Well, I finally found an answer. It took a while, but I finally found Mr. Unky via the back door that is Can Hed Comix. This was his free comic strip that is also currently unavailable. Sounds like the guy had a rough time trying to keep Unkymoods afloat.
Here’s what Mr. Unky (a.k.a. Marc Lutz) had to say:
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Hi there.
Remember me? I’m the guy who created Can Hed Comix a long while ago, and I used to post the comic strips on this web site. Well, I’m back, and I have news for those of you who are interested. Here’s the nutshell version.UnkyMoods.com is no longer in existence. It had a good run. It made people happy. Ultimately, the hosting issues and the overall programming issues made me unhappy, and that’s just not proper. It’s either going to fade away for good, or I’m going to sell it. Any takers?
Ducks In Lodi is about to celebrate its one-year anniversary with the Lodi News-Sentinel. It has gone from being published twice a month (or every other week) to being published weekly. Huzzah for the quackers!
Can Hed Comix is still in existence, but only drawn when I have the time and inspiration. I’ll be working on setting up the archives of the old stuff for you die-hard fans.
That’s about it. More soon!
– Marc, 11:18 PM
I can sure sympathize with you, Marc! I can only imagine the kind of bandwidth needs Unkymoods had. If you had an email address somewhere (and I will go digging for one after posting this), I would like to write and talk to you about your experience with Unkymoods. I’d like to explore what possibilities might lie ahead for such a great service. Maybe sell the mood sets off to blog owners at a certain set price? Or find someone with unlimited bandwidth (this would unfortunately not be me) to take over? Or find a way to fund it with advertising? Or something?
If you happen to read this, please contact me at jenna at magees dot net (I’m sure you can form this into a reasonable email address 🙂 ).
Oh no! I too am going to miss Marc’s moods a lot. If you do find his address I’d be glad to write to him too!
Hi Jenna, me again – I saw you added a new mood in your sidebar but I couldn’t track it on the Creative Therapy website… Could you give me any pointers? Thank so much!
missin the unky very much
my blog is so…….cold!
I remember Mr. Unky saying it was okay for people to upload the mood icons to their own server for personal use. Does anyone have that archive they could e-mail to me or link me to?
I, too, have used Unkymoods for quite a while, but in the recent past nothing ever showed up. I googled it to see what happened and landed here. Thank you for passing on that information. So very sad to see Unkymoods gone!
I miss it also – I’d pay for the service if it went to a pay service depending on cost…
Heya!
I was pretty saddened to say the least when I couldn’t see my moods to one side. So I’ve had to take the drastic measure of collating as many moods as I could via Google and upload them to my own server. And iBook. And iPod.
You get the idea!
I’ve only got the guys but I could get the girls ones too, and maybe could store them there so that anyone can easily have them…?
Would Marc send the pics on as a complete set if somone asked him nicely?
If you’re still looking for Marcs e-mail please contact me and I can give it to you.
Thanks for the info and all your efforts in finding out what happened, Jenna. I’m sure there are a lot more bloggers out there who miss Unkymoods as much as we do.
With the permission of Marc, I have revived Unkymoods as a simplified version called Punkymoods! Check it out at punkymoods.com.