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I dunno, I prefer those Lucky Strikes. But ever since they traded Butts to the VA Slims team, I've been uneasy. It's been a bad season for the Strikes.

Indeed. It certainly involved me, a 19-year-old Christian who grew up struggling with his faith in much the same way Thompson did. I noticed that some of the symbols and the narration distanced me, though, especially when my interpretation of the story differed from Thompson's. But that's a differen...

As soon as Scott says this use of his picture is OK, I'd like to give the button up to the public domain.

As for "Ashes to Ashes," sorry, but I was referring to Genesis and funeral tradition as well as playing on Ashcroft's name. Not that it matters, because I threw out the silly entry.

I made an 80 x 15 button to link to ScottMcCloud.com from <a href="http://popageorgio.com">my new blog</a>:

<img src="http://www.popageorgio.com/long_slick_b ... ccloud.png">

With Ex-Lax, the good times are a-flowin'. Hmm, sounds like a Prairie Home Companion ketchup commercial.

What in the world is "Bwoston?"

(The above was rhetorical. I am a cognizant primate. I'm merely pointing out that "Bwoston" does not seem to fit the accent.)

Oh, sure, and the second person will be a Robert Crumb fan, so screw them. What do you got against "The King of Underground Comix"? Or am I misinterpretting what you're saying here? I worship the guy, even though he's a lefty malcontent. No, I like Crumb's work - what I can get my cashless, decent-...

So true, so true.

Nope.

Yeah, you're getting at the fundamental tension between popular success and artistic excellence. The wish for posterity, to be remembered for a truly great work, is a survival urge. It's the hope for immortality through your work. And I'd argue that it drove many writers and artists who created our ...

Oh, sure, and the second person will be a Robert Crumb fan, so screw them.

By the way, Scott, sorry to make you change a panel.

Heh heh. Reminds me of that Calvin & Hobbes where Calvin decides he's the result, and thus the purpose, of all evolution.

EDIT: This is the Calvin & Hobbes.

Whoa. Speech bubble from nowhere. Either Scott's getting sloppy or he's implying something, and I'd bet on the latter.

The comic "Cerebus" uses (used?) foreign accents recognizable as German, Southern American, and so on, although the setting is a fantasy world with fictional nations. It gives the whole thing a cleverly realistic effect.

Songs fit within 3 minutes so they can be played on the radio. Movies follow traditions because it makes them more palatable to buyers. Great art can come from artists just making a buck. Scott denies this by claiming that art is free expression that springs from no survival or reproductive purpose....

Scott, I like the quote on your blog, but I don't agree. As Cat and Girl say, "Great stuff is usually made within very set boundaries." Read the comic; it argues against your concept of art better than I can.

"You'll be savoring a star fruit and kicking off your moon boots, oh, you will go to the moon."

Ladies and gentlemen, Moxy Fruvous.

Wired News ran a piece on webcomics breaking into print at the Alt Press Expo.

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62 ... _tophead_3

Blog me, Scott, blog me! And then link to my web site with my name!

Nick Douglas
Sell-out

No, use Atom! If Google likes it, it must be good!

Google: the ultimate grey-hat.

It probably was. Half the time we're joking.

But Scott, you might want to put a little more periwinkle in the background. And more monkeys.

Heh heh. A player.

Talk about regional dialects; I was disappointed by the panel because there was nothing to explain or comment on. Then someone asks what a Northeaster is.

Sophie Crumb, daughter of Robert Crumb, recently published Belly Button Comix under the Fantagraphics label. The NY Times ran a story yesterday. (NY Times: User: sagoons Password: sagoons)

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Insightful, man. Very good observation.

No, no, no. Totally a Marxist allegory.

I dunno, but I'm seeing this shopping cart as a secret jab at Amazon's patent of one-click shopping, a sign that Amazon is "two-faced" and their legal argument, like a bag of Dunkin' Donuts, is "full of holes." This is why I hate getting at real artistic interpretations; I start to convince myself o...