A very sunny autumn Sunday in Edinburgh, a city celebrated for a huge range of major cultural events, festivals and rich literary history, saw the arrival of the Wasted crew, including Alan Grant, Jamie Grant and Frank Quitely, to launch the new comic at a very busy FPI store on Southbridge; you can see some […]
It’s coming together… the 950 pixel-wide format for the DailySurf “strip” is set up, the Funnypaper Les mascot is ready (I took David Willis’s blogger and literally turned his frown upside down), and some of there were some entertaining things happening in the big syndicate sites…
The New Adventures of Queen Victoria went “Meta” and MetaFilter […]
Vintage Poison Labels - Spookshows.com
That they are. Got to love the type on these.
(tags: typography poison printing labels pharmacy illustration )
Cosmovox - a Musical Instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch
“Cosmovox is a unique and innovative musical instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch.” Nearly a theremin. Nearly.
(tags: software iphone music instrument accelerometer spatial )
thedigitalist.net […]
Twelve Hour Shift
by Sean Azzopardi
Twelve Hour shift is a collection of Sean Azzopardi’s mini comics of the same name; wherein the character of Sean is played by Steve Jones. This gives Sean free rein to do and say things he may not be comfortable doing if he were writing this as pure autobiography. But make […]
That’s right. Boxcar M-F’ing Pete. I need to see about getting him on the Podcast.
I toyed with the idea of unlocking my current iPhone and eBaying it to some far away land where they aren’t actually available so I could afford an iPhone 3G. Then I started seeing reviews and articles saying, “The 3G data […]
WWD reports that fashion powerhouse Diane Von Furstenburg has teamed up with DC to pen her own comic featuring the “empowering” adventures of Diva, Viva, and Fifa. (DVF! See?)
Publication coincides with the launch of DVF’s new Wonder-Woman inspired (?!) collection.
WWD: “The heroines - all wearing DVF clothes - make things happen.” As superpowers go, that’s […]
DC Comics recently canceled its Minx line of graphic novels aimed at teen girls, leading to much discussion amongst comics bloggers. I don’t want to talk about why the line folded, but why the line existed in the first place. Why did DC create an entirely new brand in order to go after […]
Josh and I saw Dethklok live on Saturday night.
It’s hard to explain the series of mental hoops one has to jump through upon realization that you’ve just paid $50 to see a cartoon heavy metal band play live. I’ve said this before on the HE Podcast, but I enjoy Dethklok in a completely un-ironic […]
With the arrival of Summer and the prospect of long days of sunshine and fresh air, for the benefit of the uninitiated, I have cobbled together a guide to the basics of cycling. Beginning with the cycle itself. The body of the cycle is the frame, the main function of which is to provide […]
While the Birmingham International Comics Show was happening on this side of the Atlantic over on the other side the Small Press Expo (SPX) was going on in Bethesda, along with the announcement of the Ignatz awards. Sadly Oliver East’s Blank Slate publication of Trains Are Mint didn’t win in the Promising New Talent category, […]