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The Story of Mr. Is

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

“Mr. Is is every real estate practitioner who has struggled to keep up with the fast pace of Internet marketing while also doing all the traditional things sellers still expect; who has been challenged by buyers with outdated or inaccurate information gathered from real estate Websites; who has paid for leads — customers — that are rightly their own. Mr. Is is you.”

Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc.,  of Washington DC, a the real estate listing service, is launching its own superhero, Mr. Is.  More info : Inman News.

It remains to be seen whether or not this marketing campaign will be a success, with comments like “MRIS needs to stop wasting money on this and needs to improve the products such as Matrix. Matrix has so many flaws and crashing so much. For the fees that we pay MRIS we as Realtors deserve better.”

(Thanks, Mike)

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blogshank

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Mike Smith draws his diary strip (or rather, his “Illustrated Diary Cartoon SketchBlog Picture Thing”) Blogshank on the pages of an actual planner (and quite often on the right days as well).  I like his melting of subject and form, and also how you can see how he gradually finds a consistent tone and rhythm for his story.

(via Drawn!)

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Roddenberry comics

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Roddenberry.com, the website of Roddenberry Comunications (as in Gene Roddenberry, purveyor of “smart, meaningful, multimedia entertainment for people around the world”) has added not one but two weekly comics to their content line up : Rod & Barry, the comical adventures of two quite cliché-looking aliens, and Gene’s Journal, about a young boy with a penchant for science fiction.

Both comics do look and sound alike, which is no wonder because they are both created by David Reddick, a Paws inc. collaborator by day and freelance cartoonist extraordinaire by night.  Reddick previously did Trek Life for Startrek.com, about trekker fandom, and has recently also kickstarted a sword-and-sorcery spoof called Legend Of Bill, both of which are also very good fun.  Read all of his comics, and more at his website.

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Charlie Brown of the week.

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Hopeless Old Men

Turns out he’s till a child after all.

(from the quite excellent Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards - you gotta love the acronym)

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ShaBot 6000

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

ShaBot 6000 by Ben Baruch (pseudonym for William Levin) chronicles the daily life of a Jewish robot and his mentor and their daily struggle to find “logic in a religion that does not compute”.  It’s quite hilarious, it’s like the Jetsons meet Woody Allen.

(Comic © 2004-2008 by William Levin)

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Help Darko !

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Croatian cartoonist Darko Macan’s weekly web comic, Mišo, got dropped last week after his client decided to drop all contracts with freelancers. Considering he’s a nice guy, who can draw a mile (he worked for Dark Horse, DC and Marvel in the past), I’d very much like to help him. So, if anybody of you ephemerists has some space left in your publications or websites, why not give Mišo a shot ?

To be honest, I don’t read Croatian myself (I’m waiting for the translation), but the art is quite funny, and from what I hear, it’s a pretty satirical tale as well.

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Last Kiss Comics

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

In late 1987, John Lustig bought the rights to an obscure Charlton romance comic called First Kiss, a not-really-first-rate 40-issue series published from 1957 to 1965. It was a gamble, and as Lustig himself says, it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy : Charlton was not known for actually honoring its creators, and so, although there are some quite big names present in the title’s roster, quantity was more important than quality.  Which, according to Lustig, brought along a “nightmarish quality” to the stories.

Anyway, rather than have this sit in his attic to gather dust, Lustig decided to get creative, and started using artwork from First Kiss to develop his own comic, appropriately called Last Kiss by substituting the original dialogue with new text that’s even less fitting, more unsettling and generally immensely more hilarious.

It’s Get Your War On, but with vintage artwork.  See it here.

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City Kid, Country Kid

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Lucy Knisley did a very nice comic on her ArtJournal blog about her experiences as a city kid moving to the country. I can relate to this very well : I remember when we moved from Antwerp to the middle of nowhere, my sister and I were scared of flies because we thought they stung…

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Magic Pickle Plugged !

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Unshelved, the library web comic by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, tries to plug Scott Morse’s Magic Pickle. “I don’t read comics” - if I had a dollar for every time I tried to convince somebody to try a good book, only to be totally given the cold shoulder when it turned out to be a comic…

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Mumblier’s rat creature

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

mumblier is a very cool blog of cartoons, strips and sketches by Australian cartoonist Andrew Fulton. He just did a very good rat creature, which makes it even more cool. I’d like to have one of these…

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