Glorkian! GO!

James Kochalka has teamed up with the indie game studio Pixeljam to make something he's wanted for a long time - his very own video game! I'm not even into games, but I think this is going to awesome.

They are trying to raise enough money to get the project going, and are offering some pretty amazing rewards for everybody who helps in any way. More details on the game (including an ace little animation with the american elf talking in a voice that doesn't sound anything like the voice i had for james kochalka in my head) and on how to help them reach their $10000 target at kickstart.com.


www.kickstarter.com
www.americanelf.com

Johnnie Cluney

Johnnie Cluney is the main illustrator for the music website Daytrotter. According to this bio, "his design adventures began in his early grade school years with ninja turtle drawings, and bubble letters. since then johnnie has gone on to design countless flyers, record covers, t shirts and more".

I couldn't find any more of his work online, but there's plenty to see at Daytrotter, with almost six years worth of reocrding sessions and a band portrait to go with each one of them.

www.daytrotter.com

Pathetic geek stories

Pathetic geek stories is pretty much what the name says: awkward, often embarassing little stories that Maria Schneider has been compiling and illustrating  for the past fifteen years or so. The current online archieve collects dozens of the best stories told by friends and submitted by readers over the years (and you can even submit your own here).

patheticgeekstories.com

Hourly Comics - part 2

Lots of people have added their comics to the Hourly Comic Day Forums since I posted about it on Tuesday, including some old time favourites like Marc Ellerby, Adam Cadwell, Lucy Knisley and Box Brown.

There are 7 whole pages worth of links and so many good ones it's hard to pick favourites, but here's a few more that I really enjoyed:

Tim Carpenter


Rachel Weiss


Jordyn Bochon


(click on the images for the full comic)

Hourly Comics

Yesterday was the Hourly Comic Day. The idea is simple (and a lot of fun): to get lots of artists everywhere to make a journal comic every hour they were awake and post the results online. Here's a few that stood out for me, but there are tons of other really good ones over at the tencentticker message board.
 
Vicki Nerino


Thorsten Sideboard


Britt Wilson


Ste Hitchen


Joe Hunter


Joseph Bergin III


And here's one from Lucy Knisley.  Even though she hasn't posted one for yesterday yet, she had been doing hourly comics every wednesday for the past month.




 (click on the images for the full comic)

ilovedust

Ilovedust is a "design boutique" based in Southsea. Their work ranges from interactive design and motion graphics to brand identity and art direction, and amongst the load of (very good) design work in their online portfoilo, there are some pretty awesome illustrations too.


www.ilovedust.com
www.clickforart.com/artist/ILoveDust/