Television Sky » Comics http://www.televisionsky.org by Shane Snow Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New York’s Biggest Tech Geeks, Facing Off As Infographics http://www.televisionsky.org/2011/07/new-yorks-biggest-tech-geeks-facing-off-as-infographics/ http://www.televisionsky.org/2011/07/new-yorks-biggest-tech-geeks-facing-off-as-infographics/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:30:01 +0000 shane http://www.televisionsky.org/?p=575 For the past several months I’ve been advising some friends at a startup called Visual.ly. I helped them put together their inaugural foray into auto-generated infographics with this Twitter infographic generator. I drew several dozen comic versions of celebrities and influencial nerds (@arrington, @davemcclure, @aplusk, @ladygaga, and so on), as well as a ****ton of options for build-your-own comic characters. The visual.ly guys spent countless hours putting it all together and hacking away at APIs in order to get things working.

And so, with all that work behind me, I decided to pit some local New York tech geeks head to head and see what happened:

Rockstar founders

Prolific blogger/investors

Outspoken first time entrepreneurs

Investors you see everywhere

Red-heads

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]]> http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/09/the-truth-about-ferrets/feed/ 0 Guest Comic: Scott Pilgrim vs Shane Snow http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/07/guest-comic-scott-pilgrim-vs-shane-snow/ http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/07/guest-comic-scott-pilgrim-vs-shane-snow/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:38:54 +0000 shane http://www.televisionsky.org/?p=524 KJex drew this most excellent sequel to the recently released Scott Pilgrim 6 graphic novel (movie adaptation in theaters August 13). If you don’t know Scott Pilgrim or me, then it may not make much sense. For some background, I’ll explain the characters:

Scott Pilgrim: 24-year-old guy in a crappy band in Canada, dating Ramona

Ramona Flowers: dating Scott, has 7 evil exes that Scott must fight

K Jex: cute halfAsian girl not in the books but in this comic

Shane: genius

Walrus: Shane’s sidekick/minion (real life stuffed walrus)

[click to enlarge]

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I mean this in good fun, guys. :)

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crimes-in-the-crapper

Guest comic by Jason Grover

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]]> http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/01/vampire-venn-diagrams/feed/ 4 Tried & True: The 2009 Halloween Costume Picker http://www.televisionsky.org/2009/10/tried-true-the-2009-halloween-costume-picker/ http://www.televisionsky.org/2009/10/tried-true-the-2009-halloween-costume-picker/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:05:08 +0000 shane http://www.televisionsky.org/?p=393 Need you deliberate any longer?

halloweencostumepicker

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