The Bricks are awarded at the annual SPX comics festival in Bethesda, Maryland in September. The nominees for Outstanding Online Comic are an interesting mix: Bird Boy by Annie Szabla Haunter by Sam Alden Gabby’s Playhouse by Gabby Schulz July Diary by Gabrielle Bell SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki I’ve heard of all of them except for Haunter but haven’t actually read any of them!! Always nice to have good recommendations to get to though.
I love this guy’s videos on how you could have saved the Star Wars prequels: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgICnbC2-_Y?rel=0] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbug3AhYmw] He hasn’t covered the third one yet but I’m looking forward to that. Maybe it will even motivate me to see Part III.
Shaenon Garrity’s webcomic Project Skin Horse is a worthy successor to her first webcomic Narbonic. Both are wacky takes on mad science with a whole lot of fun mixed in. It’s the end of the world, maybe, but also stylish. I started over reading this comic and I’m not even halfway through the archives at Comic Rocket, but I have hit the introduction of Tigerlily Jones, the first woman who can resist the charms of main character Tip. What I think Garrity does well besides having an awesome sense of humor is create seemingly cliched wacky characters but then layering …
It’s the third installment of Intervention — a convention for all things Internet. It’s August 23-25 so unfortunately I’m probably not going to be able to make it (between work and heading out to the beach for vacation) but it looks like YOU might want to. I went to the first one in 2011 which unfortunately overlapped with SPX. I heard last year when it moved to a different weekend it had much better crowds and I’d guess this year’s edition will too. LOCATION: Hilton Washington DC/Rockville at 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852 TIME: From Friday 12pm to Sunday 4pm The organizers …
Someone animated the improv Patton Oswald did for a Parks and Recreation episode: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvdoLRBudwU?rel=0&w=599&h=337]
Tripp is a two year old webcomic with a sitcom-worthy premise: main character Tripp, unknowingly, licked some really potent acid and is on a perpetual trip. The strip below, about halfway through the archives is a good summary of the plot to that point: It’s far from perfect but there are a lot of good things happening in this comic. Creator Bill Taylor, even at this point in 2012, is getting better at the art, which feels more organic and has fewer moments of awkward people posing (click on the most recent comics at the site to see how the …
I kind of like the t-shirt myself (click to see this full size at SubNormality)
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