Humor comes in many forms and today, with the advent of the internet, the expression of humor has been transformed into  snappy one-liners on Twitter and memes. Back in the day, the Far Side by Gary Larson was a groundbreaking single-panel cartoon that expressed a similar type of cynicism and tongue-in-cheek view of society, the animal kingdom and the world at large. I met an artist at a con once whose humor harkens back to the work of Gary Larsen but goes even farther pushing the envelope of the bizarre.

If you’re a frequenter of cons, you might have come …

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NS – Hey Rob, thanks for talking to us today…. When did you first get into Cosplaying?

ROB – The first time I cosplayed was at New York Comic Con 2013 with my best friend: I was Jules Winfield and he was Vinny Vegas. My girlfriend was supergirl. I officially started cosplaying when I moved to Chicago from NYC on Novemeber 1st at a Halloween party at Green Lantern a cosplay I still do and have upgrades to as well. The first built cosplay is my famous Red Hood which I made all myself except for the helmet.

NS – What …

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If you’ll be in Vegas around the beginning of summer, you can stop in to the South Point Hotel & Casino just south of all the main activity on the Strip, and check out the Amazing! Las Vegas Comic Convention.

Special guests include Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Batman’s Greg Capullo, Uncanny Avengers’  writer Rick Remender, Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan, My Little Pony’s Tony Fleecs,  Superman and Teen Titans’ Scott Lobdell, as well as Humberto Ramos, penciler of Spiderman, and other artists like Star Wars and Transformers artist Livio Ramondelli. There is an extremely long list of exhibitors and artists, …

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