Somewhere between joke, art project and odd sincerity is Mike Merrill’s life as a publicly traded person with his very owner investors and stock exchange. Kottke or Baio linked to this Motherboard profile of Merrill — it’s weird, fascinating, basically a compelling read. Let’s put some context on this story upfront: Merrill lives in Portland. Sorry Portland, but Portlandia has given me the notion that … Continue reading IPO: Initial Person Offering
Some webcomics I just lost track of in moving from different ways of organizing what webcomics I was trying to keep up with. Voids by Shayna Marchese is one of those. It was fun re-reading it, it’s one of the few webcomics I’ve read that captures an aimless, lonely feeling, especially in the art which does a great job of capturing the space of the … Continue reading Voids Where Prohibited
Funding has been a source of constant experimentation in the webcomics arena since almost the start. You give away the webcomic, the thing that you are in the whole thing to do and the question becomes how do I make a living. Or maybe just, how do I fund this cool idea I want to do with the webcomic next? Kickstarter didn’t necessarily bring new … Continue reading Kickstart My Art
How many webcomickers have gone on to standup comedy? Adam Burke did a bunch of webcomics including The Grimbles and Diabolica. Hampton Yount wrote with his brother Clay the just recently concluded Rob & Elliot webcomic. Continue reading Webcomics To Stand-up Comedy Connection
Alf would have certainly been a lot more interesting this way. Thanks for the nightmare, Rob & Elliot. Continue reading I Seriously Do Not Remember Alf This Way
I sit a huge chunk of the working day so a walk is a necessary sanity check. DC has got a bunch of well known larger monuments but it also has numerous statutes sprinkled throughout its parks commemorating people semi-famous and slightly obscure. Continue reading Walkabout
Halftime-ish at England vs Italy and no goals so far. Been perhaps the most competitive quarterfinal so far. Winner has to play get many though – not much of a prize. Update: well that turned out to be a bit of a bust of a game. Italy deserved the win for dominating the game and yet – letting things slide to PKs was inexcusable. I … Continue reading Watching EURO cup: England vs Italy
Another “I’m only bringing this up because I’m re-reading comic archives” post — this one about Kate Beaton’s Mystery Solving Teens characters. Taking a somewhat staid cultural item, whether it’s history or a fictional character or book and applying a veneer of knowing sarcasm over it is the bedrock of Beaton’s sense of humor. She can also deftly point out the absurdities of the original … Continue reading Taking the Piss Out of the Hardy Boys
I’m not really in need of a means to post webcomics right now but if I were… I’d be pretty excited about Phillip Hofer launching Comic Easel which is a brand new plug-in built from the ground up to work with Word Press 3.0+ and any of its gazillion themes. Hofer was the primary developer on the venerable ComicPress theme for WordPress in its later … Continue reading Launch of Comic Easel for WordPress
So still playing with Comic Rocket and so far still pretty happy with it. Of course it’s got a lot to do in terms of additional wants and needs but I’m far happier with them building a great reading/tracking tool for me than for me having to do it for myself (and considering I’ve toyed with the notion for over a year now, who knows … Continue reading I Can’t Think of a New “Willis” Pun Right Now
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