Articles by cydwhit
It's Sunday! Time for some comics!
This week's page idea comes from member iced's comment on last week's article:
A Couple of Notes:
Yes, those are the aliens from Space Jam. Yes, I do want a re-make where they steal pro skiers' powers and have some kind of X-Games showdown.
Sorry Twig...
I spend a lot of time staring at my skis. On the chairlift they’re always in the periphery, kicking slowly as I chat and heckle skiers under the lift. On the skin track I’ve spent countless hours lost in my topsheets, only looking up for kick turns. To a casual onlooker, they’re pretty simple...
It's Sunday, time for some comics!
This week we're taking a quick break from user-submitted comic ideas for a little history lesson:
For reference, here's the original thread.
And here's a good piece on the history of the gap.
Here are links to the last four weeks of comics:
"Cycle"...
When I joined Newschoolers, I didn’t really tell any of my friends or family. I wasn’t super comfortable with the idea of forums, of typing words into an abyss of faceless strangers. I was hyper-aware of the permanence of anything I said, of the paper trail I was leaving with every post. “Be...
It's Sunday! Time for some comics!
This week's page idea comes from member LukeTheWaffle's comment on last week's article:
If you want to learn more about Aspens, here's a great video:
Here are links to the last three weeks of comics:
"Thanks"
"For the 'Gram"
"Jerry's Day Out"...
Progression.
It’s a small, simple word that gets thrown around a lot in skiing. It’s all about progressing the sport, progressing ourselves as skiers, driving the progression of better ski gear. On the surface it’s straightforward: Progression is about making “progress” as a skier, moving...
It's Sunday! Time for some comics!
This week's page idea comes from member e.littt's comment on last week's article:
Here's a link to last week's comic: "For the 'Gram"
And from the week before: "Jerry's Day Out"
Submit Your Comic Idea for Next Week
Just a head's up, if you commented...
Traveling to ski gets all the hype, in fact, it seems like most of the industry is built around it. We’re inundated with ads for multi-mountain passes, airlines tout their ability to drop you a short shuttle ride from the slopes, and if I hear one more person describe their perfect “travel” ski...
It's Sunday! Time for some comics!
This week's page idea comes from member J_Christoph's comment on last week's article:
There's way more than a page of potential to make Instagram jokes about, so don't be too surprised if I do another lap through this one at some point. I know I've been...
Last week NS published my introduction to backcountry ski gear for skiers with a freestyle or park background. This week, I’m covering some tricks, tips, and even “hacks” that can make your life easier as a backcountry skier.
These come from a variety of sources, most were handed down from...
It's Sunday! Time for some comics!
This week's page idea comes from member OCoffey's comment on last week's article:
There's a lot more to explore with this idea, and I might just need to revisit it in some later strips. For now, thanks to OConner for the idea, and thanks to everyone else...
“Backcountry” might just be the biggest ski industry buzzword of the last few years. But most of the coverage of that kind of gear is written from the perspective of directional, traditional skiers.
We’re Newschoolers, we ski park, and when we ski the rest of the mountain we’re jumping off of...
Hey wonderful people of the freeskiing internet! My name is Cy, I used to make a bunch of stuff on this site. Now I’m done pretending to be an adult, and I’m back! This winter I’ll be publishing a weekly comic strip / graphic novel page on Newschoolers. And I want to use it to tell your stories...
The wall of skis in the garage is thick with sheetrock dust from a spring remodel. My poles are buried under a pile of camping gear and bike helmets, and my boots are somewhere deep in a closet. My backcountry pack still has my ice axe strapped to the outside, and mummified gummy worms rattle...
This is Newschoolers, and according to the internet, attention spans are getting shorter and shorter, so here's the TL;DR in 13 words:
I'm making a coloring book for skiers, you can get your copy here.
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1391147350/mountain-mix-coloring-book...
I’ll cut to the chase here: I’m selling shirts, leggings, tank tops, and socks with my art on them at www.bemorestoked.com. Go there and give me all your money so that I can give you cool clothes.
Just a few of my shirt designs
Want more details before you give me all your money? Read on.
The...
Note: The first good thing I wrote on NS was a rambling take on why I wasn't a photographer almost three years ago. Now, thanks in part to that article I eat ramen in the ski industry, and thanks to a lot of you I draw and sell pictures of skiers and mountains. So here's my attempt at explaining...
(NOTE: Does an Instagram caption count as news? We'll see.)
That is a drawing of a super weird toilet.
It's also a heavy-handed metaphor, but surprisingly it's not meant to be a heavy-handed environmental metaphor about drought. In fact it's even more obnoxious and ridiculous than that...
It's springtime which means I should probably use some sort of metaphor about changing seasons in this piece but I don't really feel like it. Sorry, you'll have to look for your blooming similes elsewhere.
Here is a picture of me so that you know not to take this article too seriously
When I...
You can tell this is an artistic representation because I am never in the front, but the shirtless part is true.
It's 2AM and I'm crammed into the back of a Subaru with another dude. We finally rolled into this parking lot four hours ago after an extended drive that involved a stop at a fake...