Usagi Yojimbo is currently ranked #31 in Empire magazine's user-rated list of all-time greatest comic characters, *ahead* of Lex Luthor (32), Daredevil (37), and Spawn (50).
Go here to vote for everyone's favorite Samurai rabbit!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
"House of Cards" premieres at Staple!
I'm a man of few words (which is very obvious if you've seen my work). So I'll just say I'm really looking forward to my second year at Staple! This show marks the first con appearance of my newest poster, "House of Cards". See you in a week!
Mark
www.MrOblivious.com
Mark
www.MrOblivious.com
Indie Roleplaying Games at STAPLE!
You know how Box Office Poison is Alex Robinson's creative reaction to the story dynamics of mainstream comics? Well, folks in the indie roleplaying games community are designing and self-publishing games which are similar reactions to the creative and story-making dynamics of traditional roleplaying games. And if you look, this year you'll find a few of the best at STAPLE!
Jeff Bent will be at table #61 with his comics, sculptures, and copies of Jason Morningstar's award winning indie RPG Grey Ranks, for which Jeff did the awesome illustrations. In Grey Ranks, you roleplay Polish child soldiers during the disastrous 1944 uprising against the Germans.
Half Meme Press (me) will be at table #52 with my own Diana Jones Award winning RPG My Life with Master, and with Bacchanal, the most whispered about game of Gen Con 2005. In My Life with Master you roleplay the minions of a horrific master, struggling to form connections with decent townsfolk and break the dysfunctional psychology that keeps you under the Master's control. In Bacchanal you tell stories of companions separated by the debauchery and violence of a spontaneous city-wide bacchanal, trying to reconnect and then flee the city despite the direct and problematic influence of Bacchus, Pluto, Minerva, and Venus.
Cream Alien Games (Danielle Lewon) will be with me at table #52 with the ashcan edition of Danielle's game-in-development Kagematsu (the indie RPG community uses the term ashcan for books sold for prospective playtesting). Kagematsu is gender reversal roleplaying, with Kagematsu, a wandering ronin, played by a woman, and village women played by men; the village women pursue romance with Kagematsu, hoping if he falls in love with one of them he'll save their village from a horrible threat.
And Will Terrell, who did My Life with Master's eye-catching cover illustration will be right next door at table #51 with art prints and his Monsters comic, a perfect opportunity to get an artist signature on the game.
Stop by and check us out.
Jeff Bent will be at table #61 with his comics, sculptures, and copies of Jason Morningstar's award winning indie RPG Grey Ranks, for which Jeff did the awesome illustrations. In Grey Ranks, you roleplay Polish child soldiers during the disastrous 1944 uprising against the Germans.
Half Meme Press (me) will be at table #52 with my own Diana Jones Award winning RPG My Life with Master, and with Bacchanal, the most whispered about game of Gen Con 2005. In My Life with Master you roleplay the minions of a horrific master, struggling to form connections with decent townsfolk and break the dysfunctional psychology that keeps you under the Master's control. In Bacchanal you tell stories of companions separated by the debauchery and violence of a spontaneous city-wide bacchanal, trying to reconnect and then flee the city despite the direct and problematic influence of Bacchus, Pluto, Minerva, and Venus.
Cream Alien Games (Danielle Lewon) will be with me at table #52 with the ashcan edition of Danielle's game-in-development Kagematsu (the indie RPG community uses the term ashcan for books sold for prospective playtesting). Kagematsu is gender reversal roleplaying, with Kagematsu, a wandering ronin, played by a woman, and village women played by men; the village women pursue romance with Kagematsu, hoping if he falls in love with one of them he'll save their village from a horrible threat.
And Will Terrell, who did My Life with Master's eye-catching cover illustration will be right next door at table #51 with art prints and his Monsters comic, a perfect opportunity to get an artist signature on the game.
Stop by and check us out.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Zach Taylor brings Miners and Bears
The Time Has Arrived.
My book The Miner and that Cave That Ate Time will be available at Staple! It's a 120 page cartoon adventure in awesome full color. It's got clowns, lawyers, weasels, tornadoes, and murderous crickets. You know, all that stuff you love.
There's more about The Miner at Gnourg.com.
And I'll have posters of this teaser image for my new project. It’s about a bear that kills and maims people and the video game he stars in. It is called Bear Quest.
I'll be at the Gnourg Press table at 32A. Come visit me or be mauled!
My book The Miner and that Cave That Ate Time will be available at Staple! It's a 120 page cartoon adventure in awesome full color. It's got clowns, lawyers, weasels, tornadoes, and murderous crickets. You know, all that stuff you love.
There's more about The Miner at Gnourg.com.
And I'll have posters of this teaser image for my new project. It’s about a bear that kills and maims people and the video game he stars in. It is called Bear Quest.
I'll be at the Gnourg Press table at 32A. Come visit me or be mauled!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fanboy Video's Staple Flashback
For the next few weeks on FanboyVideo.com we will be spotlighting our Staple coverage from last year. You can check out the archives for past interviews, and even see never before seen interviews all leading up to Staple 2009.
We just posted a interview with Eric Powell one of the Special Guests from last years event, and more videos are coming soon.
We just posted a interview with Eric Powell one of the Special Guests from last years event, and more videos are coming soon.
MascotWedding's Joy of Painting the Movie
This is Mac from Mascot Wedding. We'll have a table at Staple to meet people and sell our comics/stickers/shirts/whatevs. We've just made a video entry for the Alamo Drafthouse's new Filmmaking Frenzy. The competition was to make a trailer for a movie based on a TV show that has yet to be made into a movie. We chose The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. Enjoy:
After you watch it, if you liked it, please take two minutes to go to the FF site, register a username, and give our short a high rating. There's a bunch of other fun videos in the contest too so check those out as well.
Regardless, please come by our table at Staple and say hello!
After you watch it, if you liked it, please take two minutes to go to the FF site, register a username, and give our short a high rating. There's a bunch of other fun videos in the contest too so check those out as well.
Regardless, please come by our table at Staple and say hello!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Yummy food!
This year the concession at STAPLE! will be provided by Out There Cooking. Among the items they’ll have available will be Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, Texas Chili, a Cuban Pork Sandwich, Club Sandwich Melt and a Shrimp Salad with Jicama. Mmm-mmm.
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