A Guide to Retropunk - Part One

[espanolbot]

Working on a megastrip that I've been meaning to complete for a while now, but in the meantime, here are some of the cartoons I've been drawing explaining the differences between different types of retropunk.

Because not everything is steampunk.








Steampunk is next, followed by Electropunk, Dieselpunk etc.

And the Flintstones is totally what's going on on the groundlevel in the Jetsons.

Comments

[bewareofgeek]

In general, I prefer "Teslapunk" over "electropunk"

And you missed a couple of eras, like "Bronzepunk" (which is a bit later than sandalpunk, and usually mentions Archimedes, Atlantis and/or Alexandria) and medieval-based tech, which has been variously called Castlepunk, Candlepunk, or (if a bit dystopian) Plaguepunk.

[espanolbot]

I'd have thought that Bronzepunk would be covered by Sandalpunk, what with it technically covering both bronze and iron ages. Castlepunk I'll come to later.

[bewareofgeek]

It's a subjective thing, really. There's no "right" answer, because at the end of the day, genre labels are basically meaningless.

(Disclaimer: I can be a bit pedantic about this... I've been giving panels on the history of steampunk and the other -punks at conventions for almost a decade).