You Write Seven-O-Heaven

Books, Religion, war / By Andrew Goff / May 4, 2011, 8 a.m.

In case the attention lavished on local authors in this week’s NCJ Book Issue has you feeling a bit jealous, we at the Journal wanted to give you, the readers, the opportunity to do some brief writing of your own.

Like, really brief.

This week’s cover features Seven-O-Heaven star Will Startare delving into local author Amy Stewart’s latest word brick Wicked Bugs (see Wicked Popular). Here’s your challenge: How would/should/could Will react to Amy’s prose?

Your mission, should you be bored enough to accept it, is to author your own one-panel comic to be included in next week’s Journal. Hell, we’ll even throw in copies of this issue’s featured books. Sound fun? No? Too bad.

Don’t blow this, Humboldt. Write now.

(E-mail your wit to editor@northcoastjournal.com. Do it.)

24 Comments

Comment / By AJ / May 4, 2011, 11:25 a.m.

Why not also, or instead, have us post submissions on the blog so we can enjoy every submission?

Comment / By Andrew Goff / May 4, 2011, 11:28 a.m.

Post away! But, fear not, we do plan on posting anything coherent we get in comic form next week.

Comment / By Lodgepole / May 4, 2011, 1:13 p.m.

“So that’s what a naked ladybug looks like.”

Comment / By S. Andrews / May 4, 2011, 11 p.m.

“…and down came the rain and washed the spider out. That’s deep, man.”

Comment / By Travis Turner / May 4, 2011, 11:54 p.m.

“So many pictures!”

Comment / By The Loopy Librarian / May 5, 2011, 8:51 a.m.

“When down came a spider and sat down beside her…” OMG! Not that! Anything but that!

Comment / By Jeff / May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.

“Th…Thhh…The bu…The bug wh..The bug was…The bug was meeeeee…meeeee….mmmeeeeaaaan!!! Yes! Yes! I got it!”

Comment / By Jeff / May 5, 2011, 9:48 a.m.

I love the evil queen. I will do anything she asks. Anything…

Comment / By Mary / May 5, 2011, 11:21 a.m.

Wow. A whole chapter dedicated to the Humboldt Mirror!

Comment / By AHole / May 5, 2011, 12:37 p.m.

“How do they publish books without filling them with ads for grow shops, casinos and pot doctors?”

“Amy writes for us and all she gets in payment is this stupid cartoon”

“I can’t wait until they post this book on a torrent site so I can read it for free!”

Comment / By Andrew Goff / May 5, 2011, 1:09 p.m.

AHole pulls ahead.

Comment / By marvel / May 5, 2011, 1:22 p.m.

“Naploeon is going to be pissed …”

Comment / By Jeff / May 5, 2011, 2:23 p.m.

All the dudes and only one chick…sweet!

Comment / By Reverend Snake / May 5, 2011, 3:59 p.m.

“Gromphadorhina Arkleytia”…I did not know there was a subgenus of the hissing cockroach.

Comment / By Lodgepole / May 5, 2011, 5:45 p.m.

“I bet you wonder what my other hand is doing.”

Comment / By Solar Bozo / May 6, 2011, 1:07 p.m.

I don’t have a desire to write the cartoon, but I do have a comment that involves it.

While I am sure that Amy Stewart’s new book is as reasonably good as her last, it seems like the Journal has gone overboard in helping her to promote it.

Don’t you think that placement on your cover, three other high-profile editorial placements, a cartoon contest, and a (probably free) ad is a bit much?

I sure do, and with all the other things that have been coming out of and about the Journal recently, I am concerned for the rag’s integrity and credibility.

Comment / By Mary / May 6, 2011, 3:14 p.m.

Jeez…now do I want to write a silly caption for the photo or for solar bozo’s comment. Hmmmm.

Comment / By Shoop / May 6, 2011, 6:48 p.m.

“That’s nothing! She should’a seen the spider I killed at Lost Coast!”

Comment / By brian / May 6, 2011, 7:59 p.m.

“So that’s what Solar Bozo has up his ass!”

Comment / By Good Citizen of Gotham / May 6, 2011, 10:06 p.m.

“Critics called this a great bathroom book. I’m not feeling it.”

Comment / By the Dept. of Redundancy / May 7, 2011, 4:37 p.m.

“It was rather interesting for me to read that post. Thanx for it.”

Comment / By Andrew Goff / May 10, 2011, 12:06 a.m.

POLPRAVHALF will be hard to beat.

Comment / By AHole / May 11, 2011, 8:44 a.m.

Mine were funnier.

Comment / By Andrew Goff / May 11, 2011, 9:18 a.m.

AHole, we didn’t forget you: http://www.seven-o-heaven.com/comics-127.php