#248 The Owls Are Not What They Seem

#198 Joey Finds a Corn Flake

Two ’till two-hundred!

Joey and Co. Portrait Background

Just in time for New Year’s it’s…

Look at that sexxxy new wallpaper, it’s going to win you more friends and everybody will love you if you use it! Download it today from
the Quill’s wallpaper downloads page! Or get it right here!

Coming Soon: Comic Books!

Yes, seriously. Various comic books drawn by Quill1 will be available in handy .pdf format on The Quill’s Full Comics and Media page in the near future, with the release of “All the News That’s Fit to Draw, a Comic Book About Newspapers” coming sometime later this week.

That is all.

It’s Been a Year Already?

Apparently yes. Today (January 16) is the first anniversary of The Quill’s glorious founding. To celebrate, here’s a desktop of everybody’s favourite aquatic mammal playing everybody’s favourite electronic stringed instrument.

Get it at The Quill downloads page or download it directly from here!

I Am One Happy Sperm Whale Playing A Guitar

2009 was a good year for The Quill. It featured the founding of The Quill, all sorts of posts from all sorts of neat people, over 100 new UW! comics, a few videos, and lots of things that would go under the category of “neat shit” like wallpapers (note to self: need to make more of those. Possibly ones including unicorns and robots and robot unicorns) and other downloadable media.
Numbers-wise, we finished the year with an unprecedented 3,968 views, which is approximately 3,968 more views than we were anticipating when we started this blog. We also had 208 posts, 312 spam comments, 62 actual comments (thank you everybody who was nice enough to comment), and somehow our number one search engine term is “Rodchenko” (as in Alexander Rodchenko from this post about a Boxy The Robot wallpaper spoof of that one Franz Ferdinand album cover that ripped off Rodchenko’s 1924 portrait of Lilya Brik.

But what does the future hold for The Quill and Untitled Webcomic! you ask? Here’s a sneak peek at our new year’s resolutions:

10. More great posts, some of which may about interesting stuff other than music reviews.
9. More making fun of Vatican City. (Fun fact: Vatican City is so small, it can fit inside of a shoebox.)
8. More comics, even possibly that serial comic that I’ve been talking about forever.
7. Robots, unicorns, and robotic unicorns.
6. Get Fleen’d. (Seriously, if anybody wants to do us a very big favour and send them a link to UW! and a nice little note about how awesome UW! is, we’d love you forever.)
5. Make more wallpapers.
4. Make an actual button-sized link button if you want to do that cool link-with-an-image thing to UW!.
3. Rip off Cracked.com by making absurd lists of stuff.
2. Get the sperm whale playing the guitar in a UCSC newspaper. Did it in 2009, new goal: Get comics into the non-humorful UCSC newspaper, City on a Hill Press.
1. Get even more views! If you like The Quill, tell your friends, please?

2010: An Internet Odyssey

Have a good new years. The Quill and UW! will return in 2010 with all of the same nerdy goodness of 2009, but, you know, more future-y.

You Could Have It So Much Better With Untitled Webcomic

Put a little Boxy the Robot in your life with this desktop wallpaper that’s a total rip-off of that Franz Ferdinand album’s cover art that’s a total rip-off of that Alexander Rodchenko portrait of Lilya Brik. It’s like the circle of life… Or something.

Download it here! Or, check out the other neat swag in The Quill’s Downloads section!

Woot!

The Quill hit 2,000 total views today. Woot! Thanks for viewing everybody, and please tell your friends!

Mmmm… Feeds

The Quill has an RSS feed! You can access it through the link at the very bottom of the page, the link in the “Fun Stuff ‘Round The Web” section of the sidebar, or from this link right here!