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Eric: The Comixpedia Shuffle
It's the collaboration issue of Comixpedia, and this week I have not one but two Collabertastic articles. The first, my Feeding Snarky column for this month, goes into some detail on the difference collaboration made from my first -- terrible webcomic and the pretty-damn-spiffy Gossamer Commons of today.
(By the by -- tomorrow's Gossamer Commons -- which will be 'today's' Gossamer Commons within a few minutes Today's Gossamer Commons has some of the most kicking of ass art Greg's done yet -- it absolutely proves the column's accuracy, in my humble opinion.)
Also in this week's dispatch is Taking Their Lumps. This is an interview I got to conduct with J. Grant and Mel Hynes of Two Lumps. Grant and Hynes were astoundingly cool interviewees.
I... um... didn't come up with the title, for the record. Not that I'm distancing myself from the title. No no! No... I'm... all about the puns... no... really... um....
Anyway! In addition to me doing my writerly things on those two pieces, there's lots of good collaborative fodder so far. I'd have pimped out some of it last week, but as you all know I've been pretty sick and burnt out. Of particular note so far is Alexander Danner's Guide to Collaboration and this month's Modern Humor Authority strip, penned as always by Kristofer Straub, has me weep with the beauty that it evokes in my turgid soul.
And of course there's more! And more to come later this month (I haven't seen anything from Ping Teo this month yet, for example -- and if I go too long without seeing Ping Teo stuff in Comixpedia, the shakes come back and I have to start slaughtering Klingons and Starfleet officiers until the Founders restore my Ping Teo writing injection tube.)
All in all -- it's some damn good writing at Comixpedia this month... except the Lilim.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at May 15, 2005 11:15 PM
Comments
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at May 16, 2005 2:01 AM
Heh. It's really weird when sites like Comixpedia use a hard-defined font size for links and emphasis, because I (with my bad vision) have my default fonts set larger than normal...and the emphasized bits come out all teeny.
Comment from: Kristofer Straub posted at May 16, 2005 4:00 AM
I have my fonts set to normal size with my good vision, and the links are all tiny. They really, really need to fix that.
Comment from: kjc posted at May 16, 2005 5:21 PM
Actually, we don't do it on purpose and we're not sure why it happens, so we haven't managed to fix it yet.
Sorry.
Kelly J. Cooper
Comixpedia Features Editor
Comment from: B.G.Aesop posted at May 16, 2005 5:44 PM
Hiya Eric. Long time reader, first time getting enough ambition to register a typekey account so I can comment-er. Just as an aside, about Gossamer Commons, if you're going for the whole "cool, smart sounding forward/backward links" theme then I think that "initial" works a lot better than "first." But that's just me.
Comment from: Prodigal posted at May 17, 2005 4:27 AM
I cannot put into words exactly how much I loved today's punchline. Beautiful work, man.
Comment from: Phalanx posted at May 17, 2005 5:33 AM
Heh. The reason why there has been no Ping Teo stuff is because Ping Teo is being evil and very very late with her deadlines.
A new "Essence" should be showing up next week, I think.
ps: Did I say 6... I meant twelve!
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