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Strip Search Episode 2: Gary Should Never Encourage Me

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 6, 2013

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

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 4, 2013

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!!!

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 27, 2013

Plato droppin’ science like Galileo dropped the orange: Jon Rosenberg, cartoonist, coder, philosopher king.

Bookmark: Cory Doctorow

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 16, 2013

I met Cory Doctorow once at a conference called Supernova in Washington DC back in the very early part of the ‘naughts. It was actually about technology policy which is the fascinating thing about Cory Doctorow, talented and successful writer; he’s also quite an effective public advocate for a number of progressive 21st Century causes, including privacy and copyright reform. He’s had an impressive public life. It’s the books though where he has been able to wrap his ideas around and through interesting narrative; probably still the best way to get through to majority of the world. I’ve read everything …

Stop Me Before I Tweet Again!

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 4, 2013

Rich Stevens, 21st Century philosopher king:

Guttersniping

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 28, 2013

I read The Gutters — I have never closely followed the “comic book” industry though so sometimes the jokes and pokes escape me. The art is almost always nicely done though! Anyhow today’s jumped out at me — I have an ongoing interest in issues related to copyright, trademark, etc (even grouping all of that together as “intellectual property” is contentious to one side of the argument) so I really liked the artwork today and the concept Jim Zubkavich put together. I’m not even sure exactly what point Jim is making since the “punchline” about torrenting is kind of submerged …

An Old Altbrand Logo

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 23, 2013

Hey! The forum logo I drew for the resurrected ALTBRAND forums circa 2004. I was not even in the top half of artistic talent associated with the all too brief Altbrand, er, brand. But I ran the web stuff which sometimes let me preemptively slip in some of my work. What’s a forum you ask?! Oh boy, that’s a relic of the days of Internet yore. Gather around the digital hearth here and let Grandpa X tell you young ‘uns a tall tale of wrangling Ikon Boards.