New Comic: Single Espresso

by on January 30, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Posted In: Blog

Oh look, another Life in New York comic. Though this really could be set anywhere that people lurk about wondering why they aren’t as fun as everyone around them. I apologize in advance for the title.

I would say this happens - at most - twelve time a week.

 

I’ve been hard at work lately getting back into cartooning. You might recall my character Melchior, the mildly indolent wizard mysteriously coexisting with the modern world. He’s a fellow I’ve been fiddling around with for years now, and I’m pretty exciting about where he seems to be taking me. A lot of it gets posted to instagram, if you care to follow it there.

Dancing Bear Variety Hour season two is also picking up momentum, but that’s a different story.

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New Comic: My Career Move

by on December 18, 2014 at 9:56 pm
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Over the last few weeks I’ve drawn a couple comics about my New Life in New York City. Maybe a little cliche? I don’t know. But it’s leading to comics, like this one, recounting one version of the recent WNYC holiday party.

This event has not resulted in a job offer, but at least people know who I am, and the ghost of Bare Naked Ladies will haunt the station.

 

Just by way of updates, I’m slowly getting the back episodes of Dancing Bear Variety Hour online. You can subscribe on iturns or RSS over there on the right side of the page. Which is just great. What about Season 2 you ask? It’s in the works, and methinks the post-internship unemployment I’m staring down the barrel of bodes quite well for writing time…

Love,

Scott

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AstroBase Recruitment Promo

by on April 22, 2014 at 11:18 pm
Posted In: Blog, Dancing Bear Variety Hour, Radio

Here’s a checklist of today’s tasks still unfinished as of 11:06pm: graduation announcements, web pilot script, KJHK duties document, revise thesis for submission tomorrow. It goes on like that. While those are all important responsibilities to tend to, it seems I decided this evening should be spent making a new promo for Dancing Bear Variety Hour. And it’s awesome. Like the best radio work I’ve ever done. Or heard. And I just really wanted to share it with you. Behold:

 

 

If this is totally baffling to you, I’ve made this handy key based on increasing levels of generality. Stop when you see something you recognize:

  • AstroBase is the military organization of the USS Carpathia
  • Which is the science-fiction series featured on the Dancing Bear Variety Hour
  • Which is a radio comedy show and podcast I run
  • Because I’ve spent the last two years working at KJHK
  • Because I’m in an MFA program at KU
  • Because I’m a writer
  • And my name is Scott
  • You really don’t know me, do you?

Anyhow, I encourage everyone to download this, spread it around, and enlist in AstroBase today.

 

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DBVH #114: USS Carpathia Ep. 7, “Space Files of a Private Dick”

by on April 19, 2014 at 1:39 am
Posted In: Blog, Dancing Bear Variety Hour, Radio

 “As a space-going adventurer regularly described as both rugged and intrepid, I rarely have time for such frivolities as radio entertainment. Why listen to life when you can be living it, is my attitude! I can’t tell you who won the last Earth Idol, but I can tell you what it’s like to bed a Balkovaarian maiden under the purple moons, your hands still shaky from asteroid-field dogfights. But if you have to fritter away your time with popular entertainment, you might as well learn a little about the life you could be having. Go for it.”

– Commander Chaz Remmington, AstroBase Special Expeditionary Wing

 The Adventures of the USS Carpathia in Outer Space!!

Episode 7: Space Files of a Private Dick, or, When I’m Gone Perry Me Deep

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A shadowy hacker has crashed the Carpathia’s computer and James Perry, private detective is on the case! Trading his pilot’s cap for a weatherbeaten fedora, Perry prods the ship’s seamy underbelly in pursuit of the one thing it seems money can’t buy: the truth. Will the stalwart first officer solve the mystery in time to salvage the Captain’s trade negotiations? Where does Ollie’s vidya game fit in all this? Why did Korgath cancel yoga? And who the hell is Lorraine?

Scott Ross – Captain Jack Derby, Merchant Dhe’Zeen
Phil Garland – Lt. James Perry
Justin Wilson – Ensign Ollie Klozerhoff, Korgath, Mortimer the Robutler
Sara Leavens – Faye Chinsky
Sara Kennedy – Lorraine Bain, Computer

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DBVH #113: Sketches, Vol 06

by on April 5, 2014 at 9:15 pm
Posted In: Blog, Dancing Bear Variety Hour, Radio

Ever ask what rap would be like if the lyrics were rewritten to be children’s songs? Of course you have! And we did it! This spiritual episode starts with New God Flow, to new age mental aggression, to the Old God Flow – meaning friendly religious fundamentalists from Kansas.

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1. Kid Hop!

Everyone’s favorite radio personality, Peter Carson, returns to the Dancing Bear Variety Hour to promote his latest project: a collection of hip hop hits rerecorded with kid-friendly lyrics. Order today to enjoy classics like “In Da Tub” and “Must Be My Mommy”! (Scott Ross)

2. Psychic Frenemies Network

Everyone wants to believe that there’s something beyond this material life we lead – and the idea of receiving guidance from whatever mystic forces might be out there fascinates us. But sometimes that guidance is a little…bitchy. (Scott Ross)

3. Westboro Baptist Church Advertisement

DBVH originally hails from Lawrence, Kansas, a lovely college town just down the way from Westboro Baptist Church, famous for its acute hatred of… well basically everybody. But like Jesus probably once said, everyone deserves a second chance. So we decided to devote some airtime to helping WBC help improve their image! (Scott Ross)

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