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We’ve seen All-Star American Hero, Homer J. Simpson, transverse to many impossible boundaries - from fan-made Japanese manga to the real world as a crude 3D model in hot pursuit of discovering humanly-baked Erotic Cakes. But what would Homie look like if someone took away all the gooey-yellow out of him and injected some hardcore manwich-tissue? Pixeloo has heeded your call! Not to beat around an old cliche, but it’s amazing what people can do with time, patience, tinkering around with image-manipulation software that we sometimes don’t pay for (ahem), and an affinity for portraying the characters we know and love in all sorts “Oh god.” Cheers, Pixeloo!
Be sure to check out his ode to the plumber-boss himself of Mushroom Kingdom, as well.
Aye carumba! We’re only less than a month away until EA releases their promising looking The Simpsons Game. And man alive, is it looking slick. No really, I think the developers hit the nail on the head when they decided to make the game’s entire premise nothing but one big satire on video gaming subculture, and then some. “NeverQuest” is the newly revealed world that you’ll come across, obviously parodying MMORPG classic EverQuest, along with other fantasy references (check which character replaces the Lord of the Ring’s Hobbits).
Watch the video after the break. It’s stabbing time!
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Oh yeah… Duffman…!! Well this is the dream come true story of the female comic artist from Canada, N. Matsumoto aka spacecoyote who drew a Japanese manga version of The Simpsons. She submitted the artwork at www.deviantart.com on January 5, 2007 under her DA account spacecoyote. As you can already see the amazing artwork in the images shown above, this work made to the top pages of DA within days and even faster then that the artwork was circulated throughout the internet. Soon it ended up on the digg.com as well as ABC News Australia and various other blogs and websites.
This was just the beginning of a never ending glory. Soon enough the big people sitting at the Simpsons end noticed her artwork and contacted her. Bongo comics, the brain child of Matt Groening offered her to work on a manga style version of the Simpsons. Also she was contacted by 20th Century Fox to work on the upcoming relaunch of Futurama! Woo hoo… this article is actually about many news, but its more about the success story of a simple girl, who is an artist at heart.
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This artwork doesn’t represent her awesome talent, so do make it sure to check out her DA gallery which has amazing comic artworks. Matsumoto has already done the manga versions of Futurama and a pencil portrait of Sideshow Bob. Also make sure to check out her website and her own comic strip (all the links have been provided at the end of the article).
Talking about the art and talent, many people are using her artworks as their own over the net. Well you will find numerous avatars and signatures made out of her artworks, but worst are those people who are using her artworks as their own. So, if you see any of her artworks under somebody else’s name, don’t let yourself being fooled and do raise a voice against the art theft. All the artworks drawn by Matsumoto are her intellectual property and she deserves a proper credit given to her. This also means a request to the readers of TAP who will be reading this article and saving these images on their systems. If you ever decide to use her artworks, don’t forget to give her the whole credit.
Congratulations to spacecoyote from me and the whole angrypixel team for making it. Some of us do end up painting our dreams in the sky. Mmm…..sky….
N. Matsumoto’s personal site
N. Matsumoto @ DeviantArt
N. Matsumoto’s webcomic - “Saturnalia”
Weird! After EA announced that they’d be publishing “Simpsons, The game” for all major platforms, I was expecting our esteemed colleague Krishnan to come out with his hands held high , fists clenched shut and a resounding “WOOHOO! USA! USA!” coming from his lips. Looks like he’s suffering from the ‘over stresses workus’ disorder.
Gamers and fans of the show would be able to take control of the Simpson family (save Maggie), interacting with nearly every character in the show’s huge roster. Apparently, America’s favorite family realizes that they are trapped inside a video game and they must use their new found whacky superpowers (for eg. Homer can eat fatty donuts to transform himself into a huge ‘Homerball’) to overcome their latest dilemma. My only complaint from previous Simpson games was the lack of original humor, which we’ve come to expect from a show of such great caliber. Scott Amos, Lead game producer for this as of yet untitled project has assured us that humor would be given the highest priority, incorporating more than 8,000 lines of dialog from the show’s scriptwriters. Slated for an Oct-Nov 2007 release date, I can hardly wait for the next great adventure in the life of Homer J Simpson.