In the latest of our TCAF interview series, Alex talks with David Malki about the Wondermark web comic, his vast collection of source images and much more. If you haven’t been to wondermark.com to check out the strip, I highly recommend it. At the end of the video we talk about beards…judge for yourself where in the Hierarchy of Beards chart Paul’s whiskers fall.
Read MoreAlex interviews Ryan North, creator of the popular webcomic Dinosaur Comics, at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival Besides talking about Dinosaur Comics, Ryan gives us his take on what web comics mean for comics in general, as well as using social media to get the word out, without abusing your readers’ trust. Ryan also talks a little about his awesome Time Traveler Essentials Shirt, which you can see after the jump.
Read MoreBrandon Bird’s unique pop culture art style frequently consists of taking well known figures and putting them in unexpected scenarios, or presenting them in an unexpected style. At TCAF this year, Alex had a chance to talk to Bird about comic style art, Law and Order, and Nicolas Cage.
Read MoreWhen the original Crackdown came out, it came with a code to access the early beta of Halo 3. At the time, some considered Crackdown to be the bonus game you get when your buy your early access pass to the beta. Some complained that this was just a crass marketing ploy to move more copies, which it undoubtedly did. If you look past those meta arguments though, Crackdown was also a bright, vibrant, open world superhero sandbox which in many ways still holds its own against the newer entrants…
Read MoreAlex interviews legendary artist Charles Vess, best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on works such as the Sandman comic series and “Stardust”. Charles talks with Alex about his latest book called “Instructions”.
Read MoreAlex interviews Jim Munroe, writer of Sword Of My Mouth, the follow-up to Therefore Repent, a graphic novel about those left behind after the Rapture. You can also read the first 22 pages of Sword online for free here.
Read MoreIn the first of what will be a series of interview and panel videos from TCAF, Alex interviews Mathew Kumar, publisher of exp. magazine at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
Read MoreIn this segment, Alex and Doug discuss the Portal update complete with embedded SSTV images and Steam for the Mac.
Read MoreWant to do away with your cable bill? Ryan does, so we take a look at different options, from low cost media players like the Asus O!Play Air, all the way up to HTPC setups using nettops like the ASRock ION 330 or Acer Aspire Revo. We’ve also got reviews of Book of Eli and Bayonetta on tap.
Read MoreHopefully you got a cool gadget this Christmas, and found some deals this weekend at one of the many Boxing Day sales (boy have LCD TV’s dropped in price!). Since we were away for the holidays we wish you belated season’s greetings…and now we are back with some great updates to look forward to… Coming up this week will be more Wind news, with rest of the launch day coverage video, and an in depth discussion about Wind with Doug and Alex. In the almost 2 weeks since their lauch…
Read MoreWe start off this show with a lot of Google news, from the Chrome OS announcement to Youtube’s policy regarding playback on TV. Ryan drops some news from Stephen King about a sequel to the The Shining, and we take a look at both Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin’s Creed II.
Read MoreAfter taking a hiatus, which allowed us to catch up with our Fan Expo footage, we’re back on a regular schedule. Given the big news in the mobile phone space over the past couple of weeks, we talk about the new Bell / Telus HSPA+ network, and some of the new phones they’ve introduced (or soon will be) such as the Motorola Droid/Milestone, the HTC HD2, the end of Rogers iPhone exclusivity and much more. If you’ve been contemplating switching, or getting a new smartphone, then this is the episode…
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