Okay I’m re-reading Mitch Clem’s Nothing Nice To Say and I want to link to almost every other one. Some of the more topical punk jokes seem obscure (they kind of were obscure when first published anyhow) and I never loved the ones where Mitch imagined his one or two readers angrily storming his drawing table BUT he hits a ton of targets across pop culture over and over with solid jokes every time.
Zach “Joe and Monkey” Miller’s first webcomic No Pants Tuesday seems to have disappeared from the web.
You know what webcomics is missing these days? Malicious unauthorized cross-over comics. I have no idea how accurate it is and it’s probably severely out of date but The Webcomic Cameo and Cross-over Archive should probably get wiki-ized.
I’m re-reading Spike’s Templar, AZ and I just finished the first chapter. It really is a fantastic bit of story-telling; a complete in and of itself short story which ends on a nice grace note for mainly central character Ben. I remember at the time that myself and a lot of readers were surprised at the broad world-building route Spike took after this first chapter. I think I assumed this was a comic about Ben when Spike meant it to be a comic about the place. I’m looking forward to reading it (and I have not read the most recent …
Another elimination contest and afterwards there are only five Stripsearch contestants left: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91s4r_ld0OE?rel=0] Spoilers spoiled and more after the break –
Another great talk from Cory Doctorow on the nature of the Internet and its relationship to society. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqx_1tDyqE?rel=0] You might also be interested in this recent interview between Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow hosted at Slate: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90987701″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
This is really interesting — a walk through Stanley Kubrick’s career. I really should see all of his movies, there are more I’ve missed than I realized starting with his first, The Killing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-loS9MHww?rel=0]
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