Sorry About The Interruption …
Some bad DNS took the site down at the end of the week. We’re back, though, and thank you as always for joining us.
- Remote SPX took place over the weekend, and that means that the Ignatz Awards were handed out on Saturday night. The coveted bricks are surely winging their way towards the winners, who include Lee Lai for Stone Fruit (Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Graphic Novel), Glaeolia 2 (Best Anthology), Abby Howard for The Crossroads At Midnight (Outstanding Collection), Ashanti Fortson for Leaf Lace (Outstanding Comic),
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Casey Nowak for Bodyseed (Outstanding Minicomic), Michael Deforge for Birds Of Maine (Outstanding Online Comic), Ex.Mag (Outstanding Series), Freddy Carasco for Personal Companion in Ex.Mag #1 (Outstanding Story), and Pa-Luis (Promising New Talent). Fleen congratulates all the winners, and we sincerely hope that they find a way to send the chocolate fountain on tour to all of you.
- Jorge Cham has been busy with TV work for a good while now, but every once in a while he drops some new PhD Comics on us, and that’s why RSS will never die. I get to see the new strips and you probably didn’t know they were even coming out! The latest is a really great explainer of how the SARS-CoV-2 virus works. Cham’s always great when he talks to people that are really, really deep into a thing and want to share everything they know.
Thus, discussion about spike proteins, about maybe why the delta variant is so much more infectious, about the importance of basic research — by the time you figure out what the very important crisis topic is, it’s too late because you needed a body of experts with 20 years experience and you can’t spin that up overnight¹ — and the importance of truthful information getting out ahead of the bullshit. Cham’s always been a skilled public communicator of science and technology, and he’s doing good service here.
Oh, and he has a book coming out, too. Frequently Asked Questions About The Universe will be, well, a discussion of questions on the cosmic scale, and a new team-up with Daniel Whiteson, his collaborator on We Have No Idea. Remember what I said about Cham being great at sci-com? Order FAQATU before it drops on 2 November.
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otherwise I’ll tell everyone.
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Firstly, congrats on coming up with a spam what slightly reminds me of plums and iceboxes, good job.
Secondly, looks like I blew your deadline by like three and a half weeks so I guess everybody knows my deal by now.
Thirdly, it would be a shame if people started to mess with that crypto wallet. Real shame.
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¹ Of all the myriad ways that Donald Trump fucked up the response to the pandemic, thinking that he could just hire a bunch of MD/PhDs and virologists and they’d be on the job next Monday was possibly the most egregiously stupid. This is your reminder that my thoughts on the coronavirus remain in effect.
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