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A Post About Sinfest

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Sinfest is the one of the best newspaper comics that never got a spot in the newspapers. (Granted a few rough edges would have had to been smoothed down but at its heart this is a PG comic.)  Rigorously following the format of the newspaper style and religiously updating every single day with a full colour extended Sunday edition, creator Tatsuya Ishida is talented and dedicated.  Not much else is known about him. I tried to get an interview with in the early days of Comixpedia but never even made contact with him. Nothing ever really changes too much in …

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Meta Delicious!

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Is this funny even if you don’t know the history of Jon Rosenberg’s previous webcomics or some of the criticisms of certain flavors of webcomics of years gone bye?  I think so but it’s an extra layer of guacamole on the nachos of delight if you’ve traveled that journey as a long time reader.

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A Few Thoughts on International Futbol

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Association Football known world-wide as football or futbol but tagged with soccer in the United States is the world’s game by any measure.  I have my own complicated relationship with the game which has meant different things to me at different points of my life. Right now it’s World Cup qualification season across the world. In each of six regional confederations, tournaments are ongoing to determine which teams will make the final cut of 32 nations at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.  (England may claim to be the home of the game because it propagated the rules the World …

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Boulet To You Sir, I Say Boulet!

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Boulet is such a fun, imaginative artist — I’ve been crawling through the archives of his website.  So much of it is incredibly fun — it’s basically a journal comic but he really gives free rein to flights of fantasy in it.  I am kind of amazed at the output too – there is so much material and it’s all incredibly detailed and intricate. Maybe it’s because it sounds like Boulet draws ALL the time — here’s one about how he manages to draw people on the subway (which like all furtive sketching of people in public is a nerve-wracking …

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Quick note on a book I just finished

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I just finished Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.  It’s an enjoyable read — one I picked up on Cory Doctorow’s recommendation (and was reminded of Doctorow’s own novels while reading it).  This book did a lot of things right including landing on an ending that was important enough yet real enough that the central mystery at the heart of the plot — retroactively — seemed even better.  Sloan is a bit less message-y than Doctorow has been in his more recent books.  There’s some good points in here about technology, society, literacy, craft, immortality and values but it’s almost never …

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Dogs of War: 3 Comics About Canine Courage in Combat

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Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox is a new book coming out at the end of October.  It collects three comics about dogs in wartime, starting with the trenches of World War I, Greenland in World War II and ending with memories of the Vietnam War. It’s a good book and has already gotten passed around our household.  Writer Keenan has produced two straight-forward adventure stories and one a bit more melancholy, given that it is set after its war, back home in the States.  Artist Fox does some really solid work and the coloring is great …