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Thread: Does Rich have a day job?
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2011-06-26, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Does Rich have a day job?
or does he live off OoS books and merchandise?
And if he does have a day job, what is it?
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2011-06-26, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
I think he just does OoTS.
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2011-06-26, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
He also occasionally writes for WotC...
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2011-06-26, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
As far as we know, he's said this is his full time job. Inquiring further is an invasion of his privacy he's requested we don't pursue.
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2011-06-26, 06:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Maybe he's a professional assassin, carrying out hits on people who pry into his personal life...
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2011-06-26, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Burlew
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2011-06-26, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-26, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
I'm pretty sure it's stated somewhere the success of his first OotS books allowed him to quit his regular job and focus mainly on his webcomic.
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2011-06-26, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
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2011-06-26, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Wikipedia says that after the commercial success of the first book, he quit to pursue this full time.
I'm mostly here for Warframe and a tiny bit of RWBY.
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2011-06-26, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-26, 09:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2011-06-26, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2011-06-26, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
His old day job was originally as a spy, and he retired after the first book. The government pays him to kill anyone who prys into his private life as they might come across secret documents.
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2011-06-26, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Maybe he's a professional assassin, carrying out hits on people who pry into his personal life...
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I don't think that looting the forum goers corpses would provide pizza money, much less a living.
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2011-06-26, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Obviously Comic #795 is not the only thing on his agenda over the past month. I imagine the rest of the time he's prone, either lying on the floor of some tiki bar in a cheap-rate hotel in Jamaica, passed out from sipping tequila through a straw for four days straight; or beet red from lying in the sun all day slathered in the contents of a bottle labeled "suntan oil" but which smells suspiciously like gasoline...
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2011-06-27, 01:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-27, 02:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Your answer, from the Giant himself. Look at the bottom
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=169
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2011-06-27, 02:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
Things that increase my self esteem:
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2011-06-27, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-27, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
It is public knowledge that he has lived off of Order of the Stick since the first print run of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools. It is also public knowledge that prior to that he worked on some Wizards of the Coast material, but that was not his full time occupation. He also entered the fantasy setting search and came in second behind Eberron, but because of his contract with WotC we will probably never know what his campaign was like. Wikipedia seems to think that prior to working full time on Order of the Stick he was a Graphic Designer. Again, this is all public knowledge, what The Giant has chosen to reveal. It is rude to speculate on parts of his private life that he has not chosen to reveal.
It is public knowledge that Rich has a chronic illness of some sort that causes the comic delays. To my knowledge he has refused to comment on it, as is his right. I am also under the impression that discussing it is against the rules. Regardless, even though this post was probably meant as a joke I don't like it. I have no idea what kind of person Rich Burlew is, but it is disingenuous to say such things when all evidence is that his slow update schedule is due to factors beyond his control.Last edited by Drolyt; 2011-06-27 at 04:53 AM.
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2011-06-27, 06:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-27, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
And the ironic thing is his day job is paid for by books mostly containing freely available material. I buy the books because I prefer old school dead tree over electronic display but I'd have thought that attitude was uncommon.
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2011-06-27, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-27, 06:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-27, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
"7/7/2007
Those of you who have been readers a long time know that I tend to go in cycles with the strip: a few weeks on time, followed by a few weeks where most of the comics are late (and some days are missed altogether). Oftentimes, I’ll make an announcement afterwards that I was sick. The thing is, I get sick a lot, and that’s not likely to change in the future. For more than two years, I’ve been experiencing a medical condition that often leaves me unable to work (or even sit at the computer) for 2-3 days at a time, and the symptoms tend to come and go in clumps. I’ll be fine for a few weeks, then have a few really bad weeks where I struggle to get any work done. This is part of the reason I never can manage to create a “buffer” of strips in advance: I spend all of my working time catching up on stuff I was supposed to finish while I was sick. (No, I’m not going to tell you exactly what is wrong with me; it’s nobody’s business. Suffice to say that it is nonfatal and my significant other takes good care of me.) "
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2011-06-27, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Material that he chooses to make freely available. In fact he has to pay server costs to host not only the comics, but another guys comic (Erfworld) and these forums. So yeah, I'm glad he can make a living off of this. He deserves to, the same way people who make traditional dead tree comics deserve money for their hard work.
As for why people buy the comic in print form, personally I have two separate reasons for doing so. The first is that I like to support artists who produce work I enjoy, especially if they otherwise make that work available for free. The second is that the quality of print is very good, so it looks much better than it does on a computer monitor.
I also enjoy all the bonus strips and commentary and whatnot, and of course some of the books aren't available online. The reason this is irrelevant to my decision to purchase the books is that if I had no desire to support The Giant and no desire for a print version, as well as no compunctions about breaking the law, I could obtain them by other means. I encourage people not to follow this route, since as I said I feel The Giant deserves to get paid for his work, but I imagine some people do anyways.
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2011-06-27, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Busy with Life
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2011-06-27, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does Rich have a day job?
Not another one! When will they find a cure?
I, too am worried about the Giant and the comic, it's been far, far too long. Kinda.
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2011-06-27, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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