Paul Gadzikowski

Some unbylined writer on a site called TV Series Finale has written seven reasons why Studio 60 isn't canceled.

Tonight on Studio 60 when Matt ( spoiler )

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Many webcartoonists for whom it isn't their day job, maybe most, maybe all but me, feel the best way to emulate professionalism is to put out the best installment each time they can, even if it means missing a scheduled update. But I feel differently. The reason I've gone nearly my first thousand daily updates without missing one - indirectly the reason I developed a working process that incidentally includes elements it turns out most webcartoonists and many webcomics readers sneer at -

(I get some guff from potential readers about the MSPaint and the Comic Sans. But I remember a comment I once read before the world went online from a newpaper feature editor, that no reader ever wrote in to complain that a comic strip's art had declined.)

- is that I feel the best way to emulate professionalism (and I articulated this while I was watching Studio 60 last night) is to put out the best installment each time I can, without missing a scheduled update. It's always at the top of every commentator's best practices lists for webcomics to pick a schedule you can stick to and then stick to it. (Plus, part of my motivation in creating AKOTAS was to bring the Arthurian characters into people's lives on a daily basis so that people might, as do I, know and love, and live with, them as Captain Kirk and Harry Potter are loved and lived with.) Updating to schedule's always been my top priority. I always genuinely work to write a good joke and draw it well, and I do contend that every strip I've updated with has been the best work I could have done that day; but updating every day with something is my top priority.

Am I the only one who feels this way, rather than the other?

Crossposted to webcomics and snarkoleptics.

Studio 60 is one of those tv shows that has a fifteen second main title with nothing but the show logo, and then runs the main cast credits at the beginning of act one ahead of the episode credits. Tonight that fifteen seconds of music gave me the biggest rush I've had for days. Then something came up and I didn't get to watch all the episode, so more later maybe.

On the radio this morning I heard that the town of Pahrump, Nevada, where this last two-part Studio 60 episode was set, has passed a law that foreign countries' flags may be flown only underneath U.S. flags. The law was passed in response to protest rallies in support of illegal immigrants.

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters from Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, M*A*S*H, Superman comics, Star Wars, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Studio 60, and Get Smart )

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When the new tv season started, I set the DVR for Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip in order to finally experience for myself the magic everyone on the internet and my mother attaches to the name Aaron Sorkin. We just watched the second episode, in which the protagonists, the writer-producer team Danny and Matt, have to mount a live 90-minute tv show from scratch in a week. This isn't the first time they've done it - hell, they used to work this series - but during the four years they were gone, someone got the bright idea to put a clock in the main office where Matt now works that continuously counts down seven days till the next show starts, and the entire episode's tension is built from Matt and Danny having to write and produce a segment of their series while that clock flashes its deadline in Matt's eyes in big red unfriendly numbers every moment.

I do that every flicking day.

(And I once aspired to a television acting career.)

I am so never missing this show.