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18 Hour Comic: You Are Here – A Photographic Journey Thru Heaven & Hell.

October 24th, 2009 · by John · 17 Comments

Post updated 2009-10-25 1:55PM Pacific Time: My contribution follows this introduction and the participant links. Thanks again to everyone who participated in the 18-hr comic event, either by contributing or by encouraging us along. CatGirl is the only one who achieved the main goal of 18-pages in 18 hours, and hopefully she will post them [...]

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Tags: Comics · Creativity.

18-hour Comic: Journal.

October 24th, 2009 · by John · 5 Comments

[Final Update: Here is the link to my final creation, which also has links to other participants' works: You Are Here: A Photographic Journey Thru Heaven & Hell ] I will be updating this throughout the day. 6:16 am: GameBoy wakes me up and reminds me I need to take him to his all day [...]

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Tags: Comics · Creativity. · Personal

18-hour Comic Day and Upcoming Projects.

October 23rd, 2009 · by John · 1 Comment

Previous 18-hour comic day announcements: John: You’re Invited to 18-Hour Comic Day. Galen: Invitation to 18 hr Comic Day!! Galen: 18 hr comic details… Just a reminder that tomorrow is 18-hour comic day, which is Galen and my softcore response to the more insane 24-hour comic day. You are all invited to join us, and [...]

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Tags: Comics · Creativity.

You’re Invited to 18-Hour Comic Day.

October 6th, 2009 · by John · 12 Comments

On Saturday, October 24th, Galen, CatGirl and I will attempt an 18-hr version of Scott McCloud’s 24-Hour Comic challenge. If you’re unfamiliar with the phenomenon, Wikipedia has a good summary of the rules. Past grads include luminaries like Kevin Eastman and Neil Gaiman. We’re looking for a few good humans to join us. And any [...]

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Tags: Comics · Creativity.

Spark: the Truth

January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment

This is absolutely priceless. A comic & blog post about Cheney (who, incidentally, “is as ancient as he is evil and he is large amounts of both.”).

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Tags: Art · Classic · Comics · Current Events · Humor · Politics · Pop Culture · Society · Spark

In Which I Reveal What a Big Geek I am.

November 21st, 2008 · by John · 7 Comments

First of all, it was revealed recently that Barack Obama has a collection of Spider Man and Conan comics.  Do you hear that? OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT READS MARVEL!!1!  Bush strikes me as a Superman guy. (Green Party types read Vertigo and Maus and maybe Love and Rockets) So when Madeleine Brand (who I love!) of [...]

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Tags: Comics · Movies/Hollywood

Spark: Sinfest gets Political

October 2nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

I’ve long been a fan of Sinfest, but it’s mostly been religious, rather than political in nature. Recently, since one of the characters is a pig, there was a whole Palin lip-stick-on-pig thing that I’m still not sure what I think about. But then there were these, which are interesting more because Sinfest is not [...]

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Tags: Art · Comics · Current Events · Depression · Humor · Politics · Satire · Society · Spark

Robin–What have I done to you?

August 12th, 2008 · by John · 3 Comments

Yet another buried treasure unearthed via boing boing.

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Tags: Comics · Humor · Links

You have to be like, insane holy.

August 1st, 2008 · by John · 4 Comments

This comic by Kate Beaton perfectly captures the resignation I often feel towards work, simplicity/consumerism, and ascetic spirituality.  Following the link gets you to a long page of unlinked comics–find in page for “Hiked to Italy” for the complete comic.

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Tags: Comics · Spirituality

Spark: Training

July 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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