{"id":3243,"date":"2005-11-15T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T05:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/11\/15\/3243.html"},"modified":"2005-11-15T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T05:40:43","slug":"items-comics-videos-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/11\/15\/items-comics-videos-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Comics, videos, photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assorted comics and comics-related items, plus a few cat and lizard photos, and some other stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nifty comic strip in Spanish and English, by Chilean Juan Santapau: <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/campodelviolin.blogspot.com\/\">Ojal&aacute; tuviera un gemelo perverso<\/a><\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsurplus.com\/\">Diversion Surplus<\/a>: New words to old <cite>Rex Morgan<\/cite> comic strips.<\/li>\n<li>Joey Comeau and Emily Horne's <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/\">A Softer World<\/a><\/cite> continues to be my favorite webcomic.  (After you read the strip, be sure to point your mouse at the final panel and then pause a moment to get a little pop-up coda, which is sometimes the best part of the comic.)  A few recent examples:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/soft_aug5_2005.htm\">I built a machine to hear duck thoughts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/soft_aug19_2005.htm\">every statue in town came to life<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/soft_jul22_2005.htm\">when we kiss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asofterworld.com\/soft_sep23_2005.htm\">Hey, it's me.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>And btw, though this is only tangentially comics-related, Joey C. has a blog.  For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~untoward\/216396.html\">Joey gets a webcam<\/a>.  \"How do you cater to your own tastes if your taste is the unexpected?\"  .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;The comments in his journal sometimes read (to me) a little like the mouseover coda in the comic.<\/li>\n<li>While I'm talking about Joey (and btw, we have more of his fiction coming up at <cite>SH<\/cite> in 2005), I might as well mention that his novella <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockpickbook.net\/\">Lockpick Pornography<\/a><\/cite> is now available in full online, and you can order a paper copy if you want one.  I haven't finished reading the story yet, but after reading the first three chapters a while back, I wrote: \"It's really excellent so far--funny and sharp, filled with all sorts of genderfuck and smart (and funny) commentary about queer issues. I was going to start describing the plot, but Joey puts it better than I could: it's 'political and dirty and ranty and queer and it has crime and sex and good intentions.'\"  I ought to have mentioned this in my sex-items entry the other day.  Oh, well.<\/li>\n<li>Comic-book project: <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exercisesinstyle.com\/\">99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style<\/a><\/cite>, by Matt Madden.<\/li>\n<li><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomfilms.com\/af\/content\/spin\">Spin<\/a><\/cite> is a really nifty 8-minute film in which \"[a] mysterious DJ is sent to a busy street corner to fix a chain reaction of bad events.\"  I don't quite follow all of it, but it's very nicely done.<\/li>\n<li>Tim P's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/timpratt\/gecko1.jpg\">gecko photo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/dip?f=\/g\/archive\/2005\/11\/09\/dip.DTL\">Photo of unhappy cat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/dip?m=\/n\/pictures\/2005\/10\/17\/catolantern1.jpg&f=\/g\/archive\/2005\/10\/17\/dip.DTL\">Photo of happier kitten<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I think <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingfiends.com\/\">Making Fiends<\/a><\/cite> has a bunch of new episodes since I last pointed to it.  I haven't watched all of them, but I think my favorite is episode 17 (2nd season), the April Fool's episode.  In Bulgarian.  With subtitles.<\/li>\n<li>You probably know that Phil and Kaja Foglio's brilliant <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeniusonline.com\/\">Girl Genius<\/a><\/cite> is now a freely available online comic.  But you may not know that Carla Speed McNeil's brilliant <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedpress.com\/\">Finder<\/a><\/cite> (which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2001\/20010212\/finder.shtml\">reviewed<\/a> for <cite>SH<\/cite> some years back) has also made the transition to online-only.  Both comics will continue to be collected in printed bound trade-paperback volumes; they're just not coming out as individual issues any more.<\/li>\n<li>At the comic store the other week, I picked up (among other things) issue 1 of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onipress.com\/titles\/titles.php?id=POL\">Polly and the Pirates<\/a><\/cite>, by Ted Naifeh.  It's fun so far: a girl from a proper boarding school is kidnapped by pirates.  You can view a PDF version of the first several pages on the website.<\/li>\n<li>Also bought and read volume 2 (<cite>Sacrifice<\/cite>) of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.age-of-bronze.com\/aob\/\">Age of Bronze<\/a><\/cite>, Eric Shanower's comic-book retelling of the Trojan War.  Still good, though things get really dark in the second half of this volume (featuring Iphigenia, for those of you familiar with the story).<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of dark, I finally read volume 2 of <cite>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/cite>; still good, but it gets awfully unpleasant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assorted comics and comics-related items, plus a few cat and lizard photos, and some other stuff. 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