Archive - Jun 25, 2008

Little Gamers Game on X-Box


Another webcomic inspired game -- Wired reports on user-created games appearing on X-Box's portal:

Another game shown off by Microsoft at GDC, Little Gamers is based on the webcomic of the same name. The adorable drawings belie the gruesome violence; most of the gameplay consists of hacking people to death with a surprisingly large variety of guns and melee weapons.

Nothing Better goes on Summer Vacation!


Friday June 27th will see the last page of Nothing Better Volume 2 update online.  Beginning Tuesday July 1st (and updating every Tuesday/Friday) a slate of guest comics will start up to carry us through the summer.  Guest comickers were asked to tell their own college or college-inspired stories and I've got lots of good stuff from many talented friends and peers to share.

Welcome to CryptoZooey!


Thanks for stopping by! Whether you’re an old hat to cryptozoology (the study of unknown animals) or have found us because of CryptoZooey (the new comic by Steve Troop), we welcome you! As you can see, we have not one — but two — books available at San Diego Comic-Con (July 23-27)! First, there’s CryptoZooey #1, [...]

CLAMP call


Do you draw comics? Are you also a fan of manga superteam CLAMP? Do you want to talk about comics and CLAMP. Email me at me (at) shaenon.com.

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Good mechanics for the win


The importance of having a good mechanic can't be overstated. Having someone to take your ancient, half red half rust limping-along-on-its-last legs car to and having them be able to fix it for a reasonable price and give you eye contact and not treat you like an idiot because you're, ew, a girl is one of life's great joys. It makes coping with a stressful situation (that is, dealing with an ancient, half red half rust limping-along-on-its-last legs car) that much easier.

Not to be confused with the three l-lama


Came across this really great interview with the brother of the Dalai Lama, which at first I have to admit I kept expecting to turn out to be a joke interview.

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GR: At a young age, you, too, were recognized as a reincarnate of an important man, right?

New Voting Incentive -Guest Art


  I got an email from Jamie Sawatsky and we chatted about current pro wrestling and he also dropped a great piece of art of Brooke on me.  I asked if I could make it Voting Incentive, and he gave the okay.  Jamie does the weekly webcomic, 67th Avenue and if you act quickly, he’s got a coloring contest [...]

big talk



Some of the craziest dialog I've ever written in this week's page of Astronaut Elementary

calamityjon @ 2008-06-25T07:50:00


I can never remember the names of the different genera of clouds (Also, I wasn't aware clouds were classified by genus, thanks Wikipedia!) so I thought if I drew them up, I'd have a better chance of remembering them:



I think I put the strato-cumulus too high. Also, I probably didn't need to illustrate fog. Fog I know. Anyway, I may keep this in my wallet.