Welcome to the new BWISH Studios!
I decided to redesign the site for a few reasons. The first being I stopped caring for the previous redesign (It was so dark!). The second, I know a lot more about web design now than I did a year ago, so I wanted to apply some of the knowledge I’ve gained since then to make the site function a lot better and easier to update.
It would seem that I’ve updated BWISH’s design once a year since it began, making this BWISH Version 10. You know what that means? BWISH Studios is almost 10 years old. More specifically, BWISH’s 10th anniversary begins in June. Frankly, I can’t believe it. It makes me feel both old and somewhat guilty. I feel old because I started this site in 1999 (Starting as tabris.sfss.org, then zap.to/bwish, then bwish.myrmid.com and finally onto bwish.com). I feel guilty because BWISH hasn’t made anything substantial since 2006, and even then it was a unfinished project in the form of the film Indiana Justin and the Porcelain Throne. We did come out with 2weeker last year but it died fairly quickly as we weren’t exactly sure what to do with.
So what this all means is BWISH hasn’t completed anything since 2005’s Death Fight 2: Final Discharge and it makes me feel terrible! What have we been doing this whole time? The easy excuse is life got in the way. I graduated college and got married and Mike is in graduate school and currently engaged.
The time for excuses and being “lazy” is over. Mike and I both feel it’s the time to get creative again and start pumping out content once again.
So what can we expect from the new BWISH Studios? Now that BWISH is no longer making films I’ve decided I want to focus on comics. We had originally planned to start off with a short story comic called The Rain Thief but Mike’s idea was a bit too ambitious for us to start off with. We kept dabbling in it and putting it off until we realized we weren’t ready to tell that story yet.
The story we are ready to tell is Bungee-Man and we will begin telling it on May 3rd, starting with a weekly update schedule. Bungee-Man is a superhero I created in 1996 when I was in the 6th grade. Mike grew fascinated by the character and persuaded me to revive him for prime time BWISH.
Over the next week I will be sharing the history of Bungee-Man’s 13 year journey from terrible graph paper comics to the masterpiece we hope it becomes.
Bungee-Man is a project that we expect to last several years. I plan to do a few chapters before taking brief breaks to work on separate, and much shorter, comics (think 20-30 page short story type things).
Once Bungee-Man gets into a groove, Mike and I will be retooling 2weeker into something much more useful.
In an effort to keep with our forward vision I haven’t bothered to bring over the old BWISH news archives into this new site. I’ll be making a few more changes, mostly style related over the week as I get everything sorted out and fix any bugs I run across.
So with that… Welcome to the new BWISH! We’ll begin The History of Bungee-Man on Wednesday. See you then!
