Rosscott, Inc.

Fellow webcomicker and all-around-nice-guy Joe Dunn (and Phillip Chan, and Irvsher Fabor) have a new project, and it needs your help.  Their new comic is up for voting at Platinum Studios.

From Joe:

We’re still really proud of the vampire/werewolf/zombie story with the guy that cures people when he gets bitten, but unfortunately the current stage of the competition is based on Internet votes, so it has become a contest not of how good your story is, but of how many friends you have that are willing to click a vote button all day.

This does not bode well for us as A) we’re terrible at marketing our products and B) I hate to bother people. Seriously. If people take time out of their day to read my crappy comics then I owe them something, not the other way around. I always feel really awkward asking for help. But if you like the idea please vote. As many times as you can. Bless your hearts.

Well, you heard the man.  Go vote for him as much as you can!

Apparent Systemic Kleefeld of Kleefeld on Comics has put together a mashup of one of my comics with one of The Devil’s Panties.  I wholeheartedly approve.

I did a guest comic for my good friend Jamie over at Sudden Valley.  Go check it out!

Systemic Mollie pointed me to this great comic.  Check it.

Rosscott, Inc. is proud to announce that we are lending our world-famous comic, The System, to the Create a Comic Project:

The System by Rosscott has joined the comic project! Instead of using blanks, he sent me the Photoshop file with all the symbols he uses so I can craft my own. It’ll be great when combined with In His Likeness to teach kids about the function of symbols and meaning.

The CCP uses comics as a teaching tool for kids.  Expect child-labor knock-offs of The System soon.

Hi all!  I wanted to mention a few things in the comic / webcomic world that had caught my attention in the last couple of weeks.  They are worthy of both my attention and yours.

First of all comes a new comic presence from friend of the comic and Systemic Bryan Prindiville.  He has shed is wholesome image and started a new series that is sure to take him far called Broken Muzzle.  It’s a series of one-panel comics that are very funny.  I get sort of a cheeky R. Crumb vibe from them, whatever that means.  Bryan, I bought some sambuca.  I didn’t forget about the promise I made.  Video to follow soon enough (for you and the rest of the internet)…

Second, a confession.  I watch Project Runway.  It’s a habit that started years ago, when I would sit down with a rather wonderful muffin and watch season 1 (or was it 2?  It may have been 2).  I skipped 3 and 4 (or 2 and 3?) and now I watched 5.  I don’t do the blog review thing, but was linked to a hilarious blog called Project Rungay.  Good stuff in itself, but something caught my eye.  COMICS.  Damn good ones, too!  I followed them back to their creator, and he does some cool stuff.  I totally count this as a webcomic, and one you wouldn’t expect (sounds like news to me, Gary!).

Finally, internet brethren Nick and Marty are bringing their Baltimore zombie epic Dead of Summer to a close.  This is the last week of mayhem, so be sure  to go check it out.  Be able to say you were there when it ended.  Up next for them is Art Fight High School, you should check that out, too.

Oh, and why the name?  Because Kwik Komik Korner had a bad abbreviation.

Former Washington Webtoonist and old-time friend of Rosscott, Inc. helped set up a collective known as Bomb Shelter Comics.  Each year, they hold a Webcomic Idol tournament which is voted on and judged and stuff.  Sadly, it did not make the cut.  Oh well, there’s always next year.

Time for another QQQ!  First up, Art Fight High School.  This new comic by webcomic veterans Marty Day and Nick “Ghostfreehood” Borkowicz is an amazing followup to their previous comic, Dead of Summer which wrapped a few weeks back.  The new one is about a bunch of super heroes in a town with no villains, and they’re all in high school.  How does the Art Fighting play in?  You’ll just have to tune in and see.  Unlike their previous work, this is in gorgeous full color.  Better not drop E before checking this out, it’s a technicolor rollercoaster of awesomeness. Link.

Next up is The Surrogates.  It’s an amazing graphic novel by Robert Venditti, reccomended to me by a coworker a while back.  Now it is jumping from print to screen, and it looks like Bruce Willis is going to star in this Blade Runner-esque blockbuster.  I loved the book, and this article points to a sequel and a prequel.  Can’t wait.

In the same convo that led me to read The Surrogates, the new comic series Kick Ass was sent my way.  It’s about a kid who wonders why there really ARENT super heroes in the real world, and sets about becoming one with no special powers or training.  He mostly gets the crap kicked out of him so far, but I’m really interested to see where it goes.  Oh, and it turns out they’re making a movie!  Thanks to MTV’s Splash Page (upkept in part by new Systemic Rick Marshall) comes news of the Kick Ass movie.  That is in fact Kick Ass.

That’s all for this week, kiddos.  See you around the next time news on comics I care about piles up enough to write a good post.  If you’re really into this sort of stuff, check out Marty’s other online project, Blast-O-Rama.  It’s where I get most of my news of the nerd, that is when I don’t just ask Marty about it myself on Gchat.  If you have anything you think I’d care about, send it my way to systemcomic at gmail dot com.

In an oft-missed chance to reach out to my Magnum-PI watching fanbase, I bring you this wonderful little post on a bar that serves a drink called the Tom Selleck.  Strong and distinguished, and it comes with a moustache.  Thanks to Systemic Muffin for sending this my way.  I’m a sucker for moustaches.  Think this is maybe McPedro’s stache in action?

A new site has come across my radar, a place for you to vote on comics on a daily basis, tag, comment, etc.  It is powered via RSS and has a nice interface, which is also pretty awesome.  Better than that, Scott over at IIFT was kind enough to put The System on the site (in under 2 hours)!  Click this link to encourage you to vote for The System, but then please do check around the site.