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ComixTALK: Lucy Knisley Comic on Alternative Cartoonists' Panel
| I find this to be a fascinating view on the "conflict" between e-books and physical books. http://bit.ly/1FKosc #fb 12/2/2009 |
| This sums up my feelings on digitial print fairly well. Http://lucylou.livejournal.com/578698.html 11/23/2009 |
| Funny comic about online reading: http://lucylou.livejournal.com/578698.html Santa's book kimi: http://imikimi.com/main/view_kimi/f3ua-16l 11/23/2009 |
Lucy Knisley Comic on Alternative Cartoonists' Panel
ComixTALK —
... This Lucy Knisley comic "Downloading Optimism (Pessimism Virus Detected)" is a great bit of commentary on the transition between an all paper world to the multimedia, digital world Lucy is already a native in. There are generational issues as well as the massive discomfort anyone feels when they are in effect "losing their job" (what else to call the dying models of the daily big city and alternative weekly newpapers and the diminishing number of cartoonists who can make a living from their checks?). You have to hope that ...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/18/09
THE BEAT —
... had to be polybagged.
§ Matt Badham chats with Lisa Wood, organizer of this week’s Thought Bubble comic convention in Leeds, UK.
§ Novelist Kevin Baker talks about his graphic novel Luna Park at NPR.
§ A sort of transcript of last week’s Barry/Feiffer/Groening/Ware comics panel by Ed Choy Moorman. Also, Lucy Knisley captured the day in pictures. [Links via The Comics Reporter]
§ A nice report on ...
Digital is an opportunity
The Ephemerist —
... Thanks to young artists like Lucy Knisley, older cultural pessimists like us, who feel disillusioned by the constantly shifting world of print vs. digital, can again learn to breathe lightly and gain confidence in the future. We need more genuine digital evangelists like this !
(strip © Lucy Knisley, thanks to Dylan Horrocks) ...
Nov. 19, 2009: No longer kid-friendly
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal —
... [Comics] “Downloading Optimism”
Link: Lucy Knisley
Why do indy cartoonists fear the Internet?
(Above: sequence ©2009 Lucy Knisley. Link via The Ephemerist.)
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Comics Cavalcade: Mannequins and mental disorders
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
Downloading Optimism by Lucy Kinsley
Antisocial Personality Disorder by Darryl Cunningham (while you're at it, go read the rest of Cunningham's Psychiatric Tales)
Mannikinland by Mark Fenderson
Marvelous Mike by Bob Kuwahara
Sausage Pilot! by Hank Chapman and Irv Novick
Andy Pandy by John Stanley
Jim Bowie ...
The Cross Hatch Dispatch
The Daily Cross Hatch —
... No one wants print to go under, but sometimes that’s just the way things are. Lucy Knisley’s Downloading Optimism (Pessimism Virus Detected) provides some perspective after a recent comic panel. ...


