Papercomiccrafty!

I really meant to link to this last week but I have that, you know, brain thing.

Shane‘s awesome papercraft skills + Curt and Chris‘ awesome comic skills + my photos = BEHOLD! Basically the funniest/cutest thing you ever did see.

Day 180: Independence Bot

Day 180: Independence Bot

I do believe The CA will be giving this feisty little dude — another of Shane McDermott’s Newsbots — away. I’ll post details when I get them. Become a fan of The CA on Facebook and you’re eligible to win!

Hopefully the lucky winner will place him in front of an airbrushed portrait of a screaming bald eagle*.

* I may or may not have already used that joke in real life.

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Day 111: The Zombots Are Coming

Day 111: The Zombots Are Coming

Look what the massively talented Shane McDermott (who looks a little like Edward Norton and Chris Hardwick’s lovechild) did! He zombified Newsbot, just in time for Friday’s undead uprising! So freaking awesome.

Soon enough, a template for this sweet sweet zombie Newsbot papercraft will be available on The CA‘s website (I’ll link it when it’s ready). And word on the street is that The CA will be giving away a fully assembled Zombot, who’ll come with a little somethin’ extra that’s not included in the template.

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Day 84: Beheaded

Day 84: Beheaded

Came home last night to find Bojanklesbot separated from his head. Hmmm. Wonder who did that.

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Papercraft-tastic

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It took me a few hours, but I’ve finally completed my papercraft Newsbot. I’m calling him Bojanklesbot because he’s held together rather jankily with packing tape (like everything else in my apartment) and he looks like the kind of robot who might be voted off the island kinda early, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, it’s a really cool project spearheaded by my pal Shane, illustrator extraordinaire for The CA. The advent calendar from which Newsbot himself was plucked can be downloaded from on the CA’s home page (scroll down until you get to the row of teasers). You can click here to find the downloadable PDFs for the papercraft, as well as a video of Shane explaining how to put the bot together.