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/

What things do

What things do is a new webcomic collective founded by Jordan Crane. It features his own comics as well the work of John Porcellino, Sammy Harkham, Ted may, Steve Weissman and it looks like there's even more to come.

I only discovered it a couple of days ago , but have been slowly reading my way through everything on the site and I have to agree with the forbidden planet blog - it certainly is the most beautiful collection of strips in one place I’ve seen in a long time.


whatthingsdo.com

Robot of the month club

Seattle based illustrator Christine Marie Larsen has a very nice little project going on: The Robot of the Month club - an annual subscription service that gets you a new robot print delivered to your door every month. She's been doing it for over two years now and has a great archieve of the paintings on her website, featuring robots often in very unexepected situations.


www.christinelarsen.com

Jessie Douglas

The bio on Jessie Douglas website says: "Everything I discover around me has potential... urban detritus, peeling paint and filthy concrete structures. I find the ugly and mundane to be beautiful, its character and stories inspiring.", and she certainly makes them that way to others too. I'm totally awed over how beautiful (and certainly inspiring) these are.

www.jessdouglas.co.uk
jessdouglas.blogspot.com

Covered is one!

Tomorrow it will be exactly one year since Robert Goodin started Covered, a blog featuring a variety of artists redoing comic covers in their own style, and one of my favourite sites to date. It's amazing how much awesome stuff he got in there in such a short time, and almost impossible to choose favourites amongst the almost 300 posts that the blog hosts today.

There are some big names in there, but a great thing about Covered is that it's not about that. Goodin considers every submission and posts everything he considers suitable for the blog, making it a great place to discover new artists.

Above: Walt Disney and stories by Robert Goodin, Daredevil by Jess Bradley, PEP by Cole Jonhson and Shazam by Brent Engstrom.

coveredblog.blogspot.com

Super person of the week: Seth Fisher

I only discovered Seth Fisher's work last month and was quite shocked and sad to learn he passed away four years ago. His work is great and some of most unique i have seen.

He illustrated 'Vertigo Pop: Tokyo' (which got him a Eisner award nomination in 2003), worked on a variety of DC and Marvel titles, (most notably 'Flash: Time Flies'), designed his own video games, did lots of conceptual design work, and drew for a wide variety of outlets.

His website is still being updated reguarly by his family and hosts a lot of his artwork, games, and even a shop.

www.floweringnose.com

Parkour Animation

Flip book animation, illustrated by Serene Teh and produced by Noel Lee.

vimeo.com/user2823593