Football Fever

Images of a football game on a cycling laptop computer screen saver taken with a cellphone camera: originally from digital images taken of a cathode ray tube television. Click for the rest.



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Cartoonists of Color Sit-In

So the idea is that Check Your Head cartoonist Cory Thomas wrote a comic script about the way minority artists are treated in the syndicated newspaper comic strip industry, his version of which is below:

No it's not, the link is dead.

On 10 February 2008, several cartoonists - most of them colored folk in some sense - decided to run their versions of Thomas's strip. This was primarily done in advance, and there was a St. Petersburg Times article about it roughly a month ahead of time, so there was some effort to get the word out.

Now I recognize there is a meta comment here about what is happening with the industry regarding shrinking comics pages and shrinking print-media readership in general, but I'd rather not go into it.

The results are gathered in a few different places, notably here and here, and there is some very good commentary going on in many different areas, well worth checking out.

I put the ball in your court

Al Zimmerman in court