Archive for September, 2004

Reading groups

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I’ve never actually made it to any of the meetings of the Leamington Spa reading group, nor have I ever managed to read any of the books that they have discussed, so what makes me think I’ll do better with this online reading group? Well its being run by Susanna Clarke herself. I […]

Aadvarks

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I got home yesterday to find an air mail envelope from Canada. It was my personalised, signed copy of Cerebus - mothers&daughters 14. There was also this letter from Dave Sim (pdf) which said (after a little OCR and editing):
17 September 04
Dear Neilies and Neilettes:
Thank you for your recent inquiry. With the fourteen […]

Teaching Comics

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

http://www.teachingcomics.org/
Who would have thought it, an online resource to help facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education. They seem to like calling it “sequential art” which is a term I don’t think I have come across before.

Its copyright time again

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Most of my posts about copyright have been US biased, because thats where all the action is at the moment. So its nice to have an easy to read article about the situation in American written by a UK based journalist. Here it is: http://www.vnunet.com/comment/1158300 . It might make more sense to you […]

M.John Harrison

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

I recently bought Light by M.John Harrison and haven’t yet had a chance to read it. Amazon have just put up a short story, Tourism, set in the Universe(s) of that novel. You can read it here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/536970/103-8614963-0592657


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