Comic Update: Awesome Things About Web Directions North ‘09 That Were Never Mentioned
Posted by Kyle Weems on March 30, 2009It’s been well over a month since Web Directions North 2009, and with SXSW having occurred since then I’m sure that WDN’s awesome sessions and wacky evenings have largely faded into distant memory. However, there’s a few things that were never spoken of that came to my attention during that fateful week in February, and I feel it’s my duty to report them to you. Hence, today’s comic.
I’ll be honest: I cannot be sure that all three things depicted reflect the truth. However, I do know for a fact that Mark Trammell did perform the duck dance. I’m not sure if it’s an ancient ritual designed to summon waterfowl or merely a remnant of the disco era, but it was glorious to behold.
Dave Shea’s hair is seriously something that perplexes me. It seems perfectly sculpted, with this well-mannered shelf that seems to be immune to wind or IE-bugs. I’ve noticed it before in his pictures, but when you’ve seen him in person it’s even more amazing to behold. Seriously. Is it hair gel? Spray? Amazing genes? (Fun fact, in the pre-vector CSSquirrel comic here, the guy running from the demon in panel #1 was meant to be Dave Shea. I’d obviously failed to capture his hair’s look, though.)
Now, re: Jeff Croft’s libido… that may be a bit fictionalized of an event. However, when I last met him he was told about a comic I’d done featuring him, and had mistaken me for the artist responsible for this masterpiece, and not my own humble poke at HTML5 featured here. Now, to prevent further confusions, I can simply state “I was the guy that drew you in bed with a squirrel.”
I’m not sure if that’s something to be proud of, but I bet it’ll be hard to forget.
Hopefully now that this important exercise in documenting the nonsense of WDN09 is complete I can get on with comics involving the usual, such as Opera vikings, IE blunders, and Andy Clarke’s knickers.
Tags: Comic, dave shea, jeff croft, mark trammell, wdn09
It’s frustratingly natural. The trick is getting it to do ANYTHING ELSE.
I find your frustration humorous, having the opposite problem. Grass is greener, etc. My hair’s natural state is to resemble a flock of seagulls fighting over a meal. Granted, with a crazed look in my eyes and a ruffled shirt I might resemble a classical composer dying of mercury poisoning. Otherwise, it requires an incredibly short cut or industrial-grade hair product to get it to behave.