Tatiana Gill’s Blog of Wax

http://whatthingsdo.com/comic/this-already-happened-10/

Oh no not another iPad Post, you say, to which I reply, yes, this news is too great to respect my self imposed ban on iPad.

 I saw one this morning and it’s one of the greatest comic platforms I’ve ever seen. Super sharpest full resolution blast in your face color are you kidding me? BOOM! I am so excited to make iPad comics, and I hope you will too. Lets show these mainstreamers how it’s DONE, indy comickers! Raise your pens and lets go Scott McCloud on their assets!

Hark! Kate Beaton is the funniest cartoonist alive today!

 http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

I just finished Stainislaw Lem’s “Highcastle” - his memoir about his pre-WW2 Polish childhood. But while he touches on the facts and details of his childhood in the shadow of war, he mainly waxes about

• the nature of art and the artist
• conception and perception of what makes art “art”
• when and where it shows up in a gallery
• the differences (if any) of modern art vs the abstracts in nature vs a child pissing into a radiator (definitely an old person’s perspective but still an intricately discoursed one)
• the nature of memory, recollection, and autobio (my personal favorite genre)
• faith vs. empirical knowledge, and how all the empirical knowledge in the world will never take away the resonation of something you BELEIVED as a child.

This book is highly recommended, it’s a quick read and so thought provoking. It’s self indulgent but Lem is so brilliant that you WANT him to indulge himself - by doing so he indulges us too.

Well I wouldn’t go that far! But this Slate article brings up fascinating things about our good enemy.

Oh there I go thinking about Batman in Robin in bed together again…

My friend pointed out:

WOW…a chance to be a part of DTWOF!

From Alison Bechdels blog:

Lookit. I’m so psyched. Coming this fall, The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For. Most, though not all, of the DTWOF episodes collected in one big volume. This is very exciting for me, and a big relief, because the individual books have gotten very difficult to obtain, and there are so many of them now, like…eleven? Which makes it hard for new readers to follow the backstory. Plus it’s kind of nice timing because this year is the twenty-frickin’-fifth anniversary of the strip.

But why I’m writing now is enlist your aid in something. The amazing marketing guy at Houghton Mifflin has a plan to promote the ESSENTIAL DTWOF to bookstores by producing a fake little 8 page tabloid newspaper from the world of the strip, like, with ads for stores and places that exist in the comic strip, and news stories about the characters and stuff. It’ll be a copy of The Daily Distress, the newspaper the characters read, so it’s a way of drawing people into the cartoon universe.

But here’s the genius part. You write the stories! In other words, you do all the work! Isn’t that clever of me?
Full details here

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (author of Dykes to Watch Out For)

I can’t iterate my reams of respect and admiration for Alison. I saw her do a reading of this at the Wild Rose when it was still in progress, and discuss her technique of all-photo-sourced panels. It sounded so compulsive, but look at the AMAZING results!