Tag: Comics

R. Crumb Supermarket Protest Art

I’ve been avoiding linkblogging of late, but I stumbled across this on the Robert Crumb site today and I’ve not seen any mention of it on the internets.  Click through the image below for the page on the Crumb site with the skinny:

Eyemelt.com: DRM-Free Comics Downloads

With the release yesterday of Windows Vista and its somewhat onerous music and video content management/monitoring systems, digital rights management, a.k.a. “DRM,” is a topic that’s once again on people’s minds. DRM is, in short, technology used by someone who owns a copyright on digital intellectual property to attempt to protect that property from illegal …

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The Greatest of All Time

I was looking through Diamond’s solicitations that are due in this week to see if there’s anything I wanted to order last minute, and I noticed that Drawn & Quarterly was soliciting a collection of the first fifty or so issues of John Porcellino’s King Cat Comics. I like Porcellino’s work and ordered the book, …

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“Bucky Katt is on Pot” pt. 3

In what will likely be the final installment of this tempest in a teapot that wasn’t–namely last week’s Get Fuzzy story arc–I’ll post a small update with a few bits of info I received yesterday from folks who read my initial posts. First off, I heard back from my friend at our local paper, The …

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More on the “Get Fuzzy” Marijuana-themed Strips

I noted last week a curious absence of protest about a current story arc in the comic strip Get Fuzzy in which Bucky Katt’s presidential campaign slogans are all–supposedly inadvertently–pro marijuana slogans. A bit of over-the-weekend Googling, though, has brought to light some interesting tidbits. First and foremost, the storyline appears to have just been …

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