Kris Straub
| Kris Straub | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 17, 1979 Los Angeles, California |
| Residence | Seattle, WA |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Kristofer Straub |
| Education | UCLA Alumni, Computer Science |
| Occupation | Cartoonist and Graphic designer |
| Known for | Creator of Starslip, Checkerboard Nightmare, Chainsawsuit, Broodhollow, and F Chords |
| Website | http://www.krisstraub.com |
Kris Straub is a webcartoonist and the creator of Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, Chainsawsuit, Broodhollow, and F Chords. He is also a co-founder of webcomics collectives Blank Label Comics and Halfpixel. Straub co-created the series Blamimation with Kris and Scott (an animated series) and Kris and Scott's Scott and Kris Show (a live-action comedy webseries) with Scott Kurtz. Both series air at Penny Arcade's PATV web video content imprint. He currently hosts the podcast 28 Plays Later alongside Paul Verhoeven.
Straub also manages and writes for the horror fiction site Ichor Falls, which is notable for the creepypasta Candle Cove.
Straub grew up in Los Angeles, and went on to attend and graduate from UCLA with a degree in Computer Science.
Straub launched his first comic, Checkerboard Nightmare, online in 2000. The strip was self-aware, using metahumour extensively, and the title character, Checkerboard Nightmare (Chex) being obsessed with gaining fame as a webcomic character and willing to do anything necessary to achieve it. The setup of the strip does not change beyond 'Chex wants new readers and concocts a hare-brained scheme to get them', satirising the strict adherence to format exhibited by, for example, sitcoms. Its targets expanded as the strip progressed, and shifted from satirising webcomics to the search for fame in general with the move to Keenspot. Checkerboard Nightmare was originally hosted independently, it moved to Keenspot for a time, before becoming one of the founding comics of Blank Label Comics. During 2006, it appeared monthly on the webcomic news site Comixpedia.
In 2005 Straub began creating Starslip, a daily science fiction/comedy webcomic. Starslip Crisis was first set in the 3440s, aboard the starship IDS Fuseli, named after painter Henry Fuseli. The Fuseli was a former luxury warship which has been converted into a starship museum. It is still capable of military activities. The Fuseli travelled from system to system with its exhibits (using a faster than light "starslip drive"), the comic chronicling the adventures of the crew. Much of the art featured upon the Fuseli dated from the 20th or 21st centuries.Starslip Crisis was part of the webcomics cooperation collective Blank Label Comics, until Straub split away from Blank Label to merge Starslip with his new collective, Halfpixel, in November 2007.
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