Scholastic is kind enough to include me on its mailing list — given the dearth of reviewed books this year I’m not sure how long that will last. Their holiday card features a beautiful Kazu Kibuishi drawing of Christmas with Harry Potter. Best wishes to everyone for the new year — I find it hard to believe we’re moving from 2013 to 2014 (these still sound like science fiction years to my 20th century born ears) but there it is.
I backed STRIPPED: The Comics Documentary which was funded on Kickstarter in late 2011. Mostly because Dave Kellett, creator of Sheldon, is part of the team making it. A couple of years later and they are just about ready to launch it into the world. The updates on the project have been great, I’ve gotten to see many of the steps they’ve taken on the road to pulling everything together. The project has shared a lot of things with backers of the project already and it looks really, really good. You can see the trailer at the film’s website here. …
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Washington DC is known for its political gridlock. It also suffers from snow-induced gridlock and it doesn’t take much of the fluffy white stuff to shut things down. Today is one of those days, when a lightly drifting stream of snow has shut down offices, schools and induced a slightly panicked style of driving among the local denizens. I just finished reading John Scalzi’s latest novel, The Human Division, which was originally published online in a serialized form. Ten years ago I would have definitely made an effort to read it online, but life is too busy these days to …
Thanks xkcd! So it’s not just happening to me? I wondered if anyone else had this kind of thing happen to them. I have been included on family-wide emails to a clan of Mormons for years despite trying to explain to them that they HAVE THE WRONG EMAIL ADDRESS. I tried for a year or so to correct things — I certainly don’t want the email and I figured some relative was missing out on them — but it never seemed to stick so I gave up. I don’t read them but they do still come by on a regular …
This is Everything I Know is a great (just a bit longer than) 24 hour comic from Spike, the creator of the comic Templar AZ and the editor of the Smut Peddler anthology series.
(Read the comic in its full size glory at Boulet’s website here!) Yay me! I’m at home because the United States government can’t figure out how to handle the most basic responsibility of governance: adopting a budget! I actually was called into work the first week of the shutdown but have now spent a week and a half at home, knocking down long-delayed errands and house projects and getting a bit more exercise than usual. I’m not sure what it is about this Boulet comic that is super appealing to me today. A comment on my life? A comment on …
I saw the story about the NYCC essentially hijacking a number of its guests (did it include all attendees?) social media accounts (the story seemed to be about tweets though so maybe it was only twitter). Crazy to think that anyone would think this would be okay. Where would NYCC have gotten the idea from? Certainly not Facebook or Google+ right? Anyhow this recent Gutters on the matter is my favorite editorial comic of the month. Certainly funnier than any of the trite government shutdown comics I’ve seen.
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