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Short form: My friend Erik and I both have day jobs, but have talked for years about starting our own comics business. He’s the artistic one, the creative spirit, and knows his way around the watercolor aisle at Jerry’s Art Supplies. I’m the nerd, the sci-fi hound, the content manager, the business guy, [...]
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I adore Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic, mostly for the math jokes. I define “geek” as someone who uses epsilon in a sentence, so anything that references irrational number or NP-completeness is good for several laughs.
And here I thought I was the only one who made Erdos number jokes. Unfortunately, Erdos number [...]
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In case you haven’t noticed, I’m finding little to write about in the hockey world (and won’t have much to say until the draft and free agency roll around). At the same time, I’m moving more and more of my non-work related blogging, rambling and insanity here. Hence the new categories. I’d [...]
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My father retired from a long career as a dentist to become at various times a painter, fisherman, gardener, cook, runner and Klezmer fan. I don’t have his aesthetic sense or attention to fine artistic detail, which is why my art ends at geometric doodles on hotel note pads. But my [...]
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There’s very little glamorous about business travel. Continental has managed to maintain a perfect batting average in the past three weeks: five out of five flights have been an hour or more late. I’m going to spend about 24 hours in Berlin, and while it’s the second time I’m visiting the city on [...]
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Went to the MoCCA show again this past weekend, for the second year in a row. Once again, it was an incredibly hot day in SoHo; but it was equal parts fun, laughing and meeting people. Got many compliments on my metallic Clango shirt, and R.Stevens himself noted it was the same shirt [...]
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Combining my love for off-beat comics with an overtly fan-boy consumption of Cory Doctorow led me to my own Brighton Beach Memoirs moment of perfect mash-ups: I’m now in possession of the first three Cory Doctorow comic books based on his short stories.
The artwork is fantastic, the realizations of the characters contain enough subtle [...]
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I’ve blogged at various times about Diesel Sweeties, including characters and panels from the egregiously funny mind of R. Stevens to illustrate a point. Now I’m forced to admit the truth: I love comics. While I’m a huge fan of animation in all forms (from Pixar films to Disney classics to the stop-motion [...]
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I’ll admit it up front: I love comics but not comic books, probably the result of having bed sheets that contained three-four panels of several popular cartoons in the 70s (I only remember Peanuts and Gasoline Alley). Been a huge fan of Dilbert since the beginning, and I can even lay claim to a [...]
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