No news would actually be—ooh! How cute!

Have you gotten tickets for Saturday’s Super Art Fight show in NYC? No? I know you haven’t, I’M WATCHING THE TICKET SALES. Buy them here!

Eventually, I’m sure the cup will run out. But in the meantime, it’ll be a fun ride.

Super Art Fight in NYC This Weekend!

Super Art Fight, the live-action art competition* I co-host and help run, is coming to NYC this weekend! We’re doing a show Saturday night at Palisades Bar and Music Hall, in Brooklyn. This is our first-ever NYC show, and we’re hoping it paves the way for many more.

We’re ART-FIGHTING against the College Humor team of artists, so you can come see:

• Caldwell Tanner,
• Amazing Super Powers,
• Nathan Yaffe,
• Jacob “For Lack Of A Better Comic” Andrews,
• and Julia Lepetit
• (aka the illustrators of College Humor and Dorkly)

get straight-up taken down to beat-town by the heroic artistic stylings of

• Jamie “Angry Zen Master” Noguchi
• Peet “Krod” Sketches
• and Michael “Baron Von Sexyful” Bracco.

I have a DRINK BOUNTY going for the night. If you come, and you tell me you came because of this post, I’ll buy you a drink for every friend you bring. Yes. Really. Bring 3 friends, get 3 drinks. Your friends get no drinks. They are your problem.

SO BUY A TICKET ALREADY HERE »

*Super Art Fight is “Pictionary meets pro-wrestling, where competing artists each round have 25 minutes to cover the same canvas with artwork and win over the crowd with everything they do. Every 5 minutes we spin the WHEEL OF DEATH, random topics that the artists have to work into the artwork somehow, somewhere. It’s funny, fun, and ridiculous. Check out a video of what that can look like here.

Bike News…

If you hadn’t heard, my bike was stolen. And then probably sold. And then showed up near my office, as though someone had biked it to work and locked it up. So now it’s locked up, with my lock and someone else’s, downstairs. You can read all about it here. 

Super Art Fight News!

You’ve heard me speak—at length—about Super Art Fight. After being asked if it will ever come to the midwest, the west coast, Europe, etc., we have good news. We’ve brought it online. So we’ve brought it everywhere.

You can now watch Super Art Fights online in our first Online Invitational Tournament. Watch this episode below, and you can vote for the winner here.

We’re releasing a new episode every Tuesday for the next month, so you can follow all the action and choose the winners of each bracket.

That show I talked about from last weekend? Rounds 2 and 3 are now online, thanks to a fan in attendance! Check out why Noelle Stevenson is one of the best art fighters I’ve ever seen.

This is a convention show from Anime Expo. For the full experience, you want to come to one of our “club shows” we do in Baltimore and DC (and hopefully soon other cities).

So WATCH THIS. Kill an hour. Post below who’s funnier, Ross or Marty.

This one was last week’s Medium post, but I added some details and tweaked it into a poster design. It’ll be for sale at HilariAwesome.com soon.

Speaking of which, this week’s Medium post is pretty awesome. It’s called “What is the best gift to get someone?” and here’s an excerpt:

You can read the rest here »

Help Make Super Art Fight The Best

We’d like to be voted Best of Baltimore, and with your help, we can make it happen!

Every year, Baltimore Magazine does a Readers Poll for the Best of Baltimore.

We’d like your help getting voted in. Just vote for us under Arts & Fun, under the Play or Performance heading.

We realize, there’s a remarkable Baltimore arts scene, so you’ll probably be split – but it’d make our day to make this happen for us!

Click here to vote, through JUNE 30th!

Coming TONIGHT to The Ottobar in Balitmore is our big HOMECOMING SHOW. After a summer in LA, Tennessee, DC, and Philly we return to our home base with a can of Natty Boh in our hands and a nerdcore rap song in our hearts. Details from Super Art Fight’s site:

Super Art Fight LIVE! at The Ottobar
Saturday, September 7th, 2013 – 8pm Doors, 9pm Show

The Ottobar
2549 North Howard Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Admission: $15 (All Ages Show) – Tickets ON SALE NOW!

Facebook RSVP: Right Here!

The Card For The Evening:

Super Art Fight Championship: Jamie “Angry Zen Master” Noguchi defends against Kelsey “Killer” Wailes

SAF Tag Titles: Team Sexyfulness (The Baron & Duchess Von Sexyful) defend against Ashley “Markermancer” Katz & El Russo Rojo

Ghostfreehood takes on “Charm City Shinobi” Dann Malihom

Super Art Fight Title #1 Contender’s Bout: Red Erin battles Jamie “Brawlin’” Baldwin

Also Appearing:

• Your Super Art Fight Hosts Marty Day & Ross Nover
• Live DJing from The Megadrives

Musical Guests:

Adam WarRock

Tribe One

In case you’re semi-new to my site and wondering why I’m posting about Super Art Fight, I’m one of the owners / MC’s / design director of the thing. It is something very close to my heart that I absolutely love, and if you ever get the chance to attend one you very much should.

Don’t worry, the cat is okay.

Kickstarter Will Be Shoved In Your Face Until Preorders Improve

Still happening! For just $10 you get a digital copy of the book, and for $25 you get the book and, if we raise another $800 or so, a poster AND a digital copy of the book. To be honest, I’m so busy at work I haven’t had much time to shout to Reddit, BoingBoing, and wherever else I can think of about the project so if you have a chance to share it on the forums, blogs, and social medias you visit I would consider that as much of a gesture as supporting it with money. Please and thanks!

I also just added a new reward level, for $40 you get 2 copies of the book. I’ve overdone it with the exclamation points today, but I’m pretty excited about that. Hope you are too.

Otakon This Weekend

More details available at Super Art Fight dot com!

Like I said in 640, our show at Awesome Con was pretty amazing. Steve McBarnes was kind enough to post videos of the first two (of a total of 3) rounds, so here they are! The second round featured Michael Bracco and Noelle “Gingerhaze” Stevenson, and you’re about to be blown away by how awesome it gets. Seriously art fighting at it’s best.

Round 1

End of Round 1, Beginning Round 2

Round 3

If you’re ever at a Super Art Fight show, take video. We love when we find this stuff.

Oh man, a lot of things, you guys!

Hey Pennsylvania Peeps

This weekend I’ll be a guest at the Comic Geek Speak Super Show in Reading, PA. If ONE of you just comes by and says hey that would be amazing. Details here »

Super Art Fight + ThinkGeek

We’re doing a Super Art Fight show with the gang at ThinkGeek on May 4th (“May The Fourth”, the geekiest day of the year) at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA. It’s gonna be a dope-ass motha of a show!

If you’ve never been to a Super Art Fight (seriously where have you been?) it’s a competitive, improvised, live action, geeky art competition. If that doesn’t have your attention, why are you reading this?

TICKETS AND MORE DETAILS HERE »

Super Art Fight: The Book

We are doing one of them Kickstarter things. Specifically, it’s a book all about Super Art Fight called SUPER ART FIGHT: “THE GREATEST LIVE ART COMPILATION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. It will feature:

• Comics
• A collection of our poster art
• original illustrations by our roster
• collaborative “MEGA TOPIC” illustrations
• Wheel of Death illustrations
• Anecdotes, Show notes and so much more

Not only is it gonna be a fun book, but there’s fun prizes like custom original artwork from our team, exclusive t-shirts, and all of it goes to help make Super Art Fight superer.

I’m still deciding if I’m really going to make the next comic about “procrasturbation”. Also, thanks to Systemics Marty and Grace for help figuring out how to write this one. I can’t say it took the whole month but I was a little stuck.

Super Art Fight at the Black Cat on February 22nd!

In an ongoing effort to pretend to be a rock star, the Super Art Fight crew (including myself) is playing a show in Washington, DC at the legendary Black Cat rock club! I couldn’t be more excited. February 22nd, 9:30pm doors, $12 tickets, all ages. More details and info on preorders here.

I’m talking about comics and stuff in Baltimore!

I’m giving a talk called “How Comics Can Make Us Better Designers” to the web/design/development community in Baltimore as part of “Refresh Baltimore” on February 26th. It’ll be based upon but a revised and awesomer version of the talk I gave at Refresh last fall. It’s free. You should come! Here’s the EventBrite. Here’s the other details.

I’d love to see some Systemics in the crowd, and I’ll have time to answer all the questions people have on design and comics and stuff. Let me know if you can make it!