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Occasional mutations, while usually not sophisticated on their own, can help to spawn new species, to add vitality to the gene pool. Exactly. I've even made specific references to finding a "durable mutation" of comics for over 5 years now. Most will die out, but some of those weird new lifelines c...

what we can do is draw good pictures and write good words, improve our craft, and comics will be better off for it. True. But when the technological landscape is changing under our feet, standing still is good way to fall through the cracks. Good scripts and good acting (the film equivelent of what...

Quick clarification: The "temporal map" idea in RC wasn't being offered as any sort of counter-definition to UC's "Juxtaposed Pictorial etc, etc..." It was just a functional description that I thought was more provocative to the imagination when considering new shapes online. I don't see the two as ...

Interesting thoughts, David -- and an interesting site, btw. Thank you for posting.

While I'm sure it would be hard to take on a slow connection, I found the interface at least creative and not that hard to decode. It's probably a dead-end in the long run, but I think we should give experiments like this a little extra slack. Phases of experimentation like the one we're in now requ...

Yeah, it was the Story Machine.

Actually, I've only used it for "Proto the Pet" so far, but I may use it for other MIs in the future. In a way, the titles themselves serve as pretty good randomizing devices.

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

Hi Jason --

Fascinating work as always.

One question though, Saturday links to Sunday, but then Sunday's a dead-end. Have you uploaded Monday and Tuesday? I can't find them.

I've got you bookmarked, Jim. Very interesting work!

There's an interview with me on this week's <a href="http://www.talkaboutcomics.com">Digital Comics Talk</a> with Joey Manley.

I'm not sure of the time frame. At least until the end of the year, but mayber a lot longer. It is, after all, just one hour.

Off topic, but check out the latest <a href="http://www.tcj.com/messboard/ubb/Forum9 ... irmish.</a>

is seven hours a week is a good compromise for putting out work that you may not get directly reimbursed for? More or less, yeah. And a good way to give me a creative outlet I was lacking otherwise. Or is this a "well, I'll do it for a while but if the paypal donations don't add up I'll probably st...

Also <a href="http://www.builder.com">Builder.com.</a>

Go to Authoring and Site design and click on "Basics."

<h1>D'Oh!</h1>

Thanks for the heads-up, Guys. I'll fix that right away.

"Wild Takes" is an online talk show whose sometimes co-host Joey Manley recently started his own show at talkaboutcomics.com. Today's "Wild Takes" was a second episode dealing with online comics. You can find it <a href="http://www.streamingmedia.com/talk/series.asp?series=wildtakes">here.</a> Today...

Scott, did you know they used a page from one of your Superman scripts to illustrate a writer using thumbnails in the page margins to communicate layout ideas to the artist?

You bet. They even got permission first and dropped me $100!

<img src="http://scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/_logo.gif"><br>Y'mean this?

I tried it out in the top frame, but it clashed style-wise and looked a bit too much like a banner ad so I changed it to the simpler version you see now. Maybe I'll use it as an ad someday! (If I ever actually pay for an ad.)

<a href="http://www.scottmccloud.com"><b>It's pretty weird and there's not much there yet -- but there will be soon!</b></a>

Just for the record, I've never found the distinction between amateur and professional to be particularly meaningful on an aesthetic level. Some of my favorite cartoonists have been giving it away for years.

<a href="http://www.scottmccloud.com/xyz/sd-2001 ... g"><b>Page One.</b></a><br><a href="http://www.scottmccloud.com/xyz/sd-2001 ... g"><b>Page Two.</b></a>

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"We, the Amateurs, are as compentent and skillful, as professionals..." [sic]

Bad place for a typo.

Odd selection:

http://www.spxpo.com/ignatzwinner01.htm

Great show if you can make it though. Bethesda MD, September 14-16. Info at:

http://www.spxpo.com

Scott- Any chance of seeing a better image of Sky's fourth-wall-breaking trailed comic?

<a href="http://www.scottmccloud.com/xyz/sd-2001 ... ">Sure.</a>

I'll be at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis Thursday night (Aug 16). Come by and say Hi.

Details:

http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/0108/ ... rsday.html

I'll be at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis Thursday night (Aug 16). Come by and say Hi.

Details:

http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/0108/ ... rsday.html