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That was the Sponge that was (or wasn’t)

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The genius that is Roger Langridge was spotlighted recently with his cover to the latest edition of Mother’s Four Feet From A Rat Comics, which showed London major Boris Johnson as a hard-hitting action hero battling Ken Livingstone.  Which, understandably, got some attention from the mainstream media.

On his blog, however, Langridge presents some older takes on another hero.  For Nick magazine a while ago, Roger reimagined what Spongebob Squarepants would have looked like in older days.  Smashing stuff, indeed.

(Spongebob Squarepants © 2008, Viacom International)

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The grass is always greener…

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Stephen Weissman

Leave it to Stephen Weissman to bring some wisdom in even the smallest children’s cartoon (in Nick Magazine, August 2008).  Beautiful stuff.

(Illustration © 2008, Viacom)

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Prince of Penny Arcade

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

For several years now, Penny Arcade has proven to be the most monomaniac web comic about videogames around.  Creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known as Gabe and Tycho, have now teamed up with the Ubisoft design team in Montreal to create an online only storybook featuring the main characters from the upcoming Prince of Persia game.

Twice a week a new page is added to this prequel story, which is supposed to round up on december 3, when the game will be launched.  In an exclusive deal with Amazon, a high definition version of the storybook will be delivered with any copy of the game online.

The artwork that in the book (which is very explicitly not a comic) is quite a step away from the admittedly limited vocabulary that is used in PA.  In fact, it reminded me more of Scott Morse’s storyboards.  Which is a good thing.

(Prince Of Persia © 2008 Ubisoft Entertainment)

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Things !

Monday, October 27th, 2008

You can be as jaded as you like 99 % of the time, sometimes you just have to let go and shout out your excitement.  And so : THINGS MAGAZINE LIKES US !!!

Thank you.

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Please don’t, Mr Kochalka

Monday, October 27th, 2008

We love you too much.  And a happy anniversary from our assorted ephemerists…

(American Elf © James Kochalka)

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Donny Digits

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Woodrow “Sugar Kat” Phoenix is back (from actually never having been away, come to think of it), with a regular feature (for the next nine weeks, at least) in the Guardian Family section.  Check your paper bin if you’ve thrown it away already, or read it online.  It’s a good visual alternative for too sugary cereal, as could be expected and hoped for.

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The Other Side

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Frank sent me a link to this beatiful book by designer and illustrator Istvan Banyai, that you can browse in its entirety on Lookybook.  It reminded me a bit of Richard McGuire, or even Joost Swarte.

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Pharaoh’s Cigars tattoo redux

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Ephemerist reader Petter Johanson was impressed by the tattoo I spotlighted almost exactly a year ago, featuring the symbol from the Tintin adventure The Pharaoh’s Cigars, but his own tattoo goes one step beyond.  He combined the Cigars symbol with the typical Greateful Dead skull design and added some color.  Impressive !

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Nascom invades NYC

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Nascom, one of the more innovative digital agencies in my native Belgium, is coming to New York, and announces this in style.  You have been warned…

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Robots Don’t Know

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Doc Pop is a self-professed “professional yo-yoer, cartoonist, musician, nerdcore rapper, tailor, crafster, and clothing designer living in San Francisco’s Mission District”, who is also very much into Web 2.0, it would seem.  For a 24 Hour Comic challenge at The Comic Outpost (which, incidentally, is one of the two only comic stores in the US that I’ve ever been to) he asked his Twitter friends for input.  The result is Robots don’t know anything about Twitter, a series of hilarious non-sequiturs about robots in popular culture, love, rap music and the internet.  

You can get your copy as a pdf-file (“viewable from iPhone”), a set of gifs or even as a set on Flickr.  Highly recommended !

(artwork © Doc Pop, 2008)

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