Deep Fried

Deep Fried is a comic book series which includes the Clarissa story series. Copied here is a series of announcements on the web site WhatIsDeepFried.Com regarding its publication which may not be conclusive.

January 9
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2008/01/09/scent-of-a-pancake-8/

Imagine: crackers and brie being nibbled while Buffalo’s highbrow snobs discuss the subtle tweaking of social mores exhibited in “Clarissa Ruins Thanksgiving”. I feel like a Russian spy!

July 28
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2008/07/28/weapon-brown-16/

Splendiferous entertainment bonus: Zombie Clarissa!

http://thirtytwozombies.blogspot.ca/2008/07/zombie-20-jason-yungbluth.html

November 24
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2008/11/24/clarissa-brings-the-sad-making-lulz/

According to 4chan, my dear, sweet Clarissa is creepypasta. But do not bother trying to confirm it. History has already swept her aside.

Precious, precious, unarchived validation.

December 29
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2009/12/29/apocalypse-post/

Meanwhile, a new trade paperback collecting the second volume of Deep Fried is in the offing, featuring some never before printed material, including a new Clarissa story guaranteed to twist your emotions into pretzels of agony.

February 21
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/02/21/shh-it-will-be-our-little-secret/

I gots some new Clarissa fan art in the Fridge!

June 8
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/06/08/dugg/

Hello to all you new Debbie Downers who have only just discovered Clarissa from her sudden fame courtesy of Digg and Reddit and the nice person who posted Stuffed Friend without my permission.

There is another Clarissa story for you to enjoy here, and plenty more in The Great Taste of Deep Fried and Deep Fried vol. 2 #1, both available in my store.

Clarissa seems to be inspiring her share of fans on Deviant Art, too! Lookit this and this. Wow… why do people have such a dark opinion of my cute little waif? I’ve always imagined her as having a lot of cross-over appeal to fans of cartoons like Doug and Hey Arnold!
 * http://digg.com/comics_animation/Stuffed_Friend
 * http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cb8n2/gulp_stuffed_friend_comic/
 * http://tommysimms.deviantart.com/art/Clarissa-166476206
 * http://browse.deviantart.com/fanart/?q=clarissa&order=9&offset=72#/d2r87b0

September 3
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/09/03/clarissa-the-revengining/

A Clarissa thread on 4Chan has yielded some intriguing new fan art, which has only further incentivized me to finish my new Clarissa story for the next edition of Deep Fried #4. Stare if you dare! WARNING: Some of these pictures are “please God NO!” appalling. NSFW or anywhere.

December 2
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/12/02/try-to-remain-calm/

There is a Clarissa story I have long delayed beginning, and I have chosen this most depressing of all seasons to begin the work. Those of you who do not kill yourself later will thank me for it!

May 2
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/05/02/4073/

My intention had been to put out a second edition of this issue with a new Clarissa story in place of of the the Great Pumpkin story, but the months have stretched on and on and I have not been able to get that story done in a reasonable time frame. Meanwhile, there are people who would like to complete the collection of Deep Fried who are being viciously denied their Unmerican rights.

So, I hope there will be no hurt feelings from the people who bought up 300 copies of this edition, hoping it would accumulate in value. My greed is more powerful than your selfishness.

As for that Clarissa story, my plan now is to release that with the next Deep Fried trade, which I want to put out soon after Weapon Brown wraps. But I will offer a sneak peak at the progress on that one soon.

May 23
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/05/23/clarissa-got-darker/

I dunno who drew this, or what it is referencing, but keep the cool Clarissa art coming!

July 14
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/07/14/clarissa-ruins-the-internet/

A Portuguese Brazilian blogger has posted a long review of Clarissa titled ‘The Day I Met Clarissa” (linked and translated here). I haven’t seen anyone give Clarissa a detailed examination like this, so you might enjoy it.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://blogdohammer.blogspot.ca/2011/07/o-dia-em-que-conheci-clarissa.html

July 19
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/07/19/color-me-bad/

Inspired by this anonymous piece of fan art portraying Clarissa as a ragin’ Red Lantern, I have painted an awesome homage to Green Lantern-and-friends, featuring your favorite Deep Fried stars!

November 24
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/11/24/is-it-that-day-again/

In the meantime, enjoy this perennial Deep Fried classic and ask yourself: “How can I make MY Thanksgiving more special?”

January 10
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2012/01/10/new-years-revolutions/

Clarissa will all return in 2012 with new stories on this, your favorite website, that will make you laugh, cry and quickly click over to Amazon when you hear your co-workers approaching. Beepo will go looking for love in all the wrong places, Squints will go looking for work in all the wrong places, and Roadkill… oh God. Let’s just say that Roadkill has been letting a lot of things build up, and now someone has to pay the price.

2012 will also see the arrival of Weapons Grade Deep Fried, the bound edition of volume 2 of Deep Fried, which will contain new, unpublished material, including the way overdue Clarissa story Take Me to Work Day.

March 26
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2012/03/26/weapon-brown-303/

I promised that later this year I would disgorge a new Deep Fried collection, complete with a new and upsetting Clarissa story. These projects require my commitment as well.

And so, Weapon Brown is going to be taking a month-long snooze while I begin these projects in earnest. Begin cutting your wrists in 3…2…

No! Wait! Don’t kill yourselves! I already have plans for your mass suicides, and it involves Rick Santorum! Instead, find in this news a reason to live again!!

When this hiatus breaks, I will have a new pre-order sale for you to get in on with some choice swag you that will sell your brain tissue to own! Also, Deep Fried fans will glory in a few new teaser pages of Take Me to Work Day by Clarissa.

April 3
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/clarissa/

FAMILY PORTRAIT

Clarissa is a little girl with a special problem, one she’s not supposed to talk about. But maybe being her art teacher’s favorite student will help her to say what’s on her mind. Or maybe not. A sad story about a happy family. (from Deep Fried vol. 2 #2)

May 7
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2012/05/07/freund-mit-dem-fullung/

Lookit this! A group of students at Stuttgart Media University have, for some reason, been attracted to the bleak horror of Clarissa! This is odd behavior for the Germans, often called the “laughing pink unicorns of Europe”, but no matter! They are turning Stuffed Friend, Clarissa’s most popular story, into an animated short! Woot!

This cartoon is being executed in the stop motion manner of movies like “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, and will probably be retitled “Die Madchen und der Hossenpfeffer” and used as an indoctrination video at a bratwurst factory. Hey, I take my fame where I can get it.

The film may be completed by as early as the end of the summer, and hopefully a special screening can be arranged for my Whatisdeepfried peeps. In the meantime, here is some of the production art the lads have completed. They also have a website, http://www.stuffed-friend.com/, for you to visit often.

June 13
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2012/06/13/geeking-out/

The Stuffed Friend animated short is growing closer to completion. Check out the Clarissa puppet!

Have you visited the cartoon’s web page yet?

July 9
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2012/07/09/shape/

My summer agenda will also give me a chance to get the ball rolling on the long-awaited second trade paperback of Deep Fried, featuring the new Clarissa story. I want that wrapped and ready to go before the end of the year, and this will help me do it. By the way, the animated Stuffed Friend film has premiered in Germany, leading to a magical spike in suicides! I can’t show it to you, as the creators don’t want it publicly distributed in advance of it making the rounds of the festival circuit, but I can testify to its niftyness. Here are a few screen grabs:

Poor Floopsy. I really feel for him. Clarissa is pretty numb at this point.

I hope the temporary ramp-down in Weapon Brown updates will not break too many hearts. It is all for my greater glory, so quit bitching and bow down and worship me!!

Links

 * http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/tag/clarissa/
 * http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?s=Clarissa