Here are some things I found interesting in the world of minicomics, comic books, graphic novels, small press, self publishing, zines, webcomics, cartoons, digital comics, other, etc. during the week ending 12212013:
"Cartoon Network gravy train is a bit closer to those little handcarts where you pump the handle up and down and roll down the track behind the gravy train. It's a cool replacement for a lame dayjob, but from what I've been told the pay's about the same. All things considered, I'd rather be back in the David Heatley days than wait for Adventure Time/Regular Show/Steven Universe to save us all." -Sean T. Collins.
- Merry Christmas everybody. And if you don't celebrate Christmas then, Merry Christmas! And I don't mean that to be antagonistic or as a way to try and convert you to my religion. I mean it exactly for what it is. A greeting in the tradition of the customs in which I was raised and live. It means that I wish you and yours good health, good fortune, merriment and joy this season. If you or anyone from any culture, language or faith would greet me with well wishes in your own custom I would accept it graciously and appreciate your kind thoughts. Respecting the customs of another human being does not mean that you embrace those customs or that you have been submissive to them. I just means that for about a half a second, you mustered up the human strength to be polite to someone that was trying to be polite to you. It's pretty easy. Shalom. Merry Christmas.
- Robert Newsome over at Second Period Industries has prepared some Christmas music for you to download and enjoy. Also, he let The Robot host his most recent podcast and it is a little bit scary.
- It is the holidays so that means the Holiday Spurge is rolling out his holiday interview series faster than I can read them. So far I have very much enjoyed the Paul Pope and Sean Collins/Joe Mculloch interviews.
- I don't know that I've ever read an Ed Luce comic but the stuff in this Rob Clough piece looks interesting.
- Chip Zdarsky has a hilarious hobby and this Sex Criminals cover is magical.
- Frank Santoro put together a list of best of lists from 2006 to 2012 because that is the kind of thing Frank Santoro does.
- Sparkplug could use your patronage.
- It is ridiculous how good Boulet is.
- The great Sam Henderson talked to CBR.
- This week, a great many comics folk learned how to spell LaBeouf. I think the guy stealing from a Picturebox about page is twice as strange as him stealing from a comic to make a movie. We give people Academy Awards for stealing from a comic to make a movie. (Seriously people, Diablo Cody straight up used the Dan Clowes/Terry Zwigoff screenplay from Ghost World to write Juno and they gave her a freaking Oscar! Of course Shia LaBeouf would steal. The Academy practically commands you to! Jeez-Its people.)
- This is literally the first best of list I've read this year where I thought, yeah, some of that stuff is pretty good.
- Fluke really is awesome and it will also be on April 19th at the 40 Watt next year.
- I hope someone is keeping score. I'm starting to lose track.
- I'm hopeful that all of Pussy Riot will be freed and will be able to live normal quality lives. But the only way I'll watch the Olympics is if Pussy Riot plays the opening ceremonies. (After which, I will immediately stop watching the Olympics.)
- And finally..."ones for guns, I know at one, and the other's for whenever you're shootin' off your guns you can say whatever you want".
Your best pal ever,
Shannon Smith
p.p.s. Let's pretend we went to high school together on facebook.
p.p.p.s. Google + is another place you can read the same thing I posted here.
p.p.p.p.s. I'll tumblr for ya.
p.p.p.p.p.s. Yeah, I do Instagram too now. I guess it's a law or something.
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