Category: News & Reviews
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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…
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Adam the Alien: The Webcomic, Page Two: Grounded
This strip is still in draft form. I haven’t had time to perfect it, yet, but I committed to uploading a strip every Saturday, and it’s already pretty late in the day. Check back later for the more polished version. This one proved more of a challenge than I expected, and most of the challenge…
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The Alien’s Halloween Picks
Before Halloween comes to an end, I thought I’d put together a little playlist of must-see Halloween videos. It may be late in the day – or early in the next, depending on what time zone you’re in – but I couldn’t let Halloween pass without posting something. Besides which, no trick-or-treaters have come to…
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Adam the Alien: The Webcomic, Page One – “Learning Curve”
I’ve been waiting to post this until my web wizard, Tenach of The League of Magnificent Scoundrels, sets up my webcomic subdomain, but I’m just too damn eager for my own good. For the time being, I’ll post them as normal posts. One of the downsides of jumping the gun on this is that my…
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Today in Tacoma: Improv at Amocat
Amocat Cafe is the place to be. The new hub of culture and community in Tacoma, Amocat’s quirky rooms and multicolored walls have housed everything from painted mariners and Patty Murray to crazed clowns and cacophonous cartoonists. Now, the cafe that professes to be “your local counter-culture and political vortex” adds another rivet to its…
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Today in Tacoma: Art takedown party at Amocat Cafe
It’s the end of the month, and that means Stuart M. Dempster‘s “Last Solo Sail” art show will be vacating the walls of Amocat Cafe. Today is your last chance to see the nautically-inspired works before the art is removed in what Dempster is calling an “unhanging”. The takedown party will occur from 2:00 PM to…
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Captain Manley and Shannancy’s Shanty
Back in June, I made a promise: I swore that if I won a certain Frost Park Chalk-Off, I’d use the prize – ten Spanish doubloon replicas and a Mayan calendar medallion – to make a pirate-themed video. Now, at last, the promise is fulfilled. I shot Captain Manley and Shannancy’s Shanty back in June,…
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Seafaring art sails into harbor at Amocat Cafe
Amocat Cafe has been transformed. No longer is it merely a place to sit, drink, eat and be local. For the month of September, Amocat is a port – a harbor for seafaring artwork. Docking on its walls are nautical scenes of varying shapes and sizes. Some of the intricately rendered ships float on framed…
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The Creative Process
I’ve recently been introduced to a lovely webcomic called FreakAngels, written by Warren Ellis, that godlike writer responsible for Transmetropolitan. The story revolves around a group of twelve brain-whammy super-powered types called the FreakAngels who were somehow responsible for the end of the world. The details of how and why are not initially disclosed, but…
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The Alien’s Perspective: The art of self-promotion (Frost Park S3Ep12)
“All art is self-promotion.” Overheard yesterday at Frost Park, while I was touching up my purple-coated alien pirate, the quote was a perfect summary of how things went down at 2010’s twelfth chalk-off. Self-promotion has always been a staple of Frost Park artwork, from websites written next to drawings and my ever-present alien avatar to…