Bite of Reality

Collaborations

by Tovias on June 28, 2010 at 00:00

It's time for our family vacation and I didn't want to miss any more updates than I already have. Preparations for our family outing were taking up a lot of time and the kids being out of school wasn't helping. I had to think fast and come up with a way to keep the comic updating and get the kids out from underfoot. There was only one solution. Since I couldn't do this on my own, I had to take on a partner.

Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce you to my new partner in web comickery, my son Yoni:

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Devastation

by Tovias on June 2, 2010 at 00:00

I try to not get too specific, but the situation in the Gulf of Mexico is insane. When I was writing the comics this week I kept having to bump the numbers up. By the time I got around to coloring the strips the numbers I used for how much oil had spilled were surpassed by the real numbers. I found this ticker on the PBS site if you'd like to see the estimated amount of oil blown into our waters. For references in the comic I've been using the "BP worst case" numbers.

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Where the Heck are the Comics?

by Tovias on May 6, 2010 at 10:26

With my "vacation" coming to a much needed end in the next few days I'd like to tell you what I've been doing in my "free" time. I put those words in quotes because this has not been a vacation and my time has been far from free.

In just over four months from now I will be appearing as a guest at Intervention 2010 in beautiful Bethesda, Maryland. I love their tagline "Your Online Life, In Person". It really sums up what I think the whole convention will be about. Many of us spend hours every day reading comics, blogs, tweets and Facebook statuses from people we've never met. Personally most of the people I "know" are people I have never met other than as text or pictures on a monitor. That's where Intervention 2010 comes in and fills the gap. You have the opportunity to meet up in one place and meet all the folks you know from online in the flesh.

So what does this have to do with missing comics? Since I will have a table at Intervention it stands to reason that I should have something to put on the table, doesn't it? Looking back at my old comics I found that many of the older strips didn't have print ready originals that I could use. I made the choice to take a little time to go back and rework a lot of the files and produce high-resolution originals that would be of a good enough quality to print in book form.  I'm still not sure what the final product will look like as it is still a work in progress, but I will have a book for you at Intervention and hopefully some tee-shirts, buttons, bookmarks, etc. as well.

How will you find me? I know Danielle Corsetto has a giant stuffed cactus with her at most of her con appearances. You can always spot her, or know she's around when you see it. I need a eye-catcher like that. So what would you suggest? I'll have a banner with the logo displayed at my table, but what do you think would make people stop? My original plan of a blow-up sex doll wearing a Green Lantern costume has already been vetoed so I'm out of ideas. Let me know what you think, otherwise I'll be the guy sitting at the table with a Green Lantern power battery looking sad.

In any case, I look forward to meeting you all at Intervention 2010 this September 10-12 at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville.

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Why Comic Books May Die

by Tovias on April 26, 2010 at 00:00

Note: I originally wrote the first draft of this post on April 2, 2010 and forgot to post it. I was reminded of it when I read a similar post by Krishna Sadasivam in his blog at PC Weenies. Judging by the similar natures and contents of these posts, I feel better knowing I'm not alone in all of my thoughts on this issue.

Friday a couple people posted links to iPad previews and several of the previews included pictures or videos of the Marvel Comics app. I read a few comments that marveled at this new technology and grand statements of "this will save comics" or "this will revitalise comics".  But will it? I don't think so, at least not in the short term.

When I was a kid I loved getting comic books. I would read and re-read each one over and over. Some days I would go over to a friends house and take all of my latest acquisitions and we spend the afternoon reading the other's books. Many times during these reading sessions we'd add one of the other's comic choices to our own reading list.

So where do modern comics fall short and how will new technology alone fail to save comic books? I think there are a few places worth looking. ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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