Cat and Girl Halloween Special

October 31, 2005 – 5:46 pm

Easy Last Minute Costume for Cynics

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John Rogers on Adaptations

October 25, 2005 – 10:08 pm

John Rogers on adapting for film: why screenwriters adapt, why Hollywood needs adaptations, don’t just do it for the money, on treating source, and advice to fans seeing their favorite novel on screen.

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Onomatopoeia

October 23, 2005 – 11:45 pm

I get comments, on occasion, about this site’s onomatopoeic name. Now it has been used as onomatopoeia.

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Hurting Comics, Keeping Creator Rights

October 18, 2005 – 11:41 pm

In the wake of a heated discussion about manga publisher TokyoPop, Lea Hernandez advises young artists to keep 100% of their rights in their works. ETA permalink to Lea’s column.

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It’s Always Wisconsin on TV

October 11, 2005 – 3:38 pm

Those who don’t remember the past are doomed to watch it in syndication.

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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

October 9, 2005 – 6:28 pm

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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

4/5
I just read
Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a graphic memoir of the two months the French-Canadian animator spent in the North Korean capitol, supervising a team of animators at the [...]

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Lea Hernandez’s Ironclad Petal

October 3, 2005 – 6:53 pm

Lea’s started the third volume of her Texas Steampunk graphic novels:

Galvan Petal is building an automaton friend who will understand her, and a robot to hide herself from the world. But will she be thwarted by Thomas Edison’s hunger for the perfect mechanical woman?

I think Lea’s art is gorgeous, and she’s a great storyteller.
The series [...]

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Disaster Chic

September 10, 2005 – 1:40 pm

Lea has another comic on the Katrina disaster, this time on how the bloom’s come off Mayor Ray Nagin.

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Save the Pretty Ones

September 5, 2005 – 12:58 pm

Lea Hernandez has an idea on how to get resources to the poor quicker during the next disaster.

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The Manga Guide to XML Schema Languages

August 4, 2005 – 4:39 pm

My friend Lea, who I’ve mentioned here before, was heading down to the San Diego ComicCon and looking for ideas for commissions to do while watching her booth. I told her about Extreme and the “rival” XML schema languages. All credit to her for comic art goodness. I accept the blame for turning a program [...]

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Flipbook

July 21, 2005 – 12:00 am

[ via Ned Batchelder ] Hey Badger, Moomin might get a kick out of this Flash-based animation tool.

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May 2005 Books

June 5, 2005 – 12:00 am

Carmen Dog, Carol Emshwiller
The book that inspired the Tiptree Award
Camoflage, Joe Haldeman
2004 Tiptree winner
Dread Empire’s Fall: The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams
First half of a space opera
Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson
Instead of simpler, games and media have become more complex.
Life, Gywneth Jones
The life of a woman working in biology, as the world becomes [...]

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Agent to the Stars

June 4, 2005 – 12:00 am

John Scalizi, who I met at WisCon 29, has a wonderful first novel, Agent to the Stars, that caused me to lose mumble hours of productive work while I read it online. Time well spent, however.
The novel’s coming out in print next month from Subterranian Press. And it has nifty cover art by Gabe from [...]

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Marking your place in web comics

May 23, 2005 – 12:00 am

John Allison added a script by Ash Young to Scary Go Round that lets you mark your place. If you miss a week or two, you can click to get back to the last page you read. The arrow of time preserved!
If I don’t follow a web comic regularly, I lose my place and find [...]

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Hurt Comics

March 31, 2005 – 12:00 am

If disagreeing with the herd, condemning sexism, or telling a convention you can’t afford to be their guest of honor at your own expense hurts comics, then we should all hurt them.

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