Cal’s Five Points
Monday — September 6th, 2010

Cal’s Five Points

Cal: Five Point Perspective Q & A

Q: What are your vital statistics when it comes to:

Age? A: “Thirty-five. My mom thinks I should have a family and all that by now. My dad calls me lucky to still be single. I think they’re both right sometimes.”

Height? A: “Six-three.”

Weight? A: “I aim to stay under two hundred. When I get close, I start to push it at the gym. Sure, I could bulk up but I like the agility of a lower weight.”

Q: What kind of work do you do and do you like it?

A: “I”m a freelance copy writer. Most of my work involves press releases for corporations, boring stuff like that, but it pays good. I like writing for magazines. They don’t pay as much as the dry stuff for corporate outfits but it’s more fun. I’ll get with an editor and submit an idea for an article and, if he likes it, he’ll let me run with it. I like writing for guys’ magazines. That’s a blast because I can write about good night spots to hit or exercise regiments. All those articles are mostly freelance. That’s the stuff I do. I love it. Especially clubs. I’ll call up the owner and tell him I’m writing a piece on clubs and I want to check out his place to see if it’s worth mentioning is such-and-such magazine, and usually they give me the royal treatment. Yeah, I dig that.”

Q: What is your home life like?

A: “I have a condo, a nice place. You’ve gotta keep your digs up to snuff. You never know when you’ll be… a-hem… entertaining.”

Q: What are some of your likes and dislikes?

A: “I like women. That takes up a good amount of my time – they deserve our time and attention. If you’re communicating with more than two chicks at a time, you’ve gotta keep track. They know the score, they know I’m talking to other girls. I tell ‘em. But, at the same time, when I’m with one girl, I’m with her. It’s a matter of focus. They pick up on that. So, yeah, women are in the ‘likes’ column. I also like outdoors stuff: biking, running, skiing, you know, all that. As for dislikes, well… I don’t dwell too much on stuff I don’t like – I discard it almost immediately. There’s no hard and fast rule as to what I don’t like but, when it rears it’s ugly head, I lop it off.”

Q: What’s something embarrassing about yourself that you don’t openly share with people?

A: “Ghosts scare me. Ghosts and people with pointy teeth. I went out with this one chick with pointy teeth. That didn’t last long at all.”

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Perk in Print

Perk at Work is now being featured in My Las Cruces, a weekly publication about local people, events, issues, and other fine topics. I’m honored to have Perk at Work in newsprint. It makes me happy.

Perk at Work is still very much a webcomic. That, however, doesn’t mean it can’t cross over. It has always been my dream (and the dream of any comic strip creator) to see my comic in the newspaper. With newspapers folding left and right, that dream has been dampened a bit. On the other hand, I feel that there will always be a place for print media, especially at the local or even hyper-local level. This is what My Las Cruces is.

I would like to see Perk at Work in other local and hyper-local publications across the country. That would be a dream come true. My Las Cruces is a great start.

Photo taken from My Las Cruces, a special publication of the Las Cruces Sun-News

Face Lift for Perk at Work

I’m having a lot of fun with Perk at Work these days. Being in New York helped me get over some of my hang ups and opened me up to just draw freely and naturally.

Since the feel of Perk at Work is a bit looser, I decided to change up the website as well. You may notice I’ve taken off the ads. If I do have ads, I’d like for the ads to be interesting to the readers, not just a spot that’s making me a few bucks. So off they went.

In any case, I hope you like the new line art look. And enjoy the comics too!

Have a great week and let’s do what we can to make the best and happiest work possible!

Perk at Press

Perk at Work was recently featured as an interesting website in the article “Making Life Better One Site at a Time” published in Ventanas Magazine. Ventanas a magazine focused on “The enjoyment of fine southwestern living.” It’s the biggest and best magazine in Southern New Mexico and I am honored to have Perk at Work mentioned.

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Check out the Ventanas website: http://ventanas-magazine.com/

They may or may not have this issue up to read digitally just yet.

The magazine is worth the read, lots of great stuff in there. New Mexico has an interesting culture and it’s a great place to work, live, or just visit.

Gracias Ventanas!