149. Guest Comic by Christopher Baldwin
Thursday — April 4th, 2013

149. Guest Comic by Christopher Baldwin

Well here’s a treat for ye!  You may or may not remember that a while back I did a guest comic for the mighty Spacetrawler, and great fun it was too (You can read it here).  By way of thanks, Spacetrawler’s polymath creator Christopher said he’d like to have a go at a Faraday strip in return.  Skip forward to yesterday, and this gem popped into my inbox out of the blue :)

It goes without saying that I love it, but I’ll resist the natural urge to waffle on about it too much and let the comic speak for itself.  Fantastic stuff.

I’ve talked about Spacetrawler here before, but suffice to say if your not reading it, you should be.  It’s scheduled to come to a barnstorming conclusion sometime in the Summer, so hop on board (first strip here), catch up, and enjoy the ride.  You won’t get a better mix of gags, philospohy, action and hilarious character design anywhere else.  Beyond the ‘Trawl, Christopher has a impressive back catalogue of other great comic work to be explored.  You can buy his books here.

Thanks again, Chris!

In other news, I’m putting together another site for my non-Faraday comics (tagged here as intermissions) which should go live in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.  Faraday himself isn’t going anywhere, I still plan to update his adventures every now and again, but in full recognition of the fact that a regular complex, full colour piece of illustration is a bit beyond my scheduling capabilities at the moment ;)

Al

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The Dark Blob Rises

I was having a bit of a rant on ol’ Twitter last night about comics, webcomics and the fickle whims of the internet, when I came to the startling conclusion that the secret to success in this game is all Batman and/or Spiderman references, all of the time, forever and ever (and maybe cats*).  I thought about shaking things up around here to appeal more to that sweet, sizeable audience… a few Batman jokes here and there, maybe resurrect the mysterious Masked Blob

Anyway, Faraday’s nascent and deeply cynical move into the sweat ‘n’ spandex hero-comics market has been given a fantastic boost by this poster for ‘The Dark Blob Rises’ which arrived via the Tweet-machine from insanely talented illustrator and skeptical Corkman Alan Barrett.  Alan, or ‘Hybrid Vigour’ as he’s know to his mum has a blogfolio which you should check out as though your life depended on it. Christopher Nolan just emailed to say it’s the second best thing he’s ever seen.

Cheers Al!

Also: Whubble is back! What’s Whubble? It is the best webcomic.

Sorry for using the word blogfolio.  I’m so sorry**.

* try also: bacon, coffee, coffee flavoured bacon, bacon flavoured coffee, ninjas, pirates, flatulence, random non-sequiturs, religion, Tesla, velociraptors, machine-gun Jesus, machine-gun velociraptor Jesus, unsettling celebrity drawings, and sums (hard ones).

** Or am I?! ***

*** (I am)

Murder and Skully

If the rumours are to be believed (they are) I have a guest strip up today over at the ever fantastic Corporate Skull! It’s part of a week of guest strips running over there at the moment featuring some really cool people, so have a root around.Ol' Bonebonce

I’ve gone on about Corporate Skull before here, so you’re probably all familiar with it.  If not, it’s on a break between chapters at the moment so now is a good time to catch up.  Skull’s hilarious creator Jamie Smart is a prolific guy, so if you like what you see head straight over to his hub site Fumboo for more, or start with my own personal fave Whubble.

Big HELLO to anyone dropping by from Corporate Skull; there’s lots to see here, do stick around :)

Al

 

Q’n'F’n'A

Looky looky – I’ve done a quick Q&A for the excellent Irish Comic News site!

FtB at three

Hey folks – how about that, it’s three years since this comic went live on the ol’ innernets. Big thanks to you all for reading, commenting, emailing, correcting spelling mistakes etc. Feedback is great – keep it comin’!  Thanks also for your patience over the last while, I know the site’s been updating on average every other week in 2011, but I still love making these comics and there’s always something new in the works, even if it’s not hitting the site as regularly.

Remember you can always subscribe to the RSS feed, ‘like’ the Faraday Facebook page or follow on Twitter and never miss an update :) .

In time honoured tradition here’s a little rundown of the five most popular comics on the site from the past year!

5. Hip to be Square

Hipsters eh? Braces, pomade and pencil moustaches, loved and loathed in equal measure.  More power to ‘em says I.


4. A Remarkable Sunset

The most recent entry in the list.   Another one of those strips that I was unsure about right up to posting that ended up being way more popular than I imagined.  Must be the keytar.

3. Cat’s Outta the Bag

Cats! The innernet loves cats, so this one did well depsite being more text than drawing.

2. Mr. Elf’s Bad Day

Glad to see this one doing so well, as it’s one of my own favourites.  Nice and simple, it still contains some of my favourite panels I’ve drawn.  Poor old Mr. Elf, he just can’t get a break.


1. Bongo Bongo Bongo

A surprise entry at number one – an old strip about the video game ‘Fallout’, which is a post-apocalyptic RPG.  This one was rediscovered by Reddit around the time of the release of Fallout: New Vegas’ and has been linked around the place ever since.  I am particularly proud of the last V.A.T.S panel, and still hear the sound effect every time I look at it :D

Conclusions: The key to webcomics success seems to be pop-culture references, video games and cats.  Who knew!  Expect nothing but this, relentlessly and forever more (not really).

Thanks for clickin’.