Mar 12 2009
Today’s Cul de Sac features an interesting formal use of word balloons that I’ve not seen before. The basic setup here is that Alice has a new pair of shoes that she’s been enjoying mainly for their incessant squeaking, which has now ceased. In the strip, she’s imitating the squeaking and the placement of the …
Mar 09 2009
When I saw this article on CNN.com about “winged luxury submarines,” the first thing I thought of was that awesome shark submarine from the Tintin book, Red Rackham’s Treasure: I was surprised to note that the article did in fact mention Tintin. I was really surprised, though, to note that the Tintin book mentioned was …
Mar 08 2009
I’d recently made a sort of informal vow to do one substantive post each week and I’d managed to stick to that for about three weeks… until now. So, in lieu of that, I’ll just post a page from my sketchbook–something I’ve not done in a while. As usual, I’m still drawing a lot of …
Mar 01 2009
A while back I resolved to do no more link blogging, thinking that–even if it meant only one “real” post a week–it’d be better to not pepper my blog with commentary on random things on the ‘net that likely many, many other folks have noted long before I. However, in this case, I’ll break that …
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