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- By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the picture up above; if not, you have a bit more than three hours to find some money and try to get in on some sweet webcomics Baffler! action. Seems that webcomics very own hyperactive Tintin with a scrollsaw, Chris Yates, has teamed up with a bunch of his buddies to create original Baffler!s based on their iconic characters and designs.
Thus you got yer pirhanamoose, yer Beartato, pre-screaming horror bunnies, Biff‘s spaceship, Mania (as played by Commissioner James Gordon), a momentarily non-evil Pintsize, a surprised Meatloaf, and a self-portait by Rebecca Clements. They go up for sale at 4:00pm MDT (UTC-6) today. and Mr Yates has priced them exceedingly fairly, especially considering:
- There’s only one of each
- He’s splitting the proceeds with the respective creators
- At least three of them would spark highly-lucrative bidding wars if they were placed up for auction
More Bafflers! with more characters coming next week, and if the voices of disappointment are especially legion perhaps Yates and the respective comickers would consent to more runs of similar designs in future? We can hope.
- In other news, I wound up following a trail of Project Wonderful ads and wound up on a webcomic I’d never heard of before that I found interesting enough to archive trawl. Taking a fresh spin on the (frankly tired) zombie genre, The Other Grey Meat posits a society where all humans have been “enlightened” and everybody you know is a zombie. Only the least-evolved are the shambling wrecks that you know, with individuals benefiting from a brain-eating pyramid scheme and getting smarter based on how many brains their ‘children’ have eaten.
This society is ruled by the guy at the top of the pyramid, the one who makes the brain-substitute that all zombies subsist on (think Soylent Grey). There are cracks in the society, and a single human who doesn’t know how he survived the zombocalypse, and an art style that somewhat resembles mid-period Questionable Content (that last point is slightly disorienting, to tell you the truth). All in all, worth a couple hours to get caught up with the story.
- Speaking of death, I found an odd confluence between Friday’s Chainsawsuit and today’s posting at Webcomics Dot Com [subscription required to read more than the abstract]. To wit: what happens to your creations when you die? Neil Gaiman discussed this same topic and did the creative world the favor of presenting a sample will naming an executor specifically for intellectual properties. It’s worth a read if you have creations that you wouldn’t want to see misused after you no longer have a say.
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