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Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!

Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers! Oh yes! A handsome collection, being a side-dish of the rather wonderful and previously unsuspected (by me, at any rate) octopus blog, Octopia. This cover particularly caught my eye, despite that the perspective and scale are … more…

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Cerne Abbas intervention, again. This time it’s Homer.

The small but perfectly formed controversy over Homer Simpson’s appearance in the field adjoining the Cerne Abbas giant has brought a little traffic this way already today, before I’d even got around to considering whether to run with it here. … more…

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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #14

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #14 Here’s another one that’s already been blogged all over the place, I’m just putting it up so I don’t have to remember to bookmark it. Again. Ape Lad has posted new Laugh Out Loud Cats this week, … more…

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The Rainbow Orchid

The Rainbow Orchid – the tale of the search for a mythical flower and a journey to a forgotten world… heroes, villains, adventure! A huge comic strip adventure yarn by Garen Ewing, in the style of Tintin — except that … more…

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links for 2006-12-18: xkcd

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe (tags: visualization IP internet map networking)

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Mary Worth, with a pulse. Kind of.

ZeroTV has a bunch of episodes of the glacially slow and strange Mary Worth cartoon strip, performed by actors, recreating the bizarre camera angles and baffling gestures of the characters. The desolate wind noise that moans throughout the soundtrack is … more…

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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work

The original paste-up of the fabled 22 Panels That Always Work, a marvellously concise visual prompt which must surely be pinned to the wall of countless comics artists the world over, has been bought by tech writer/blogger, Joel Johnson, and … more…

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What is the Meatrix?

Point well made. It’s a little corny, but it moved me to click on the What Now Button at the end. Flash content. (via gordon coale)

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Alan Moore’s Big Numbers

Unpublished artwork by Billl Sienkiewitz from Alan Moore’s Big Numbers, at something called Lowbrowartwork.com. The site doesn’t seem to be open yet though. The front page is linkless. (via lmg) The link back to Alan Moore’s description of the themes … more…

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Blogging comes to Doonesbury

Doonesbury brings blogging to (the rest of) the world.

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