Titans of Small Town Details
When: April 11th, 2009
Where: 303Grand (303 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NYC)
What: A one night only gallery show event with the kings of the TCP/IP funnies
Featuring never-before-seen work by featured artists Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), Chris Onstad (Achewood), Chris Hastings (Dr. McNinja), and Emily Horne and Joey Comeau (A Softer World). And one helluva sweet Q&A session.
Press Inquiries, Hate Mail, Etc also send to tim AT roflcon.org
kthx, The Mgmt
It was a classic story as old as time: college kids grow up online, decide that it'd be a great idea to throw a internet culture conference, and unleash sheer ridiculousness upon the world.
Back in April 2008, we put on ROFLCon 2008 -- the first internet culture conference devoted to discussing what makes memes work, why they work, and where its all going (and then throwing a big-ass rocking party with the internet celebs themselves). It was a kickass time.
We figured we'd keep doing this as long as it remains awesome (and it still is), so we're already hard at work scheming to put together internet culture events into next year. This will be the place for all the breaking news on how they're coming along.
Needless to say, these might be the most important gatherings since the fall of the tower of Babel.

Good news! Happy to announce today that as of over the weekend, the TITANS OF SMALL TOWN gallery show has officially added Emily and Joey from web favorites A Softer World to the roster!
They’ll be putting together some awesome large-format prints of their work up on display @ 303Grand for the opening, and will be joining Ryan and Chris for the Q&A (and potentially jumping in on the collaborative piece that will be going down afterwards).
The two words that spring to mind are: totally kickass.

Good news! This serious lookin’ dude we’ve got here is Benjamin Palmer, co-founder and CEO-honcho of The Barbarian Group. You might remember Benjamin from the original ROFLCon back in April, and we’re glad to announce today that we’ve brought him back to MC the Q&A session for the night!
He’ll also be exhibiting. Parts of his series, AWESOME_SCENES, will also be framed and on display that night (personal favorite).
Also, since we realized that in our excitement to announce Titans of Small-Town that we actually forgot to update the rest of the ROFLCon site. Our schedule, sidebar and registration pages have been updated accordingly. We’ll be opening doors at 6:30 PM on April 11th.
Like most people who hang out too much on the Internet, there’s a couple of memes that we follow here on the ROFLCon team that we’re pretty sure no one else has heard of or thinks is funny/cool. We however, find them hysterical.
Dave Secretary is one of these individuals.
Dave Secretary writes about his childhood in all caps with no punctuation, and it is a beautiful beautiful thing. He’s also responsible for Everything Is Irritating and Comics I Have To Explain. We’re pretty sure he’s our official candidate the as-yet unsung Bard of the Internet. Anyways, we invited him, and glad to report that we’ve heard word he’ll be probably showing up for part of the conference and the afterparty (and that “this is seriously going to rule. i almost fell out of a speeding bus earlier today.”)
So if you’re out there, and you happen to love Dave Secretary, you should come out and meet him.