What is BWISH Studios?
Currently, BWISH is run by Justin B. Evans & Michael C. Chen. Justin is mainly the "art guy" and Mike is generally the "writing guy".
Justin also has his own personal site, www.JustinBEvans.com, which contains his original art work, portfolio, and his somewhat updated blog, IMP (I Make Pretty!). Mike's personal site isn't so much personal as it is a heavily BWISH promoted weekly webcomic, Quotables... which isn't quite updated anymore.
With Caution Man and Quotables on indefinite leave, BWISH is finally starting to move onto other projects, including the collaborative social engineering blog, 2weeker and the upcoming epic comic project, The Rain Thief. BWISH is now focused on the comic medium and has many more projects in store once 2weeker is up and running and The Rain Thief is completed.
What's is a "BWISH" exactly...?
The word BWISH originates from a conversation involving a doodle from the late 20th century artist Justin B. Evans. When asked what he was drawing, Justin replied "a bitch with short hair." The incident quickly spawned the corresponding acronym: BWSH, which was used to describe everything from Pokemon to James Bond.
The doodle was allegedly of Android #18 from Dragonball Z, though the current location of the original drawing is deep in BWISH Studio vaults in Maryland. Or maybe Poland...? It's hard to remember these days.
How is BWISH pronounced?
The original pronunciation of BWSH was so arcane that it required cutting out the tongue, gouging out the eyes, and breathing in liquid nitrogen. The "i"fp was added to aid human pronunciation without bodily mutilation.
BWISH is pronounced “bwish”, one syllable, rhyming with “swish.” Not “bee-wish”.
When did BWISH Studis Start?
BWISH was founded in 1999 by Justin, Michael, and two other artists: Melisa Maduro and Aaron Laroux. Other people that have been associated with BWISH history include Steve Shattuck, Kyle Castelino, Eric Browning, Ben Shepard, Kelsi Loos, Charlie Ebbecke, Jim Curry, and Amiri Alexander. In addition, the crew of "Caution Man" became part of BWISH in 2002.
In the past BWISH has hosted everything from real-life anime actor pages to comics about mayonnaise to a... Mr. T memorabilia museum (I know, seriously, wtf?). There may be a couple of our oldest and oddest things in the archives but for the most part everything of this sort is now hidden away in that vault mentioned previously. BWISH is now focused solely on original content to avoid lawsuits and things like that. Don't sue us. We know people. Strange people.
In BWISH Studios' early history, it was partnered with another now-defunct collaborative called Poobtronics, which resulted in love-hate-love-restrainingorder-hate-love relationship. This eventually yielded the short film "Peeping Tom: Curse of the Peeper." More famously, Andy Fuller of Poobtronics is best known for slaying n00bs as Technor on "Caution Man."