Thursday, August 18, 2005

Hitting The Nail On The Skafunkrastapunk

Predictably enough, that New York Times article sparked alot of discussion around the webcomic community. Eric over at Websnark threw his two cents worth(we get to same that now since the introduction of the euro) in, Tom Spurgeon had his say and everyone else waded in over at Comixpedia. But, by far and away, the most incisive piece on the whole affair was Ping Teo's aside at Webcomic Finds. She hit the nail on the head while everyone else was hitting their thumbs. That's not to say that everyone else was wrong, just that she cut straight to the heart of the matter.

As a side-note to that whole affair, Blank Label pulled off a pretty clever little trick when they registered the name comicwindows.com - after it had been mentioned in the NYTimes article. No one knows what site the article was supposed to be referring to but fair fucks to the lads for picking up on the mistake.

Frank's after doing some more work on the site, which you might have noticed. If you didn't and you're curious as to what it is: read this.

Frank also pointed me in the direction of this site earlier. Primarily it was because they have some recordings of Hunter S. Thompson doing a Q & A at the University of Colorado Auditorium in 1977. Haven't listened to them yet but they could be interesting. Other than that, though, I also found a link to skafunkrastapunk(amongst others); where I found some interesting(?!) links.

Finally, found through boingboing, NYC2123 is a serialised sci-fi novel intended for reading on the Sony PSP. Released under a Creative Commons license, it seems like an interesting experiment. Not my sort of thing but it's the ideal genre for that particular medium, surely.