Fun_Intro2009

Hello, have we met?

Name: Reuxben
Stats: Yale, JE '10, Literature. Nor/SoCal.
Updates: Friday, Monday, Wednesday
Inspiration: Rock music, Eiichiro Oda, Toshihiro Ono, Takeshi Obata, Garry Trudeau, angst.

Namesake: A high school teacher always typo'd my name differently, and this's the best way to misspell my name (the X is silent).

Goals: I want to entertain and confide in you, make comics matter at Yale, and train myself to draw for a living, meanwhile keeping nice and sane.

Old comic: Darling Find
Art-intensive intro: Retrospective2009
Oh my gosh!: IvyGate, YDNO people

Online: TCBN, deviantART, YDN Online, YH Comics Online.
In Print: Zero Like Me (YDN, Herald), Sick Little Suicide (YDN), Record, Penny Dreadful, and more...plus I know this idiot called jack kelly who works at the Herald.

Thanks: for visiting!

I hope to see you around,

Reuxben

Fun_Retrospective2009

This is a retrospective on my second art-posting year.

So here is a listing of my favorite pieces of the academic year, listed by category, accompanied with photos from this year's studio, or "dorm," as it were.

And here we go...

Sketches Favorite: HarvardGirl

Moleskine Favorite: Hiroyuki

Fan Art Favorite: MomoAGoGo

Rock Favorite: SpaceBattle

Retrato Favorite: TheThoseGuys

Fun Favorite: BigKappa

Color Favorite: DanesCooks

Unpublished Overall Favorite: TheThoseGuys

Record Favorite: Death

Quarters Crisis Favorite: Acolyte

Penny Dreadful Favorite: West

note to self Favorite: concentration

Monsta Crash Favorite: PocketMonsta

Misc. Work Favorite: Bulldog

Sick Little Suicide Favorite: Kuro

Zero Like Me Favorite: MinorityReport

Published Overall Favorite: Kuro

Favorite Comment: Comment #1

Favorite Post: TheThoseGuys

...and that'll do it for this year's 100th post. In one week I'll finally be back home at Yale!

Woah, woah, are you out there?

Reuxben

Fun_HeraldMenu

These are the weekly comics series I did for the Yale Herald.

Series 5:
Zero Like Me: Zero Romance
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
A suicidal Yale boy meets a cheery alien girl in the "Sunday edition" of the YDN series Zero Like Me, which it is independent of and in league with.

Series 4:
Monsta Crash
Spring 2009
A farm girl in the big city unwittingly becomes a Monsta Crasher with a stowaway monsta.

Series 3:
Quarters Crisis
Fall 2008
A boy finds a magic, quarter-spewing bill, but its owner wants the relic back and the boy dead.

Series 2:
Darling Find
Spring 2008
The Darling Find's most prized curio pilfered, a girl must recover it to earn employment!

Series 1:
Lighter Light
Spring 2007 - Fall 2007
Unrelated comics on various flights and frights of fancy.

I spent my Thursday afternoons all the way until Friday about 8am working on these. I never missed a week, and yet I can't help wondering if I in fact actually missed quite a lot.

Reuxben

Fun_RadaRadaRada

This is Shnitzel from the great Chowder.

Baa: I hate the word "cartoon." Forget the high art origins of the word; it has clearly changed connotation and even denotation today. If you like teasing little kids, you aren't going to tell people you're a child "molester" because that word has changed to an entirely different concept today. In the same way, "cartoon" has become an entirely different, utterly inappropriate word. Reject "cartoon."

On top of "cartoon" itself just sounding foolish, clumsy, and unrefined, with its silly-sounding double-oh, even in its painterly roots "cartoon" refers essentially to the initial sketch that precedes the completed painting; it does not refer to the finished work*. I would hope there's a clear difference between a preliminary, scrawled sketch and a finished product (consider the slight of calling a published essay a "rough draft"). Thus it feels insulting to hear something that has been inked or otherwise executed to finality being called a "cartoon." As far as animation goes, anything that attempts to take itself even somewhat seriously, above goofy anvils and mindless slapstick-laden children's entertainment, ought to be considered not a "cartoon" but "animation."

*If anything, I could begrudgingly admit a single panel work is a cartoon based on the non-painterly definition of cartoon (as in single panel editorial cartoons), but as soon as there are two or more panels in concert, surely it is no longer a cartoon, much like a "novel" isn't a "sentence," despite being made up of them. It is a comic.

And although I never insist others use the term, I consider myself not a "cartoonist" but a "comicser," for lack of a better term.

Reuxben

Fun_Intro2008

This is a preview panel from my upcoming comic, Quarters Crisis, debuting this Friday in the Yale Herald.

Now, some info:

Name: Reuxben
Stats: Yale, Literature, JE '10, California.
Updates: Friday, Monday, Wednesday
Inspiration: Rock, Eiichiro Oda, Toshihiro Ono, angst.

Namesake: An old high school academic team coach typo'd my name, then thought it funny to freshly misspell me every tournament. This was my favorite version. It also provides an excuse to misspell my name. The X is silent.

Goals: Entertaining you, contributing to Yale's having the best comics in the world, training to draw for a living, preserving my sanity.

Good comic: Darling Find
Art-intensive intro: Retrospective2008
Cheery comment: IvyGate

Me Online: TCBN, deviantART.
Me in Print: Quarters Crisis (Herald), Zero Like Me (YDN), Sick Little Suicide (YDN), Record, Penny Dreadful, etc.

Thanks: for visiting!

Reuxben

Fun_Retrospective2008

Welcome to a belated retrospective on my first art-posting year, featuring my favorite pieces of the academic year by category, photos of some of this year's work, my art tools, and this year's "studio" slash dorm. Enjoy!

Sketches Favorite: PurpleCrayonYH
Fan Art Favorite: WhySoSerious
Rock Favorite: RockKorea
Retrato Favorite: Salute2TehBenji
Fun Favorite: PixieDust
Unpublished Overall Favorite: Salute2TehBenji

Food Favorite: SupaMarket
Record Favorite: TravelCover
Lighter Light Favorite: BadHabit
Penny Dreadful Favorite: ToWhatEnd!
note to self Favorite: colleges
Darling Find Favorite: Snkkt
Published Overall Favorite: Snkkt

Honorable Mentions
Sketches
TakeOut's Burglar
WonderWomen's last three sketches
Rock
RockShowPart2's RockerBoy
Retrato
GilmoreTheMerrier's Professor Holloway
Fun
DarlingValentine
Record
RoboRallyPart2
Lighter Light
Warfare
Genie
note to self
interview
nigel
Darling Find
daDooom
ChaChing

Thanks for visiting.

7 days till Japan,

Reuxben