Hollywood insider webcomic: Don't Forget to Validate Your Parking

Hollywood screenwriter Mike Le is making productive use of his time during the strike: he's the creator of the funny, insidery webcomic Don't Forget to Validate Your Parking, which made me laugh aloud more than once. It's a kind of My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable for Hollywood. Link (Thanks, Liz!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Not to get all technical, but one big difference between this and My Fighting Technique is that this is a lot more character-driven, whereas MFTIU is more of a Op-Ed/Gag-based strip. The main similarity seems to be that it is clip-art based, and that it is based around one particular topic, such that it may appeal to more than just a webcomic audience.

Um, hm. Didn’t mean to sound like a know-it-all right there.
jomama123

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serafinapekkala

This is great. Reminds me of “The TV Set,” a movie by Hollywood baby Jake Kasdan about the whole writer-trapped-in-LA lifestyle, with Sigourney Weaver as the crazy loathsome network president. Good stuff.
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Jeff

Is there any good reason to be a TV/movie writer? I understand the draw, but no one ever says, “Gosh this is a great way to make a living.” Or maybe they do and I’m not reading that.

Jeff
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I don’t think I’d call this guy a “Hollywood Screenwriter”. He’s never actually written anything. Funny comics though. He should work on that.
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Filing technique, love.
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…You know, if the writers can go out and find other writing gigs during the strike, then the studios should be able to hire scabs with impunity. Fair’s fair, right?
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two different books, pancakes.
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This guy is funny. (Why can I not escape The Pina Colada song, wherever I go?) “Last night I snorted meth off a dead tranny’s ass behind Circus of Books and and then rammed my car into an In & Out. Write an article about me.”