Shishio:

Shishio is the creator and author of One-liners. And despite the fact that he is supposed to be a writer, he has nothing else of interest to say about himself.

-U!:

-U! a.k.a. Uriel Aurelio Durán Muñoz is a freelancer (and a lo-fi rockstar for hire by night) from Mexico City. Some people say he's weird. He says that he's just a stranger on the outside looking in --or something like that. He likes to listen to music, play videogames, eat chocolate, read and draw. He draws One-liners, by the way. For further info, hirings, marriage proposals or whatever you may need him for, his website is located at Garabatorama.com.

One-liners:

Synopsis:

One-liners is a selectively episodic (mostly) autobiographical webcomic about a superlative asshole named Shishio.

History:

On one of the messageboards I frequent, there is a thread in which funny quotes and conversations from an IRC channel the most active members of the messageboard frequent are posted.

I used to chat in this IRC channel on a frequent basis, and a number of things I said there were deemed worthy enough to be added to the IRC highlight thread on the messageboard. When I expressed my surprise at this, a woman by the name of TsukiGoKim said "But you say the greatest lines."

At the time, I agreed with her. I thought "You know, I do say the greatest lines." (I now know the truth, but let's not get into that.)

During the summer of 2005, I was, as I often do, lamenting my utter inability to write, which I have touched on here.

And then I remembered what TsukiGoKim said to me. And I still believed that I said the greatest lines. And so, One-liners was born. Incidentally, the "greatest lines" comment is also the reason I decided to name the comic One-liners.

I liken the writing process to putting a jigsaw puzzle together. I get an idea, but it is always an incomplete picture of the story. (i.e., My so-called muse only gives me a few pieces of the puzzle.) Of course, noone I know of receives all the pieces at once, but most writers can eventually find the rest of the pieces they need. I, for whatever reason, cannot do this.

And that's the great thing about One-liners. Since One-liners is based on true stories, (I would say it's 95% factual.) all I have to do is transcribe them. In other words, I have all the pieces to the puzzle. All that remains is to put them together.

And maybe, just maybe writing One-liners will, in time, make me a more disciplined and better writer.