Hello everyone! Sorry to have been so terrible about updating these past few weeks. I have been busy hand painting ukeleles for my friend Amanda Palmer’s protégés Evelyn Evelyn. This turned out to be a major undertaking, and it caused me to become quite insane as I spent hour after hour, day after day painting the most beautiful siamese elephants and other decorative elements based off of my new facebook and twitter friend who I’ve never met in person Cynthia von Buhler’s fabulous album art.

Anyhow, today we’re taking a break from the abnormal story line to bring you this rainy day cutout adventure activity for your at home entertainment! As I write this, it is Earth Day, and if you order an Earth shirt from my t-shirt shop, Solid State Circus, I’ll throw in an extra special printout of this which has my very own signature on it. Also, you can use the special checkout code “GOEARTH” to get 20% off of your entire order! Normally $17.99, that makes any regular t-shirt just $14.39. And that’s PayPal monies too, which is basically pretend Internet money anyway, so why not go crazy nuts and order a bunch of shirts?

Oh damn! That boy will surly be relatively upset as compared to like a regular sort of set of circumstances where he has not been shot to death by dirt people. Also: apparently Space Octopus is a boy. For what that’s worth.

Hello there the Internet.  I hope you like today’s comic, in which dirt people kill Space Octopus with their gun and offer Space Octopus and Marm’s bloody corpses to their filthy Dirt God.  Lots of laffs for the whole family in this one.

It’s like Space Octopus is having a little bulimi, but he’s just having a little inky.  This one is short because I had to go and watch this crazy film tonight hosted by the List Visual Arts Center at MIT (which I was once a member of the advisory board of) called Luminous Procuress by Steven Arnold.  Made in 1970, I explained it to Liv as being like a film that an alien would make if you forced it to watch Barbarella, A Clockwork Orange, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Debbie Does Dallas, and nothing but these films, and then gave the alien like a thousand dollars to go and make a film that humans would like.

Also then I had to go to Poker Night.  It’s a rough life, let me tell you.

Hey also go and look at all the great stuff up at blakebrasher.org and solidstatecircus.com.  Let’s go ahead and have a special promotion for all you Infinity Day Weekend readers (all 17 of you):  15% off with the promo code “SPACEOCTOPUS” at solidstatecircus.com.

Seriously, dirt people, what is up?

Well gosh look at this, here we are, it has only been a couple of days since the last update, and already here there is an update for to have for you also enjoying the reading of the thing that is being updated now more than even once every week.  And by that, I mean don’t be expecting any sort of pattern to develop here but maybe try checking back on Friday.

Um and also one interesting thing about this new method is that now I have all of this processed dead plant matter stained with various inks.  So, anyone want to buy them?  Seriously.  Make me an offer.

Also, I forgot that I promised the owner of the How to Lose Weight blog that I’d thank him for discovering that this site had been hacked.  Seriously.  Not in an oh my goodness I had better not look at this site anymore or else my computer/my grandmother/I might get computer cancer but in a lame manipulate ranking algorithms by putting bogus invisible links all over the place sort of way.  So, Thank you!

Oh hello everyone. Look, this is what happens in Space, where Space Octopus is from. Well ok I guess this is only a part of Space, which is big. Space is probably the biggest thing you can think of, it has just about everything in it. One thing that space does not have in it, however, is Heaven, which is that place that you go to when you die and you have been a good member of any number of religions.

A couple of things are going on here.  First of all, it has come to be the case that to do any sort of real drawing in Photoshop on my geriatric (i.e. four year old) laptop requires that I spend about half an hour preparing the machine by saving and quitting all other open applications, which is just not a thing I am usually willing to commit to.  So, um, here is a strip done in marker and then scanned in and embellished.

Who is Marm?  Marm is the greatest.  You may know her as “The Great Marm.”

Look about this lack of updates thing:  fuck it.  What ever.  If anyone wants to give me a pile of money to pay my rent with and also like one of those nice Cintiq’s and a computer to hook it up to then I will happily start producing a comic every day, or like four or five a week, but you know what look at this art.  So you just take what you can get.

hugs and kisses,

Blake.

Oh hello, here is this comic that I have made. I’m getting a bit more experimental here. For this comic I used pencils and paper and the scanner and the tablet and that Photoshop program instead of doing everything from scratch in photoshop with the tablet. I kind of like the texture working off of scanned sketches lends to the final product.

The careful observer may notice a few changes around here on the Infinity Day Weekend web site. For those who may be slightly less inclined to memorize every trifling detail about a web comic site that really there is no reason anyone should be reading in the first place, let me draw your attention to that PayPal donate button just below the comic itself, on the right side of the page. That’s right, the one you can click on to funnel funds to your favourite web comics author who is also the author of this web comic so that I might pay my rent and such, or, mercy me, purchase a reasonable set of computer hardware. Yes, so that’s been there a while, but look just below it! It’s an adorable little Facebook share button! You can click on it and share whatever delightful comic you’re reading with everyone you’ve made Internet friends with on Facebook! And below that is a button you can click on to follow me on Twitter! Isn’t that just wonderful? I have also replaced the old static ads for my t’shirts with fancy new Etsy mini thingies. They work pretty much the same, but look how many there are! And finally, and perhaps most excitingly, there is an all new Infinity Day Weekend fan page on Facebook! That’s right, you can let the entire Facebook population (i.e. the world) know that you not only read this terrible web comic, but you are in fact fanatical about it. Additionally you can see a little Facebook Fan Box (that’s what they’re calling it) below this text and if you’ve got a Facebook account you can become a fan simply by clicking the “become a fan” button! You know. If that’s the sort of thing you want to do. The Facebook Fan page is a great place to complain about the comic not getting updated or like to talk smack about my artistic credibility or posit your own theories about what this web comic might actually be “about.”

I have used the word “Facebook” more in this post that I think I ever have in the rest of my life. Also, in the time it took me to write this, we’ve acquired five fans. What the hell are you people doing?

That’s all. Have a good undetermined amount of time until the next update.

**UPDATE** Special thank you to the owner of the How to Lose Weight blog for discovering this site had been hacked.