Comments on: Secret Robert Rodriguez/Chris Ware connection! http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: cat garza http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15835 cat garza Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:09:44 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15835 heidi, i should've told you that a long time ago back when we met for the first time. robert's cousin alvaro was the "composer" on el mariachi and my comics editor for my college paper. he'd bring back daily texan pages for me when he'd go up to austin to visit robert on weekends. a lot of the cartoonists that shared space with ware and rodriguez on those daily texan pages went on to do amazing things in comics and animation... walt holcombe, lance myers (animator), shannon wheeler, tom king (worked on futurama and spongebob), jeanette moreno, john keen (mtv animation). those guys were my heroes and a HUGE influence on me as i continued to cartoon through college and beyond. heidi,

i should’ve told you that a long time ago back when we met for the first time. robert’s cousin alvaro was the “composer” on el mariachi and my comics editor for my college paper. he’d bring back daily texan pages for me when he’d go up to austin to visit robert on weekends. a lot of the cartoonists that shared space with ware and rodriguez on those daily texan pages went on to do amazing things in comics and animation… walt holcombe, lance myers (animator), shannon wheeler, tom king (worked on futurama and spongebob), jeanette moreno, john keen (mtv animation). those guys were my heroes and a HUGE influence on me as i continued to cartoon through college and beyond.

]]> By: Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/30/2007 « The Daily Cross Hatch http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15834 Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/30/2007 « The Daily Cross Hatch Sat, 05 May 2007 08:55:27 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15834 [...] Another late add: The Beat has a couple of neat finds. Heidi offers up a Tate Modern article that has generous comic pictures and historical info, and spies a Robert Rodriguez and Chris Ware connection (check out the comments section for a Chris Ware easter egg). [...] [...] Another late add: The Beat has a couple of neat finds. Heidi offers up a Tate Modern article that has generous comic pictures and historical info, and spies a Robert Rodriguez and Chris Ware connection (check out the comments section for a Chris Ware easter egg). [...]

]]> By: STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: April 30, 2007 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15833 STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: April 30, 2007 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:39:11 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15833 [...] Secret Robert Rodriguez/Chris Ware connection! [...] [...] Secret Robert Rodriguez/Chris Ware connection! [...]

]]> By: Michael G http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15832 Michael G Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:28:52 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/04/27/secret-robert-rodirguezchris-ware-connection/#comment-15832 Ware drew a comic strip at the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin) when I was at school there in the mid-to-late 1980s. One strip he did was called "<a href="http://quimby.gnus.org/warehouse/farland/farland.html" rel="nofollow">Floyd Farland, Citizen of the Future</a>" that was picked up and reprinted by Eclipse. Given the prices that book goes for now, I should have saved the original strips. Ware drew a comic strip at the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin) when I was at school there in the mid-to-late 1980s. One strip he did was called “Floyd Farland, Citizen of the Future” that was picked up and reprinted by Eclipse. Given the prices that book goes for now, I should have saved the original strips.

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