February 2012
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Help out Gary Friedrich
All-round mensch, comic creator Steve Niles has set up a page to get donations for Gary Friedrich and his wife, to help them pay back Marvel (if they insist on collecting the $17,000 judgment) and to get through a tough time.
Click through to read and get the link to the donation page.
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Margaret Cho to Karl Lagerfeld: Fuck You and Your... →
An essay on Jezebel.com by Margaret Cho responding to Karl Lagerfeld’s comments about Adele.
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PARENTING FOR THE APPLAUSE (aka, Yes, I'm still...
ya know…when I posted the vid yesterday of Tommy Jordan shooting his daughter’s laptop (again–in retaliation for something she said on Facebook) I made the comment to a few people that really it’s someone not employing consistent parenting who suddenly goes to an extreme when punishment is needed (he mentions that she’s just ‘come off’ a three-month grounding for ‘something like this’ leaving one...
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Episode 21 of Supenatural this season is called “In Case of Emergency…”. Is this going to turn out to be some pun, that the usual ending of that is “…break glass” so will this actually be “…break CAS”?
I need something to keep me motivated for this season which really, really has not been what I wanted it to be...
Stupid Tumblr. Can’t reply to a reply.
drawing for humans—yeah, Ty and I talked about whether or not it was the gun that was bothering me so much. (Let’s just say I have lots of reasons to be bothered by them, and leave it at that). His take is that this guy is American, and there—this father using a gun is the equivalent to a dad here taking out a baseball bat to smash...
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For Canadian writers... →
Montreal comics creator/artist Max Douglas is looking for submissions to Carte Blanche,
We’re looking for ‘graphic fiction’ anywhere from a page to 25 pages long, ideally has not been widely publshed yet, or seen at all perhaps? It could be an excerpt of a longer piece if you’re working on a graphic novel? There’s no theme for this issue, and there is a small honorarium....
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Facebook Parenting: for the parent who forgot who...
So, a video has gone viral today of a father punishing his daughter for a post she put up on FB about him and what she saw as her unfair life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU&list=UU6OSygSHWSo4pbV5ttl2YPg&index=1&feature=plcp
A teenaged girl, who knew her parents couldn’t read her Facebook status updates, bitched about her parents nastily on Facebook. And her friends...
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escargod:
in other news, i’m making invoices today.
papyrus is a pretty typeface, right? right. i knoooow.
I once did a job (for a gov’t agency) where the editor specifically ASKED FOR Comic Sans. No joke.
not language but a map: a brief monograph on the... →
gyzym:
Right okay so here’s the deal: strong female character? Is an awesome, awesome term when it means “strongly written female character.” Please assume, for the duration of this post, that that is what *I* mean when I’m using it; I don’t know what everyone else means, and maybe I missed some kind…
Kinda want to reblog this every single day as a very-constant reminder to the world.
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: White Privilege:... →
racismschool:
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
Apologize for being white
Believe white is bad or wrong
Be ashamed of being white
Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your Privilege.”
You…
mooglets:
I need to stop washing my hands - they currently look like a dehydrated lake floor or something - and feel like they’re being raked with hot irons…
Dry skin - the bug-bear of OCD hand washers 8l
One of my kids has OCD and the worst is when the skin is so dry it starts cracking. His hands were literally bleeding at one point. Because then, you can’t put any lotion on to make...
So I made a Facebook Thing →
wilwheaton:
I’ve resisted using Facebook for years, mostly because I have a huge problem with the privacy policies. I’m really happy using a combination of Twitter, Tumblr, and Google Plus to do all my social media public life stuff, and I don’t really want to add something else. But I’ve talked with friends who I trust and respect, people who create and produce awesome things for the Internet,...
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TORONTO CARTOONISTS WORKSHOP: The Comic Book... →
tytempleton:
torontocartoonistsworkshop:
with art on the gallery walls from Ramón Peréz (Tales of Sand),
and an in-store signing with Marcus To (Huntress, Batwing)
and (say they, from their Facebook page)
“Lots of interesting books and graphic novels now in stock that were previously unavailable at DL. We…
Yayyyy! How excited am I to have a COMIC BOOK STORE in my place of work?
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So Karl Lagerfeld's remarks about Adele being "a...
Are you KIDDING? This is the industry that sat around applauding Oprah for losing weight in order to be on the cover of Vogue Magazine (after Anna Wintour insisted. The day I stopped paying any attention to Oprah whatsoever was this issue. I read about her desperately losing 15 pounds to be on the cover. The most powerful woman in the American tv industry and she loses weight to be on the cover of...
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Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion... →
I'd love to keep using Chrome but shit crashes...
Mine crashes all the time because “Shockwave Flash has crashed”. Suddenly started a couple weeks back—was working great until then. I actually had started using it to replace Mozilla Firefox which had become completely slow and unwieldy. I tried using it again because I’m so frustrated with Google Chrome—but even the newest version can’t keep up with Chrome. My...
APE IN A CAPE: Comics Pros Who Weren't Jerks →
Love Dan!
But one of the nicest nicest sweetest most considerate guys in comics ever? (says a woman married to a comic book creator) Yanick Paquette. Just so nice. The last couple of years, he has chosen to not be a guest at the Montreal Comic Con, but he threw a barbecue at his house, and invited some of the creators to come over so he could meet them, spend time with them and introduce them to...
Last year, in the comics industry, there was a minor kerfuffle about a fraud-artist who was going to cons and selling prints of other artists’ work and claiming it was his. So, my husband (who recognised several of his drawings in amongst the hundreds) did a cartoon and a blog post about it and named this guy. In trying to defend himself against the online hordes, this fraud-artist pretended...
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“a waitress just asked me if I was canadian because “I was friendly”....”
– Amanda Palmer on Twitter (via Jezebel)
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