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Preview: Morning Glories #1 - Comic Book Resources
The most anticipated new series of the year starts here! Morning Glory Academy is one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country... But behind it's hallowed doors something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers in a place where nothing is what it seems to be!
Invisible Cities maps information from one realm - online social networks - to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented as individual nodes that appear whenever a message or image is posted. Aggregate activity is reflected in the underlying terrain: over time, the landscape warps as data is accrued, creating hills and valleys representing areas with high and low densities of data.
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Lily Renée Phillips’s first job in comics was erasing the errors made by the male illustrators who sat around her. It was 1943 in the cramped, smoky offices of Fiction House—the epicenter of comics publishing at the height of the golden age of comics—and Phillips was one of two women on staff and a handful working in the business who filled desks emptied by the war. The illustrators around her drew in graphite, then inked them over. It was her job to erase too-thick arms, stray bullets—and the lewd notes they wrote her in the margins.
A Real-Life Comic-Book Superhero - Newsweek
Osamu Tezuka: Father of manga and scourge of the medical establishment | Science | guardian.co.uk
So far in this blog series on graphic medicine I've been looking at medical comics in the west. Now I look east to the work of the "Father of manga" (Japanese comics) Osamu Tezuka. A talented writer, artist and animator, Tezuka used his medical education to inform his anatomically accurate depictions of surgery.
GLORY #25 gets a 9/10 from Multiversity Comics! "...this arc has done everything you would hope a new creative... http://t.co/NRr3kYeI - 7 hours ago
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Watchmen Plot Summary - Chapter 1: At Midnight, All the Agents… - WatchmenComicMovie.com
October 12 , 1985. Two police detectives investigate the murder of Edward Blake who was forced out of his apartment window by an unknown assailant. Rorschach, a former costumed hero turned vigilante, investigates the crime scene after the police leave and discovers that Edward Blake was the secret identity of a government sponsored “mask” named The Comedian. Dan Drieberg, aka The Nite-Owl, returns from a social call with long retired costumed hero Hollis Mason, the original Nite-Owl, to find Rorschach has broken into his apartment. Rorschach informs Dreiberg that The Comedian was murdered and that he suspects it’s part of a bigger plot to kill off other former heroes.
Book Review - Bodyworld - Written and illustrated by Dash Shaw - NYTimes.com
The first sign that “BodyWorld” doesn’t play by the rules is that the book’s spine is at its top. The overall motion of Shaw’s story becomes a downward scroll rather than a rightward stroll. The climax of that slow 380-page dive is a remarkable sequence toward the end — seven pages devoted to a single gigantic panel that pulls the reader’s perspective downward across the architectural landscape of a future megalopolis, after which the movement of the story bounces back up into the stars. This is a disorienting, distracting funhouse of a book: there are long hallucinatory passages, near-abstract images, drawings overlaid on one another until they’re nearly incomprehensible.Medical Histories of Other Historical Figures
Nikita Khruschev -- President John Kennedy and Soviet Chairman Khruschev met in Vienna in June 1961. Beforehand, the CIA advised Kennedy against "getting Khruschev too tired" and further briefed Kennedy that Khruschev's left temporal vein would swell when he (Khruschev) was irritated. [ 6a ] Alexander the Great -- Why did Alexander's army turn back in India, revolting against the General who had led them 11,000 miles in seven years? These men were above common hardships. What could break their morale?
Hernán Cortés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca ( Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnaŋ korˈtes de monˈroj i piˈθaro] ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas . Born in Medellín, Spain , to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue a livelihood in the New World . He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba , where he received an encomienda and, for a short time, became alcalde (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded.In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.c
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, , the co-founder of , became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen. While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels attached to a boxy, head-height screen glowing with an image of Mr. Brin’s face.
The following is a list of literary agents who represent graphic novels and comics. Every agency on this list has mentioned an interest in graphic novels either on their website or their blog, or made a GN sale– no second-hand info unless it was well vouched for. Cornerstone Literary Agency: Helen Breitwieser D4EO Literary Agency: Bree Ogden Folio Literary Management: Emily van Beek, Michelle Brower, Michael Harriot
Niki Smith – Literary Agents Who Represent Graphic Novels
"When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective." -- Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil On 'The Singularity' Future -- Ray Kurzweil -- Info
The Onset of the 21st Century will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.