Thankful
So you’ve got Post-Thankful Fatigue Syndrome? Welling up with all the rage that only a holiday-season trip to the vicinity of The Mall can instill? Just be glad that you’ve got it easier that Arthur, King of Time and Space creator Paul Gadzikowski, who had cause to tweet in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day:
In the hospital with a heart attack. Not gonna die. More later.
Gadzikowski was able to provide more information about ten hours later, and as these things go, it turned out about as well as could be hoped for:
Had a heart attack Wednesday night. Caught it fast so effects are minimal, but it’s still a lifechanger.
Looks like I’m getting sprung from here today [Friday 25 Nov]. Not going back to work till December 5 at the earliest.
Being a webcomicker, Gadzikowski had his eye on the important priorities:
One thing this spate of adversity has taught me: keep your webcomic on a buffer.
The uncharitable might note that AKOTAS has been on a sketch-based story hiatus since the vicinity of the summer solstice, but look at that archive: updates every damn day, up to and after the infarction. I call that dedication and we at Fleen salute Gadzikowski and wish him a speedy return to normal life.
Let’s consider some things that would melt the icy displeasure of even the most PTFS-afflicated among us:
- Rosemary Mosco, who put a lot of her comicking on hold while she went to grad school, got married, little things like that, has put together an awesome print of birdsong mnemonics; hang next to her love letter to turkey vultures and her paleological/alphabetical primer. And, because today is Cyber Monday, don’t forget the TopatoCo secret cybercode.
- Continuing their trend of being supportive with cold, hard cash, the SMBC Theater Superpals have cleared the pre-order hurdle for SMBC DVD 2¹ in two days. As these are the same fans that utterly obliterated the Kickstarter goal for the new space-themed webseries, it shouldn’t be surprising that they collectively came up with two grand in a couple of days, but this was during the Thanksgiving Day craziness, with the family, and the traveling, and the pie-induced coma. So, well done, Superpals.
- Speaking of Kickstarterings launched over the Thanksgiving weekend (when nobody’s paying attention, so perhaps this slipped by you): Audra Ann Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga did so to launch their latest nemu*nemu collection in perfect-bound full color. This one has gotten off to a slow start, which can only be explained by the general away-from-the-internet tendencies of the long weekend. Think of this book as not only entertainment, but a vaccination against dangerously infective cuteness.
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¹ Electric Jamesaloo.
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By Webcomic Beacon Newscast for December 4th, 2011 | The Webcast Beacon Network on 12.05.11 5:12 pm
Thanks for the good wishes.
By Paul Gadzikowski on 12.06.11 9:13 pm
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