Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Comic Con’
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Dave at a Con getting his sketch on... sorta
Last weekend was the ever-impressive San Diego Comic Con, and if you don’t have the pleasure of following webcomic people who frequent such an awesome event then you won’t realize what your missing. So, let me tell you what you’re missing. Most of the time you’re missing inside jokes between creators, but there are also great pictures including the fan arts the creator is drawing. There’ll also tell you about the panels and after parties so you get an idea of what’s going on and who’s having all the fun.
I’ve gone to one SDCC myself, and the event was amazing. Every year after that I had to rely on blog posts that typically recapped the whole weekend days after it was over. Now, thanks to Twitter, I’m able to feel in a small way like I’m still out there by following celebrities and webcomicers who actually ARE out there. It’s actually pretty fun.
That said, I thought I’d suggest an artist for you this week, and though there are a lot of great people to follow I decided on Dave Kellett for a few reasons. First, Dave is one of the first people I started following and one of the few I’ve never stopped following. Since I follow Dave, I also know for a fact he really is one of the more entertaining follows – especially at cons. Lots of pictures, jokes, sketches and such in his feed.
There is an alterieror motive I admit. Just a few days before SDCC, Dave actually posted his 3000th Sheldon Comic!! That’s a huge feet, and there aren’t a lot of comic people out there that have been doing such high-quality comics for so long. Sheldon is one of the first webcomics I found, and it’s still one of the ones that can make me laugh almost every day. After 3000 comics, that’s really impressive.
Plus, Dave’s started dipping his feet into Sci-Fi now with his new comic Drive which updates on Saturdays. Both comics are great, and I fully recommend both to anyone who loves webcomics – which, hopefully all of you visiting this site do. Love webcomics.
Anyway, jump over to Twitter and check out Dave’s awesome feed and then add him to your follow list. You can thank me later.
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Rolling on the theme of E3 this week our Twitter Tuesday is all about Olivia Munn who was alongside her fellow G4 hosts/celebs giving the full rundown of all things gaming at the big event last week. Olivia is one of the co-hosts of G4’s Attack of the Show and she’s a regular at their coverage of both E3 and San Diego Comic Con. Plus, Olivia is pretty cool with her fans and very active on her fansite and twitter account – meaning lots of cool behind the scenes photos and videoblogs and such.
Now, being a host of a cool geek-trendy show is probably enough to get some loving on Twitter – but Olivia has been on a roll of awesome lately. She made a cameo in the summer blockbuster IronMan 2 as the reporter introducing Hammer’s presentation at the Stark Expo. She’s currently the poster girl for PETA’s fight against the use of elephants in the circus, and Maxim recently placed her at number 8 on the 2010 Hot 100 list. (Go go crazy unnecessary lists to quantify attractiveness!) That’s a jump from 96 to 8 in one year – and you know a large portion of that is cause Olivia is on a hot streak. (Puns are fun.)
Still, all that isn’t enough awesome for Olivia lately as she’s also taken a job as a journalist on the wildly popularly and vastly imaginative Daily Show as their Senior Asian Correspondent. As if that weren’t exciting enough she’s also going to be staring in a new NBC sitcom coming out this fall called Perfect Couples.
Now all that is awesome, but what really defines Olivia Munn to me more then anything else is her role on a music video by Parry Gripp called “The Girl at the Video Game Store” where Olivia shows off her wildly alluring mix of nerd and hottie that is so rare yet so very, very enthralling. Also, the song is really very catchy and worth a grab off iTunes.
So, roll your tongue back and pick your jaw up off the floor and then take a moment to tag a follow on Olivia. You’ll thank me later.
