Month: November 2010
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Diary of a Power Outage
I had just arrived home, last week, from R.R. Anderson’s 100 Tacomics book release gala when SHAZAK! Lightning lit up the sky a split second before the streetlights around me all went out. Though my night of powerlessness would begin with chaos, candle-searching and attempting to save items left out in the yard – all…
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[Adam the Alien: The Webcomic] Page four DELAYED
Long story short, a lot of technical difficulties – in computer and body and brain – are forcing today’s comic to go up late. It should be up tomorrow. Today has been a series of epic fails. Edit: Okay, things keep coming up, so I’m gonna call this week a fail. But, as my friend…
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The Alien’s Perspective: R.R. Anderson’s “100 Tacomics” Release Party (FULL COVERAGE)
I’ve been fortunate to know R.R. Anderson for going on three years, having met him about a month before he started the chalk-offs in Frost Park. I’ve even been immortalized by his monstrous monstrously talented drawing hand. He is one of the main reasons I feel at home in Tacoma. Since I first met the eccentric…
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R.R. Anderson’s book release party: the full, unedited ceremony
Above is the complete ceremony portion of R.R. Anderson’s book release gala, unedited. Featuring the Tacoma Urbanist, Erik Bjornson, serving as the Master of Ceremonies and introducing the author/illustrator. Mr. Anderson himself then gives an entertaining speech and reads a few excerpts of his new book, “100 Tacomics”, which features the first 100 strips of…
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The New Takhoman on R.R. Anderson
John Hathaway of The New Takhoman talks here about artist and author R.R. Anderson at the release party for Anderson’s book, 100 Tacomics. Hathaway is a strong supporter of Anderson, who can frequently be found name-dropping his fedora-clad mentor/accomplice. Hathaway has sponsored several episodes of the Frost Park Chalk-Off, which Anderson started back in 2008.…
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FeedTacoma’s Kevin Freitas on R.R. Anderson
Kevin Freitas lampoons and brags about artist/author R.R. Anderson in this video taken at the release party 100 Tacomics, Anderson’s new book. Freitas is the founder and supreme commander of FeedTacoma, through which Anderson accomplishes many of his shenanigans. In addition to being the home of Anderson’s Tacomic since it launched in 2007, the Frost…
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The C.L.A.W. on R.R. Anderson
R.R. Anderson is one of the original four members of the Cartoonist’s League of Absurd Washingtonians, or C.L.A.W. He is also the author/illustrator of the newly published 100 Tacomics, which collects the first 100 installments of his weekly political cartoon. So on the eve of his triumph, at the release party for his much-hyped book,…
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R.R. Anderson harassed by puppets!
It may cause some confusion to know that there are, in fact, two active incarnations of Adam the Alien. One is very hairy, very nerdy and entirely human, and goes by the name of Adam J. Manley. The other is entirely hairless, still pretty nerdy but extremely out-of-this-world, and goes by no name other than…
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The Tacoma Urbanist and Joel413 on R.R. Anderson
Erik Bjornson may tease newly published author/illustrator R.R. Anderson in the above video, but Bjornson has a long history of support for Anderson. In addition to being a consistent commenter on the Tacomic, Bjornson handled much of the promotion for the first year the Frost Park Chalk-Off, a phenomenon launched by Anderson. Bjornson’s blog, The…