Not my super-heroine persona,
but I am thinking that somebody should assume the mantle of The Sanitizer.
Hobo Lobo of Hamelin
Just go here.
And scroll.
from the moderated comments
Just to be clear, this comment was intended as a response to “Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is the best thing since gravity”. Just so everyone’s clear: Gravity < Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing. That is all.
Predicting The Future
If Steve Jobs predicted the future, it should also be pointed out that Bill Watterson had the same prescience, just with less optimism.
from the moderated comments
FALSE: Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is better than gravity
Update:
Putting the caped crusader on the couch
From a New York Times Op-Ed published several weeks ago:
Comic books have long relied on mental disorders to drive their most memorable villains. Consider the Batman line, in which the Joker, Harley Quinn and other “criminally insane” rogues are residents of Gotham City’s forensic psychiatric hospital, Arkham Asylum.
Introduced in 1974, Arkham grossly confuses the concepts of psychiatric hospital and prison. Patients are called “inmates,” decked out in shackles and orange jumpsuits, while a mental health professional doubles as the “warden.” Even the antiquated word “asylum” implies that the patients are locked away with no treatment and little hope of rejoining society. [...]
Of course, DC Comics, and comic books in general, are hardly the only source of these stereotypes or the only contributors to discrimination. At the same time, they are widely consumed, whether in the original form or as story lines for movies, TV shows and video games. Modernized mental health depictions in the Batman titles alone would reach millions of people worldwide through its billion-dollar-grossing films and blockbuster video games.
That’s why DC Comics should seize the opportunity with The New 52 to move to the forefront in transforming mental health depictions in comics. To start, writers should stop overemphasizing a link between violence and mental disorders to explain criminal behavior.
Nailed It
Discuss: Calvin and Hobbes succinctly explains the reality of American capitalism nearly two decades ago better than just about anyone. [via TSO]
Repulsel! Let down your hair!
More video shorts from Cyanide & Happiness.
things found while walking my dog, part one
This Monday’s Puddin’ is nicely concise
Dear Clusterflock
Anybody out there attending Comic-Con?
(Photo via Peteski)
a comic book with invisible ink
Comics break the rules of storytelling, invent new ones, and break them again – more often than almost any other medium. This graphic novella is about looking – an investigation into perception, storytelling and optical experimentation that inherits some of the curiosities behind the previous work of BERG.
Litho printed on 115gsm silk paper in tones of black and blue, SVK uses a third ink invisible without the SVK object. The object is a UV light source which unlocks hidden layers woven throughout the comic book. Reading SVK becomes a unique and strange experience as you see the story unfold through the eyes of Thomas Woodwind.
First and foremost SVK is a modern detective story, one that Ellis describes as “Franz Kafka’s Bourne Identity”.
It’s a story about cities, technology and surveillance, mixed with human themes of the power, corruption and lies that lurk in the data-smog of our near-future.
Be sure to click through the link, scroll down a bit, and hover over the sample comic with your cursor for a test drive. (via Dave Gray)
Darryl Cunningham Investigates Evolution
Darryl, a cartoonist I‘ve been following for a good couple of decades, is sharing his “beta” comics on his blog in full to check for typos and mistakes. They’re going to be published as “Science Stories” in 2012 and so far he’s done homeopathy, MMR-autism. This one is on evolution.
More of his lovely drawings on his Flickr.
X-Muppets
Something about me loves my childhood meeting my teenage nerdery. If only it were real.
Calvin and Hobbes – 26 years later
The whole strip, down to the most minute details, testifies it’s brilliance.
The Daily Show – Face/Off
Photo Out of Context
I’m sorry…
Danny started this tonight. I couldn’t help but play along.
In the sixties, my brother and I once owned an Allen Sherman album. We prided ourselves on memorizing the lyrics to his songs. At any given moment, I can pull this one out of memory. Danny’s heard me enough, he can pull most of it out himself.
Weird Al Yankovic don’t have nothing on Sherman.
I wish there were an “I’m sorry” category.
Monsters Of My Twenties
A frightening bunch, indeed. They just need to throw in some mythological force that makes me forget to send out “Thank You” cards and they’ve got me pegged.
(via)
quote out of context
“The code never affected us editorially the way I think it did other companies,” he said. “You know, we aren’t about to start stuffing bodies into refrigerators or anything.”
this just in
Phoenix Jones, Guardian of Seattle had his nose broken in a superhero altercation thingy:
KOMO reports that the incident occurred Saturday night, when Jones saw two men “swearing at each other and like about to fight.” The mask-and-body-armor-wearing Jones stepped in to intervene, but one of the men started “swinging” at him. So Jones put him in a headlock, and called 911. That’s when the other man pulled out a gun. Jones let go, and was kicked in the face by the man he had just been holding. Both men got away.
Phoenix Jones, Guardian of Seattle
Last Sunday, an attempted car theft in Seattle was thwarted by a super-hero, and when I say “a super-hero,” I don’t mean that in the sense that, as Superman says, we can all be super-heroes if we do the right thing and care about each other. I mean a dude in a bulletproof costume with a codename and a secret identity.
Andeeeeee monthly (wee hope) gazette | For Andrew
Andeeeeee monthly (wee hope) gazette: The journal of the Andy Warhol Fan Club of New York City, ca. 1965 / Andy Warhol Fan Club of New York City. Newsletter : 5 p. : ill. ; 36 x 22 cm. Leo Castelli Gallery records, circa 1957-1990. Archives of American Art.
The Uncomfortable Truthasaurus
(thanks, Joel)
All Human Conflict
You’ll probably want to read the entire thing.
