Q: What is this website all about?
Cubicle101 is a webcomic that takes a very sarcastic, and in many cases very real, look at the world of Information Technology professionals in their un-natural habitat. The corporate environment. Geeks are by their very nature highly intelligent, which in turn gives them superiority complexes which are further backed by astronomical IQ scores.
This state of being doesn’t generally lend itself to playing well with others, and thus a very different sort of comedy rises to the top of the everyday fray. This website is about capturing that brand of odd humor and bringing it out of the IT department (aka mom’s basement) kicking and screaming and into the world from which it hides.
Q: Are the characters/stories real?
There is some truth in the fiction, and some fiction in the truth, respectively. The main characters of the comic are in fact modeled after myself as well as several excoworkers-turned-friends from a job-trek long, long ago in a matrix far, far away. It was decided (by most of us) that I use my talents of art and computers for good instead of evil. Thus the main characters of the comic were born.
The stories on the other hand come from a range of places. Actual situations from past, present, and future. Everything from news headlines to some sh*t I just made up in my head while I was surfing the web. The inspirations for the stories mainly come straight from the usual geek culture and awkwardness that we’ve all come to know and love from our favorite geeks.
Q: Do you do this for a job?
Currently, no. I’m still the IT guy by day, uber-geek by night. I’m also a graphic designer and musician, however those aren’t all that easy to make a living off of. I would love the oportunity to do nothing but produce more Cubicle101 comics for a living, and it probably wouldn’t take much because I’m accustomed to a fairly average lifestyle so I could survive on a less than astronomical salary.
But, until the gravy train comes rolling into town I gotta keep doing the multitasking thing. The bills don’t pay themselves.