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I have learned from my sister and her experience with the cancer that killed her that sometimes, it’s more important to quit thinking about why terrible things happen, and get busy helping those who suffer. Don’t try to explain; explanations are not possible. Just love, and comfort, and strengthen, and encourage. If any redemption can come out of these terrible events, it will be through those things. — Rod Dreher.
Image: by Dan Wasserman.
If Tech Companies Made Easter Candy
Click-through to see Apple’s contribution.
Image: Detail from Mashable’s comic.
Calvin and Hobbes Nursery Complete with Fort for Sleeping
Via Reddit
Congratulations Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow (nee, Dan Perkins) won the annual Herblock Prize for excellence in editorial cartooning.
Tomorrow’s This Modern World appears in about eighty newspapers and sites across the country, he’s authored ten anthologies and worked with Pearl Jam on their album art.
As the Herb Block Foundation notes: “[Tomorrow] has also been awarded the first place Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Excellence in Journalism, the first place Society of Professional Journalists’ James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and the Association for Education in Journalism Professional Freedom and Responsiblity Award.”
He currently edits the Daily Kos’ comics section.
Images: Panels from “A Controversy Erupts”, February 2012, by Tom Tomorrow.
Comics journalism is nothing new. Comics book artists such as Joe Sacco, Ted Rall, Joe Kubert, and others have been telling nonfiction stories using sequential art for years. But with the saturation of online news, and editors’ growing interest in both user experience and attracting younger audiences, comics journalism has slowly been making its way to traditional news outlets and is currently enjoying a renaissance in both creative energy and popularity. Symbolia has embraced the Web from the start, publishing stories that mix audio, visual, and interactive elements to create a unique form of storytelling.
RIP Peter Parker
In Amazing Spider-Man #700, Peter Parker dies and his role as Spider-Man is taken over by Doctor Octopus / Otto Octavius.
Number 700 will be the last in the “Amazing” series. 2013 will kick off with Otto as the web slinger in “The Superior Spider-Man #1.”
Image: Variant Edition, Amazing Spider-Man #700.
New Journalism Startup Combines News, Comics
Symbolia’s a new magazine that tells the news through illustrations. Sources are drawn, and quotes get their own speech balloons.
Their first issue is available for free download now, covering the Zambian Psychadelic Rock, Iraqi Kurds, zoology in the Congo and California’s Salton Sea. They feel, in most cases, like longform reads.
It’s really meant for iPads, though you can download a PDF version. Future issues will be priced at $1.99, and Symbolia plans to publish six a year. Android fans will have to wait, Symbolia people said today, but they’ll begin publishing Ebooks in the Android Marketplace.
As it Happens, I’m a Writer
The Oatmeal, detail, Some thoughts and musings on making things for the web.
In which Neil deGrasse Tyson helps Superman find his way home.
See? Someone Won!
FJP friend Jonathan Roy (he designed our logo) has started an editorial cartoon Tumblr.
Welcome him aboard by giving him a follow.
Superman Quits Daily Planet, Will Get Entrepreneurial
Via the Christian Science Monitor:
Superman’s human alter ego Clark Kent will quit his job at the Daily Planet in this week’s latest edition of “Superman.” Kent quits after becoming angry over what he sees as the industry’s declining standards.
In Wednesday’s edition, which will be “Superman” issue No. 13, writer Scott Lobdell said personal issues will cause Kent to vent his frustrations by quitting his job in front of the Planet staff…
…”This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren’t really his own,” Lobdell told USA Today. “Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?”
Kent objects to recent coverage by the Daily Planet, including a story Lane did on a sex scandal which he sees as lowering the standards of the paper.
Lobdell said Kent won’t be applying at other newspapers in town.
“He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from,” the writer said.
Image: Detail, Superman No. 13. Select to embiggen.
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