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Housekeeping I

May15
by Manui & Adams on May 15, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized

Deprecated housekeeping notes from May 15, 2006.

Some important housekeeping notes.

One benefit of announcing the previous episode as the final one of the original series is that we can use this space to explain some transitions.

Beginning May 18, 2006, Yamara will run weekly on Thursdays. The first episode is actually already online (“Yamara’s Dreme”) but the site will be sporting a somewhat different look, to compliment the new online style, so feel free to vote and comment on what you think.

A note to various comic lists and encyclopedias: These are chapters of the same comic, not different comics. We request you not retroctively disqualify us for having fewer than ten strips or some such. The location of our archive page remains unchanged, and that should say it all.

For the curious, we have some ‘splainin’ to do: It is in the nature of php to be so seamlessly interactive that one can overlook potential applications and modifications, since it’s supposedly easy to code them in later. Unfortunately, we are neither php coders, nor do we wish to spend the time or money on creating the perfect webcomic
delivery engine. Walrus is plenty great, thank you.

Still, we wanted to do something that Walrus, and the other engines we looked at, couldn’t do out of the box: Change the background and format at a certain date, but leave the previous dates with the old layout. Chris has devised a workaround: The Hundred Classic Episodes are moving to a new directory, yamara.com/yamaraclassic/, while the new strips will keep the yamara.com/yamara/ directory, so that links around the web don’t suddenly become obsolete.

We’re trying to make this as easy on fans as possible:


  • The Working Title War and The Hundred Classic Episodes will be thoroughly linked together onsite through the archive, the “Scrolls of Plegh” menu, and even special rewind/fast forward buttons.
  • All the old strips, images, and even the news will be duplicated into the ongoing /yamara/ directory, so if you’ve been bad and remotely linked one of our strips, then the hour of facing your rightful Day of Reckoning has been postponed.
  • A link to http://www.yamara.com/yamara/ will still reach the latest strip. However, any addresses before May 18, 2006 linked to a specific date (index.php?date=) will fail– we can’t forward them with out #2¢%ing up our engine or layout– and you’ll have to update those links to the /yamaraclassic/ directory, assuming you really care.
  • We expect the RSS feeds to update normally, but we will be watching.
  • A lot of this info will be repeated in the rant for May 18, 2006, since this is the switching point.

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Manui & Adams and Fooden on Lou Gentile

Apr04
by Manui & Adams on April 4, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Posted In: CºNTINUUM, NªRCISSIST, Uncategorized

The Lou Gentile Show has invited us to discuss time travel and other salient topics on his paranormal-themed radio show.

Tune in at 8 PM Eastern, April 13th; streaming is available right off the Lou Gentile site.

(Added this to the announcement:)

You may need to register at the Lou Gentile Show site to access the live audio stream. Registration is free. The Chat/Audio stream uses a current version of Java and ActiveX, so visiting in Internet Explorer on a Windows PC is the most guaranteed way to hear the show.

You can listen to us farther Up in time, but you won’t be able to call in live from there…

Again, Thursday April 13, 2006 8 – 10 PM ET:

Call into the show Mon-Fri 8-10PM Eastern:
Inside the USA? Call in toll-free 1-866-316-9480
Outside the USA? CALL 1-(646)-546-5965

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New York Comic-con

Mar02
by Manui & Adams on March 2, 2006 at 2:29 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

Surrounded by bitter winds, the Jacob Javits Center hosted the first annual New York Comic-con, February 24-26, 2006. Dave Fooden and I walked the floor during the pro-only period on Friday.

Allow me to lead with some of the best newcomers I encountered:
Matthew Bernier, still in SVA but with a sharp voice and style gouged from the nexii of the mid-15th and late-20th Centuries.
Getsiv, and his fascinating The Green Kid which he #@¢%-well better finish at some point. It’s like copying a page from a 1960s Highlights for Children with Silly Putty, but then using the finished art to quietly scatter all bullies and bigots away, across its beaches.
Tara Heusner & Yan Wu, and their We Can’t All and Some of Us Don’t. An all-too-brief paean to the eccentric orbit artists take in modern society. What will they do next?

Dave had with him his latest demo copy of Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head, and no one could believe he had handcrafted it all himself. Well, actually, these were pros, so yeah, they believed it. But they were also impressed. So!

Steve Ellis
We ran into Voltaire, and I got reacquainted with many of Dave’s pals, Steve Ellis (left), Rich Clark, Fred Harper and Dean Haspiel. We may all team up for some Axe In My Head game nights! It’s just an idea we had.
 

Hanging around a mysteriously empty booth smack in the middle of DC, Wizards and Dark Horse, we were tempted to just set up a game and start playing. This boldness, and the game itself, attracted the attention of Molly Crabapple and Dae Yoo, among others, though I’m going to plug the girls since a) they were very attractive and flirtatious and b) they had the business savvy to email me during the show.
 

Oh My God! There's An Axe In My Head
Oh My God! There's An Axe In My Head
 
 
(…Actually we never set up the whole game, and just took these shots from a different corner.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Not a Pirate Pretending to be Ghost
The Axe Effect unleashes the Power of Venture! New Venture Bros. episodes June 11!! Glathheld is gunning for you, Jackson Publick! ! !
 
 

Later in the day, Dave and I fought to stay awake during Vertigo’s presentation. I woke up to applaud for the Y The Last Man announcements (its running toward completion this year… I think…) and we tried to determine if either of us had snored. Shame on us, because Vertigo is doing some exciting stuff: Not least, the V for Vendetta movie, which looks to be a welcome anarchist wet dream, releasing as it does during the Bush Oligarchy. Vertigo reiterated its promises to be bold and beholden to none; we shall see if DC ever yanks in the reins…

Dave went on to a DC party later that night, but you’d have to ask him what went on.
 

Webcomics panel
On Sunday, I caught a few more panels, starting with the webcomics panel, hosted by mostly Blank Label guys. Kristofer Straub of Starslip Crisis, Jon Rosenberg of Goats, Brad Guigar of Evil, Inc., Paul Southworth of Ugly Hill, Steve Troop of Melonpool, and Dave Kellett of Sheldon, probably had a lot of fascinating things to say, but I barely got in at the last minute. Though they concluded with a clear summation to the panel’s official title– “The Future of Comics: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Where It’s Going… Online”:

“The majors are seeing their market share drop, their audience is no longer in comic shops, they’re online. They’ll be spending the next ten years figuring out how to do what we’re already doing.”
 


Indy Comics Seminar

Then it was on to “Beyond the Capes and Spandex” and the mini- to micro-press crowd. True to form, their names do not appear in the con booklet, unlike the other seminar descriptions. Because that would be selling out. Ah, but I took a shot of the Powerpoint slide with their indicia, and so now, through the power of the Internet, they shall forever be enshrined as participants in the first New York Comic-Con:

Ivan Brandon — NYC Mech
Tania Del Rio — Lovesketch; Mangaka America
Jose L. Torres — The Hunger
Fred Van Lente — Action Philosophers!
Neil Kleid — Brownsville
Ken Lillie-Paetz & Chris Moreno — Elsinore; Monkey In A Wagon vs. Lemur On A Big Wheel
Jenny Gonzalez — Too Negative

Best line was from Kleid: “If Marvel wants to allow their protagonists to all be pr*¢ks, I’ll do the entire line.”
 

Christmoot
And finally, I could not resist but sit in on “Spiritual Values in Comics” described with, “As comics reach new levels of maturity and expression, creators are looking inward and outward as they comment on humanity’s search for spiritual values.” Could be gnostic, New Agey and pagan-tastic, right? Then you read that Archie Comics alums are present, and you know you’re in for the Ned Flanders Hour. Virgil, take me there!

Alec Stevens (Sadhu Sundar Singh), B.J. Oropeza (The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture), Paul Castiglia, Steve Ross and Buzz Dixon held forth on an array of Christian topics, most consistently wondering how to reach a wider audience. There seemed to be agreement that the prosyltizing approach wasn’t going to reach new audiences, and that something subtler was called for. While that was mildly creepy, the best part was Ross going on about Marked, his adaptation of Mark, and how more Christians need to rediscover how weird the New Testament really is. He also accurately pointed out that Jesus wasn’t originally portrayed as a guy in beard, halo and toga, but as a typical, shaven-faced Roman tradesman.

Knowing Joss Whedon to be a staunch atheist, I asked Buzz Dixon, one of the creators of the Christian manga Serenity if they had had any trouble with the filmmakers.

Apparently not: “Oh, the fans aren’t confused. They know the difference. One is a spaceship, the other is a girl.”
 

The upstairs was mostly devoted to the set-up of the unrelated Art Expo, except for the top floor, which had a few video game set-ups, and one room with hundreds of tables awaiting card players. We didn’t see any players there Friday or Sunday, though we imagine they had some success whenever we weren’t around. Certainly the Wizards booth in the main area was jumping, and their staff was very helpful and courteous to us.

SponSpored
“Play or Die” does seem to be Hasbro’s credo. Or trademarked threat. But “sponspored”? (See enlargement.) Taking “viral marketing” too seriously? Three-foot-high letters is not where you want to leave the typo.
 

I decided not to go back Saturday, though Dave Fooden did, in search of panels on writing for movies. Saturday turned out to be unseasonably warm and pleasant between the two harsh winter-weather days, and this only exacerbated the popularity of the event. Comic-con was oversold, 11,000 tickets, and the fire marshalls took charge of traffic flow, leaving many waiting outside for hours. The con organizers reportedly thought ticketholders would spread out, both in time and space, and were proved very wrong.

Their desires to make this the East Coast equivalent of San Diego seems well underway. After the con, sometime before 7 pm Sunday, I was lurking on the shoeshine chairs when I overheard one of the show organizers discussing the traffic situation and next year’s show with one of the Center’s union guys:

“We’re definitely looking to take over the upstairs too, next year.”
 

Finally, allow me to leave fellow scribblers with this public service reminder:

Corset
Corsets make all those impossible bodies you draw… a little more possible.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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I Command Hillary to Filibuster

Jan26
by Manui & Adams on January 26, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Posted In: Earth Politics

Under the People’s Sovereign Authority constitutional theory, I wrote to my Senator, Hillary Clinton, commanding her to filibuster the nomination of Alito to the Supreme Court. In case you haven’t heard, he wants to make George W. Bush dictator.

Here’s my diary about it at the Daily Kos.

She wrote back. More on that later.

My orders:

Madam Senator,

I hereby direct you to engage in a filibuster to block the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

Failure to, at minimum, attempt a filibuster, will result in my voting for your Republican challenger this fall, and publicly encouraging all interested parties to do the same.

I have never voted for a Republican. But I will. Because if Samuel Alito is allowed on the court without your making every possible challenge to stop him, you no longer have any reason to serve the people of the State of New York.

Sincerely,

John C. Adams

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Aether Tales

Nov26
by Manui & Adams on November 26, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Posted In: Aether Tales

Anyone who remembers Gunnar Thorson, or has read Hob or the fiction elements of CºNTINUUM knows dramatic business is close to our artistic heart.

And that heart has been a comic series that we’ve dropped hints about, from Dragon*Con to d8 magazine, for the past twenty years. Before midnight Pacific Time on Friday, November 25, AD 2005, the first page of Aether Tales posted.

Decades of ever-changing plans have led us to make a simple launch. To just… begin. It’s the way of the web, as it seems the wisest way to proceed in the world. There should be a new page every Friday, but the work will, ultimately, proceed at its own pace. Odds are this is what we’ll be doing with the lion’s share of our art time for the rest of our lives.

Yamara fans should not be disheartened, though. Quite the contrary: A weekly Aether Tales will show whether Chris can get up to speed in drawing. There are already enough Yamara strips in existence to run two a week from here through May, 2006. There is more story and more funny to go in Yamara, and we expect to be able to start rolling her tale forward again by then.

Off we go.

I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same.

–GOREY
L’heure Bleue, 1975.

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