Robot Beach by Matt Forcum

I was honored to have been asked by Lucas Turnbloom to create a guest strip for his always awesome comic Imagine This. Guest comics are always great because I get a chance to play with other cartoonists characters and I get to see what they may be like if they existed in some other universe and drawn by another hand.

Head on over to his site today and check out my contribution as well as the contributions of other artists that will be appearing throughout the week. You can also check out his work (along with many other great strips) on GoComics.com

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I am a bit late to this one, but I was surprised and please to find that Robot Beach was chosen as the webcomic pick of the week on episode 97 of Comics Coast to Coast!

If you aren’t already a fan, head on over to their site and check them out. They do fantastic interviews with some really great talent. The show is an absolute must for every comic strip fan!

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If you’ve been thinking about possibly grabbing yourself a piece of original Robot Beach art, well here is your chance! For the next two weeks, all original comic art is $10 off! That’s right! Until September 3rd, I’m offering any of my available strips, PLUS a full color print of the comic for only $20+S&H!

This is a one-time sale, so hurry and grab your favorite strip soon because prices will never be this low again. Heck, I can guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the absolute best deal you will find in the world of webcomics!*

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I (of course) was not at the San Diego Comic Con this year. But thanks to Tom Racine and “Stan Lee”, I can enjoy all the thrills and excitement in a vicarious manner through the wonderful world of moving images.

First up, “Stan Lee” takes us on a tour of the show floor and even meets up with his doppelganger. It’s pretty darn funny and I love the part where he stops by to say hi to the folks at the PVP booth.

And now, Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio conducts a brief video interview with, in my humble opinion, perhaps the greatest cartoonist working today: Dave Kellet.

UPDATE: Tom got a second interview with Dave on Saturday. I own a signed print of the Dilly Duck comic Dave mentions at one point. It’s a very cool print indeed.

SDCC looks like it was a heckuva fun time. I should make it a goal to head out there in the next five years. That would be great.

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What’s this!? a Fanboy Fridays post on a Wednesday? Stick with me here. I’ve been wanting to talk about Evan Dahm’s Rice Boy for a while now, but for one reason or another, I haven’t done it. Well, I am thinking about it right now, so before it slips my mind again, Let’s talk about Rice Boy.

Actually, there is a whole lot I could say about this comic. I am absolutely in love with the deceptively simple and beautiful art and the story evolves at a brilliant pace that is both surprising and satisfying. But my friend Tom over at Marooned Comics describes what makes Rice Boy so fantastic, and he does a better job at it than I ever could.

Heck, Tom even got to interview Evan about his work! Evan talks about the way he went about creating the wonderfully sympathetic character of Rice Boy:

He started as something I drew in high school; just a simple little person. Putting him in this sort of story seems to suggest an incongruously passive, meek character, and I liked how he contradicted the large scope of the story. It wasn’t that conscious, I guess; I just liked doing as much as I could with a severely visually limiting character.

Be sure to head over to Marooned and read the interview with Evan, then head over to rice-boy.com and check out the amazing world that Evan has created.

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