Woo, Mardi Gras, Woo!
Um, woo? Haven’t seen much in the way of MG celebration in webcomicdom today — maybe tomorrow it’ll all be ashes and sackcloth and repentance, but somehow I doubt it.
- So it started with Jeff Rowland getting behind on WIGU due to the Topatoco move to new offices (combined with a simultaneous spike upwards in work from picking up the t-shirt business of Questionable Content) and wanting to post something for his amusement-starved fans. That something turned out to be a comic by Jeffrey Rowland (age 11) called Superfrog (depressing fact — according to the second link, when 11 year old Rowland was working on Superfrog, I was deep into my freshman year of nerd school).
All was well, then Andrew Hussie of MS Paint Adventures revealed that he too did comics when he was 11 — and it was called Super Frog (even more depressing fact — when Hussie was 11, I was at grad nerd school). Then we come to learn that a fellow named Blake Reitz also did a comic called Super-Frog (he was 12 this time … and I was already a homeowner — stop being so young, webcomickers!). This is just getting freaky. If there are any more instances of super froggery, please let us know. Science must know!
- Any of you out there looking to print your webcomic in a book? Jennie Breeden could teach a master class in the pros and cons of various models, on account of I think she’s tried them all by now. Breeden’s self-published third volume of not-Satanic-porn has hit the shelves (and my hands) less than two months after the viciously-delayed second volume from a fancy-pants publisher. This one includes Breeden’s brush with death (actually, a stroke, leading to an MRI) and her brush with England (including Customs interviews). Good stuff, highly recommended.
Superfrog, the Amiga game from 1993.
By Egypt Urnash on 02.24.09 2:27 pm
I would like to state publicly that I am the only webcartoonist who never worked on a strip or book called “Superfrog.”
By Kris Straub on 02.24.09 3:03 pm
A quote from Catwoman writer Will Pfieifer:
“When I was young, I created more than 60 issues of a comic book called Frog, which was basically my excuse to rip off every bit of pop culture that interested me from those days – The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Wars, Kirby comics, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, Byrne’s X-Men, James Bond movies, you name it.”
It’s an epidemic!
By Mark Ricketts on 02.24.09 3:14 pm
While I’m not a webcomic artist, I too created a superhero comic called “Super Frog” when I was about 9 or 10, and did 3 issues!
By eli on 02.24.09 3:25 pm
Wow… I think I applied to Rose-Hulman. Unfortunately, I ended up at another equally nerdy engineering school in the Midwest.
Good times, good times…
By El Santo on 02.24.09 3:46 pm
I couldn’t draw frogs, so I did SuperChris instead.
(I couldn’t draw Chris very well either.)
By Chris Crosby on 02.24.09 6:29 pm
In the 4th grade or so I drew a comic about a Ninja Frog…I blame Eastman and Laird…
By Ahmed on 02.24.09 7:02 pm
/guilty of superfrog.
By Tony on 02.25.09 2:28 pm
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