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Ubunchu!
What’s this, another computer post? Purely a coincidence, I assure you. Ubunchu is a manga detailing the trials and tribulations of three members of a high school sys-admin club as they attempt to...
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Advanced Encryption Standard: A Play in Four Parts
The Advanced Encryption Standard is one of those things that is almost omnipresent on the Internet, but most people don’t know it exists—much less how it works. Jeff Moser seeks to rectify that in...
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All the News That’s Fit to Draw
Given that Japan is losing its fourth Prime Minister in four years, now seems like a good time to talk about Manga no Shimbun, the manga newspaper. Young people just aren’t reading the news these...
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Fighting Spam and Boredom, One App at a Time
Advertising comics might be pretty old hat to us by now, but now Internet giant Yahoo! is getting into the act anyway, hiring firm Slant Six Creative to craft a campaign to promote their mobile apps....
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Bathed in the Glow
The big word this year has been digital comics. Okay, maybe it was the big word last year too… and the year before. But this year it actually feels like something is happening, and we can probably...
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Getting Hands-On With a Little Help
While I was writing about comics apps yesterday, namely comiXology, one thing I failed to look at were the instructions. To teach users how to read a comic on the app, they use… a comic! The...
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When Books Get Anthropomorphic
What Matt Alt calls “working characters” in his book Hello, Please! are not unknown in the United States—we see them all the time in the form of sport mascots and product spokesmen. But ultimately,...
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Electronics Comics
Remember when Radio Shack was a place where you could go to buy radio parts? Yeah, I know it’s hard to believe when you look at all the cell phones, digital cameras, and DISH Network subscriptions on...
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The Social Comic Book
Today The Social Network, a movie scripted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, hits theaters in the United States. The movie focuses on the rise of Facebook, as well as the men who founded...
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Be Careful What You Post
Once upon a time, privacy was just something you naturally had. Unless you were a celebrity or purposely sought attention for whatever reason, you could live your life pretty low-key and...
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Out of Sync
There’s a pretty big divide between what we know as mainstream comics (mostly superhero books) and the small press/indie stuff. Not to say that there aren’t people who read both, or that creators don’t...
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Hi Five, Leads Man!
When making a nonfiction comic, creators have a whole toolbox of genres to choose from—romance, action, science fiction—but there’s something about the business world that makes the creators of comics...
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How to Make an 8-Bit World
deviantART is host to quite the thriving comics community; you’ll find everything from one-panel cartoons to comic strips to pages from full comics, as well as a plethora of fan art and original art....
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A Not-So-Wee Ad for the Wii
When the Nintendo Wii came out, it was marketed as a system for everyone—old people liked it, little kids loved it, and even your mom didn’t mind inviting it to Thanksgiving for a few rounds of bowling...
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Manifested Destiny
Last week the popular computer game The Oregon Trail made its way to Facebook, courtesy of The Learning Company and Blue Fang Games. For those too old or young to have experienced it, The Oregon Trail...
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Citation Needed
I just finished reading Scott Westerfeld‘s novel Extras, the fourth book in the Uglies Trilogy. Putting aside discussion of the proper definition of “trilogy” for now, the book was interesting to me...
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Laika Lives!
Laika may have been the first animal to orbit the Earth, but there was no way to bring her back down safely, which also makes her the first to die in space—meaning that Nick Abadzis’ graphic novel...
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Telling a Story in 5 Panels with G+
So Google+ is the new “hot” social network that everyone’s jumping aboard, though it’s not without its flaws—chief among them being that Google continues to insist that people use their “real” names,...
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Arduino at a Glance
For those of you looking for some do-it-yourself work or a new programming challenge, Arduino might be a good place to start. It is an electronics scripting and prototyping platform that can allow...
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Steve Jobs and What Was NeXT
News has been trickling out over the past month about Caleb Melby’s upcoming 60-page graphic novel, The Zen of Steve Jobs. In it, we get to see parts of Mr. Jobs’ life very few have been able to see...
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