Robot Beach by Matt Forcum http://www.robotbeach.com A comic about life, loneliness, and robots. Wed, 16 May 2012 05:02:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Larry Caught on Tape! http://www.robotbeach.com/larry-caught-on-tape http://www.robotbeach.com/larry-caught-on-tape#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 04:58:55 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2457 Looks like Larry the Seagull got caught on tape again:

Thanks to @davidneedham for pointing this hilarious animated Gif out. Also, I feel like I haven’t drawn Larry in months!

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/larry-caught-on-tape/feed 0 Help keep the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning FREE! http://www.robotbeach.com/kenosha-festival-of-cartooning http://www.robotbeach.com/kenosha-festival-of-cartooning#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 20:04:52 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2451 Here is a worthy Kickstarter project for you guys. The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is currently trying to raise funds to keep their festival free and open to cartoonists and friends of cartooning. It is a three day event full of presentations, workshops, panel discussions and more!

Recently the National Cartoonist Society Foundation contacted the organizers and offered to match up to 10,000 dollars of Kickstarter donations. This means that thanks to their generosity, your donation is worth TWICE as much as before! There are great rewards available for donating, so please consider giving today.

Please take a moment and check out their Kickstarter page here.

(If it helps at all, Adam Huber of the comic Bug and I plan on being there. Perhaps we will see you there as well?)

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/kenosha-festival-of-cartooning/feed 0 Hold On http://www.robotbeach.com/hold-on http://www.robotbeach.com/hold-on#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 03:45:23 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2447 Hold On

What about you? Did you like The Avengers? What was your favorite part? Mine was anything that Hulk did. You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more. Share and Bookmark]]> Hold On

What about you? Did you like The Avengers? What was your favorite part? Mine was anything that Hulk did.

You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more.

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/hold-on/feed 9 Tell Me Something http://www.robotbeach.com/tell-me-something http://www.robotbeach.com/tell-me-something#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:59:12 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2443 Tell Me Something

What!? A new comic!? That’s crazy! For those who haven’t kept up, Check out this post for an explanation for why I’ve been away. Thanks again for your patience and support! You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more. Share and Bookmark]]> Tell Me Something

What!? A new comic!? That’s crazy!

For those who haven’t kept up, Check out this post for an explanation for why I’ve been away. Thanks again for your patience and support!

You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more.

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/tell-me-something/feed 7 You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. http://www.robotbeach.com/you-are-not-a-beautiful-and-unique-snowflake http://www.robotbeach.com/you-are-not-a-beautiful-and-unique-snowflake#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:41:29 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2435

“Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers learned that Earth is just another planet orbiting the Sun. Then we presumed the Sun was unique, until we learned that the countless stars of the night sky are suns themselves. Then we presumed our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire known universe, until we established that the countless fuzzy things in the sky are other galaxies, dotting the landscape of our known universe.

Today, how easy it is to presume that one universe is all there is. Yet emerging theories of modern cosmology, continually reaffirms the improbability that anything is unique…”

-Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting.”

-Dr. Carl Sagan

More strange-yet-oddly-inspiring videos can be found at http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/you-are-not-a-beautiful-and-unique-snowflake/feed 1 I owe you an explanation… http://www.robotbeach.com/i-owe-you-an-explanation http://www.robotbeach.com/i-owe-you-an-explanation#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:46:09 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2426 I’m pretty depressed tonight. Maybe it’s ’cause I’ve been sick with a head cold for days, maybe it’s ’cause I just got done watching the Christmas special for the Ricky Gervais show Extras. Who knows?

Anyway, I’ve been rather inconsistant in my updates lately and I owe you an explanation. Many of you know that my wife has recently had a Kidney and Pancreas transplant. Although It’s gone very well, we’ve had a few setbacks in recent weeks. The good news is that it seems we are past the worst of it now, but it hasn’t been easy. So, I’ve been focusing most of my attention on my family and not my comic. When I’ve felt up to it, when I’ve had something funny or intriguing to present I draw a comic. When I’m busy or I don’t feel very funny, I let the updates slide.

No worries though. As I said, things are starting to look up and I plan to return to consistant and timely updates soon enough. Plus, I’ve got a book I’ve been promising you all in the works and I am looking forward to getting that put together as well.

Thanks again for your support and your understanding! I appreciate you all!

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/i-owe-you-an-explanation/feed 5 The Citadel Cafe Podcast http://www.robotbeach.com/the-citadel-cafe-podcast http://www.robotbeach.com/the-citadel-cafe-podcast#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:59:34 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2420 Joel Duggan and Paton Francis were kind enough to invite me on to The Citadel Cafe Podcast last week to discuss Game of Thrones and John Carter. I had a great time and I highly recommend everyone head over and check it out. You can listen to me stumble over myself while trying to explain why I feel that Daenerys and Khal Drogo’s romance is one of the most powerful and beautiful in modern fiction.

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/the-citadel-cafe-podcast/feed 0 The Finger http://www.robotbeach.com/the-finger http://www.robotbeach.com/the-finger#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:29:31 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2413 The Finger

You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more. Share and Bookmark]]> The Finger

You can buy the original art for this strip! Click here to learn more.

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/the-finger/feed 7 Break out the charcoal sticks! http://www.robotbeach.com/break-out-the-charcoal-sticks http://www.robotbeach.com/break-out-the-charcoal-sticks#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:16:59 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2407

Sorry for not getting a comic out last week. Just a heads up; if I don’t put out a comic on time, generally it’s not because I hate you all. Usually it has something to do with the hospital.

Anyway, I thought I’d share this fun illustration I did for floatlearning.com. (above) It’s not often I have an excuse to break out the charcoal sticks!

]]> http://www.robotbeach.com/break-out-the-charcoal-sticks/feed 0 Closing in Around Me http://www.robotbeach.com/closing-in-around-me http://www.robotbeach.com/closing-in-around-me#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:21:21 +0000 Matt http://www.robotbeach.com/?p=2401 Closing in Around Me

This comic is SOLD! Share and Bookmark]]> Closing in Around Me

This comic is SOLD!

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