Tag: Comics

Heroes Con: Friday

I thought I was really on the ball for remembering to bring my camera to this event, but aparently not, since I forgot to bring the USB cable that allows me to hook the thing to my laptop and actually do something with the pictures.  Fridays are never super busy at Heroes (or really any …

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Ben’s Heroes Con Schedule

So here’s the roundup for any interested parties: Who: Me… and a pretty dang amazing lineup of cartoonists. What: Heroes Con ’06, the South’s biggest comics event! When: Like it says in the banner above, Friday June 30th (tomorrow) until Sunday July 2nd.  Barring a couple of panels (see below) and occasional trips out for …

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Nice Rack!

Getting loaded up for Heroes Con this weekend… and check out my fancy new spinner rack I got off Ebay: That’ll hopefully clear up some precious table space at good old Indy Island booth ii611 where I’ll be for pretty much the whole weekend.  Note other comics geek items in picture: cardboard boxes of “real” …

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Joey Weiser’s The Ride home

COMICON.com: INTRO TO WEBCOMICS: JOEY WEISER’S THE RIDE HOME Check out some pages from fellow SCAD grad and occasional Strange Eggs contributor Joey Weiser on The Pulse.  His work The Ride Home is discussed here as a webcomic—and it is indeed being serialized online—but, I think the eventual vision for this work is for it …

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Scott McCloud: Making Comics II

Yesterday, Joe Zabel, who conducted the interview with Scott McCloudI blogged about yesterday left me an interesting comment, which I thought I’d reproduce here since it addresses further the always contentious relationship between the media of film and comics.  Here’s what Joe had to say: Interesting comment, Ben. As a matter of fact, I’ve criticizedUnderstanding …

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