Blog – Page 23 – Xaviar X. Xerexes

Even Dave Grohl thinks Foo Fighters is a dumb name for a band

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 30, 2013

Really cool speech from Dave Grohl at this year’s SXSW – check it out at the NPR website (doesn’t seem to be a way to embed the video). Grohl has been busy – working on a new Foo Fighters album, and the documentary he did on the Sound City recording studio where Nirvana’s Nevermind album was recorded. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoOfiLz1G4?rel=0] I just drove by this which is the title of a song on the Foo Fighters first album: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEcrXjgYYw?rel=0]

Strip Search Recap: Tweet This Kurtzie!

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 30, 2013

Episode Eight is called Drawing Blind and involved a contest where the contestants paired up and then each had to draw a picture they couldn’t see but that their partner described with words. Is this at all relevant to making webcomics? I guess a little — working with a writer or just two or more creators collaborating would need to share ideas. Words do help but I imagine most creators do like to share thumbnail sketches. The results of this contest are pretty good evidence that words alone are not enough for a good working webcomic collaboration. Nevertheless per the …

Wrangling the Family Photo Collection

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 30, 2013

I grew up with film not digital cameras. My whole life has been a constant stream of changes so I’m never surprised at how different things are from childhood to adulthood but it doesn’t make it any easier. Families stored all kinds of FILM capturing memories when I was a kid. That doesn’t mean anything anymore. I do have stuff in boxes but it’s an entirely digital world now. And how you store that binary code is different too. At one time it made a lot of sense to back up things on CD-ROMS. Now with the explosion in the …

Do you know the way to San Jose?

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 26, 2013

When you ask that question you need to specify whether you mean Califonia or Costa Rica.

Asking for Trouble: Yet Another Ryan Estrada Project

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 24, 2013

Seriously I wonder if Ryan Estrada is secretly identical triplets? Another effort he’s undertaken is a gameshow conducted via Google Hangouts called Asking For Trouble. One of his very latest featured a couple of webcomic creators I have known online for a long time – Brandon Carr and Tom Brazelton [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA99Od4ekCw?rel=0]

SPX In The News

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 24, 2013

Comic Riffs blog has an interview up with Warren Bernard, director of Small Press Expo (SPX), on the recent table registration-online crash SNAFU that SPX went through. To recap – SPX has (d?) Bluehost as a hosting provider and during the crush of demand to register for details the site went down hard. The good news for SPX is it sold out its tables super quickly. This year SPX will be Sept. 14-15 at the (usual) Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in North Bethesda. The special guests include Gary Panter, Lisa Hanawalt, Seth, Gene Yang and Frank Santoro.

Secret Identity Wars

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 24, 2013

Nerds have written Homeric epic-length essays on the nature of secret identities in the super hero genre. But I think from now on I’m going with R. Steven’s succinct meditation on the question:

And Then There Were Ten

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 23, 2013

Lots of spoiler-y titles I could have used but on the assumption someone might read this, I’ll keep spoilers below the break. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfJ3Z3Wzlk?rel=0]