CWCki:Operation Mailbag

PROTIP: Deadline for submitting your e-mails is 13 December 2009 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Submissions will be posted onto CWCipedia for Chris's mailbag on 14 December 2009.

Post your e-mails to Chris here. Please see CWCki talk:Operation Mailbag for Rules of Engagement and details. --Champthom 00:31, 29 November 2009 (CET)

From: Gabe Syme <honestgabe@gmail.com> Dear Chris, I've been reading your comics for a long time now, and I have to say, your writing style is very unique! I've grown to appreciate it a great deal, and being an avid reader, I would like to enjoy more books like it! I absolutely love books of all forms. Some of my favorite authors include Tim Dorsey, Max Barry, GK Chesterson, Robert W. Chambers, Mark Z. Danielewski, and of course, Christian Weston Chandler!  :) But I'm curious to know what you like, or what you find particularly inspiring. So I gotta ask: 1.) What books or authors would you say influenced your writing the most? I know you're a fan of RL Stine's work, but are there any others? 2.) What books would you recommend to your fans? Again, I know you enjoy the collective works of RL Stine and How to Talk to Girls by Alec Greven. What else do you enjoy? 3.) Have other mediums inspired your writing style? For example, I love the storytelling of Gochi Suda (Who wrote the story for games like Contact and Killer7). Are there any TV, Film, or Video game writers that influenced how you tell your stories? 4.) A little bit off topic, but a lot of great writers crave variety, and like to occasionally take a break from their established work and focus on telling a completely new story that's totally disconnected from their prior work. Do you plan on telling any stories with nothing to do with Sonichu, Rosechu, or anybody else from CWCville VA? Please be as in depth as possible, as I really love your work, and want to know as many of your inspirations as I can! :D Thanks a bunch, and have a great day! --Gabe Syme

From: Jacob N. <jacob_n333@yahoo.com> Hello, Chris! First, let me express my thanks for your interest in my novel. I hope it is to your liking. Second, I am sorry to hear your education in regards to the Cherokee has been sorely lacking. Many Cherokee are in the dark as to the history of their people, even the public history it is convenient to let be known to society at large. You can learn most of the truth at your local library, should you be interested in delving further. It is criminal that someone with such an investment in his history should know so little. I think you'll be amazed. Third... speaking of education. I've followed your art for a while now, and a few questions have been bugging me. Something else has sprung up in particular. You recently said that you went to college "to fulfill your parents' wishes." This little statement has upset me deeply. As a college graduate, I value my college years like nothing else. I have learned so much, discovered so much about myself, that I can't imagine what I'd be like without what I learned there. High school is little more than a warmup compared to college, and yet you seem to use what you learned or experienced in high school in your comics more than anything else. In fact, I think you barely use what you learned in college--a few house designs and little more. Besides computer-aided drafting and design, what other classes did you take? I'm starting to wonder about your art education, Chris. Your reference pool for literature and comics seems sorely lacking; you couldn't even name major comic artists in a recent letter. Why is that? Writers write, but writers also read. If you don't keep up with what other artists in your medium can do and have done, you won't know how far you can push the envelope of creation. I've read at least a thousand novels and comics in my life, possibly thousands, and there are times I still feel undereducated in the ways of writing. Don't you feel the same way sometimes? I mean no insult, I am merely a fellow artist curious about how you go about creating art. Once again, thank you for the correspondence, and I hope you find my novel sample intriguing. Cthulhu f'taghn! Yours, Jacob Nathaniel Lights-in-the-Sky.

(Note: Revising away. I'm not sure from what front to attack him from... might make up another letter to go for his blatant misuse of measurement.)

From: Randi Foulk <sonichuis44@hotmail.com> Chris-chan, Hi! I'm so glad you started drawing the comic again, I thought you'd given up on it, because you didn't write any new pages for a long time! I'm a boyfriend-free girl, but theres this really cute, quiet, shy boy in my class, and I told my friend to tell his friend to ask me out, so maybe I won't be boyfriend free for long ;) I had some questions! 1. I've watched a lot of your videos, and your room looks amazing, there's soo much cool stuff! Can you take some pictures or show us in a video, so we can see all the neat stuff you have? 2. I read about how you think gay boys can be saved if you reprogram them to like women! I think that's really important and God would like that! But why would you have them do it with female prisoners?? if they're in jail they're probably really mean, and they might make things worse, or just refuse to help those poor men out... 3. This is kind of a naughty question, so you don't have to answer if you don't want to ;) Do you wear pajamas to bed, or do you sleep "all natural"? Thanks a lot!!!! --Randi

This would be awesome if the following two emails were next to each other:

From: Harper Steinbeck harpersteinbeck62@gmail.com Chris, My children are huge Sonichu fans and can't wait for the video games to be published. However, they recently showed me a YouTube video showing one of your comics where you shoot a man in the legs in an argument over a woman. I am shocked that you claim to advocate gun control yet you depict yourself taking part in such depraved gun violence. Shooting someone in the legs is no laughing matter. As a physical therapist I work rehabilitating wounded soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Recovering from gunshot wounds is a painful, lengthy process and some victims may never walk again. This is exactly why we have to keep guns out of the hands of sick individuals who think shooting someone is an appropriate means to settle a conflict. You claim to be for gun control yet you draw yourself shooting an unarmed man? You need to explain yourself. -- Harper Steinbeck

From: John Lee nra4ever@gmail.com My children love reading all your Sonichu comics and going through the CWCipedia. However, we are saddened to learn that you are a supporter of gun control. When my wife and I bought our first home I awoke in the middle of the night to find two men crawling through our living room window. Fortunately I had a gun and was able to hold them at gunpoint until the police arrived. To this day I still don't know if they were simply after our belongings or if they wanted to hurt my family. Thankfully I didn't have to shoot them but I easily could have. Chris, how would you defend yourself, your parents, or your future wife and daughter if people decided to break into your home? The police can't be everywhere at once. If I understand correctly you live in a rural area where help could be almost an hour away if you called 911. I'm sure hearing about gun violence in the news makes you sick. It makes me sick, too. But gun control isn't the answer. Criminals won't obey gun control laws. That's why they're criminals. All gun control does is leave law-abiding citizens defenseless against say, crazy people who would shoot someone in a petty squabble over a woman. Please explain yourself. John Lee NRA Lifetime Member

Wendy's LOL

From: Kevin Flynn kdawgg72@aol.com Chris, since you're so good at figuring things out I was wondering if you could give me some perspective. I got a job at Wendy's after my dad said I had to get a real job. Anyway I worked there for a few weeks and the manager fired me! (It was more like 5 weeks but I've been rounding up to two months so it sounds better on my resume) We didn't get along that well but I didn't think it would come to this. I was honestly shocked because I thought I was doing a real good job, showing up on time every day and doing stuff they told me to do. Man, what gives? I read that you got fired from Wendy's once, too. Can you give me some more details on your last day? What was your experience at Wendy's like? How did your boss act? How many hours a week were you working? Like, no detail is too small. I feel like a huge failure after getting fired from the only job I've ever had, and it being Wendy's. How did you cope with it? Take it easy, Kevin

From: Amber Blue v3n0m1300@gmail.com Hey Chris, I can't believe I'm actually talking to you! XD Loyal sonichu girl here, saw you on web soup and then found your awesome sonichu comics! I'm sorry you've had to take so much shit from throlls, you're obviously straight and I would never buy anything from the dumb kid who's impersonating you. I hope he is still feeling the effects of that curse you put on him in that one video. I've been wondering some stuff about the world you've created. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Can Rosechu run? I've seen Simonla run, along with sonichus like Reldnahc and Walter Grisby. Why does Rosechu need to be carried on sonichu's back? Can you give us more details about the day you were fired from Wendys? My dad's a lawyer and told me he believes you were fired illegally. As a white law student who just got a porsche for my birthday, I sometimes like to imagine what it would be like to be married to the creator of sonichu and rosechu. What do you wear when you sleep? Would you like to sleep close to a girl or leave some room in between? Love the daily updates, keep them coming! -Amber Blue xoxoxoxxx

From:Brittany J. the.scribes@gmail.com Hey Chris! I know you're probably REALLY busy right now (the holidays are so stressful for me!); so I'll make this really fast. A couple of gal-pals and I were chatting about our favorite celeb biographies, and I couldn't help but think of you. How would you react if, someday in the future, an independent author wrote a book about you? Like, idk, a CWCography? As long as it's truthful, I think it'd be soooo cool. Love, Brittany PS: Don't let the crazy emails get to you. Some of them seem REALLY WEIRD, lol.

From: Rod B. <rblagojevich@prairiestate.il.gov> Hi Chris, Recently I got into a little bit of legal trouble. Nothing really bad, it got blown way out of proportion I think. Basically some guys taped me saying things on the phone to a friend AS A JOKE and then told everyone I was being serious (BUT I WASN'T!) and I ended up getting fired at my job. Well I'm still mad about it, but that's not why I'm writing. During the trial, I tried telling people the truth, but they wouldn't listen, and I just got so ANGRY and started YELLING. I didn't mean to be rude to everyone but they were telling lies and wouldn't listen to the truth! It kind of reminds me of how the trolls are always trying to slander you, and thinking about how you keep going inspires me so I can keep going too! Anyway, they made me go see a psychiatrist (I AM NOT CRAZY, IT WAS NOT MY CHOICE) and the psychiatrist told me I should take some medicine to help me be less angry. I don't know if I want to or not, I mean sometimes I do get mad and just fly off the handle at people, but I don't want people to think I'm crazy because I take medicine! Do you take any medicine? Do you think it helps? My doctor said he was going to give me pixel or paxel or something like that, have you ever heard of it? Thanks, Rod

From: Patricia Elizabeth Thompson-Andrews <pat_e_t_a@gmail.org> Hey, Chris! So, I hear you're an animal lover, and that, in the past, you've owned a dog and several cats! As a fan and fellow pet owner, I just wanted to ask a few questions... 1. Where did you get each of your cats from? 2. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my new kitten house-trained. Do you think I should just give up teaching him to use the litterbox? If so, why? 3. On a related note, my brother has a new puppy, and he's trying to decide whether to housebreak her or just let her live outside in a pen. What do you think, and why? 4. How come we never get to see your cats in any of your videos? 5. Out of the cats you have now, do you have any favorites? If so, why? Well, that's all for now! Tell the kitties I said hi! -Patricia