Other People Exist zine
Other People Exist, also known as OPE, is a zine produced on a Sharp AL-800 copier and hand-folded and stapled by the author, who closely inspects each finished copy for blemishes.
OPE zine is one of the most expensive zines available today, at $4 per issue ($24 for a one year subscription). Subscribers consist of fans of the author's work and friends who feel sorry for Kurt, who hasn't held a paying job in over four years.
Read what others are saying about the cartoons of Kurt Xxxxxx:
Enjoyed 'em! - moderately successful cartoonist Bill Griffith
This hurt my feelings - Lynda Barry, on the cartoon "I Hate Lynda Barry"
I no longer find pleasure in reading your publication - a former subscriber
OPE zine is one of the most expensive zines available today, at $4 per issue ($24 for a one year subscription). Subscribers consist of fans of the author's work and friends who feel sorry for Kurt, who hasn't held a paying job in over four years.
Read what others are saying about the cartoons of Kurt Xxxxxx:
Enjoyed 'em! - moderately successful cartoonist Bill Griffith
This hurt my feelings - Lynda Barry, on the cartoon "I Hate Lynda Barry"
I no longer find pleasure in reading your publication - a former subscriber
posted by Kurt | 7:59 AM
48 Comments:
Hey! where's the rest of you?
Hi Kurt, I saw in The Onion that this month has been declared National Awareness Month. You could get in on that! People need to be aware that other people exist!
Do you like the political cartoons of Ted Rall?
exactly! I tried twice!
When's the next one coming out? I'm getting tired of reading the same one over and over again.
Uh oh. Looks like we have partial separation.
Worth it at half the price!
Whew, earlier today there were strange things posted and then I would come back and more strange things and then once there was nothing and I was getting so depressed and then I just shut the damn computer off and now it is after midnight and you are back. Whew, I was really scared there for a moment. I mean I made a promise and then I thought I was not going to be able to keep it. Thanks for letting me keep it.
And I need a job too, due to the now extra 10% the state of California is taking out of hubby's paycheck. Have you thought about running for some kind of government position, that even after you get fired, or I mean they do not vote you back in, that you get the retirement pay for the rest of your life. Just think we only would have to work for 6 years and then spend 50 more on government, uh I mean tax payers, retirement money being put into our bank accounts.
So if you run or walk for some position, then I will vote for you, I mean I keep voting for you to stay in bloggyland and I keep trying to buy OPE stuff, but now you got a zine thing going. Do you also have a zane thing going too? Oh and I can be hired to do the stapling for you. I will work for that 10% that the state is now stealing from us.
God bless.
your Surname is Xxxxxx !So,as well as German & Polish you have a wee bit of Greek in your bloodline?
Where's the rest of your f***ing blog? Have you half quit now?
The blog is safely archived for posterity on a CD. I labeled it clearly so that those who survive me will know exactly what it is when they toss it in the dumpster.
What's your next venture? Looks like you really did dump and purge here. Sorry to see it. You were my favorite non-commercial humor blog out there.
I thought everything was in the car?
Why...are you almost dead?
I'm getting angry at you again BTW.
I miss you and your crazy blog. Please don't do this.
Where are you? I am getting scared you are gonna do it. Come back, please, please....
God bless.
Kurt.....
We need you.
Love
The Internet
Hi Kurt. ditto=Emma.
We have consensus.
Without OPE, blogging is officially "over". But no pressure. Go on and kill an entire mode of self expression. It will win you a certain place in history, just like that guy who burned the library at Alexandria. What was his name again? Oh, yeah----Kurt.
Like most OPE readers, Alan Smithee saved all your posts to his hard drive and he now reads one inspiring passage every day a la The Bible. Close readers can find the answers to all of life's questions in your complete writings. Additional posts, while they might be of interest to historians, are totally unnecessary.
Fuck. The archive disappeared!!!!!!
ps- I would subscribe to OPE but I had to buy a copy of Hindus: An Alternative History. Until I sell more shoes.
bitchlet.
lol. If only I had the kind of popularity you're throwing away.
Ditto and then another ditto to all of the previous comments.
I just wanted to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
God bless.
ok, so three days before Thanksgiving i got the H1N1: Intestinal Version flu. i thought i was dying. In my feverish state (which was in between the chills, dehydration and intense intestinal problems), i dreamed of this blog. i am so not kidding.
i'm convinced that this blog pulled me through and i am alive today (and fully hydrated, thank you very much)because of dreaming of Todd scrubbing off the ring around the tub and Kurt's adventures all around the world.
Of course i also was dreaming of flying ponies and farming cats..but....
We need a blog from you - it's life or death.
laura
(In reply to the comment you left on my blog) Hey! I actually subscribed to OPE zine and am not one of those losers that drops $100on dinner. (No more than $99 is my rule;-) When's the next issue btw?
Also, are we going to be commenting on this one post for the rest of our lives?
i missed out on everything kurt
i am sad
WooHoo! I'm in the 25th place comment wise!
You know, i was thinking about Kurt and this blog and he's like a special lover who just walked away and left you stranded and hurt and lonely and you had all these plans of how you would spend part of your day with him and get a good laugh and feel all warm and fuzzy inside ...
And OH MY WORD, i need to get out more. Good lord.
laura
but ps...i DO miss your blog, Kurt.
So the emma blog is run by laura. Interesting.
WooHoo! I'm 27th!
yeah. Emma blog run by me. i know. Strange. But true.
but this isn't about me...it's about Kurt and where he has gone.
KURTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
ok..maybe it's about me and how much therapy i need...
:sigh:
This blog is still here?!
Kurt!! You commented! Yeah! Come back!
Hi Kurt!
Kurt! Kurt-Kurt-Kurty-Kurt-Kurt!
Oh my word, Tony - that was freakin' awesome!
erm....i meant Trey. (apparently i cannot read!)
I've never been called "Trey" Before.Sounds Good! Thank You Em !
Where is Waldo uh I mean Kurt? I have to say that you are about as slow at posting anything as I am. But then again I am too busy leaving comments to find any time to post on my site. Okay, I am just trying to convince you to come back and I am still trying to find Waldo after years and years of searching for him. Why does everyone else find him and I cannot?
Okay, just stopping by to ask if you are boycotting Christmas too? Well at least the commericalized part of it. No buying of gifts this year. Sounds good, huh. Well since the money well has run dry, there will be no gifts this year unless you come back and sell me some OPE mugs at a really cheap price. Oh all right, I will have to settle for some cheap zines, but they better be good. LOL!!
God bless.
PS....and PC is still mad at you.
Why, Kurt, WHY????
I suppose it's just a matter of time before you get fed up of us all and totally eliminate this one and only lonely page. That's okay though, we're still talking about you on other blogs. We're imagining you naked on mine. Long live OPE, long live Kurt....or at least the memory. Now that being said, wouldn't it just be better to stop all of the nonsence and just actually post? Then we wouldn't have to imagine you anymore!
P.S. That Emma....she's a pervert;-)
LOL Emma is NOT a pervert....just a healthy woman with a very healthy imagination and some very high hormones which need some...well...never mind what i need!
And yes! talking about a potentially naked Kurt IS great fun! (and i do believe he must model to get all his jet-setting money and money to pay Todd and for coffee....the zine can't do all that, can it? hmm...more thoughts on this!)
Now that Todd's dead though, because remember they shot him in the backyard, he must have more money than before. Maybe he doesn't have to pose naked as much anymore. Actually though, now that I think of it...he didn't actually pay Todd did he?
Emma, I had someone the other day telling me most of the models we use are gay. Let's just say that Kurt actually was working as a nude model. Do you think he might be gay too? I don't imagine it would be as fun to talk about a nude Kurt then. Unless Emma, who says she is actually Laura is really actually....[gasp] are you Todd? You want my drawing;-)
P.S. I think now would be a good time for you to come back Kurt. We COULD make this even more interesting you know if you don't!
If Kurt were gay, then i would say he probably shot Todd in a lover's quarrel. i mean who in their right mind would shoot such a talendted and wonderful guy such as Todd unless Todd was giving the hoochie-koochie to someone else and Kurt was jealous.
And laura who is emma who is me doesn't need more naked pictures of men in her home...although that one you drew WAS very well done!
Do you really think the models are mostly gay...or just need the money and don't mind being naked. i wouldn't mind being naked for money...but that's a WHOLE nother comment...so i'll save it for later when we're all bored and desperate for a laugh.
Kurt! please come back and save us from naked emma stories..pleeaasseeee
any MORE naked picture? You already have many;-)
I think a few are gay, but many are married with families. Although that doesn't actually mean they aren't gay.
One think I do know is that it's not just money driving these guys (and ladies) because the models are pretty darn proud of their bodies and some even want us to photograph them in various poses during the classes. I always found that a little odd. I guess like everybody else, they have to have a portfolio. Can you imagine showing that at a job interview?!!!
Oh, and I still don't want to think of Kurt naked please. Gay or not. I'm going to take Mr. D.'s drawing down so that horrible feeling I get every time I walk into my livingroom will go away.
I wonder what Todd looked like naked. Before he was dead.
ROFLMAO....hahahahah
This was just too funny and please keep the picture up. It was a good picture and a real conversation piece. Look at the conversation here. Still laughing....heheheh. On top of that it was very well drawn and a magnificent art piece. I truly enjoyed it.
Oh and Kurt is truly only gay if he does not start posting pretty soon, but since he did just post something else I guess that means he is not gay, but he is probably naked though, hence no new picture of that coveted OPE mug he usually flashes around. Although are you sure that picture was not of Kurt, I really did like the leg muscles, that man has some fine leg muscles. It is okay if Kurt is naked as long as he has really good leg muscles.
God bless.
PS...I am proud to be a total pervert if I get to see naked men, well as long as it is hubby.
How come this only shows up as 20 comments when it's at least...well, more than that!
oh gosh...i'm so glad i re-read these last few comments...the whole naked gay Todd/Kurt/Mr. D conversation was hilarious.
ohhh Kurt we so miss you. Look what we've resorted to talking about...help us. Please
Kurt you see what happens when you leave this kind of void in the internets? It fills up with naked gay man talk. Now you know I've got no beef with that - it's manna for me - but come on, your blog was a little respite from the monotony of naked gaiety that is the WWW.
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