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My webcomic! Begun in the summer of 2005, Pixel Chat takes the most tired, cliche topic in webcomic-dom |
(video games) and attempts to put a spin on the formula. Instead of chronicling the mishaps of a group of male, white, college-aged gamers, PC is about the game characters themselves, and the toll that a life in the spotlight takes on their minds, bodies and relationships. Set in and around the trappings of a talk show, it attempts to be a naturalistic take on characters who are so deeply tied to the fantastic.
PC is one part nerdy gaming references and another part my own personal soapbox, with a thick dollop of character-driven dramedy slapped on top, served up weekly on a bitmap platter. |
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At first, my intent was to completely exaggerate myself and create this over the top "goth" kid who would be my |
exact opposite. I've always enjoyed creating characters and stories around them, and this was an opportunity to do the just that, but in a more conceptual manner. However, what I forgot before I really got started on this project was how much my own personality was naturally going to get transplanted into the character. (more) Contains "Adult" Content
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I'm not really sure if it comes across in the final product, but I spent a lot of time thinking about this piece. It's easy to |
make political artwork, but to make something that delivers a message in a way that isn't preachy or exceedingly blunt is hard as hell. That's what I was going for with Blonky.com, and I'm not entirely sure if it works, but I'm not sure I ever really could be, since the central idea behind it changed a lot for me over the course of it's creation. (more) |
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The whole "Kato Allah" character is something that I've been rolling around in my head for a while now. Some of |
the hip-hop music that I listen to (groups like Mobb Deep and M.O.P., for example) are just so comically violent and over-the-top grimy that it stops being threatening and just becomes sort of funny. I'm sure that the first time a guy got on stage and said he was going to shoot somebody, it got a reaction, but the fact that nowadays I can see rich, pampered superstars like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs talk about pulling out guns has exponentially reduced the impact of that sort of stuff. So as a result, talk about things like gun fighting and drug dealing have become more stylistic elements in the music than legitimate declerations of violent, illegal living, which is really bizarre, but nobody ever really points it out. (more) Contains "Adult" Content |
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