Holy shit it’s been awhile, but we’re back with another edition of the world’s greatest -no budget- podcast! For this episode of the Atomic Moocast, Chudd and I talked with animator, graphic artist, and creator of the online comic (Kiosk); Geoff Munn! Geoff was really cool, and had a lot of great information about making a webcomic and life as a graphic artist! Of course, before the interview we also have our State of the Moo and a review of Iron Man 3. I know, we’re kinda late with all this, but lady life has been kicking us in the crotch pretty hard of late! But it’s done! It’s here! And now you get to relax and listen to all this wonderful Atomic Moo goodness! So, go get that frosty beverage out of your fridge and hunker down in a comfy place, then hit the button and start the best damn podcast your friends don’t know about!

Enjoy!

Free music used by the Atomic Moo cast is royalty free and was created and composed by Kevin MacLeod and can be found at Incompetech.com. Please support this site!

Songs used:

• Kool Katz
• Aces High
• Who Likes to Party
• Funk Game Loop
• Just Funking Off
• As I Figure

Links!

• Kiosk; Life in Neutral
• The Kiosk Kickstarter

Kiosk Samples

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Via Geek Tyrant; Okay, not a game I would want to play! Well, at least not without glancing at the rule book first. Check out this very funny short video of four friends who sit down to play a round of Risky Settlers Knights and Allies of Lords of Dominion of Earth; The Pandemic edition. Posted on Youtube by Rhett and Link this funny short shows us why we should always avoid playing board games with friends and a gimp in the closet.

Enjoy!

I want to make comics! It’s taking me a long damn time to realize that, but it’s something I’ve been kind of doing my whole life in a sort of, half assed – “if only”, day dream kind of way. For years I’ve collected comics, doodled in sketch books, and obtained a rather large (and mostly unused) collection of “how to books” on subjects like “figure drawing” and “perspective”. Then, recently, I had a bad bit of depression. I started to do what I always do when bummed out and I started drawing. What was different this time, was I came up with a few characters I actually liked and I wanted to make them into a comic, but here’s the thing; I didn’t know how! So, I went to that large collection of books, and buried in there, I found possibly the best book on the subject of how to make a comic (dash dash) EVER MADE!

Making Comics (published 2006 by Harper) by Zot comic artist Scott McCloud is fun, easy to understand, yet dives deep into the dynamic world of making comics. Done as a graphic novel itself, this book helps readers learn fundamentals about character creation, clarifying stories, body language, styles, genres, framing, and everything else you would ever want to know about what it takes to make a good story! I love how McCloud didn’t try to teach the reader how to draw. Instead his book focuses on how to use whatever skills you already have and make the best story possible. Making Comics is a history lesson, technical manual, and motivational speaker all rolled into one, and for all of us out there who want to make comics (regardless of genre or skill set) this should be the first book (yes even before Making Comics the Marvel Way) that a budding (or veteran) comic creator, should read! I’m going to start making comics! Hell, I’ve already started, and McCloud’s Making Comics is a vital resource I will be using many (many) times from here on out!

Making comics is sold at bookstores or online at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com!

I’ve posted a couple of sample pages from the book below, check them out and if you have a comic you’re working on let us see it! We won’t judge you, much.

Good damn morning, El Moochadores! Take a long look at some amazing art I found on Deviant Art this morning while looking for Bronie art…er… porn. Yeah, I found this while looking for porn. Anyways, digital artist, Dmitry Grebenkov is a Russian digital artist who has a real knack for making fun geek art! Below are a few samples of his work, but follow the links back to see more of his portfolio!

Enjoy!

Hey El Moochadores, did you watch the last weeks Game of Thrones? Brienne of Tarth fought a bear! Sorry, didn’t mean to spoil anything, but it has been in the book for the last decade or so. Also, putting a bear fight in a book is really easy to do. All you have to do is write, Brienne fought a bear. That easy! Done! She fought a bear because I said so! However, making a bear fight for television is vastly harder! Check out the is cool little video put out by Making of Game of Thrones which shows all the effort that went into the making of the bear pit and the woman v bear battle of the century! Also included are some storyboard samples from the site, but I got just a small sample. Go visit www.makinggameofthrones.com for more images and other behind the scene videos!

Hi El Moochadores. I just got home from work and I’m very tired. So, I’ll say I’m sorry in advance if some of this post is barely legamable. Anyways, Nerdcore rapper, MC Frontalot, has a great new video out on Youtube that has this really cool Voltron vibe. Here are the details below along with the video. I’m a gonna go to bed and re-think my life.

G’night!

Published on May 12, 2013
by MC Frontalot from the album Solved http://frontalot.com/cd5
featuring Dr Awkward and ZeaLouS1

Directed by Carly Monardo http://www.whirringblender.com
Designs, Storyboards, Animation, and Compositing by Carly Monardo & Lauren Monardo Gramprey. Transformation Sequence Animation by Danny Hynes. Backgrounds by Jimmy Tran.
Special Thanks to Nisa Contreras.

Audio and video download of this track (and tons of others) free at frontalot.com

(C) 2011-2013 MC Frontalot // Published by Level Up Records & Tapes (ASCAP)

Dammit… Monday is tomorrow. That’s kind of bumming me out a little bit. This cheered me up though. It’s by YouTuber Teddie Films. They’ve done some pretty awesome and funny stuff in the past, like their Gotye Star Wars Parody. Anyhow, check out the video below, and enjoy. Later!

Good morning El Moochadores! Our good buddy Jason Lenox and Ugli Studios our doing a new Kickstarter for their new anthology of stories! This is their second book a features three different stories. Check it out and throw some support behind a great independent project!

Via Geeks are Sexy; FUTURAMA ART!!! Sorry, didn’t mean to yell, but I just came across some very cool Futurama art, and (what with the shows third demise) I thought it would be cool to share it here on Atomic Moo! Y’know, since it looks like it’s gonna be a Futurama dry spell, at least until some other network (TBS, huh? you got dick all else on your network that’s funny, try the Futurama! huh?) puts it up again. Created by CG character designer, Jared Krichevsky, I think we had posted about an ultra-terrifing Zoidberg illustration he did some time ago, and I’m glad to see he went back to make more. Lrrr is really, very, scary looking. Kind of the stuff of nightmares. Anyways, check out the art while I put the finishing touches on a new Moocast and then eat some pie. I mean, I’m going to eat some pie. You can have some too, just go buy it yourself. I’m not being selfish, it’s just there’s only a little left.

Stay away from my pie.

Hi El Moochadores! English author, Guy Adams, has an exciting new book out; The Good, the Bad, and the Infernal, and I read it! And I’m gonna tell you about it, but first read the synopsis:

One day every hundred years, a town appears, its location and character different every time. It is home to the greatest miracle a man could imagine: a doorway to Heaven itself. the town’s name is Wormwood, and it is due to appear on the 21st September 1889, somewhere in the American Midwest. There are many who hope to be there: travelling preacher obeisance Hicks and his simple messiah, Soldier Joe;Henry and Harmonium Jones and their freak show pack of outlaws; the Brothers of the order of Ruth and theirsponsor Lord Forset (inventor of the Forset thunderpack and other incendiary modes of personal transport); and finally, an aging gunslinger with a dark history. They will face dangers both strange and terrible: monstrous animals, predatory towns, armies of mechanical natives,and other things besides. Wormwood defends its secrets, and only the brave and resourceful will survive…

This book was a lot of fun! Adams has a talent for creating interesting characters that are definitely from off the beaten path. There’s tricksters, gunslingers, freaks and geeks (though the geek in this story wouldn’t give a damn about comic books or Star Wars, but instead is a throw back to the names original meaning. Also… eww), all heading towards Wormwood! My favorite characters in the book are the meeker guys (Elwyn and Irish) who find themselves either riding giant steam powered tanks or fighting against living towns. Adams also does a wonderful job of mixing Steampunk and the mystical. I love his writing for a town over run with rattle snakes, or a monk infested, steam powered, caravan fighting half metal, angry, natives! It’s brilliant! However, the book is in three different parts, each part telling of a different groups travel to Wormwood, and it was kind of tough switching gears after being with certain characters for a time. Fortunately though, this story is first in a trilogy entitled, “Heaven’s Gate Trilogy,” so hopefully in the upcoming novels the three stories will have time to come together as Wormwood is discovered. Go get your copy of The Good, the Bad, and the Infernal at your local bookstore, Amazon.com, or get an e-copy from Solaris Books!