Here’s a short illustrated story for you: Steve Lieber is a comic book artist. He drew Underground, a graphic novel (written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve, and colored by Ron Chan).  The story follows Park Ranger Wesley Fischer as she tries to save Stillwater Cave – and then has to save herself. On Sunday [...]

Ariana Osborne is credited as “Chief Mechanic” on the FreakAngels(1) web-comic/graphic novel series (written by Warren Ellis, artwork by Paul Duffield). In practice it seems that this means she’s the web designer/maintainer and general “make the crazy idea work in practice” person. One of the things that she and Warren Ellis are doing is using [...]

It all started when Amazon removed the “Sales Rank” from all gay & lesbian books (apart from homophobic books which now appear at the top of an Amazon search for “Homosexuality”).  The story is covered in detail on Jane’s Dear Author blog. This got picked up in a blog, then spread like wildfire across Twitter [...]

Another follow-up post, this time following up my post on Self-publishing your art books on Lulu. From http://www.lulu.com/content/2709735: “Dear Lulu” is a test book researched and produced by graphic design students and Prof. Frank Philippin at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, during an intensive two-day workshop with London-based designer James Goggin (Practise). The book’s intention is to [...]

Every week I seem to read some nonsense spouted by ill-informed journalists regurgitating a press release from the music industry.  This week it was Dan Sabbagh in The Times condemning “…the traditional net libertarian nonsense that feels good if you want to live in a world in which there are only pub bands with pages [...]