April 18th, 2006 | Uncategorized
April 18th, 2006 | brainjuice
I’m out on holiday. Back Thursday night. Will mostly be off the grid, and when I do have email it’ll be plain-text only — so save your links and images etc until Thursday night, yes? Thank you.
– W
April 18th, 2006 | Work
The following is a press release from Image Comics:
Five Eisner Award nominations. Three issues sold out. Still only $1.99, the best deal in comics. FELL is having the best week ever.
Image Comics has announced it is going back to print on three separate issues of FELL – new printings on the two most recent issues (#3 and #4) along with a FOURTH printing for FELL #1. In keeping with previous re-printings, each new printing of FELL will feature the same cover and content, with no variants.
Aside from its amazing creative team and universal praise, what sets FELL apart is its unique format – coming in at only $1.99 for 24 pages, the ultra-compact story delivers more bang for the buck and is pioneering what is quickly being nicknamed the “FELL Format” comic book.
“It’s absurd that we are doing another printing of a $1.99 comic featuring a nun wearing a Richard Nixon mask. But as long as retailers keep selling ‘em, we’ll keep printing ‘em,” said Ellis. “And to think some retailers accused us of leaving money on the table. We seem to be hoovering it up pretty damn good, no?”
To top off its incredible sales velocity, it was also announced that FELL had received FIVE separate Eisner Award nominations – Best Continuinig Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Painter/ Multimedia Artist and Best Lettering. The Eisner Awards winners will be announced at this year’s San Diego Comic Con International.
FELL is the first book from Image Comics to encompass this new format, but not the last. Debuting in June will be the second “Fell- Format” book, CASANOVA, a sci-fi espionage epic by Matt Fraction (Punisher: War Journal) and Gabriel Ba (Rock’n'Roll).
Don’t miss out on one of the hottest books on the stands, advance orders are available now for FELL #5 (NOV051740), which is scheduled to be in stores late May, the same time as these new printings. Also, still available for order is the 3rd Printing of FELL #2 (DEC058380).
These new printings – FELL 2ND PRINTING #3 (FEB068169), FELL 2ND PRINTING #4 (FEB068170) and FELL 4TH PRINTING #1 (FEB068168) – are available now for advance re-order. Your local retailer can contact their Diamond Customer Service Representative for ordering.
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April 17th, 2006 | Uncategorized
April 17th, 2006 | music
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Giving CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE another go, wasn’t wildly impressed with it on first listens back when it was released…
April 16th, 2006 | researchmaterial
Shopkeepers in the bazaar, next to the Bagram airbase outside Kabul, have been selling the finger-sized “flash drives” reportedly stolen from the facility. An inquiry has begun into how security was breached at Bagram. Shopkeepers said the drives were stolen by Afghans employed at the base as cleaners, office staff and labourers.
About 40 of the drives on sale at the market were reviewed on a computer by news agency Associated Press. It said most of them were blank or did not work, but three contained data, including troop CVs and photographs of Air Force One during President George W Bush’s recent visit to Afghanistan.
One shopkeeper said soldiers went around the market carrying “a box full of afghanis [the Afghan currency], buying all they could find. They said they wanted them all and price wasn’t important.”
In earlier reports, the Los Angeles Times said the drives contained the names of allegedly corrupt Afghan officials, reports on enemy targets and details about US defences.
AP said some drives it had seen previously contained the social security numbers of hundreds of soldiers, including four generals, and lists of troops who had completed nuclear, chemical and biological warfare training.
The computer drives were on sale alongside other items, apparently also from the Bagram base, including US military uniforms, compasses, binoculars sunglasses and knives.
April 16th, 2006 | comics talk
Cheryl Lynn just pointed this out to me:
Lambiek say:
Jackie Ormes… became the first nationally syndicated black woman cartoonist in 1937.
Toonopedia says:
She remained the only one until the 1990s. Ormes also created a panel titled Patty Jo & Ginger, about a little girl and her adult sister. In 1948, Patty Jo became the first black character successfully marketed as a doll.
Torchy started out as a teenager living with her family, but quickly developed into a strong and independent woman. She frequently stood up to injustice, and racism was only one of the forms she opposed. She was all the things black women in mainstream media of the time were not — resolute, intelligent, resourceful, courageous … and sensual, a word critics and commentators have repeatedly used to describe her. Ormes drew her with a bolder pen line than was generally used by Dale Messick on Brenda Starr or Tarpé Mills on Miss Fury, to cite a couple of other female cartoonists with female heroes; and this helped convey the inner power of the character herself.
And Cheryl says:
How f-ing righteous is this character? Why is she not in a book right now? Why are there no collected trades of these strips for me to buy? Why can’t I even find a good official website dedicated to her? Bah! I’m sad now.
I’m also bummed that Jackie Ormes died in 1986 because I totally wanted her to be my comic book fairy-godmother. And now I can never tell her how awesome she is.
At least there’s still an Internet Jesus to complain about it to.
April 16th, 2006 | Uncategorized
April 15th, 2006 | researchmaterial
A study by the New Economics Foundation (Nef) and the Open University says 16 April is the day when the nation goes into “ecological debt” this year. It warns if annual global consumption levels matched the UK’s, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand. In 1961, the symbolic “ecological debt day” was 9 July; in 1981, it had shifted forward two months to 14 May.
The UK’s food self-sufficiency has been falling steadily for more than a decade, and indigenous food production is now said to be at its lowest level for half a century. In 2004, the UK lost its energy independent status when it became a net importer of gas following lower returns from the North Sea fields…
April 15th, 2006 | people I know
This just makes me smile. Xeni Jardin with a strategically-placed Yuri Gagarin temp tattoo. Xeni is the only superhuman currently operating on the west coast of America.
April 15th, 2006 | brainjuice
I am still looking for an mp3 of “Special Delivery” by Peter Blegvad, and a very specific version. He did a version in 1985 that was released as a single on Virgin — I believe the same version was included on the 1985 album KNIGHTS LIKE THIS, but can’t swear to it.
This is NOT the version on JUST WOKE UP or any other. This is the 1985 version recorded on Virgin: a much bigger, multi-instrumental, backing-vocalsy kinda thing.
(And yes I’ve looked in Soulseek and Kazaa and every other bloody place.)
Please email said mp3 if you have it to warrene @ aol.com and surely store up great rewards in Valhalla etc etc.
April 15th, 2006 | researchmaterial
It will conduct a year-round survey, scanning all of the Milky Way galaxy visible in the Northern Hemisphere.
Seti is an exploratory science to scour the cosmos for signatures of technology built by alien beings.
Some experts believe alien societies are at least as likely to use light for communicating as radio transmissions. Visible light can form tight beams, be incredibly intense, and its high frequencies allow it to carry enormous amounts of information. Using only present-day terrestrial technology, a bright, tightly focused light beam, such as a laser, can be 10,000 times as bright as its parent star for a brief instant. Such a beam could be easily observed from enormous distances.
The new telescope, which has a 1.8m (72-inch) primary mirror, is the first dedicated optical Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope in the world.
“Sending laser signals across the cosmos would be a very logical way for ET to reach out; but until now, we have been ill-equipped to receive any such signal…”
April 15th, 2006 | researchmaterial
That would put up to 400 million people worldwide at risk of hunger, said Professor Sir David King in a report based on computer predictions.
He told the BBC the world had to act now to tackle global warming expected to happen over the next 100 years. He said even if international agreement could be reached on limiting emissions, climate change was inevitable.
The UK Government and the EU want to stabilise the climate at an increase of no more than 2C, but the US refuses to cut emissions and those of India and China are rising quickly.
The government report says a 3C rise would cause a drop worldwide of between 20 and 400 million tonnes in cereal crops and about 400 million more people would be put at risk of hunger.
So far, the US, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has been unwilling to debate a CO2 threshold.
April 14th, 2006 | people I know
A binturong drawn by Steve Rolston beats your poxy cat. Therefore I win the Inertnets. Again.
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