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<title>Max Riffner</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:30:47 GMT</pubDate>

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<description>&lt;p&gt;In July of 2008, I finally felt like getting back into cartooning again, and had settled on trying my hand at an online comic strip. There are many self-imposed obstacles that I see cartoonists put in their path to creating &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; (that way they never have to put work out in the public eye), and I am no stranger to those delusions. Here are some of my stumbling blocks and how I got around them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Riffner</dc:creator>
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<item><title>Do You Like iPhones?</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I know I like my iPhone. Want to enter a contest I&amp;#8217;m putting on for Drunk Elephant Comics? &lt;a href="http://www.drunkelephantcomics.com/blog/612/got-a-good-drunk-story-get-an-iphone"&gt;Read all about it here for a chance to win a free iPhone!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:28:15 GMT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Riffner</dc:creator>
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<item><title>Lonely Transition [4]</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Over the last year, I started a &lt;a href="http://www.drunkelephantcomics.com"&gt;webcomic&lt;/a&gt; which was updated two times a week, just to be sure I could handle that schedule. I soon boosted production up to three times a week, and then shortly after, teamed up with a writer to work on &lt;a href="http://www.lydiacomic.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; webcomic&lt;/a&gt; that updates three times a week. I am essentially doing comic work full time at night now, having to produce 6 strips a week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Riffner</dc:creator>
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<item><title>Introducing Lydia</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s been a crazy time in my life lately, so I haven&amp;#8217;t had the opportunity to post anything about my new webcomic with writer &lt;a href="http://www.beaucoupkevin.com"&gt;Kevin Church&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#8217;s titled &lt;a href="http://www.lydiacomic.com"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Lydia&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and it&amp;#8217;s a spin-off of Kevin and Benjamin Birdie&amp;#8217;s successful webcomic, &lt;a href="http://www.therackcomic.com"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;The Rack&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:50:44 GMT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Riffner</dc:creator>
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<item><title>State of Grace</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Once March arrives, I get the desire to watch &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100685/"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;State of Grace&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This is partially because St. Patrick&amp;#8217;s Day features prominently in it (being March, naturally I think about it), but also because it reminds me of being a teen in the early &amp;#8217;90s, minus being a member of Irish organized crime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:40:08 GMT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Riffner</dc:creator>
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