The “Chamelion” comic strip marks the 100th Bric-a-Brats comic to be posted on this website!! I’ve had a great time creating and sharing this comic strip for the last 2 years, and I cannot express how thankful I am to those of you who have followed along with the characters and have given me tremendous support throughout this time. I am still waiting to hear from several of the major syndicates in regards to major distribution of the Bric-a-Brats comic strip, so let’s all keep our fingers crossed. For the past couple years, while doing the strip, I have been putting things off to make sure I make my deadline with the newspaper and websites that currently publish the strip, and I’ve also had additional responsibilities come my way as well. That being said, I have decided to place the Bric-a-Brats comics on hiatus ……..indefinately. In addition to catching up on some of my family and personal responsibilites I have decided to take this time to also pursue an illustration opportunity that has come my way, one that I’ve been unable to get started with everything else going on in life.

As soon as I feel able, I will resume creating Bric-a-Brats comics not only because I love doing it, but because from what I’ve heard from you, the fans, it’s brought many of you some laughs, some joy and some memories and that makes it all worthwhile. Until then, the website will remain active and you can enjoy the first 100 comic strips over and over again by visiting the comic strip archives.

Thank you for all your support and I will be back with more Bric-a-Brats comics.

Sincerely,

Chris Hemenway

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Don’t forget Valentines Day is coming soon, so brighten the love of your life’s day with a Valentines Day e-card from Bric-a-Brats Greetings. Just click on the link below!!!http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/valentine_fun/he_loves_me_he_loves_me_not_1.html

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I recently signed on to 123 Greetings to create Bric-a-Brats greeting cards online. The very first card I created was a birthday card that I sent to my sister, the cool thing about this is that not only can it help to advertise your product / website and get your name out there, but you can also check the stats of each card. This card has been viewed almost 4400 times and has been sent as an e-card almost 100 times!!! Not bad if you ask me, now if I could figure out a way to actually make some money on this, hmmmmm….. who knows if I make enough of them maybe I could start an actual product line of these things, hmmmmm….. anyway you can check out the first of many Bric-a-Brats e-cards by clicking on the link below.

http://www.123greetings.com/birthday/happy_birthday/birthday.html

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I want to give a shout out to my nephew Robbie who not only listened to my radio interview, he also recorded it on his computer and converted it into an audio file for me as well. He’s a pretty savvy guy (must get it from his uncle), he’s also dropping very subtle hints that I need a manager and he’d be more than willing to take on the reponsibility, for a nominal fee of course. Perhaps when I get into the 7 figure salary range for strictly cartooning (the sound you hear is me holding my breath……gasp!) Thank you Robbie for all your computer savvyness I couldn’t LIVE without you.

So without further adoo, for those of you who missed it, this past Monday WCAP 980 AM radio interviewed me about this wonderful comic strip called Bric-a-Brats. If you’d like to listen to it just click on the link below, I thought it went fairly well, and the website had almost 1000 hits that day so I think it paid off in the end. Take a listen and feel free to leave a comment about it, whether it’s good, bad or ugly.

Thanks,

Chris

 PS - after you click the link it leads you to another link and you have to click that one too, then click the play button on your media player. Sorry, I’m not the computer savvy guy!

WCAP Radio Interview 1.04.2010

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Hey everbody,

As you know I’ve taken the last couple weeks off from the strip to enjoy the holidays with the family, so I haven’t posted any breaking news, strips or what not, but this afternoon at 12:08 I was interviewed on WCAP 980 AM radio about the Bric-a-Brats comic strip.

For those of you who follow facebook, you may have gotten a chance to hear the interview live, I’ve heard from a few of you who did and I thank you. For those who missed it, I am going to get an audio copy of the interview and post it here so everyone can hear it (that is of course, if you WANT to hear it). I was a bit nervous in the beginning but I think I settled down after a few minutes and I’m told it went really well.

We discussed the origin of the name of the strip and how it relates to my home town of Billerica,  I gave a breif description of each of the characters and how they came about, as well as where I get inspiration from, the process of creating the strip and more. You’ll have to listen for yourselves to get the rest!

As soon as it’s posted I’ll let everyone know, and don’t worry there will be a new Bric-a-Brats comic very soon.

Thanks for everything and here’s to a great 2010!!

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