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guttersnipercomics: Marvel Essentials cover concepts by Dylan...

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:52:40 -0400

Marvel Essentials cover concepts by Dylan Todd.

All of them.

Remember that podcast I started with my friends? Here is our...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:53:42 -0400

Remember that podcast I started with my friends? Here is our latest episode. If it’s your first time listing, no sweat. We try to make each show welcoming for folks that have never listened before, so we actually introduce each host at the beginning of each show. Not many podcasts do that, sadly.

Setlist goes something like this: we talk about news, the books we’re reading, a special book club, and we read your letters to close out the show. Paperkeg is on iTunes as well.

Taken with instagram

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:34 -0400

Taken with instagram

life: In April 1947, the most famous and, arguably, most...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:03:44 -0400

life:

In April 1947, the most famous and, arguably, most beloved ballplayer of all-time was honored at Yankee Stadium on “Babe Ruth Day.” Sixty-thousand fans filled The House That Ruth Built to pay tribute to a player who, even then, had already transcended the sport and become not merely a national icon, but an international star — a man whose eye-popping numbers (714 career home runs, more than 2,800 hits, a .342 lifetime batting average, fer chrissake!) and larger-then-life personality and appetites captivated grown-ups and kids, alike.

Here, on the 65th anniversary of that April day when baseball stadiums everywhere stopped play and a nation listened to a broadcast of the heartfelt ceremony in the Bronx, LIFE.com presents rare pictures by Ralph Morse — including many that were never published in LIFE — from Babe Ruth Day, as well as from the Babe’s last public appearance a year later, in June 1948, mere months before he died.

Killer eye-patch, bro.

Yes.

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:19:37 -0400

Yes.

(Stream | iTunes) Jake and I talked to Jason Aaron about some...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:15:00 -0400

(Stream | iTunes)

Jake and I talked to Jason Aaron about some stuff. I went all nerdy for the majority of the show as well as after.

Setlist goes something like this:

Avengers vs X-Men and its writing process
Portland
Slim gushes on Adam Kubert (3.45)
AvX: Versus and writing for the Marvel Style (4.45)
Slim gushes about Jason’s work on Wolverine and asks his thoughts on leaving
Did he cry? (7.36)
Being an “Architect” (8.00)
Digital as the new Newsstand (9.45)
What is Jason Aaron reading right now? (11.20)

Note: unofficial amazing cover by @ctcher

Sent from my ______.

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:33:10 -0400

Folks use their iOS devices for email. We know that.

But, they also use the signature portion to let their recipients know what kind of device they are emailing from. Most keep it as is and have it say, “Sent from my iPhone.” Or, “Sent from my iPad.”

I was lucky enough to see that Christa Mrgan used “Sent from my pocket” and quickly usurped that for my iPhone email signature.

However, I can’t think of anything equally as witty for my iPad signature.

“Sent from my lap?” No.

“Sent from my backback?” No.

Pretty much the thing is useless until I can come up with something. Right now I don’t use an email signature on my iPad.

Anyone have any non-terrible ideas?

"Masterpost."

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:06:37 -0400

It’s nothing new when I see my esteemed collegue MandyBu upset about something.

It could be a change in the weather, or some awful new healthy food she’s trying out.

She complains a lot, is what I’m trying to say.

It seems like there is some new(?) thing happening on Tumblr where someone posts a “Masterpost” to CBR/CBZs of entire runs of comic books or famous story arcs. They include links to download the files and read them as you please.

Whatever your stance on pirating books, it’s generally considered weaksauce to spread the wealth like that.

If you’d like to help out creators keep doing what their doing, buy the comics in a comic shop, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or even our own comiXology.

Otherwise, what’s already out there will be the only thing out there.

Quick, go buy some Atomic Robo!

28th. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:14:42 -0500

28th. (Taken with instagram)

Lifedeath. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:07:56 -0500

Lifedeath. (Taken with instagram)

scanzen: Marianne Weber, belgian journalist riding a BMW R 68,...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:55:15 -0500

scanzen:

Marianne Weber, belgian journalist riding a BMW R 68, April 1952. In: Motorcycle, 15 August, 1952. Photo: Everts R. G. / BMW Group Archiv.

Die belgische Journalistin Marianne Weber in voller Fahrt mit der R 68 für einen Testbericht der französischen Zeitung “Motorcycle” Nr.81 vom 15.August 1952. Fotograf: Everts R.G. / BMW Group Archiv.

Define: badass.

Flashtopia: Going Digital

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:05 -0500

Flashtopia: Going Digital:

My belief is that in some years all DC Comics comic books will be available in Comixology. I know that for guys of my generation this can sound strange and sometime we tend to feel a little hurt of see our beloved #1 issues available for everybody.

This must be seen as an evolution where information can be accessed by anybody for a few bucks. It happened with music, it is happening with regular books (and newspapers) and will happen with comic books.

In a few years, many of the low-selling titles to be available digitally. Who knows how long it takes until all of the production of comics be available exclusively in digital media?

So, my advice to you is: Clear your mind and embark on this train while it is in the station. We cannot stop the progress.

Good advice.

"I think it’s important to have a good, hard failure when you’re young."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:59:00 -0500

“I think it’s important to have a good, hard failure when you’re young.”

- Walt Disney

Photo

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:12:52 -0500

#tech

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:05:53 -0500

Paris Lemon

Just testing this out. I’m not MG Siegler, but I have a theory that the #tech editors, upon seeing the name “Paris Lemon”, instantly choose the post for viewing in the #tech tag category.

Let’s just see what happens.

Paris Lemon. MG Siegler. Test.

Digital Tip Jar.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:05 -0500

(republished from Paperkeg)

I like to think of myself as a hip cat. I’m with it.

I use some pretty cool and nerdy apps. One of which is Instapaper. There are many like it these days, but this was the first I tried. Often, you’ll find yourself coming to an article you’d like to read, but would prefer to read it later, so I’d used Instapaper to save that URL, and I could read it later at my leisure. Not only that, but it would just save the text and get rid of all the crap. It makes it look like I’m reading an eBook, essentially.

I have a point here, don’t worry.

The developer of this app, Marco Arment, left Tumblr to make Instapaper his full time job. The app was $4, if I recall, so once I paid that, I didn’t really have to give him any more money. However, he created a subscription service. If you signed up, this fee allowed you to remove the ads from Instapaper’s website if you so chose while also giving him about $3 a month.

More than that, it gave you piece of mind that you were supporting Marco while he continued expanding his fantastic service. At one point, I even stopped using Instapaper as a daily, or even as weekly app, but I felt strongly enough that its development was worth my chipping in a few bucks a month to help out.

If your favorite comic book creator had a monthly or even tri-monthly subscription/donation system, would you sign up?

Let’s say the boys from Atomic Robo had a button on their sign marked “VIP”. That sets you up to pay them $3/month. You get emailed some cool sketches and maybe even some peeks at new covers.

Sure, you buy Atomic Robo each month, but feel like you want to do as much as you can so they can keep doing what they’re doing. Is it worth going above and beyond the cost of a monthly comic?

And on the other side, maybe you’re a guy that just pirated Atomic Robo V1-4. Maybe you want to send a little cheddar their way because you have some oddball reason of not wanting to pay full price for a creator-owned book.

This brings up a whole host of questions since comic books are obviously not the same as Instapaper. Mainly, pirates paying the creators straight out kind of skips offer Red 5 along with other junk I don’t really feel like expanding on.

However, paying for their monthly books and wanting to show direct appreciation with a sort of digital tip jar is kind of new, right?

I’m a guy that doesn’t often buy shirts, or even sketches at cons, so this kind of lazy digital tip jar appeals to me. Anything where I don’t have to get out of bed to support creators is A-OK in my book.

See, I told you I had a point. Maybe.

(This post was inspired in small part by PKW host, @JMStump.)

7th. (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:06:00 -0500

7th. (Taken with instagram)

"I don’t read anyone consistently aside from Gruber. I see and read so much stuff that even..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:00 -0500

“I don’t read anyone consistently aside from Gruber. I see and read so much stuff that even with great engaging writers, there’s a sameness to much of their work that doesn’t interest me…until they really knock something out of the park, and then I’ll hear about from someone I follow on Twitter or Stellar.”

- Kottke on what writers he reads daily.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

His entire interview is pretty spot on as well with regards to ditching RSS. Aside from less time to dedicate to stand-alone reader, I find most stuff, if at all, via Twitter anymore.

Name 5 better X-Men comics. Stop, you can’t.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:06 -0500

Name 5 better X-Men comics.

Stop, you can’t.

My friends and I talked about Rob Liefeld, the books we’ve...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:35 -0500

My friends and I talked about Rob Liefeld, the books we’ve been reading, Gladstone’s, and your letters. Join us, won’t you?