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by Scott McCloud
Tue Apr 09, 2002 1:42 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Morrie Dugan?
Replies: 5
Views: 12277

Made-up. Sounded to me like some guy who got into the game in the '30s (note apostrophe placement, gang).
by Scott McCloud
Mon Apr 08, 2002 1:12 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Uninformed Bob
Replies: 63
Views: 89615

Edit: Allow me to amend that statement- If you mean to say "during the 1950s, everything was cool", then an apostrophe is wrong, wrong, wrong, because you are neither contracting nor possessing but if you mean to say "it's a 1950's diner," then you could be correct, since it could be reasonably sai...
by Scott McCloud
Sun Apr 07, 2002 10:36 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Uninformed Bob
Replies: 63
Views: 89615

Actually, I feel confident that we'll all be a bit surprised by Uninformed Bob before it's over. Stay tuned.
by Scott McCloud
Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:59 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Uninformed Bob
Replies: 63
Views: 89615

This is going to be about a guy who posts on internet message boards a lot, isn't it?
Ha!
So true. Though just as often, it's over-informed,.

(Present company excepted, natch. :wink: )

--Scott
by Scott McCloud
Sun Apr 07, 2002 12:49 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Does anybody else miss Carl?
Replies: 16
Views: 25275

Is it legal if you do it on ONE t-shirt and in your home instead of producing a lot in a factory?
Or, more important: Scott, do you mind it?
Go for it!

As for offering T-Shirts and mugs on the site, I've long intended it. Just a matter of finding the spare time.
by Scott McCloud
Sat Apr 06, 2002 5:44 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: The Parallelogram's Revenge
Replies: 126
Views: 602525

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Guess what?

I just revised the ending!!

Check it out:
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi.html
by Scott McCloud
Sat Apr 06, 2002 4:59 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: The Parallelogram's Revenge
Replies: 126
Views: 602525

I, as an obsessive-compulsive proofreader, had more of a reaction to the spello "you're" than the comic itself.
Whoops!

Thanks for the heads up on that. Just fixed it.
by Scott McCloud
Fri Apr 05, 2002 5:17 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: End of Parallelogram
Replies: 5
Views: 9861

No, that was just a glytch in the intitial upload. I've since fixed it.

Sorry about the delays and foul-ups today. And thank you for your patience.
by Scott McCloud
Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:22 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: The Parallelogram's Revenge
Replies: 126
Views: 602525

I wonder what a square's blood looks like...
Probably much like the circle's. See today's entry, just posted.
by Scott McCloud
Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:54 am
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: My goodnes I just realized this
Replies: 18
Views: 27471

I use: "I'm sorry, we don't accept telephone solicitations." Then, if they persist, I cut them off as gently as possible. I really have nothing against the people who work those soul-crushing jobs (or against Richard Dreyfus, for that matter), it's the system that employs them that I hate, hence the...
by Scott McCloud
Tue Apr 02, 2002 8:42 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Favorite M.I. so far?
Replies: 19
Views: 28730

Ooh, cool feature!

I notice that you have to be logged in to vote, though, so if any of you are wondering why there's no submit button, now you know.

Just log in and return to this page to cast your vote.
by Scott McCloud
Tue Apr 02, 2002 3:45 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: The Parallelogram's Revenge
Replies: 126
Views: 602525

But I'm a bit lost too. My daughter and I were trying to decipher the "conversation" between the parallelogram and the circle... No luck though. Hopefully Scott McC. will check in and enlighten us a bit! Hmm... Sorry that wasn't clearer. Anyone else want to take a guess, though? I would hate to dic...
by Scott McCloud
Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:08 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Robots Love to Dance (Plus random musings)
Replies: 4
Views: 9802

I'm sorry, but I simply have to know, where was it going? Apparently nowhere, but it was fun while it lasted. Neil Gaiman pointed out that by my definition, it wasn't even comics -- just a single row of dancing robots. Meadow was the only one so far that had some overall planning, though I often ha...
by Scott McCloud
Mon Apr 01, 2002 8:40 pm
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Morning Improv forum
Replies: 3
Views: 8841

Thanks, Greg!

Thank you for putting this together, Greg! As with the RC forum, I may only be able to post occasionally, but I'll look forward to reading any thoughts on the Improv that readers may have. Mind you, I don't expect this part of the board to be too busy. After all, feedback is usually generated by how...
by Scott McCloud
Fri Mar 01, 2002 2:18 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Modern Tales Launch!
Replies: 27
Views: 16610

I've started a thread at Comicon.com:

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimate ... 8&t=000646

Feel free to join in or start a discussion here too.

http://www.moderntales.com launches later today, Friday March 1st.
by Scott McCloud
Sat Feb 23, 2002 1:31 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Tutotial: Jim Z demonstrates word balloons
Replies: 5
Views: 4152

I noticed that Jim uses the oval selection tool for balloons which sometimes leaves some unnecessary white space. Here's an alternate method I use Adobe Illustrator to accomplish. The following was originally posted on Comicon.com. *** For most work I letter in illustrator and import into Photoshop ...
by Scott McCloud
Sun Feb 03, 2002 8:53 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: House of Stairs
Replies: 32
Views: 15485

YIKES!!
by Scott McCloud
Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:53 am
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: MAGICINKWELL is BACK!
Replies: 36
Views: 16963

Pretty hard actually -- but who cares? It's Cool!! :smile:
by Scott McCloud
Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:22 am
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: House of Stairs
Replies: 32
Views: 15485

I just love Jack Master's latest "House of Stairs" installment: "In The Event Of Nuclear War".

House of Stairs is at:
http://CastleZZT.net/Spongy/

(Click on "Previous" to see the one I'm talking about if Jack's posted a new one since.)
by Scott McCloud
Tue Jan 15, 2002 12:17 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Web Cartoonists at A.P.E.!
Replies: 7
Views: 10240

Just posted this in the Magic Inkwell thread and it occurred to me that it deserved its own topic. <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/pages/APE2002wn.html">A.P.E.</a> will take place in San Francisco February 9-10. Here are the Web Cartoonists I know about who are planning to attend: Patrick Farley h...
by Scott McCloud
Tue Jan 15, 2002 12:07 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: MAGICINKWELL is BACK!
Replies: 36
Views: 16963

Specifically: Patrick Farley http://www.e-sheep.com/main Tristan Farnon http://www.leisuretown.com David Gaddis http://www.davidgaddis.com Cayetano Garza http://www.magicinkwell.com Derek Kirk http://www.geocities.com/smallstoriesonline Jasen Lex (tentative) http://www.opi8.com/sequence/asf/asf.shtm...
by Scott McCloud
Tue Jan 15, 2002 12:05 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: do we really need to reinvent comics?
Replies: 10
Views: 7067

Martinibianco writes: I don't classify these as comics. Narrative sequential art, yes, but not comics. Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Dick Tracy, they're not comics either, they're comic strips or cartoon strips. Like most comics artists, I'm using the word "comics" in the same sense that you use the ...
by Scott McCloud
Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:52 am
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: do we really need to reinvent comics?
Replies: 10
Views: 7067

On the other hand, I think that "Conceiving Commercially Practicable And/Or Aesthetically Equivalent Alternatives To Comics, Which Fall Under The Meta-Category Of Sequential Art" is very catchy.

I especially like the acronym C.C.P.A/O.A.E.A.T.C.W.F.U.T.M-C.O.S.A. :wink:
by Scott McCloud
Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:47 am
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: do we really need to reinvent comics?
Replies: 10
Views: 7067

if you change or remove or 'reinvent' any of their defining characteristics (e.g. the page as narrative unit), they stop being comics So <a href="http://www.davidgaddis.com/piercing.html">this,</a> <a href="http://e-sheep.com/spiders/01/">this</a> and <a href="http://www.demian5.com/">this</a> are ...