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Not that I think his plan will succeed. His comic is too niche marketed and I'd be surprised if he got taken up on it. Precisely. Not only is his demographic not large enough to attract the newspapers' attention, but they are also probably savvy enough to already read his strip on-line. There's no ...

By the by, who from the board will be at the Con? I'm going to be around for the whole thing and I'll be on a panel with Neil Cohn and some other scholarly-types on Saturday morning.

I've downloaded it and I'm going to try to put together an alternate version of a strip I'm working on with it. Hopefully I'll have something in a few days.

Ben

It is not lazy storytelling, because sometimes it is hard to put complex ideas into a picture without using text. Try doing a wordless comic without any dialog, naration or footnotes ... Psst! If anyone's interested in experimenting with this, you couldn't pick a better time than the upcoming Strip...

You have your hand on the pulse of the Internet!

I've relaunched American Robots back on its weekly schedule of Friday updates. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.borealism.com/cgi-bin/pywebc ... i?series=1

Not as bad as "Arabolical" on the same site, though...

I'm liking this so far. And as a one-time New Glaswegian, I highly approve of the t-rex's name.

Tim Mallos wrote:Foot notes have always pulled me out of the story and hit me over the head with the fact that I'm reading a comic.

You don't want to know that you're reading a comic?

http://www.borealism.com/essays.html Untangling Comics, my undergrad thesis is available on-line now. It picks up a paradigm from film theory and applies it to comics. I think it covers a lot of ground and I hope it does a reasonably good job doing so. However, it's pretty long (printed out, it was ...

<You could always use the classic angle brackets. A bit creaky, but still serviceable.>

zerofoks wrote:Ever tried a cup of contemplative solipsism? :D :)

I'll stick with my fair trade Mexican beans, thanks. They make a fine cup of coffee.

I'd recommend Niklas Luhmann's "Einf?hrung in die Systemtheorie" but I don't believe it's widely available in an english translation. Explaining it would be a bit too off-topic. You can read up on it @ the Wikipedia article on him , though. Thanks for the link. I didn't realise there were still peo...

Connor Moran wrote:Like Taft?

When I'm facing a really tricky ethical dilemma, I like to ask myself WWWHTD?

Wait, where else would systems of beliefs come from?

One could just as easily say that they came to the conclusion that there is no god due to strenuous scientific method. As a good humanities major, I think I am duty-bound to mention that there is also a belief component to scientific knowledge -- belief that there is an objective reality, that scie...

Sociologist Emile Durkheim (he's one of the Big Three in the field) defined religion primarily as a system for distinguishing the sacred from the profane. In the most basic sense, for most atheists this distinction is meaningless since there is nothing that is "sacred" nor "profane" in the strict, d...

gareis wrote:But the antithesis of organized religion is, in my opinion, disorganized religion.

Exactly.

Unless there's an institutional Church of Atheism that I haven't heard of, it seems silly to call atheism an organised religion.

It's the Flash template being used in the comic linked in this thread and the current Morning Improv.

Yeah, distribution will be spotty in bars and pubs. But the Beer Store and LCBO in Ontario generally stock some or all of them; I don't know as much about the situation in Quebec, but I would still think that you'd have some luck. You won't be sorry to have put in the effort, trust me.

Given my druther's, I like Big Rock or some of the Unibroue beers (Blanche de Chambly and Maudite). And I have a special place in my heart for Keith's, having been born in Halifax on Alexander Keith's birthday. I like Sleeman Steam quite well, too. I mean, I'll drink Labatt or Molson if it's offered...

Rip Tanion wrote:I'd rather bring over a few cases of Labatt's.

Ew ... Labatt's.