The commotion is that the flying man who always comes by has returned once again.
Continued from Wondermark #024
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Friend of Wondermark & Machine of Death Zachary Bernstein has just let me know that his musical comedy, Disasteroid! The Musical — about a budding romance during the end of the world — is opening for its two-weekend run on Friday, August 10!
If you’re in LA and need a fun date event, check it out at THE UNDERGROUND in Hollywood.
More details at: disasteroidthemusical.com
Here are some videos I’ve enjoyed in the last week or so! First, some short ones:
Batman Maybe (warning, spoilers for the latest Batman movie within)
Patrick Stewart, Olympic Ticket Scalper
And some longer ones — I like to leave them on in the background when I’m doing something tedious:
Tina Fey interviewed at Google (about an hour)
John Cleese on creativity (about 36 minutes, and a must watch)
BONUS LINK: Emma Coats relays 22 Rules of Phenomenal Storytelling she learned from working at Pixar (presented here in infographic form by PBJ Publishing). Linking it here so I can find it again when I need it, that is to say, every morning, whispering into the mirror, forever.
I just got an advance copy of my newest book in the mail today!! (Click any of these pictures for bigger)
It’s called Emperor of the Food Chain, and it’ll feature:
Although it shares a form factor with the Dark Horse books, Emperor is published by my good friends at TopatoCo! And since it’s been a little while since the last volume (Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters came out in 2010), Emperor is around 15% longer than the previous volumes.
I’ll be launching the book at SPX in Bethesda, MD next month, and then it’ll go on sale online! Artist Editions (containing original sketches) will be available for a limited time as well. I’ll talk more about that once I’ve got the dates all firmed up, but they’ll probably be available starting September 17.
I spent most of the spring working very hard on this book and I can’t wait for you to see it!!
My wife showed me this video tonight, it’s adorable! Marcel the Shell with Shoes On:
Apparently I am the LAST PERSON ALIVE to see this video that already has 18 million views? That’s okay! That’s what I love about the internet, that something can blow up and get huge and go nuts, and there are still millions of people that can stumble across it and have that same thrill of discovery years later. The Venn diagram of “people’s interests on the internet” looks kind of like someone knocked over a shelf of washers in the hardware store. It’s a million little circles, some big and some small, some overlapping but mostly not!
There’s a second video too:
And holy cow there’s even a book! It is currently #11 on Amazon in the category Books > Children’s Books > Animals > Marine Life. It’s o-FISH-ally a hit!
ALSO: This weekend I will be at the Los Angeles Renegade Craft Fair!
I will be bringing some of my dwindling supply of hardcover Wondermark collections. Come check it out, it’s as if Etsy exploded in a park. Free to gawk, plus I’ll be doing Roll-a-Sketches!
Nothing will stop me from doing Roll-a-Sketches for the rest of my life unceasingly
Inspired by Anthony Clark, whose Tumblr is always full of fun little sketches and animations, I tried making some li’l animations of my own!
This one I call “PARTY ALL NIGHT”
That was just to get me into the swing of things. With a little more confidence I then attempted another one, which I call “FIGHT TO THE FINISH”
Feeling positively BRAVE I then spent most of a morning on this one, which I call “STOP TOUCHING THE BUTTON”
And finally, this image wouldn’t leave my head until I made it a reality — “DO A BAAA-RREL ROLL”
For the last several days I have been checking back in on them (on my Tumblr) and have been pleased to find that they’re still truckin’ away! GIF ANIMATIONS: The true perpetual motion machine??
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