Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver presents a short autobio comic strip about his experience at a recent con, trying to sell copies of his Blammo, “a mix of short fiction and autobiographical comics in the vein of the best indie comics of the 80′s-90′s” to folks waiting for brother Ethan Van Sciver to draw a superhero sketch for them. I think this quite rightly belongs in the “funny because its true category,” as I know one of my least favorite things about attending SPACE (which is an awesome show and you should totally go) each year was not knowing the most polite way to respond to the face in Van Sciver makes in panel seven. Perhaps we should all go visit Van Sciver’s site now and order an issue of his comic. Because if we don’t, not only will he make that face at us, but apparently his son will starve. Now that’s an aggressive sales pitch. (Link via Flog)
June 29th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
On the one hand, it takes a REALLY special autobiographical comic to get me to, you know, read an autobiographical comic. I respect comics as an art form, but I’m there for the blatant escapism, please.
On the other hand, having your kid starve because you couldn’t sell your autobiographical comics would make great, heart-wrenching material for an autobiographical comic.
June 29th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Hey Matt,
I do escape from reality in Blammo too.