For the next... some amount of time, i'll be posting John Campbell's webcomic "Pictures for Sad Children" in sequential order.
He took the whole thing offline a few years ago, but it meant a lot to me so i thought i'd share it.
For the next... some amount of time...
Nathaniel Flores
Adrian Perry
William Green
Michael Roberts
Caleb Gray
Jaxon Brooks
Kevin Jackson
Justin Davis
Kayden Miller
Matthew Lee
Austin Morales
Dylan Peterson
Luis Lewis
Luke Butler
Noah Myers
Jordan Fisher
Jack Ross
Luke Price
Blake Clark
Luis Campbell
Nicholas Rogers
Jordan Taylor
Jonathan Miller
Isaiah Howard
Sebastian Anderson
Adrian Ortiz
Jaxon Allen
Isaac Robinson
Adam Johnson
Brody Bell
Easton Fisher
Thanks, is the author the only person to successful erase themselves from the internet?
Carter Clark
Angel Bell
Seems that way. He burned a few bridges while doing it too iirc
Michael Fisher
Christopher Brown
Anthony Rogers
Owen Brown
Austin Moore
Anthony Lopez
Carson Evans
Nolan Rivera
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Jason Lewis
Easton Smith
Dominic White
Jacob Ortiz
Benjamin Rogers
Cameron Peterson
Landon Myers
Levi Wilson
Luke Nelson
Jonathan Morris
Nolan Anderson
Samuel Roberts
Benjamin Stewart
Chase Rivera
Jeremiah Martin
Joseph Allen
Colton Jones
Isaac Cruz
Luis Cooper
Zachary Jackson
Jaxson Ward
Henry Turner
Charles Wright
Sebastian Carter
Gabriel Green
Ryder Parker
Brody Walker
Elijah Ramirez
Nolan Hughes
Hunter Brown
Eli Reed
Jace Perez
Jason Martin
Carson Davis
alright that's it for now, see ya
Asher Lee
Thank you. Blip.
Colton Cox
Thanks chief
Xavier Rogers
pfsc always good
Gabriel Ross
I was under the impression this was incomplete due to the artist successfully delet ing himself?
Or am i thinking of another comic
Hunter Harris
Somehow I had never read a single one of these before
not a single one
I thought I'd read them all
Huh
Brandon Williams
I hate this.
Evan Nelson
I remember enjoying these when he was first making them. Shame about him going crazy and being an asshole and using "crazy artist" as an excuse to be an asshole and fuck over all those people who bought his book.
Anybody know of a resource that has all his comics before he deleted them?
Aaron Smith
thanks
Brandon Sanchez
>He took the whole thing offline a few years ago
That's an understatement.
Christian Wood
Story? What happened exactly?
Colton Martinez
I remember this comic... thanks for the memories! (and introducing other people)
Dominic Hernandez
By "him going crazy and being an asshole and using "crazy artist" as an excuse to be an asshole and fuck over all those people who bought his book" I mean:
>"In 2012, Campbell held a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $51,615 USD to create a print version of Pictures for Sad Children, far exceeding the crowdfunding goal of $8,000 USD.[5] However, in August, a few months after the campaign had concluded, the artist published a lengthy post on the Kickstarter page in which they[Note 1] claim that they had been pretending to be depressed in order to gain a profit. According to the post, their biggest regret was that they made it easier for what they described as "borderline people" to trick themselves into thinking that they are depressed as well. In the post, Campbell also stated that they expected that the book would be finished and delivered before the end of 2012.[7]
>"In February 2014, Campbell published a new blog post in which they confirmed that they were able to ship around 75% of the Kickstarter rewards to their backers, but was unable to ship any more copies because they ran out of money. The post was accompanied with a video that shows Campbell burning over a hundred copies of the book, with an attached threat to burn even more. According to DNAinfo.com, Campbell spent $30,000 USD producing the 200-page hardcover book and even more to include a plastic-wrapped dead wasp in each copy, leaving little money for actual shipping."
Colton Walker
knowyourmeme.com
It's a hell of a ride, and I would not do it justice by summarizing.
Henry Green
Thanks OP, that's brilliant.
Carter Gonzalez
Nathaniel Bell
Thanks, OP.
Do you have all of it saved? If so, that's awesome. I miss this comic a lot.
Matthew Moore
It's an interesting bit of story, really, back from when kickstarter wasn't recognized as a preorder platform and had more of a sharing aura to it.
There's this weird component of Campbell and being upset that people were demanding to receive the books. "Why would I have to send you books? You were not buying them, you were giving me money; that's what kickstarter is." And that's kind of what it was, if only for a short while. I'm not excusing the way Campbell handled the whole thing, but I think he may have developed some expectations that he shouldn't have.
Zachary Phillips
Benjamin Russell
made me feel young, thanks
Jackson Robinson
What a retard.
Wyatt Perez
>and even more to include a plastic-wrapped dead wasp in each copy
what
Austin Miller
OP you are a hero. I love this comic and have wanted to reread for a long time.
Kevin Jones
thanks
Owen Howard
Yeah.
I've been wondering if the dead wasp might've been an important catalyst for what happened later. Like, what if he hadn't gone all fancy with the dead wasp, and what if he had just printed a normal book. Collecting a dead wasp for each book must've taken some effort, and printing a book with an unusual thing like that must've cost extra money for him. Maybe without the dead wasp, the costs of the book project could've been a little lower. Maybe he could've made a bit more money instead of sinking all his profits into printing/shipping the books. If he had been able to make a bit more money, maybe he wouldn't have felt so stressed by the whole thing that he had a meltdown, ranted on Kickstarter, and burned books.
Cooper Hughes
Full wasp comic.