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]
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.
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:
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]
Who else reads Guilded Age? I do. Phil “KAAAAAHN” Kahn and T “U” Campbell have put out a pretty amusing buddy/group action comedy for a a bunch of years now. Yes it’s set in a medieval, slightly Dungeons & Dragons-ish setting but it’s basically the Wild Bunch (or maybe the Dirty Dozen) stretched out into an AMC length teevee series. It’s a fun webcomic. There’s also a meta-story that intrudes on things now and then — something about the whole of the Guilded Age being part of an online game gone amuck or something. No offense to Phil or T but …
Lee Adam Herold drew this for me probably back in 2000ish on the anniversary of the webcomic I was drawing at the time: Burnt Dog Radio. Lee’s sense of humor ran pretty dark but it almost always made me laugh. I always appreciated his bravery in pursuing jokes in somewhat dangerous territory. I’d like to see Josh Whedon try and build a show around a psychotic mama’s boy. Anyhow Lee had this amazing sponge and ink technique for his comic. He showed me how he did it once — it’s extremely clever but not necessarily easy to get as much …
Early Sluggy Freelance was mind-blowing in a way, particularly because it was RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING of comics on the web and Pete Abrams was way ahead of EVERYONE else at the beginning in terms of ambition, consistency and an actual audience. And a lot of the chaotic pop culture borrowing and remixing was really fun — in a way that corporate owned comic strips in the newspaper would never do. Somewhere around the early part of the 00’s though it seemed like Pete got bogged down in longer plots, and an indecision over how seriously he wanted to take …
It’s FRIDAY, FRIDAY, gotta get down on FRIDAY. GET YOURSELF DOWN TO THE STRIP SHOW store. Yeah! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ntv2U3Jgw?rel=0] Spoilers, such as they are, BELOWWWWW!
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