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Via the QM, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, which includes some posts (photos above from this one) of very very cool work by Irish Arts & Crafts illustrator Harry Clarke:
The son of a craftsman, Joshua Clarke, Clarke the younger was exposed to art (and in particular Art Nouveau) at an [...]
If you’ve ever spent any time looking at artists’ websites (maybe because you occasionally follow links from Drawn! or something), these observations will be familiar:
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of [...]
Paul Pope is doing a limited edition exclusive THB story, to be published by AdHouse Press (who will also be publishing his PulpHope, the Art of Paul Pope in July), that will only be given away at the San Diego Comic Con.
Fuck!
This is interesting:
And like so many of Pope’s publications, the show exclusive will include [...]
Reading the introduction to a compilation volume of Modesty Blaise strips a couple of weeks ago, I learned that back in the day, syndicated cartoonists were basically rock stars: big bucks, a bunch of young hopefuls to do half their work for them, fancy sports cars, globe trotting vacations, etc. Must be true - check [...]
Upgraded to WP 2.2 and the new version of Scott Wallick’s Sandbox theme (chock full o’ semantic classes). In the process I managed to lose the stylings for co-blogger JMD’s posts, and probably hosed a few other things as well. I’ve got a couple of ideas for a design here, but need to look under [...]
A funny xkcd that’s gone pretty far and wide. Much better than “A quick brown fox…”
Cool!
Beyond is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. It is their first LP in a decade, and the first album by the original “classic” lineup since 1988’s Bug. It is currently set for release on May 1, 2007.
On February 7, 2007, the entire album was leaked onto the internet via [...]
I suppose I’m the only one who didn’t know this, and I’m a little ashamed to even blog it: apparently you can apply multiple classes to a single HTML tag! I suppose that’s the downside to learning by solving problems - if something doesn’t manifest itself as a problem, you never learn it.
The WP theme [...]
Two attempts to discern the real stories implied by the bits of on-screen wreckage we had to make do with:
The Matrix
Star Wars
Hopefully these’ll be read by some kid out there, who will treat us all to what Lucas & the Warchowskis didn’t.
Via Hudnall, Wormhole guns!
Though the time I spend on video games will probably remain at zero, I have to admit this looks pretty inspired.
TJIC spanks* loser academics for self-congratulation crossed with Bond fanboyism:
“This [ academic ] conference [ on James Bond ] is a revolutionary act,” said Luc Shankland, a lecturer on media and cultural studies at the Sorbonne
Tenured academics, you see, don’t really like revolution at all. They’re the biggest stasists on the planet.
What they like is [...]
I don’t know how I’ve missed Becky’s work, but I know what I’ll be looking for the next time I make it in to MYP.
Colleen Doran’s blog is awesome:
Well, my brother is [...] back on the police department and is already in the swing of things, this past week working a case where he had to go interview the Left Hand of Satan.
[...]
the Left Hand of Satan was a puzzlement to most of the police department who couldn’t figure [...]
Cool:
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. –A spent Russian booster rocket re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.
NORAD spokesman Sean Kelly said the agency was trying to confirm a report that a piece of the rocket may have hit the ground near Riverton, Wyo., at about 6 a.m. [...]
Although I didn’t much like the first one (it didn’t have much to recommend it besides special effects*), I’m hoping one can’t go wrong with Galactus.
* I know, I know. But still.
If, like me, you’ve got a jones for the drones, check out My Fun’s Idyll EP - you can download all four songs, for free.
Susanna says:
My Fun is the slightly eccentric nom de guerre of Justin Hardison, a musician, who uses field recordings, lush electronics and samples to make quite lovely, if also quite bittersweet [...]
Radiodread, via the The Mind That Brought You Nothing Else - who’s managed five posts in ‘06, and thus won’t be issuing any refunds (see blogroll on right).
Paul Pope has joined the blogosphere. Very cool!
(He’s got a Flickr account, too, which made me wonder - do Flickr photostreams have RSS feeds you can sub to? Why, yes - they do.)