Since the girls are gone for a couple of days, I am in Unemployed-Until-January Bachelor mode today.
This means that I slept in, and that upon waking I was allowed to relish the rare opportunity to lie about in bed and read something without needing to rush off to something or other.
Since it is a mini-bachelor [...]
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I’ve been mostly keeping my nose out of the US debate–I don’t understand the debate, since I look on a certain level of access to quality health care as a right of all me–but I do want to point out the comments of John Gary Maxwell, a 40 year veteran surgeon.
You should read the whole [...]
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I have a tab open to the site where you can stream the Angora Napkin cartoon. I was keeping it around to point you guys at it, and explain why you should take a look. But my soon-to-be-comics-pusher Christopher Butcher beat me to the punch, so it’s a lot easier to just point you to his post. (As an aside, in an aside, I met Troy Little when he stopped in to do a signing at Strange Adventures–he did a sketch for me in my Chiaroscuro collection, which book I think I prefer to the Angora Napkin one, not least because it has a decidedly less Ren & Stimpy art style–and he seemed like a totally nice, straight up guy.)
(0 Comments)What you’re seeing there is the first panel from a strip in Feiffer’s Explainers. Click to read the rest of the strip.
Then marvel at how exactly on point is appears to be for the current world (OK, that reference to the Soviets needs to point to China or somewhere, but setting that aside), considering that [...]
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Cuddles and Mr. Mushroom illustrate the dangers of unthinking conformance to societal norms of civility.
(0 Comments)While I’m uploading some MP3s for a music post a little later tonight, let’s do the tab closing dance:
Did you see the story about the scientists who unfroze the blob of 120,000 year old life in the Arctic? I can’t do my usual thing of making the news sound like a creepy SF or Lovecraftian [...]
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Hey, remember back in June when I wrote a bit about how much I was digging The Explainers?
Well, it appears the mainstream media has caught up with me1.
The Sunday Book Review in the New York Times reviewed the book this weekend. It was the cover review. Here’s an excerpt:
Of course, representing any Feiffer strip with [...]
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You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90s1, when getting a comic on the web meant puerile Space Moose sodomy jokes or the banal comedy of Doctor Fun.
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Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one could read everything being [...]
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Yes, it’s time again for an original-content free collection of pointers to things that amuse, interest, or frighten me.
I believe I have to mention the opening of Knol, Google’s attempt to take on Wikipedia with “authoritative articles” that have specific owners, rather than the anonymous wisdom of crowds. I admit, I have no idea how [...]
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The story about the classic “car on the roof” trick at Cambridge–my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent.
Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin’s classic Going To California. Make sure to click the “watch in high quality” link.
There’s a new [...]
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That’s a sample page from a book I’m really enjoying reading at the moment: The Explainers by Jules Feiffer. (You can see some other sample pages at The Comics Reporter, or even cooler check out the slideshow on Flickr.)
Here’s how the publisher describes the book:
In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules [...]
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Why not?
More details at the YouTube page–here’s the first bit, but there’s much more:
Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped – a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras – 2 [...]
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Got a little time to spend crawling around on the web?
Allow me to recommend that you use some of it to check out the archives at Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!!
You might ask “what the hell is that”?
Well, in the site’s own words:
This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, [...]
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