Well, this has been several weeks in the making, but here is Guy Kawasaki’s guest appearance on LOLZIES!!1@!. He’s a very busy fellow, so I really appreciate his taking the time out to send me a few photos to use. Stay tuned for part 2 next week.
Guy is the creator of Alltop.com, a site that aggregates all the top content on the web across an ever-deepening list of categories. I met Guy on Twitter when some friends told me about Alltop and that he was good to follow on Twitter. The more I used Alltop, I learned that the content is deepened by it’s users suggesting new categories and new content for those categories, so, I told him I could send him a “fat stack of URLs” for a comics section if he was interested. He was game and tweeted for me to email him.
LOLZIES!!1@! didn’t make the list at first, but thanks to my sweet friends’ harassing Guy, it was on the site the next day. Good times. Guy asked if he could send me photos for a guest appearance in the comic, and here we are.
Guy’s got his mitts in a lot things. Here is his blog and another site he started called Truemors if you’d like to keep up with him.
Guy, thanks for being a champ about my little comic. If you’re ever in Fort Worth with any time to spare (unlikely as I know it is, I really do mean it) I’ll take you to Babe’s Chicken for the best fried chicken you might ever have. If you just have one night in Fort Worth, eating at Babe’s is the only right thing to do.
13 responses so far ↓
1 Ginny Brady // Jun 11, 2008 at 10:36 am
Our first coffee break with Guy. Nice going, Charlie!
2 Matt Dean // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:00 am
I have to agree about Babe’s — there’s really nowhere else to eat in Dallas/Fort Worth.
It’s the only restaurant I’ve seen where people will actually tailgate while waiting in line.
3 Caleb Chang // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:10 am
1. I had no idea that Bean had a name
2. Guy smiles at the most inappropriate times. Jerk ;-D
4 Charlie Trotter // Jun 11, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Caleb, Bean doesn’t have a name other than Bean. He is a Great Northern Bean. This is Jaime, a Latin-American coffee bean. Beans are hard to tell apart when in black and white. It even harder when cartoonists draw them too similarly. But keep your eyes peeled for Bean, he might be coming back to visit one of these days.
5 Derek // Jun 11, 2008 at 12:56 pm
It really does seem that Guy is taking enjoyment in Bean’s misery. Maybe someone should have a talk with him about it.
6 Nathanael // Jun 12, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Great comic!
7 Shawn // Jun 13, 2008 at 10:42 am
Maybe Jaime has a startup that Guy wants to back?
8 Neale Bryan // Jun 16, 2008 at 8:10 am
Jamie’s teeth are so much more buck than Bean’s.
9 Ivan Anderson // Jan 15, 2009 at 9:59 am
As you slide down the bannister of life, may the splinters never point your way.
10 Charlie Trotter // Jan 15, 2009 at 10:19 am
@Ivan Anderson: I’ll drink to that! Thanks for reading.
11 EmmaAdam // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:18 pm
There will be many surprises: unexpected gains are likely.
12 EmilyBrown // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:22 pm
You are broad minded and socially active.
13 SamanthaJones // Jan 18, 2009 at 8:04 am
A pleasant experience is ahead: don’t pass it by.