Friday, July 22, 2005

Zoinks, Beaver And Steve Escape Dr. Gottlieb

The Zoinks website is up and running. Zoinks is Bill 'Voices In My Hand' Charbonneau's new Webcomics magazine. Each issue will feature interviews with webcomic creators and industry professionals. It'll also have previews and reviews of some of the best in online comics, and, most importantly, it'll feature tons of webcomics. Amonst the contributors, besides Bill himself, will be Nathaniel Payne of the Evil Network and the Digital Strips boys, Daku and Zampzon. For the next two issues, at least, there'll also be one of our funny cartoons.

I was listening to the radio today, while having my lunch, and they were talking all about the man who was shot on the London Underground. Then I sit down to my computer and start browsing through my usual slew of websites - amongst which is Beaver & Steve, where James is explaining why the comic was posted a little late.

Found an excerpt from Mark Frauenfelder's new book 'The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept and Dangerous, People, Places and Things on Earth' on Boing Boing. It's a piece about Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who headed up the CIA's MK-ULTRA programme during the fifties and sixties. The programme seemed to involve not much more than the good doctor running around spiking people with industrial grade LSD.