Kris Straub at ROFLCon!

While (some of) the sharper among you may have recognized that we gave this away earlier in the week by announcing that David Malki and Tweet Me Harder would be making a featured appearance in Boston during ROFLCon weekend, we’re glad to officially confirm today that esteemed Monsieur Kris Straub (and Twitter) will be attending in April!

It’s, of course, of little use to try to list all of Straub’s multi-faceted projects of awesomeness here. You may know his genius from such amazing things as chainsawsuit, Starslip, Blamimation, and so on… And if you weren’t previous unaware: shame on you people.

In any case, we’re truly thrilled to be having him. More announcements tomorrow!

Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content at ROFLCon!

Dear friends, this announcement comes a bit late, mostly because we’ve been up mondo-late trying to work out logistics and keeping this ROFLShip smoothly sailing into April. As a result, only getting around to updating the blog: so you people get a two-fer today! Stay tuned for the other special announcement later today.

In continuation of our promised weeklong series of some seriously awesome webcomic guest announcements, I’m thrilled to announce this morning that Jeph Jacques of the absolutely great long-running webcomic juggernaut Questionable Content, will be present and attending at ROFLCon II!

And, of course, let me just say here that if you haven’t checked out the backarchives of the lovely though-on-hold indietits, you really should.

Guest list updated, as per usual! Seriously dudes, there is going to be so much Easthampton out here.

David Malki of Wondermark at ROFLCon

Wow, helluva weekend, huh? The ROFLTeam met up and scheduled out the next two months and were like FUUUUUUUU-.

In any case, sweet news to start off this week in ROFLCon that friend and gentleman-scholar David Malki !, of the fabulously fantastic webcomic Wondermark (and the aptly named Tweet Me Harder podcast, which will be making an appearance at the conference) will be flying out and hanging out at the event in April!

Heads up looking into this week: looks like it’s shaping up to probably be a webcomic folks guest announcement week thanks to the unerringly awesome work of ROFLTeammate George Rohac (with a few oddballs thrown in to spice it on up). Watch this space!

Impossible Is Nothing: Aleksey Vayner at ROFLCon

We’re honored and thrilled today to announce that we’ve officially confirmed that one Aleksey Vayner will be attending the conference in April!

You might remember Aleksey from his leaked video in 2006, “Impossible Is Nothing,” which, beyond spiraling into internet fame on its very own, also spawned a seemingly limitless universe of cultural references and remakes, both online and all over the pop culture consciousness.

He’ll be at the conference, discussing what he’s been up to since those fateful months, the issues around privacy online and crisis management, and recounting and reflecting on the experience of being swept up in the middle of the memetic storm.

Welcome Aleksey! Don’t know about you folks, but we’re psyched.