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The Jimi Homeless Experience (webcomic)
Encyclopedia
The Jimi Homeless Experience (webcomic) is an online
social
/political cartoon strip created and written by J. F. Kinyon
. The webcomic
is drawn by underground
artist
Big Tasty who is a frequent contributor to Girls and Corpses Magazine
. The strip is primarily about a small group of social outcasts
and proudly flaunts its Grotesque
orientation and black humor.
This webcomic
has been part of the BuzzComix web portal
since January 2006.
ONLINE
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social
Social
The term social refers to a characteristic of living organisms...
/political cartoon strip created and written by J. F. Kinyon
Jon Kinyon
Jon Kinyon is an American filmmaker, film editor, stop motion animator, music producer, song writer, parodist, webcomic creator/writer, and entrepreneur.-Hot Rod Condoms:Jon Kinyon is the founder and president of Hot Rod Condoms, a U.S...
. The webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
is drawn by underground
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
Big Tasty who is a frequent contributor to Girls and Corpses Magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
. The strip is primarily about a small group of social outcasts
Social stigma
Social stigma is the severe disapproval of or discontent with a person on the grounds of characteristics that distinguish them from other members of a society.Almost all stigma is based on a person differing from social or cultural norms...
and proudly flaunts its Grotesque
Grotesque
The word grotesque comes from the same Latin root as "Grotto", meaning a small cave or hollow. The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century...
orientation and black humor.
This webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
has been part of the BuzzComix web portal
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....
since January 2006.
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, features parodies of some of Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
' biggest hitsHit singleA hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...
. - A Jimi Homeless stop motionStop motionStop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
animationAnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
was featured on MyToonsMyToonsMyToons was a free online community for animation that supported content sharing and social networking. MyToons.com was headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.The site was founded in 2006 by Paul Ford, Stacey Ford and Dan Kraus as a spinoff of Bauhaus Software...
, a YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
-styled website specifically geared for 2-D and 3-D animation, in March 2008.