Back from travels

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 29 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re back, but we’re on European time, so posting will be dazed and confused for a while. We’re catching up on hundreds and hundreds of emails, and thousands of links in our RSS and to be honest, we’re probably just going to shine it on. As for my trip, my head is [...]

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Thought for the day! Really!

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 28 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

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Crumbs find tape dispenser

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 28 2007 AT 4:08 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet down construction no loans money The SMS feature spawned down construction no loans money sub-culture amongst younger users. credit home 4 loan ca bad Mobile telephony also facilitates activism and public journalism being explored by Reuters and Yahoo![3] and small independent news companies such as Jasmine News in Sri Lanka. americash loans In particular, [...]

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2008 Eisner Judges Announced

7 Comments POSTED ON Nov 27 2007 AT 11:48 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet(Via CBR) The 2008 Eisner Judges have been announced. (Please forgive my second-sourcing blog news items. I know it’s not the best netiquette but I’m just a guest-blogger?) a.i.

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Speaking of Major Dailies

2 Comments POSTED ON Nov 27 2007 AT 11:36 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe LA Times’ Geoff Boucher on Marvel’s digital comics archive. a.i.

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Speaking of (Wonder) Woman…

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 27 2007 AT 11:21 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe NY Times profiles DC’s first ongoing woman writer for Wonder Woman – Gail Simone, who also started “Women in Refrigerators.” This (Women in Refrigerators) is a list I made when it occurred to me that it’s not that healthy to be a female character in comics. I’m curious to find out [...]

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Women. (sigh)

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 27 2007 AT 10:59 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhich came first, the thong or the asshole? Arguments for/against women being marketed for their looks are at least as old as Marisha Pessl. Second-wave feminism ebbed just in time for “computer technology” to give us “faceless egalitarianism.” So it should come as no surprise that there is a woman game programmer/producer [...]

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Art for the Day: Boris Artzybasheff

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Thought for the day

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Marvel month-to-month sales: October 2007

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 26 2007 AT 7:46 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Paul O’Brien Well, it was bound to happen eventually. DC were the number one publisher in the direct market in October – the first time they’ve been able to say that since May 2006. It’s close, mind you. The margin is 34.2% to 33.7% in dollar share, and [...]

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WGA Writer's Strike: Slogan's Heroes

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 26 2007 AT 10:47 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe writers are still striking. Godspeed, o scribes! Nay the nectar of thine muse doth protest ill… An oldie but goodie: WIRED magazine blog points out the irony of WGA protest signs being so lame. They may be able to pen some of the most riveting dramas and hilarious comedies this side of [...]

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Tryptopharts

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 26 2007 AT 10:21 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetHey y’all. It’s Anne Ishii, previously of Vertical, guest-blogging for the next few days alongside Mark. I hope you had wonderful Thanksgivings. i.e. Not the kind where you go to the movies alone and then get sick on popcorn and your flask of plasticky bourbon, come home, and watch ten hours [...]

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Photo Parade 11/26

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Concedearte, these folks just got married! Don’t know who they are.

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Thought for the day

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READ: ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

1 Comment POSTED ON Nov 25 2007 AT 8:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet You can spend hours and hours and hours pouring through the wonders at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a vast resource of information on and art by a who’s who of animation/comics/illustrations notables. In fact there’s even a Hall of Fame! Educate yourself. And support them. One reason? This archive [...]

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