Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Stunning graphic novel presents the entire iTunes Terms and Conditions

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I thought Robert Crumb's unabridged graphic novel of the Book of Genesis was a herculean effort, but cartoonist R. Sikoryak has tackled an even more arduous task: incorporating the complete, unabridged iTune's user agreement into a graphic novel. Sikoryak is very good at drawing comics in the style of other cartoonists, and he uses this skill here to great effect. Take a gander:

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Page 46 (after Hergé)

Page 42 (after Otto Mesmer)

Page 41 (after Rube Goldberg)

Unbelievable! You can buy hardcopies here: THE UNABRIDGED GRAPHIC ADAPTATION: ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PART A & PART B | THE UNABRIDGED GRAPHIC ADAPTATION: ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PART C & PART D

Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore" (1984)

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The high-water mark of American culture.

"If that's your best, your best won't do."

Academic Director - Bridge at Manhattanville College

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English Language Teachers Needed in Penang, Malaysia

We need two new teachers to start by January 2016 Enhance Education Sdn Bhd specialises in teaching English. We have four teaching centres in Penang State with a total enrolment of more than 2000 students per term. In all centres we provide high-q

Monday, 2 November 2015

Why do people put broomsticks in trees in Brooklyn?

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Jeff Newelt says, "Here's a story from Dean Haspiel's Beef With Tomato, a collection of autobiographical comics with some essays that cover Dean's move from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Dean as you may know, drew The Quitter graphic novel for Harvey Pekar plus many American Splendor stories, and he collaborated with Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic graphic novel, and also drew the opening title sequence for Bored To Death Beef With Tomato is published by Dean's own Hang Dai Editions imprint (distributed by the newly revamped Alternative Comics) that he started with fellow cartoonists including Gregory Benton, Joshua Neufeld and the late Seth Kushner."

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Sunday, 1 November 2015

The incredible treasures of the Octavia Butler archives

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Jaimee Hills writes, "Gerry Canavan has done a short writeup in an academic publication called The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction on the (amazing) contents of the Octavia E. Butler papers at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California." (more…)

Project work (4): Writing "thank you" letters

Mum, Thanks for the soldiers. The kid next door loves them. She got a phone for Christmas and I swopped them with her. She was really upset cos the phone was broken. It wasn't actually but I told her it was cos I really needed the phone so we were … Continue reading