This Week in the Chop: Tats of the Old Republic

This week I only made three photoplastys for cracked. I ended up with two placings. I just discovered Kotaku holds a weekly shop contest. Here is this weeks.

Starships Start Here Revenge!

Since Tylorp thought he'd get so fancy and take a shot at Starships Start Here I thought I'd do the same seeing as I want to be just like him hate him so much.

Master Throne Link

I entered this in a Cracked.com photoplasty awhile back, got 4th place for it. The topic was "What video game characters do with the items they collect." I figured I'd make a play on all those Master swords Link has accumulated over the years.

If I could find a better resolution version of the images I might make an entire Smash Brothers Brawl Series of characters on the throne.

Till the next post.

Desktops: Song of Fire and Ice/ Final Fantasy Mash Ups

Today I was thinking of something to warm up my photo chopping (I am going to try out this weeks photoplasty on cracked.) I came up with the idea to mix up Final Fantasy summons with the major houses from a Song of Fire and Ice (minus Martell, plus Greyjoy and Tully because I used the HBO desktops as my base/style). Hit the jump to see all seven!

Leviathan - Tully

Kate or Die!

http://kateordie.tumblr.com/

The things you learn about at conventions (I found enough stuff to read and entertain myself for months!). Kate or Die! Is written, inked, and everythinged by Kate Leth of Halifax. The comic deals with everything and anything from women in comics to LBGQT? (LQBGT? LGBSMQT? acronyms escape me) issues to Bat Girl to all kinds of other things.








The site is described as a "combination/sketch/comics/inspiration blog" (we think of MGD as the same except without sketches, comics, or inspiration). Kate is very intimate with her readers. She lays out everything. Reading her comic almost feels like reading a diary. Behind the simple cartoony style you feel like you are getting to know the author on a personal level (She reveals things about herself that I would only ever admit to in a competitive game of "Never Have I Ever"... after the fourth or fifth shot of tequila). You get all of Kate all at once whether you are ready or not. Kate will be selling her first printed comic (featured in an issue of Locke and Key) at Strange Adventures this Wednesday.

The Guide to the Known Keys comes out everywhere this Wednesday, November 23rd. If you live in Halifax, I’ll be at Strange Adventures on Wednesday from 12-2 and I’ll have prints of that second image! I did it up as a little extra incentive to support my first print comic. I’m pretty excited about the whole thing, if you couldn’t tell. :) - link

Unfortunately I'm stuck in Podunk, Nowhere so I'm trying to send Perry The Saurus in my stead to pick me up a copy. Fingers set to crossed!

Check out Kate's Art here.
Check out Kate's Twitter here.
And of course check out Kate's comic here.

Till the next post.

Minimalist Video Game Posters

     I decided to make some minimalist (and not so minimalist) poster style images for various games that I love. I know that this is something that has been done to death but I don't care. When I started making these I put in an effort to not browse around. I want to be able to claim ignorance in case anything I've made is similar to what has been done.

     I went largely with games from the NES to SNES era of gaming (the golden and silver age of console gaming if you will). I feel like these games are best fitted to the retro style I went for and also they're the games I grew up with and love. One example below and then more after the jump.

Mario

Sonic 2

Pac Man

Battle Toads

World Of Warcraft

Mario Kart

More Mario Kart

Super Metroid

Zork

Gauntlet

Secret of Evermore

More Mario

Kirby's Adventure

Secret of Mana

Dragon Warrior

Mega Man

First post! Ghost of Web Comic past #1

Hello world!

Hopefully this will be the start of a habit (an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.) The call of creativity is a strong and powerful thing, only equaled by the call of procrastination. However hopefully this post will mark the moment in which my friends and I finally break the proverbial cycle.

I think that it is fitting for the first post on this blog to be a part from a long dead project killed by the procrastination of myself and J. Years ago we attempted of all things a web comic. Neither of us knew how much time and energy it would take until we decided we sucked at it and gave up. However it gives me some material to stick up here. The comic had two types of strips. Story strips (I will post on these strips later with explanation of the characters)and more game focused strips. This one is my favourite.


Until the next post.