Hello, everyone, my name is Pembroke W. Korgi also known to some as Robbie Allen, but I prefer you call me Pembroke. I’m going to be doing a weekly little article here. I haven’t decided which day I’ll be doing this, but it will definitely be weekly, and it won’t be confined to one subject, no it will be whatever subject I feel like talking about. Why? Because I’ve got ADD and get bored easily when I stick to one subject. So expect these posts to be as random as possible.

Now the topic for today’s post is me, myself, and I. This isn’t some ego stroking thing about how great I am, because quite frankly I think I suck. Damn self esteem, always getting me down. No, this is to let you guys know about me, so that you can identify with the person writing, as well as get an idea of the other works I’ve done on this lovely place of fear known as the World Wide Web.

To the point, as I said, I’m Pembroke, I love video games, sodas, food, candy, comics, animation of all sorts, toys, movies, and pop culture in general. In fact my brain is the equivalent of one of the capsule machines you always see in the supermarket, except instead of giving you toys it gives you random pieces of pop culture randomness. Like the yellow ghost in Pac-Man Arrangement is named Kinky or according to the cartoon show, Thundar The Barbarian, our world was supposed to end in 1994. Pretty random and useless don’t you think? It’s awesome at parties, though.

My biggest and bestest project on the internet is Femmegasm. It’s an awesome little comic starring June July, a tamarin, and Shelly Mander, an axolotl. The comic pretty much an over the top mockery of pop culture or anything that pops into my head. Which ranges from video games to cartoons to even weird internet fetishes (it’s hard not to poke fun at some of those). It’s a fun strip and I recommend you guys take a look at it. It’ll definitely give you a good idea of what to expect from me.

Another project of mine is called, Prepare For The Randomness or PFTR), and you can see it on Youtube along with other videos of mine. Currently it’s a little short video I put together of me reviewing classic video games. I’d like to take it further than just doing video games, but for now that’s what it is. You can view it and all my other Youtube videos here.

Adding to the insanity is my weird photo comic/mock journal, The Adventures of Blue Grimlock, it documents the weird misadventures of one of my favorite toy, Generation 2 Grimlock. It has no consistent update schedule at the moment, because I know the moment I try to take it seriously, it will lose all it’s fun. None the less, I recommend checking it out, because it’s amusing how weird and random (and dare I say cute) this little journal gets sometimes.

Last but definitely not least is the fact I contribute a lot of comics to publisher, Radio Comix, which gets published in a variety of their titles, especially Furrlough. These stories include adventures of Shelly and June from Femmegasm as well as other comic ideas I have, the most common one being a fun little comic called DB and Co (I really need to finish that site). This comic is about a group of small animal miscreants as they cause trouble throughout the world and get into weird and messed up adventures. Here’s a list of the books I’ve supplied work for. Check them out, you won’t regret it.

Well, that’s all there is to know about me. I’m also going to try and do some sketch dumps here, hopefully weekly as well. I’m also doing a daily SNK gal for the entire month of January as a little art challenge for myself. You can see all the entries at either my Deviantart account, my 1up.com journal, or the SODAS forum. Hope to see you peeps next time.

Tags: Babble, comics, Femmegasm, Pembroke, Transformers

NEWS:
MAX is now seven years old.

Webcomic overlooks greatest trivial moments of 2008

COMIC REVIEW:
http://rextarget.comicdish.com/

INTERVIEW:
Josh Lesnick of Girly and Slipshine (Slipshine is an adult only site.)

I know i didn’t say it in the podcast but I want to send extended thanks to Dave Davis(hpkomic) of The Scienteers who made all the arrangements to have Josh on our show. It wouldn’t have happened without you man. Thanks!

Tags: awesome, Josh Lesnick, Phil, Reed, Shayne, The Dish

Girly is a webcomic created by Josh Lesnick which generally centers around the romantic relationship between two girls named Otra and Winter, as well as other citizens of the city of Cute-Town.

On October 15, 2005 Girly became a part of the Dayfree Press collective, and on June 28, 2006 the first Girly print collection was published via Radio Comix.

1] Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.
I’m Josh, and I draw comics, and I run an adult comic site. Aaaaaand that’s about it. The comics are Girly and Doctor Voluptua. The adult site is Slipshine. Together all my comic work helps me eek out a living. Not enough to buy a yacht, but enough to buy a nice pan of lasagna every once in a while.

2] How long have you been working on Girly? What is it about?
Girly is primarily about a cartoon relationship, the one between Otra and Winter. It’s hard to describe it without bringing up Cutewendy, the comic I wrote in the early 00s. Cutewendy was a simple comic I made about two girls, one of whom is the sidekick of the other. It was a simple gag strip where crazy shit happened. Girly is actually the sequel to the comic, taking the concept, while inserting a story, some humanity, and a bit of romance to the mix. In short, it’s about lesbians.

In most of the stories, Winter and Otra live for adventure, searching all over their town for something resembling it, and creating it themselves if they can’t find it. Many other characters muscled their way into the comic over the years, and their stories started and ended. The new chapters are mostly about the two girls returning to their roots, whilst being chased around by a grumpy but hot police officer.

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Tags: Adult, Girly, interview, Josh Lesnick, Mainpage Comic, Slipeshine, Ten Questions

1) Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.
Hello! I am Nicholas Doan, Writer and co-creator of Pray For Death. Pray For Death was Zuda Comics’ first user submitted contest winner.

2 ) How long have you been writing webcomics?
Pray For Death is my first published work. However, I have been writing comics and studying the craft for over 7 years, since college while studying to be a playwright.

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Tags: Horror, interview, Nicolas Doan, Pray for Death, Ten Questions, Zuda

1. What’s The Dreamland Chronicles really about?
SCS: Really Really about?
Well it’s about my fascination with dreams and fantasy. It’s taking all of the books I grew up on and trying to extrapolate the best of them all into something fun.
It’s something for my kids. Something for me.
It’s pushing the medium (using 3D animation software) further than I’ve ever pushed it to tell a story.
But if you want a synopsis of Dreamland…
It’s about a boy who goes back to the land of dreams he used to visit as a child. There he finds all of his childhood friends have grown up as well.
It’s about faith. It’s about remembering your innocence. It’s a romance story. And it’s just fun.

2. In your books you mention that the graphics are generated by a computer program that you commissioned. Care to elaborate?
SCS: Well I started using CGI to do comics back in 2002 when I did Spider-Man for Marvel comics.
It was an experiment and I think it came out ok.
But I knew I could do better.
Fortunately my animation studio was doing well. We were making some money on projects like Aliens vs. Predator and X-files.
So I was able to hire some extremely talented modellers and designers and such to help me create the world of Dreamland.
That was 6 years ago…and I’m still learning every day.

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Tags: CGI, interview, Scott Christian Sava, Ten Questions, The Dreamland Chronicles

This week we talk to Ryan Sias of Silent Kimbly. Ryan is a creative within the field of animation.  He’s best known for designing and storyboarding the characters in the animated sequence in the Oscar-winning film “Bowling for Columbine”.  From there he went on to storyboard for 20th Century Fox and Bluesky Studio’s movie Robots.  The he worked on “Pinky Dinky Doo” for Noggin.
His cartoons have appeared in Mad Magazine, Nickelodeon Magazine, Found Magazine, and the “Flight Anthology” for Random House.
Ryan is currently working a freelance Illustrator and writing and drawing Children’s picture books!To see Ryan’s Illustration portfolio go to www.ryansias.com.

1] Tell us a bit about yourself.

I draw funny pictures ever since I was a little kid. I’ve been working in animation for the last 15 years. I’m best known for designing and storyboarding the characters in the animated sequence in the Oscar-winning film “Bowling for Columbine”. From there I went on to storyboard for 20th Century Fox and Bluesky Studio’s movie Robots. My cartoons have appeared in Mad Magazine, Nickelodeon Magazine, Found Magazine, and the “Flight Anthology” for Random House.

I currently draw Silent Kimblys while writing and drawing Children’s picture books and TV show pilots!

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Tags: Cute, Industry, interview, Puns, Ryan Sias, Silent Kimbly, Ten Questions

1. Go on, pitch Theater Hopper to our readers.
   Theater Hopper is the Internet’s longest-running movie-themed webcomic and it’s all about making fun of the newest releases from the audience perspective – what people really think about the plots of big movies and small independent features, the movie-going experience, celebrity worship – the whole nine yards. All fertile ground for comedy! (more…)

Tags: Followings, interview, Movies, Ten Questions, Theater Hopper, Tom Brazelton, webcomics

Drawing a single panel comic about a turtle (Charley) when he was 9, JT knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. That didn’t work out.

Later a short stint in High school as a DJ for its low wattage radio station and on stage in the schools Plays and Musicals gave him a taste for show-bid-ness (that didn’t work out either)

So, when in 2005, (deep breath) after dropping out of college, joining the US Navy (5 years on the USS Spruance DD 963), marring a great girl, finding the Internet, having 2 Awesome kids, Finding webcomics, leaving the Navy, trying that cartooning thing again with Gecko Nation, and founding NightGig Studios (With Ken Prince) to help other Web Cartoonists, (breath) podcasting was born, he decided he wanted to be heard again and created… (wait for it) … The Gigcast.

Taken from JT’s Gigcast Bio.

1) Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.

Hi, I’m JT (Tim) Shea, Co-Founder of NightGig Studios, and host and producer of The Gigcast.

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Tags: JT, NightGig, Podcast, Ten Questions, The Gigcast

Taken from the Wikipedia article on No Need for Bushido:”No Need for Bushido is a webcomic started on April 11, 2002 on Keenspace (now Comic Genesis). The comic is drawn by Alex Kolesar and written by Joseph Kovell. Its content and title are based on various influences from such anime and manga as Tenchi Muyo! (which has a series of volumes titled “No Need for Tenchi”) and Rurouni Kenshin, a famous manga/anime series which No Need For Bushido obviously parodies at many points. Alex’s artistic style too is influenced by, but not restricted to, the manga and anime styles, while Joe’s writing style is famously humorous, unique and random. The series is a mixture of anachronism, exaggerated action, veiled drama, and comedy based in a parodied feudal Japan.”Be sure to check out the comic if you haven’t already!

1 ) Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.

Alex: Alex Kolesar. The artist, and creator for No Need for Bushido. I eat, sleep, and webcomic. I also do web design work for all the money I need that the comic doesn’t provide me. I’m also a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, with a BFA in Illustration.

Joe: Joe Kovell. I’m the Writer and website guru for No Need for Bushido. By day I’m a graphic designer – which mostly involves putting logos on things.

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Tags: Alex Kolesar. Joe Kovell, No Need for Bushido, Ten Questions

Dave Roman is the co-creator of the Harvey Award nominated series Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden (AiT/PlanetLar), and the Ignatz award winning, Teen Boat (Cryptic Press) both with artist John Green. He works for Nickelodeon Magazine, where he is the Associate Comics Editor and has contributed to the critically acclaimed Bizarro World anthology for DC Comics. Dave’s own illustrated work has appeared in Flight 3, Flight 4, Not My Small Diary, Alternative Comics 9-11: Emergency Relief, and on GirlAMatic.com His website is yaytime.com and comicsbakery.com.

Be sure to read Astronaut Elementary!

1 ) Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.
I’m Dave Roman, a guy who helps edit comics at Nickelodeon Magazine and writes and draw a bunch of other comics in his “free time.” Those comics would include Astronaut Elementary, Agnes Quill, Teen Boat, Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden, and contributions to the Flight series. I’m currently co-writing a series of shojo manga-inspired X-Men graphic novels for Del Rey.
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Tags: Astronaut Elementary, Dave Roman, GirlAMatic, Lunchbox Funnies, Ten Questions, Yaytime