March 4, 2007
10:10 AM
10:10 AM
Links list: 03-04-07.
- NYT: Visions that Flaunt Cartoon Pedigrees. "Sometimes perky but inoffensive and ultimately dispiriting"? Ouch.
- NYT: Social Networking's Next Phase. Can the world really support hundreds of social networking sites? Please, God, no.
- Download Squad: Zooppa Launches; User-Generated Advertising Goes Social. Nnnngh.
- ColorJack Sphere. Pretty.
- Flash Video on 3D. Very pretty.
- Making Light: Maps and More Maps. Strange Maps is now a daily click.
- NYT: The Must-Do List. 21st Century US or Nazi Germany? You'd be surprised.
- NYT: Xbox Cinema. Haven't had time to futz with my 360 in weeks. Sad.
- NYT: Reading with Kundera. "Reading and writing novels, from Cervantes to Rushdie, is a way of thinking that is essential for a coherent moral understanding of human nature and circumstance."
- NYT: What Starbucks Can Learn from the Movie Palace. Wi-Fi is the new AC.
- The Man Who Planted Trees. Discovered Frederic Back this week. Life changed.
- Frederic Back. Your turn.
- CBR Studio Tours: Joe Quesada. Awesome series! Cintiq #1...
- CBR Studio Tours: Frank Cho. Drafting table #1.
- CBR Studio Tours: Matt Haley. Cintiq #2. Love the red walls.
- CBR Studio Tours: Simone Bianchi. Wow, lookit the
toysmonsters! - CBR Studio Tours: Mark Waid. Makes me feel better about my setup!
- CBR Studio Tours: Tony Moore. "Being a successful artist is 10% talent and 90% staying the hell away from the web." Drafting table #2.
- CBR Studio Tours: Top Cow. Drafting tables #3, 4, 5, 6...
- CBR Studio Tours: David Lloyd.
- CBR Studio Tours: Mike Norton. Cintiq #3, drafting table #7.
- CBR Studio Tours: Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon. Wow.
- CBR Studio Tours: Mark Millar. I want his life.
- CBR Studio Tours: Scott Kurtz. Very, very nice. Oh, and drafting table #8.
- Art S. Buck anatomical models. Cheaper than a Cintiq, anyway.
- The Secret Saturdays. Looks cool, but I hope it doesn't spell doom for Venture Bros.
- Cartoon Network Upfront. Check out the Secret Saturdays sizzle reel.
- The Cost of Digital Comics. More at Forbidden Planet. Country-boy me likes the idea of being able to get my books every week over the Web and then buy the collected trades later, but I worry for the future of places like Forbidden Planet, Million Year Picnic and Comix Revolution. Losing those toyboxes would be a real strike, as was losing the Collection Connection in Wooster.
- NYT: He Runs This Mickey Mouse Outfit. I'm still a Lasseter fanboy at heart.
- Fermin Solis: Captain Ahab. Love the lines and color work.
- TMNT Prequel Comics. THESIS?
- NYT: Google Courts Small YouTube Deals, and Very Soon, a Larger One. Percolating.
- Joost. The whistling teapot.
- Engadget: Disneyland Intros Roving Muppets. Sweet.
- Edmund Dulac. Love his Poe cover.
- swfIR. *whistles*
- CBR: Two More Years on Smallville? Stretching it this far has been tricky.
- CBR: The History of Gargoyles. Man, I miss that show.
- Flight 4 up on Amazon. Pre-order now!
- 10: SMITE! 20: GOTO 10! Scroll to see it; any BASIC programmers will just die.
- NINJA New York. Pricey, perhaps, but damn.
- PDF-mags.com. Wow!
- scrnmags.com. Wow-wow!
- Steampunk Magazine. Can't wait to read this.
