03/19: Profiling

My brother-in-law is a very cool guy. Disconcertingly eager at times, a much more talented artist than myself, but I just disagree with him about some things.

So, webcomics. I spent a few work hours reading up on Vanessa Davis' comics. It's a concise narrative journal comic about growing up as a New York Jew, then as a Jew elsewhere. It has all the normal comics about sibling rivalry and parental tension, but it's a nice change of pace from other mediocre journal comics (*cough*) by dropping 3 page self contained 'episodes.'

Yellow Peril bills itself as the only media with an asian protagonist that is drawn by Jamie Noguchi. Upon looking through his 'about' page looking for his last name for the previous sentence, I became aware that he was the artist for freakin Erfworld. If you follow webcomics at all, you'll recognize the name, as it shared a site with the Order of the Stick for awhile. No offense to the current artist, but I was disappointed when he left the project. Yellow Peril is placed in an office setting with all the standard jokes about endless meetings, unrealistic deadlines, and perhaps the occasional office romance. The archive isn't expansive enough to get a really good grip on where it's going, but it's drawn well and the dialogue does not offend.

Do you guys know about Adam Phillips' Bitey videos? He hasn't put up any recent videos that I'm aware of to prompt the sudden plugging, but a friend of mine was just inquiring about Newgrounds series to check out and I was reminded. They are extremely imaginative, funny, and gloriously animated. I can add more adjectives to describe it: mesmerizing, awe-inspiring, gasp-inducing. Just watch one.