Holy shit! Look at this special announcement!
On Sunday, August 24th, Riotfish will be attending the Comix & Stories “alternative & small press, zine, artwork and culture” convention in Vancouver. This year the convention is being held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, near the end of the KRAZY! art show, which appears to be about anime, comics, video games and art. I’m actually somewhat excited about this event, so if you’re in the Vancouver area, come on down and be excited with us!
We’ll be sharing a table with Mr. Arin Ringwald of Dabble Dream fame (which is gathering cobwebs over there on the side bar), and selling minis of 1989, Newspaper Comic Strip, and assorted other bits and pieces of comics and art. At some point we’d like to make such things available to Riotfish readers as well, hopefully sooner than later, but if you can’t wait, show up at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the 24th. Doors open at 11 AM.
Is that an explosion?
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, you’re a fast responder.
Yes, it’s just a little after the actual explosion. Fire’s still burning bright.
Yeah, I’m fast because I don’t sleep in a regular pattern. And there’s this little thing called RSS…
I like how it’s illustrated. It looks kind of like a burning chicken.
I’m assuming that’s how he lost his memory. Amirite?
i just cleaned the kitchen. next up, dabble dream….soon the shine will be on. come one come all!
Burning chicken!
Now I really can’t wait to clarify things with the next few strips.
Actually that panel was a little tough to get right, and I’m not convinced I did the original idea justice, but the show must go on.
I dig the little exploding map-dingus. That would be a great feature at the mall.
Hope we get a chance to make it out to the con this time! :)
-Matt
Yeah I thought the little bubble had either become a hatching egg, or had undergone a midair collision with a large Dr. Seuss-type chicken.
chicken it looks like, indeed
or some sort of cthullean steed
what’s the thing on the right?
it might be my sight,
but it looks like its starting to bleed
Sam wins. Sam wins it all.
To help clear up the exploding chicken controversy, I’ll post the next strip on Monday, instead of making everyone wait until some time Tuesday.
Actually, something came up. Strip will resume Tuesday as usual.
Clearly the map is showing reality just slightly in the future, so in the final panel he looks up and has caught sight of the three-eyed, two-horned, fish-tailed, gigantic furry chicken in the instant before it impacts his bubble. He will in the next strip take advantage of one of those trap doors to go up or down, thus evacuating his bubble before the impact.
I was thinking today at work that the words “impacted terrain” always mean very bad things, but now that I’m back here I see that “impacted gigantic chicken” is a contender, too.
I was enduring the Descender just to wait for the return of Newspaper Comic Strip, but now it’s starting to grow on me. I hope it’s not too insulting to your drawing expertise to say that it’s an interesting concept to derive humour and suspense from the readers’ inability to figure out what the artist has drawn.
HEEE HEE HEE HEE HEEEEEEEE
10 more days till the Artist is in a Powerpuff Girl dress and singing at my wedding.
Me: No worries. I decided to let the next strip clarify the exploding chicken controversy. Unexpected reader reactions are one of the joys (and pains) of serializing comics on the internet. Who knew that my smoking/burning Trilobite-style space ship would be interpreted as a giant mutant chicken head, and that poetry would be written about it? Good times.
Corpsie: Yeah, I deleted your “PINK” comment. Whatchu gonna do ’bout it?
Abusing your powers eh…
Oink oink.
Action summary:
The pink cloud shows him a picture of some bulbous towers with a “you are here” arrow, then answers his “how did I get here?” question with a diagram of something that looks like either a burning chicken or a furry walrus intersecting with a closeup on the tower.