and moved to California last February, and Mike’s service in the Navy took him from New York City to his initial training in Chicago.
However, fate has a funny way of handling these things. Blizzcon 2011, which was supposed to be our first meeting, became a one-man show when Mike’s leave request got caught up in complications and prevented him from attending. However, as I write this, Mike gets on an airplane to his next assignment, an hour South of my home in San Diego, and I will be there tomorrow to finally introduce myself and laugh about the weird trip that it’s been for both of us.
Our hope is that our new close proximity will mean working together more, and give our readers more than just three strips a week. What that “more” is made up of is still up in the air, but there will be much plotting in the weeks ahead. No matter the direction we head in, I know that the future is an exciting thing.
Here’s to an awesome 2012!
Neat. Always love the comics!
What were you doing in Iowa before Cali? I live here
Thank you for the year of laughs!! Hope 2012 starts off well.
Is “no homo” still a thing? Because this seems like an important time to specify, given that your story sounds like one of star-crossed lovers. At the very least, Mike’s service … oh wait, DADT is over too.
Well then.
Carry on.
I hope you have a great time and adopt many children together as you enter your loving partnership together.
Awesome background story folks! Hope the meeting is great
Awesome! I look forward to the increased production. Isn’t it amazing what the internets can do these days? Happy First Meeting!!
So… how did it go? Inquiring minds want to know! Was he everything you’d dreamed he’d be, and more? (Which is the very question I asked Mike last night, to which he said, “Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!” *)
* I’m paraphrasing.
Hmmmmm… Iowa…
<–Native Iowan
Pray tell, which portion of Iowa? My guess would be around Des Moines or Cedar Rapids/Marion, but that only covers about 1/5th of the population
: /
I’m also from Iowa and I’m actually attempting to make the transition into making a career out of a hobby. Gaming has been a huge part of my life since I have been old enough to speak, but it’s always just been a past-time. Now that gaming is becoming more mainstream and acceptable, it always carries more respect as a possible career move. I’m curious as to how you got started, especially from Iowa. I know what it’s like here. The community is mostly underground. We don’t have events and conventions to meet similar minds who share our passion for gaming. The culture that I have immersed myself in is mostly online. And to the poster above, I am from Des Moines but currently live in Cedar Rapids… and I can tell you the community for gamers is mostly the same in both cities. If you have some time I’d love to pick your brain. You can reach me at nerdah0lic@live.com. Thanks.
Denied Blizzcon due to leave complications.. Man that has to suck.
Thats worse than a divorse request at the end of a homade porn when your wife was the one doing another guy, and you watched it on deployment with all your freinds, then your CO walkes in and you get written up for watching porn in the common room, and it was after curfiew…
I always wondered if those stories were really true.
Good luck with the comic, new proxmity, and have a good tour.
I got into WoW to keep in touch with all my Marine freinds who were scatterd about the planet, cool to see a connection to the service in my favorite web comic.