Mail Call!
So many people bragging these days about getting to Inbox: Zero, I decided to follow their example and pull up some Fleenmail, and you get to share in the results.
- Getting to 500 strips is harder when you do ’em one week at a time, thus Bryant Paul Johnson’s Teaching Baby Paranoia took better than nine years to reach that mark. Let’s get all mailbaggy:
The long-running strip, which debuted in January of 2000, is a mélange of historical fiction and pseudo-academic nonsense, drawn in a classically cartoony style, and annotated with footnotes of dubious accuracy.
The 500th strip, titled “The Henderson Gospel” is both an artistic and structural departure from the norm.
[said Johnson] “It was important to me to make this a special event. I’m planning on retiring the strip on its 10th anniversary.â€
That gives you just enough time to catch up on the archive prior to the wrap-up in the new year.
- Man, I’d heard that Germans were into the weird stuff, but I didn’t expect this:
The free cartoon and comic community toonsUp opens the Miss Alien 2009 at the Berlin c-base (Rungestrasse 20) on September 18 at 7:00 pm.
The exhibition will show the works of over 50 comic artists who have participated in a fictional intergalactic Miss Election and will be open until September 24.
An email to made@toonsUp.com is required to gain free admission.
So … yeah. If you’re the type that said, Hey, me too when Space Lilith said I always wanted to make love to an alien to Commander Riker, and you’re in Berlin, go check out the show.
- From Samantha Wikan, a short piece on possible cultural reasons for the big eyes-small nose-peanut mouth style present in manga. The underlying assertion seems a little “sketchy” to me. Oh man, a few more of these and I’ll be flinging puns like the masters! (No, no I won’t. I’m very sorry)
- Linell Harris wrote:
Looking for some feedback http://linell85.deviantart.com/art/Unlucky-Chucky-9-133032584
That’s the entire text of the email folks — not even a full sentence. So, brevity? I can do that:
After a full minute, only the yellow box at the top had loaded. The typeface is ugly and had some artifacts around the letters as if the flood-fill didn’t quite work. Didn’t see the rest of it.
Not quite down to zero, but gotta keep something in the slush file for slow days. Have a good weekend, y’all.
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