Halloween: cosplay for normal people?
Reuters reports on the increased popularity of Halloween in Japan:
GHOSTIES and ghoulies, princesses and pumpkins took to the streets of Tokyo this weekend as...
Linksies: Gaiman, Disney, Schulz
§ Neil Gaiman posts a cute picture of his daughter Maddie dressed as him for Halloween, but even more importantly posts a boilerplate will...
Halloween update
It's the time of year to dress up and show your inner self, and we saw plenty of inner selves this weekend, including a...
Maid in cafe molested
"Maid cafes" have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly...
Underpants banned at school
Best headline ever, right? Well, it turns out that it refers to a high school where girls dressed as CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS were banned...
Wired’s Very Short Stories
WIRED mag, still the purveyor of futurist culture after all these years, invited 33 writers to write stories in 6 words. You can see...
Mad Max for media congloms?
Webcomics Nation's Joey Manley points us to Publishing 2.0 media pundit Scott Karp's musings on how the media giants of the future won't be...
Greatest Blog Ever
Our attention has finally been drawn to the greatest blog in the ever growing comics blogosphere, Super Underwear Perverts, which shows that men really...
Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE...
IDW prez’s tot son terror threat
This story from KFMB, San Diego reveals how IDW's head Ted Adams 4-year-old son Sam shares the same name as someone on the "do...
Just one word: infographics
The rise of the graphic novel is greatly tied in with the increased prevalence of "visual literacy." As guru McCloud predicted a while ago,...
10/4 Linkie winkins
§ Jim Woodring is selling some new art at his IVORY TOWER ART OUTLET.
§ Very nice Ed Brubaker profile (not INTERVIEW) At the Seattle...
