The notebook of illustrator and designer Mal Jones. It's got sketches, photos, news, reblogs... the usual stuff.
Marc has set up a new blog under the pseudonym Marque Bryant.
Since a bit before we wrapped up The Giant War, he’s been working on collages from old books/patterns/whatever images he’s dug up. I don’t have a lot of hyperbole to add to this post.
He’s just really freaking good.
Jason’s been putting out these great kid’s books for FREE every few weeks. FOR FREE. I need to download the Boy Who Can See Through Mountains when I get back to my Kindle tonight.
I decided to keep The Little Particle That Could free for one more day. It’s been getting some play and, as a result, getting a steady stream of downloads. I believe that with a little push it could potentially start to crack the elusive top-100 list at Amazon.
So…have you downloaded the book yet? It’s about a graviton that wants to meet a photon but just can’t seem to catch him. It’s illustrated by Noel Tuazon and sports a cover from Dylan Todd. People seem to dig it.
If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, please consider getting it today. Tell your friends. Let’s see if we can push it over the top, cool?
The Boy Who Could See Through Mountains is also still free and doing pretty good as well.
The short I drew for Rafer is going to be in this collection.
A few pledge level previews of the upcoming Plastic Farm Kickstarter. (Launches 10.11.12)
PDF downloads are included at each of these levels for people who like that sort of thing.
Marc is working up a new podcast project that he has a million good ideas for, this being just one of them.
I’m developing a podcast, and need some (very) short fiction to read aloud for one of the regular segments.
I’m particularly interested in stuff that is offbeat and acerbic, but I’m not picky as far as genre goes. Work that is licensed under Creative Commons is very much preferred.
I won’t be selling my performances of the work, or charging for access to the show, so there’s no pay involved.
Shoot me a message if interested.
Thanks!
So young and innocent. Me, Mal Jones, Neil Kleid, and A. David Lewis from SPX 2003
(I’ve been going through some old pictures and posting them on my FB page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rafer-Roberts-maker-of-Plastic-Farm-and-other-comics/238475832829996?sk=photos_albums )
Holy crap! This was the first SPX I went to. I met Chris Stevens there, who’s the editor on Dark Horse’s Once Upon a Time Machine that me and Rafer’s in. And, David Lewis is my assistant editor on Colonial Comics. All these people, being young, only pictures of two them in this set. I need to go photo diving now… Also - Mal looks like he’s nine in that pic.
This post means:
I’ll be there!
A few more behind the scenes pictures of Sunday’s art hanging session, to act as a reminder for you to come out on Friday from 7-9pm for the “Fever Dreams of Organic Machines: The Comic Book Art of Rafer Roberts” opening reception at VisArts at Rockville.
Here, once again, is the Facebook event page. Feel free to invite your friends.
With all the new iPad talk going on (I’m glad they lost the numbering on the name), here’s the real reason you should buy one:
The Fancy Lads Academy is proud to announce the release of our first game, Samurai Duel! It’s a fast-paced, two player samurai showdown for ipad featuring one finger controls, colorful cartoon graphics and cool minimalist interface.
We will probably write up a little review of the process of making our first indie game after we take a breather and fix any bugs that pop up.
In the meantime, go get Samurai Duel for iPad now!
I drunk tested the crap out of this game. It’s going to make me buy an iPad, making it a 509.99 dollar video game.
Here are some screens from the Samurai Duel beta! We are on the fast track to submit the game to Apple this weekend. As you can see we are going for a minimal look with simple touch controls. Samurai Duel is a two-player battle of speed and accuracy controlled by one finger. We’ve done lots of play testing with drunk adults and everyone seems to have a lot of fun with it!
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I’ma going.
Eight DC artists squeeze their small works into The Dunes for an intriguing exhibition!
- Chris Bishop
- Scott Brooks
- Jared Davis
- Anna U. Davis
- Dana Ellyn
- Emily Greene Liddle
- Matt Sesow
- Andrew Wodzianski
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, March 2nd
7:30-10:30 pm
Show runs March 2nd - 28th, 2012
Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the finishing line. The Kickstarter Fund will be used to help pay his artist, editor, designer, and letterer on the project, which is what Kickstarter is for.
From the Kickstarter page:
Great Pacific is a full-color sci-fi adventure comic book series set to debut in the US comics market in October 2012….
… Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history. In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many, he sheds his former life of wealth and influence to settle the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, planting his flag and declaring the environmental wasteland a new, sovereign country.
The art is fucking amazing, really, and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know the Garbage Path was a real thing.
