I just popped over to the Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find site to check out how Indie Island is shaping up….Answer: Great. Go check it out.
Feb 13 2006
Boxing Bucket – Intro Page
The next issue of Strange Eggs is all based around the Boxing Bucket character featured in the very last story of the previous Strange Eggs. As a way to set up the premise of the character and the theme of the book, Chris Reilly wrote this homage/parody of the prologue to Alan Moore an Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell.
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Feb 09 2006
Just as I Suspected…
LiveScience.com – The Science of Hit Songs
Researchers created an artificial music market of 14,341 participants split into two groups to pick music from unknown musicians. In one group, the individuals had only song titles and band names to go on. The individuals in the other group saw how others had rated the songs. Turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there’s so much crap on the radio.
Feb 09 2006
Nate Pacheco: HELP SAVE TONY!!!
Nate Pacheco: HELP SAVE TONY!!!
Check out these amazing old-skool takes on Tony the Tiger, based on the original Martin Provensen character design. I’d like to go out for a couple of Manhattans with this version of Tony the Tiger…you know, lookin’ for dames, maybe catching a Chet Baker show, etc.
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Feb 08 2006
Cartoonist Lynn Johnston on Muslim Cartoon Violence
Universal Press Syndicate: News Release
Curiously, her stance seems to be that the press should practice self-censorship and that if it doesn’t do this properly it should be held responsible for any resulting reaction. Says Johnston:
I believe these cartoons have a right to exist. The media does not have the right to use them callously in the name of freedom. Freedom for whom? If one innocent person dies because of this capricious incident, publishers must accept the blame.
It’s kind of a nice arrangement, because it shifts any potential blame away from (a) cartoonists and (b) from the individuals actually doing violent acts.
So, if—theoretically, of course—someone were reading some lame newspaper cartoon which’s storylines were so “ABC Afterschool Special’-like and so saccharin as to be offensive to the sensibilities of any individual with taste… and he/she became enraged as a result, and were to violently attack all Canadians (let’s say this hypothetical cartoonist is from Canada) in retaliation, the entity that should—according to Johnston—be held responsible would be the newspaper and/or syndicate that published the strip in question?
Again, this is of course just a theoretical scenario, but it’s a curious result…
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