Dan Walsh of Garfield Minus Garfield, at ROFLCon!

The internet has long been a space for the surreal mixing and remixing of Garfield strips (we haven’t forgotten you, Lasagna Cat) but, we’re truly happy to announce today that we’re bringing one of the serious all-originals, all the way from Ireland, to be part of ROFLCon II (you’re welcome).

That’s right: we’re stupendously excited to confirm on this here ROFLblog today that Dan Walsh, the creator of the oddly existential Garfield Minus Garfield, will be attending in April! Don’t know about you — but we’re celebrating.

Looks like the wave of invites and other confirmations is rolling down the pipe once more, so keep an eye on this blog, should be a pretty spicy week of posts.

@FakeAPStylebook Confirmed for ROFLCon II!

I’m pleased to announce this cloudy cloudy afternoon in Boston that ROFLCon has officially confirmed that the Bureau Chiefs of the eminent standards-establishing committee behind Fake AP Stylebook, Mark Hale and Ken Lowery, will be present and speaking at ROFLCon!

In addition to the creators, it should be noted that in addition to sending their managing editors, AP Stylebook will also be gathering an unruly horde of the Bureau’s contributors (up to 15! No, seriously), who will be attending as well. So, keep an eye out. Guest list updated (closing in on 50 guests!), as per usual.

R Stevens of Diesel Sweeties To Be At ROFLCon

Whew — have a good weekend much? ROFLTeam’s been on high-octane for these past few weeks, cobbling together our schedule and working out boring things like the logistics on rooms and whatnot, so expect to see some draft panels and related stuff start coming out over the next week or so.

In any case, to launch off another week of guest announcements, very pleased today to announce that we’ve confirmed that elusive Easthampton genius (and ROFLCon 2008 alumni) R Stevens of webcomic darling Diesel Sweeties, will be present and awesome at ROFLCon II! It looks like this will be the first in a wave of webcomic folks to come, so if you’ve sent us e-mails complaining that we haven’t been snagging those peeps, hold on to your proverbial hats.

Also, mysteriously, happy to say we’ve also been working with Rich on a TOTALLY STUPENDOUS BUT AS YET CLASSFIED PROJECT which should be utterly kickass. More details to come, so stay tuned…

 (image courtesy the Pixelsaurus Shirt)

MailChimp Sponsors ROFLCon

Good to wake up to fantastic news today that the good folks over at MailChimp — which is honestly-effectively-pretty-much the Apple of the email list management world — have joined with our old friends at Laughing Squid, the Berkman Center, and MIT’s CMS to come aboard and sponsor ROFLCon II!

We’re more than excited and proud to have them be part of the family. As tremendous fans of sending too much e-mail (and hominid-themed things in general), it’s a good fit on many levels, and we couldn’t be happier.

Geekily, let me also mention here that MailChimp has one sexy API. Is that appropriate?