Kristofer Straub
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Kristofer Straub is the creator of webcomics Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip Crisis, Time Friends, Origin Story and co-founder of webcomics collective Blank Label Comics. He also co-developed "Blamimation" animations for Scott Kurtz' comic strip PvP, and is the voice of Brent Sienna therein.
In December 2006, Straub was named co-writer and co-producer on PvP: The Series, a series of animated shorts featuring the PvP characters.
Also in 2006 Straub launched the Halfpixel site, as a location for a variety of creative projects. The Time Friends series has proved popular with fans, with many making their own strips which are displayed on the site via a "creative framework" named Web You.0.
In 2007 Straub took part in an article of deletion debate for deleting his own webcomics article on wikipedia (starslip crisis). He used "sock puppets" to show potential flaws in the wikipedia process. He later on told wikipedia of the situation, after a fan of the article did the same process to save the article and was caught. Starslip Crisis was reinstated and later deleted again following another AfD. [1] [2]
In the Feb. 22, 2007, episode of Kurtz's PVP Livecast podcast, Straub announced his plans to relocate from Los Angeles to Dallas, Texas, to join Kurtz as office and creative partners. [[1]]
[edit] Starslip Crisis
| Starslip Crisis | |
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 The Starship Fuseli |
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| Author(s) | Kristofer Straub |
| Website | http://www.starslipcrisis.com |
| Current status | Updating every Weekday |
| Launch date | May 23, 2005 [2] |
| Genre(s) | Sci-fi, Comedy |
Starslip Crisis (formerly Starshift Crisis) is a daily independent webcomic written and drawn by Straub. Starslip Crisis is part of the webcomics cooperation collective Blank Label Comics.[3] In the beginning it ran under the name Starshift Crisis, but it was changed due to a potential copyright infringement.
Starslip Crisis is set in the year 3441, aboard the starship IDS Fuseli, named after painter Henry Fuseli.[4] The Fuseli is a former luxury warship which has been converted into a starship museum. It is still capable of military activities. The Fuseli travels from system to system with its exhibits, and the comic details the adventures of the ship's crew. Much of the art featured upon the Fuseli dates from the 20th or 21st centuries.[5][6] Much of the strip centres around the exploits of, and relationships between, the three main protaganists: Memnon Vanderbeam, Cutter Edgewise, and Mr. Jinx, an alien assistant.
Starslip Crisis was nominated for five Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in 2006: Outstanding Newcomer, Outstanding Black and White Art, Outstanding Use of Flash, Outstanding Web Design, and Outstanding Science Fiction Comic (which it won).[7] Kristofer Straub was also nominated in 2006 for Outstanding Writer in the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. The strip was nominated for three Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in 2007: Outstanding Black and White Art, Outstanding Science Fiction, and Outstanding Web Design.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Starslip_Crisis]
- ^ http://www.halfpixel.com/2007/02/15/delete-wikipedia/
- ^ http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1000939106
- ^ http://www.starslipcrisis.com/concepts.shtml
- ^ http://www.starslipcrisis.com/d/20050524.shtml
- ^ http://www.starslipcrisis.com/d/20051116.shtml
- ^ Starslip Crisis wins Outstanding Sci-Fi Comic
- ^ Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards 2007 nominations
[edit] External links
- Nightlight Press
- Blank Label Comics
- Checkerboard Nightmare
- Starslip Crisis
- Blamimation.com
- Halfpixel.com
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