Click image to view the full version! Notes: 1: TSR, or Tactical Studies Rules was a company founded to publish Dungeons and Dragons, the first role-playing game on the market. On the verge of bankruptcy, it was purchased by Wizards of the Coast in 1997. 2: Dungeons and Dragons was the creation of Gary Gygax [...]
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Dropped Frames #6: Falling Empires
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comic, dropped frames, games on December 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Redacted Scene from Call of Duty’s Latest Ad Campaign
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged illustration, rabblerousing on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are some things better left unsaid/undrawn?
Scott Pilgrim Fan Art
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged canadiana, fan art, scott pilgrim on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some silly, Ramona-centric Scott Pilgrim fan art–the only comic in the last few years that I’ve read multiple times! Click to biggify.
More Star Wars Doonesbury
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comic, doonesbury, star wars on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More of them were mysteriously discovered. Yes, these are surprisingly fun to do. (See previously…) Again, click to view the full image.
A Startling Discovery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged doonesbury, star wars, wasting my time on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Apparently, in the late ’70s/early ’80s, Lucas Film wanted to create a Star Wars comic that skewed to a slightly older demographic. I’m not sure how successful it was, in retrospect. And, yes, this is how I spend my free time. Click to embiggen.
Everybody Draw Bill O’Reilly Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bill o'reilly, caricature, cut his mic, fourth estate cartooning, histrionic on October 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks back, National Public Radio (dba NPR) fired commentator Juan Williams following a less-than-well-thought-out appearance on Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly show. Fox News took the firing hard. Their pundits took to the airwaves decrying NPR’s abuse of the First Amendment. It was spectacularly histrionic. Last weekend, Detroit Free Press cartoonist Mike Thompson penned [...]
The Gravitational Model of User Expectation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged essay, games, illustrations on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This essay was written as a means of articulating why I felt certain games–as mechanically well designed as they might be–ultimately failed in their implementation. It was written specifically with video games in mind, though, I believe, it holds true for board and role-playing games as well. Don’t Tell Me What to Do: Modern Game [...]
Finding the Balance Between Words, Pictures and Time in Making Comics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comic, teaching on July 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This was a talk I gave to a webcomics summer camp program at Smith Vocational High School a few days ago. I decided to flesh it out beyond my notes in the hopes that I’ll A: use it again and B: help others interested in making their own comics. Many thanks to Kevin Hodgson for [...]
A Hypothetical China Miéville Swamp Thing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bouillabaisse, china miéville, illustration, swamp thing on June 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I read last week (or the week before; who can keep track of these things?) that a run of Swamp Thing comics penned by British fantasist China Miéville was canceled by DC. Miéville is one of my favorite writers: he blends the horrific, the fantastic and the political into a grimy bouillabaisse of delicious reading. [...]
Is No One Safe from My Biting Pen?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged games, illustration on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An illustration that accompanied Nina Huntemann’s article about the ethics of immaterial consumption (specifically related to the allegations that the labor conditions involved in the creation of Red Dead Redemption were… um… less than ideal).
