What $1075 gets you from a Graphic Designer

I would say that your looking at it but that wouldn’t be totally true. You see the design your looking at isn’t actually the finished design, you might ask why it’s not the finished design so I will elaborate. The design you are looking at is the old version with the fat lips toon of me with no closing toon on the bottom of the design like there should be. I ended up getting to a point with the designer where I couldn’t be bothered waiting for the never ending story to come to an end so I decided to just request to have the shit sent to me and we would do something with it…. Just what I fuckin thought I would have to do when I paid in full for the design on October 15th.

You see, back on October 15, 2008 I contacted Zuzana Designs in regards to having the EJ Blog re-done, along with a couple of new EJ toons as well. Back when I spoke with Zuzana she was very clear in saying that it would take a few weeks before the toon designer would have my toons done because he had two toons in front of me. Here is the actual quote from the conversation “Do you need an invoice as well .. I have to pay the toonist up front and he has 2 toons ahead of you as well, so it may be a few weeks till the toon is ready“.

Now no big deal right, a few would be about three weeks before completion one would think. Now as I sit here and write on December 23rd I find myself trying to figure out how many “a few” is. I also find myself still looking for a new Blog design and a Designer to do it. Im not sure I will leave this up longer than today because it’s not complete as it sits and my OCD would make me snap and erase the site at some point. The complete version of this design would have had a version of my cartoon up top with SMALLER Lips, and another version of a toon down at the bottom that had EJ standing with a couple of cartoon girls and the Insane Limos Pink H2.

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As a whole I like the overall design of the site, I would like it a hell of a lot more if it was complete, if a few weeks wasnt’ 2 1/2 fucking months, and the colors weren’t so chickish. Worst part of the entire thing was every time I referenced the design taking forever and questioning when it would be done, I would hear how I was told it would be a few weeks before the toon designer could start my design. Sorry but thats a piss poor excuse, since the statement actually was “so it may be a few weeks till the toon is ready“, ready being the key word… get it? good. The statement should have been, “It will be about a month and a half before he can START your toon so it may be like two months.” That would have been the correct statement and it would have been such a better situation simply based on the fact that I would have said ,”Nevermind” right than and there and hired someone else to do it. Anyone that knows me, knows I have zero patience.. It’s not like a make it a secret and it’s even more funny that in the initial conversation on October 15th after I heard it would be a few weeks my response was, “6:51:17 PM Extreme John: booooo
6:51:23 PM Extreme John: EJ hates weeks” pretty much makes it clear that I don’t feel like waiting fucking forever for shit to get done. In this case I will have to say, the overall toons have excellent detail to them (minus the dumb ass lips) and I can respect them as for the overall experience, and overall complete blog design I can’t say I will be using Zuzana Designs anytime soon. I will say that Zuzana did manage to release her long awaited Zuzana Version 3.0 during this time, congrats Zuzana glad to see your stuff got done and looks great.

Update December 25, 2008: I recieved the updated smaller lip cartoon you see below.
Update December 26, 2008: Lace puts new small lip EJ version up and add’s EJ/Limo to the footer (scroll down)
Update December 27, 2008: Lace changes site colors to what you see now, from purple.

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