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Invite Stephen Silver for PAX

waylaidwaylaid Registered User regular
edited September 2006 in PAX Archive
When will you invite Stephen Silver to PAX since he has such an impact on your art and perhaps life? There should be a panel dedicated to him in PAX.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    erm... who is stephen silver?

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2006
    BigRed wrote:
    erm... who is stephen silver?

    A cartoonist whose style has influenced Gabe's. He did the character models for stuff like Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, and Fairly Odd Parents.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    That would be like inviting JRR Tolkien to a D&D convention. I think Stephen Silver would be quite uncomfortable surrounded by a zillion video gaming nerds who have no idea who he is; I would imagine a panel dedicated to him would be mostly empty, except for a few artists and some people who don't know who he is.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2006
    TychoCelchuuu wrote:
    That would be like inviting JRR Tolkien to a D&D convention. I think Stephen Silver would be quite uncomfortable surrounded by a zillion video gaming nerds who have no idea who he is; I would imagine a panel dedicated to him would be mostly empty, except for a few artists and some people who don't know who he is.

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  • ctishmanctishman Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    yeah, there would be about a hundred of us in the 2000-person hall, and every question would be either "Who are you, again?" or "can you draw kim possible naked?"

    Kinda uncomfortable.

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  • QuizMasterQuizMaster Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    ctishman wrote:
    yeah, there would be about a hundred of us in the 2000-person hall, and every question would be either "Who are you, again?" or "can you draw kim possible naked?"

    Kinda uncomfortable.

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  • waylaidwaylaid Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    So any possibility of inviting him into the next PAX?

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I reiterate: it would be, for him, uncomfortable. Few of us would know who he is or care, because this is a gaming convention and he draws cartoon shows. It's fun for you or me to be surrounded by thousands of fat or skinny people carrying DS Lites and drinking Bawls, but for the average person it would be a little unnerving. Imagine you went to a fishing convention or something and everyone everywhere is talking about fishing or trying out fishing poles and some of them are dressed like fish and there are fish prizes and stuff, and you're there to talk about drawing cartoons. And about 200 people there, out of 17,000, know who you are.

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  • ctishmanctishman Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    TychoCelchuuu wrote:
    Imagine you went to a fishing convention or something and everyone everywhere is talking about fishing or trying out fishing poles and some of them are dressed like fish and there are fish prizes and stuff, and you're there to talk about drawing cartoons.

    I don't know what your problem is. I think that would be awesome.

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2006
    ctishman wrote:
    TychoCelchuuu wrote:
    Imagine you went to a fishing convention or something and everyone everywhere is talking about fishing or trying out fishing poles and some of them are dressed like fish and there are fish prizes and stuff, and you're there to talk about drawing cartoons.

    I don't know what your problem is. I think that would be awesome.

    No...it'd be like going to a fishing convention run by these two people that made a very popular fishing magazine based on the baiting techniques of one of them and you'd be there to talk about how you make your bait because you're the one that influenced their technique...

    If you're going to switch one of them, you've got to switch the other a bit too.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Fine. It's like going to a fishing convention, run by two guys who do a TV show about fishing. And you taught one of the guys how to film a TV show. Nobody in the fishing convention except those who also happen to use cameras care about you except that you have a tenuous connection to one of the guys running the thing.

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  • RedaxxeRedaxxe Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I think it would be more fun to invite Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis is in a pretty sweet band too and could also be a musical guest.

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  • DJBreslinDJBreslin Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Redaxxe wrote:
    I think it would be more fun to invite Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis is in a pretty sweet band too and could also be a musical guest.
    I don't think I understand this. Where do the fish come into play in your scenario?

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2006
    Redaxxe wrote:
    I think it would be more fun to invite Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis is in a pretty sweet band too and could also be a musical guest.

    I think they tried to invite Fred Savage one year, but I believe that he wants nothing to do with The Wizard ever again.

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  • djdoomikedjdoomike Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    TychoCelchuuu wrote:
    That would be like inviting JRR Tolkien to a D&D convention. I think Stephen Silver would be quite uncomfortable surrounded by a zillion video gaming nerds who have no idea who he is; I would imagine a panel dedicated to him would be mostly empty, except for a few artists and some people who don't know who he is.

    Yeah it's not like he has ever been to a comic con before. Trust me, cartoon nerds can be as nerdy any other nerd sub-culture.


    I don't know about a Stephen Silver specific pannle, but I would love to see a cartoonist pannel. Something like Stephen Silver(Danny Phantom, Clerks the animated series, Kim Possible), Gabe(the site you are currently at), and Craig Mc'cracken.

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  • RedaxxeRedaxxe Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    Legacy wrote:
    Redaxxe wrote:
    I think it would be more fun to invite Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis is in a pretty sweet band too and could also be a musical guest.

    I think they tried to invite Fred Savage one year, but I believe that he wants nothing to do with The Wizard ever again.

    Yeah I think Robert had mentioned that in '05, but I was thinking that with the increased power and will of the Penny-Arcade followers that we might win the day.

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  • leafleaf Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    So, wait, as far as I understand...

    We're going to get two guys who do this fishing show convention thing to talk about bait with Mr.Silver who will be hosting the D&D panels. And then Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis are all going to go fishing to be filmed by the guy that showed the first two how to use cameras?

    Where do Mike and Gerry fit in this? :?

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  • Kato_ArabelKato_Arabel Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    Jerry, dude, Jerry. Not fucking Gerry.

    Someone shoot this guy. :P

    All joking aside, I think it would be a bad idea.

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  • QuizMasterQuizMaster Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    leaf wrote:
    So, wait, as far as I understand...

    We're going to get two guys who do this fishing show convention thing to talk about bait with Mr.Silver who will be hosting the D&D panels. And then Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, and Jenny Lewis are all going to go fishing to be filmed by the guy that showed the first two how to use cameras?

    Where do Mike and Jerry fit in this? :?

    They're bears. They have mad fishing skills. They're powerful. They can go anywhere they want to in the convention and nobody will stop them.

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  • AndwarfAndwarf Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    But are they bears... ON PODIUMS?

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  • OfficerOfficer Registered User regular
    edited September 2006
    Andwarf wrote:
    But are they bears... ON PODIUMS?

    No, just jetskis, and maybe the odd printing press.

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