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By Mike Heneghan and Kody Peters. Hat tip to Dave Elliott for finding it.
Weekend Window Closing Wrap Up: December 22, 2013
Closing them on my desktop so you can open them on yours. Here we go:
- Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name: What a cheap ripoff.
- I Am So Very Tired:
I am tired, not of arguing in favour of equality, diversity and tolerance, but of having to explain, over and over and over again, why such arguments are still necessary, only to have my evidence casually dismissed by someone too oblivious to realise that their dismissal of the problem is itself a textbook example of the fucking problem. I am tired of being mocked by hypocrites who think that a single lazy counterexample is sufficient to debunk the fifteen detailed examples they demanded I produce before they’d even accept my point as a hypothetical, let alone valid, argument…. In short, I’m tired of being a female geek.
- Read the whole thing.
- MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Storyboards
- Controversies Inside the World of Science Fiction and Fantasy: We need to write one of these for comics. Nominations? I can think of a few people…
- Just One Book and I fell so hard, hard, haaard…
- Inside Tokyo’s Insane Robot Restaurant
- Late to the public congratulations: Avatar Press Announces Bleeding Cool’s First Editor-in-Chief, Hannah Means-Shannon. Good luck keeping Rich in line.
- Power Armor: A Love Story by David Barr Kirtley | Lightspeed Magazine: Is an iron man really invincible?
- Absolutely invaluable for being a comics professional: The Business of Cartooning by Jim Keefe. Also read his observations on Work for Hire. And you probably should have at least a passing familiarity with How to Manage Your Money.
- Miracleman color comparisons.
- It’s that time of year for the year end wrap ups. 29 Must-Read Web Comics Of 2013 from Buzzfeed, the best mainstream and superhero comics of 2013 from The A.V. Club, the Best Comic Books of 2013 according to Comics Alliance, and the Best Graphic Novels of 2013 from New York magazine. Also the 30 Best Movie Posters of 2013 and a Baker’s Dozen of comics fanboy W. Kamau Bell’s favorite “Totally Biased” clips.
- And finally, The Legion of Real Life Supervillains by Butcher Billy on Behance.
What else? Consider this an open thread.
Weekend Window Closing Wrap-Up: December 14, 2012
Closing windows on our desktops so you can you open them on yours. Here we go…
- Chernin Group Takes Majority Stake in Anime Website Crunchyroll | Variety
- Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana according to 1995:
No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works… How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
Uh, sure, indeed. I will just note that the Web is still here, while Nirvana ended in the 90s.
- Cards Against Gallifrey — just the thing to make your Cards Against Humanity game timeless.
- Top Ten Clichés in Crime Fiction. And yes, that’s crime in comics too.
- 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Trailer, via Newsarama.com
- Jim Hines, Recruiter of People of Color to Fandom: Knock, knock. “Hello, I’ve come to spread the good news about fandom, where we love aliens, monsters, and even PoC!”
- Two Indiegogo campaigns you might want to look at: I-CON Returns on Long Island, and Museum of Science Fiction in Washington.Both ending soon, and they’ll take whatever they can get.
- Natalie Portman: That wasn’t me kissing Chris Hemsworth in ‘Thor: The Dark World’: I thought that kiss looked extra passionate…
- Aki Con cosplayer raped by ‘special guest’ convicted sex offender
- James Bond movie posters in the style of Saul Bass
- Warren Ellis Wants Into Your Inbox… Again
- And finally, Lousy Book Covers. Just because you CAN design your own cover doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
Weekend Window-Closing Wrap Up: November 17, 2013
Once again, closing windows on my computer so you can open them up on yours.
- The Literary Darknet of Independent Publishing: “The invisible, generally unregulated ocean of written content coming onto the market from the self-publishing community is, in some ways, a literary equivalent of the Darknet. This tremendous volume of content is far greater than any current social-based review system can handle, not only from a sexual content standpoint, but from a review and discovery standpoint.”
- 8 cover design secrets publishers use to manipulate readers into buying books
- Tom Hiddleston compares you to a summer’s day. Yes, just you.
- Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’: And since so much modern art was taken from comics, we can say that comics beat the Soviets.
- Today is a good day to take office: New York Elected Klingon General Martok.
- Why Margaret Atwood will not blurb your book. (With apologies to Lewis Carroll and Robert Southey.)
- We were very sorry to hear of the passing of Joey Manley, webcomics pioneer.
- Modern Renaissance Superhero Designs: Altered Art | Design.org
- 5 Ways to Save Money (and Earn More) with Your Design Business
- Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies | poster
- The Self-Absorbing Man: A Cover and 3 Questions
- We Love Comics! | The World of Crowd-funded Comics!
- Pixar Style Superheroes And Supervillains
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
Related articles
- RIP Joey Manley (comicsbeat.com)
Wednesday Window-Closing Wrap Up: November 13, 2013
Closing windows on my computer so you can open them up on yours. Here we go:
- He’s the best he is at what he does, and what he does is oh so pretty: Proof that Wolverine is the greatest Disney princess of them all
- Aiming for the Scorpion Nebula, the Doctor instead lands on the beach at Brighton, and they are soon caught up in a mystery. The Time Lord and his companion discover the last Daleks. Clara’s love for her mother saves the day. Richard Branson plays a character who is killed during the opening sequence. 6 lines of JavaScript that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the current series…
- ‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff Ideas From the Cast, Creators
- The Worst Reviewed Highest Grossing Movies Of All-Time
- Calvin and Hobbes’ dancing. The kids they dance, they shake their bones…
- Rescuing Sci-Fi Tales From the Ravages of Time – WSJ.com
- Neil Gaiman to Join Bard College Faculty as Professor in the Arts. It’s only Bard because Hogwarts has a hiring freeze on.
- Macmillan Publishers Expands Film Division
- This is the amazing Lockheed Martin SR-72—the space Blackbird. In other words, what the X-Men will be flying next year.
- Marvel Comics Introducing a Muslim Girl Superhero – NYTimes.com and Marvel Announce Ms Marvel Series from G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona — The Beat. The countdown to the paranoid backlash about Muslims changing shape to blend in and infiltrate America starts in 3… 2… 1…
- Coming soon from Ronald D. Moore and Javier Grillo-Marxauch on SyFy: Helix Season 1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIthI2sKfu4
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
How Jon Peters Could Earn $15 Million on ‘Man of Steel’ for Doing Nothing
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/man-steel-how-jon-peters-570675
The studio mogul-turned-producer, blocked from working on the set, nonetheless scored a Kryptonite-proof check thanks to Hollywood’s early adopter system.
This story first appeared in the June 28 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Related articles
- Zack Snyder Talks ‘Man of Steel 2′; Hints at Lex Luthor and Kryptonite in the Future (screenrant.com)
- What Will DC Comic Creators See From Man Of Steel? (bleedingcool.com)
