Scott McCloud's Blog, page 46

Now THAT'S Collaboration

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NEWSFLASH: Large Company Buys Smaller Company

This is bound to affect all of us in comics eventually, but I have to say that for now it seems strangely remote.

Patterns

Just a footnote really, but it reminded me how much the Web has enabled us to find patterns in the world that surely would have gone unnoticed just a few years ago…

Some of you might remember this post where I compare and contrast comics by Lisa Hanawalt and Laurie Sandell. I just found out a parallel between the two authors that I couldn't have known at the time: both authors have parents from Argentina.

How do I know? 'Cause Lisa's Mom just emailed me.

And this after going for a walk yesterday an

Ninety-Two

Last night, the family and I ate at a new burger place and I noticed that it was next to the cemetery where Jack and Rosalind Kirby are buried. This morning, Tom reminds us that Jack Kirby would have been Ninety-Two today.

I sometimes go for mid-day walks in that neighborhood and occasionally stop to pay my respects. And I always think of this story.

Thoughts?

"And as you can see, it actually knows how to read the comic for you."

Not the first nor the last to employ this strategy for getting around printed comics on mobile devices, but they certainly win the award for most chilling tagline.

Has anyone tried the various mobile readers out there and compared them yet? I'd be curious to hear others' reactions.

With Great Power…

There's an interesting conversation between Dash Shaw and Hope Larson about editing that's been making the rounds. Hope likes editorial feedback, but I've heard other young cartoonists railing against editors.

I came from a generation of independent/alternative cartoonists that largely believed that "editorial freedom" meant "freedom from editors," but I've always believed in the value of getting honest, in-depth feedback.

For most of my career, I've had tremendous freedom in putting together my s

Serendipity

While reading the latest "hey-they're-making-comics-on-the-web-apparently" article (found via DD) I stumbled on yet another interesting comic that's been running for a while, but which I stupidly missed: Kinokofry by Rebecca Clements. Weird but pretty. Check it out.

The Serendipity of the Web was a selling point in the mid '90s when most of us starting hopping on. Now, I have a nagging anxiety that for every cool comic I stumble upon, there are another 1,000 I would have liked but will never see.

Tastes Like Chicken

Ivy and I took way too many photos in Spain, some of which I'm still trying to wrangle after coming back from Woods Hole, but here's something I had to share right away.

The festival guests at Vinetas desde O Atantico were frequently treated to "Pulpo a la gallega," the region's iconic octopus dish, but the strangest occasion had to be during our visit to A Coruna's aquarium — in full view of real, living examples of the species. I got a cool video of one of them so here it is.

In other video news

More on Longbox

A pre-launch screencast on the much-anticipated Longbox (via Dirk).

It's not on the sidebar, but I'm actually on muggy but beautiful Cape Cod at the moment (I left barely 24 hours after we landed in L.A. from Spain) doing a government thingey (unrelated to Obama's visit, though I realized tonight that he's reeeeely close to here), so blogging continues to be a bit irregular. Hope to return to regular updates Monday.

If it was the Only Movie Out this Year…

…it would still be a pretty good year for movies.