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Mad #480: Meet The G(ig) That Killed Me
As a reader pointed out recently, the latest issue of Mad contains a three-page article that Sarah and I provided the artwork for. This includes the two-page spread of doom which I’ve mentioned here several times before, and which put my hand in a wrist brace for a period of time after I finished working …
Mitch O’Connell’s Sublime Stitching patterns
Mark Frauenfelder: The wonderful Mitch O’Connell has designed a set of stitching patterns for Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching. They look great! Link (Via Craft) Previously on Boing Boing: • Interview with artist Mitch O’Connell Mitch O’Connell’s Sublime Stitching patterns
Animated Homer tosses donut onto Pagan deity
Mark Frauenfelder: Someone created the obligatory animated GIF based on the photo of Homer Simson and the aroused Pagan deity I posted yesterday. Link (Thanks, minifig!) Animated Homer tosses donut onto Pagan deity
What You Don’t Want
I’ve often said that one of the best ways to find out what you really want is to start with what you don’t want. I’d like to explore this theme a little further in this posting. There is something about asking for what we want that attracts a lot of negativity in our present-day culture. …
The Last Novel
By David Markson, fun, fun, fun. Excerpt: Curiously impressed by the fact that Auden paid everyone of his bills – electric, phone, whatever – on the same day that it arrived. Or: We evaluate artists by how much they are able to rid themselves of convention.Said Richard Serra. Is this a novel or a book …
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Reading Comics
Designer name to come Fans of comics and graphic novels will have to tell the rest of us if vertical text is commonly used in those media – I just don’t know. The use of primary colors plus black and white works very nicely here, and the eye on the left is a great addition …
Ever More Useful Stuff
The other day when I wrote a post about free software, Charles left in the comment section a link to a list of programs for academics which he wrote. Charles’s list is even better than the aforementioned wiki, and contains references to audio, reference, RSS readers, …well the list goes on and on. Check it …
The critic as the handmaiden of Google
What are critics good for anyway? I look for one main piece of information from a review: is the name of the product or artist worth Googling? Yes or no. That is a binary decision. Once I have the answer to that question I usually stop reading the review. I look for one main piece …
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