Scott McCloud's Blog, page 59
March 1, 2009
Dylan Horrocks Awaits You
The great Dylan Horrocks has relaunched his website with new comics and other content that will mess with your head in exciting new ways.
Get your brain and eyes and bookmarks to hicksvillecomics.com now.
February 28, 2009
More Infographic Terror
Everybody and his brother is linking to this great animation by Jonathan Jarvis about the credit crisis:
Literally my brother in this case, who was blogging regularly about the housing collapse before it happened here.
February 27, 2009
Five-Card Flickr?
Another invention has been mutating while I’ve been hibernating (this time via Ms. Nancy).
Check out 5-Card Story & 5-Card Flickr by way of the esteemed Alan Levine, aka CogDog, and add your own photos the pool.
Oh! And argue about whether it’s comics or not.
February 26, 2009
Information Wants to be Loved
Two videos. My daughter Sky showed me this last week:
And Cat Garza showed us this on his blog last week:
They’ve both been around for a while (2006 & 2002), but if you’ve never seen either I strongly recommend both.
Funny thing is, I love the first one because it’s all about pure information—spare, monochrome, one idea at a time—and I love the second one because it’s just the opposite: a cascading waterfall of mostly useless infographics. Maybe it’s just the sensation of being taught. Maybe it’s j
February 25, 2009
Making Faces
The Grimace Project is a freakishly cool facial expression generator that came out a few weeks ago in which you can mix and match any two of the six “emotional primaries” that I charted in Chapter 2 of Making Comics.
The project comes out of the Vienna University of Technology under the guidance of Peter Purgathofer. The team kindly acknowledges me, but credit is equally due to my own inspirations for the charts, artist Gary Faigin and researcher Paul Eckman — not to mention Mr. Darwin.
Facial ex
February 24, 2009
Woot!
Hello again. I’m back from hibernation with a big site redesign. Take a look around and feel free to let me know what you think of the new look (including bug reports and typo alerts, of which I’m sure there’ll be plenty). Once I’m happy with the static content, I’ll be converting this page to a proper blog with comments, archives, rss, etc.
This site first launched in mid-1998, a bit over ten years ago (a lifetime in both internet years and dog years) so it was long overdue for a face-lift. Whe
