Strip Search: This One Goes To 11
by Wow – very entertaining episode. Jerry and Mike strike a nice balance as judges between honesty and encouragement. As usual – spoilers after the break. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-BIRVsThk?rel=0]
Category: Comics
Support the Stripped Documentary: Final Kickstarter In Progress
[vimeo 61476049 w=500 h=281] Dave Kellett’s documentary on comics is in the final push and they have a second Kickstarter underway to raise some money for additional footage they think will make their movie that much better. Take a look at it – especially if you didn’t donate the first go-round give it another look, this is going to be AMAZING and it’s definitely almost done.
STRIP SEARCH EPISODE 3: GTFO
So the first episode of the webcomic reality show where there is a contest with not only a winner but a loser. Today’s contest, as teased last time, is designing a t-shirt. First prize is getting the t-shirt produced and placed in the Penny Arcade store; winner keeps the profits. Seriously — nice prize and you could tell the contestant were happily surprised to hear it. I have to say; the producers of the show made watching 12 people sketch a t-shirt way more exciting than I would have predicted. The show is well done. The staff from Penny Arcade …
First Second Slate of Books for 2013
I am still on many mailing lists for publishers even though I have cut back on reviewing comics in the last year. I just found the First Second Book catalogue that I probably got from them earlier in the year. They’ve got a lot of good stuff dropping this year. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong – which I’m reading online comes out in print in May. Faith Erin Hicks working with author Prudence Shen Tune Volume 2 from Derek Kirk Kim – comes out in November of this year. I’m pretty excited about that one. I really enjoyed the first …
Bookmark: Faith Erin Hicks
I am a fairly big fan of Faith Erin Hicks’ comics. She got her start in pure webcomics but has since migrated to the webcomic collected into graphic novel approach. That approach is favored by several publishers now, including her most recent publisher First Second Books. She was recently interviewed on a Boing Boing podcast which is worth listening to. A lot of Hicks’ work is all from her but more recently she has collaborated with other creators on graphic novels, including Brain Camp, where she provided the art to a story by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan; and the …
Strip Search Episode 2: Gary Should Never Encourage Me
The webcomic reality show, Strip Search, posted its second episode where its 12 contestants play “fax machine” a game where everyone writes a phrase in a notebook, passes it to the left, and then draws a picture based on the phrase and repeat. “Pictionary telephone” is what I think someone described it as. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZdolO_Ew4] After everyone plays the fax machine game, the episode shows up some of the results. Which is good television (I doubt every drawing was funny or clever) but not good for evaluating the unofficial POWER LIST of Strip Search. Ericka Moen did nothing this week …
Strip Search Episode 1 – Not That Anyone Asked But Here Are My Thoughts
This is the true story… of seven twelve strangers… picked to live in a house…work on webcomics together and have their lives taped… to find out what happens… when people stop being polite… and start getting real…Strip Seach: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUScIuxZE90] I honestly do not watch much reality television, but it’s impossible to not be aware of the genre. I watched the first Survivor; I usually watch the latter half of American Idol seasons; what else? I guess I used to watch Iron Chef sometimes. Anyhow the last thing I think I ever would have lived to see is a web series with all of the Reality Show …
This is SECOND CITY!!!
Plato droppin’ science like Galileo dropped the orange: Jon Rosenberg, cartoonist, coder, philosopher king.