Apple Stickers Ad Features Manga Chi, Wonder Woman

Apple’s newest TV ad, “Stickers”, shown here, promotes the love users have for the MacBook Air lightweight laptop. (I can affirm — I got mine earlier this month, and I absolutely adore it. So fast and responsive!) People love to decorate, to personalize their Apple machines, and the ad demonstrates just how creative they can get with the Apple logo on the top. For example, here’s Chi, from the manga series Chi’s Sweet Home. Other favorite characters shown include Snoopy, […]

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Bats Bats Bats Bats: The History of Batman’s Costumes

The same group that put out an infographic on the history of Spider-Man’s costumes is back with a look at Batman’s outfits over the years. Smartly, they’ve titled it “The Mark of Batman: The Evolution of an Icon” since what changes is the bat on his chest. Some of those early 1940s bats, before branding became a concern, are pretty goofy-looking. The list comes in two sections, one each for comics and movies. Infographic Created by HalloweenCostumes.com

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Displaced Persons Preview of Time-Travel Noir

Image Comics has released a substantial preview of Displaced Persons, a noir graphic novel by Derek McCulloch and Anthony Peruzzo. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond code JUN14 0499, and the $17.99 paperback is due in comic book stores August 6, in bookstores August 19. The story is a twisty puzzle that, typical of the genre, explores the darker side of human nature and family interactions. I read it multiple times.

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“Imitation Game” Biography of Alan Turing Online

Jim Ottaviani, known for his scientist biographies Feynman, Primates, and Dignifying Science, among others, is back with a new one. The Imitation Game is the story of Alan Turing, the “father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence”. Best of all, right now, you can read it for free at Tor.com. As Ottaviani describes it, Flying at the head of Churchill’s flock was Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code. That alone would be enough to secure […]

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Real-Life Wacky Racers

Do you remember the Wacky Races cartoon show? If not, here’s the opening, that shows all the various drivers and their odd concept cars. Now, check out this ad for the Peugeot 208, with real-life versions of a lot of the same vehicles. We didn’t get the lumberjack and the beaver or the hillbilly and the bear — animals are hard to work with — but I’m astounded at all the others. That’s not my favorite recent nostalgia car ad, […]

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Hope Larson’s New Webcomic Solo

Hope Larson, author of such outstanding graphic novels as Mercury and Chiggers, has quietly launched a new webcomic, Solo. (Not for kids — strong language appears in the first few pages.) It’s single-color, with a calming teal green highlighting and shading her firm lines. She’ll be updating, according to the site, “whenever I damn well feel like it”, and there are no plans for an RSS feed. She explains on Twitter: Maybe I want people to forget about my comic […]

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1889 Colorado Lesbian Elopement Webcomic

Comics by Melanie Gillman are always worth reading, in part because they turn up such interesting historical references. Like this one, about a lesbian couple in 1889 Colorado who tried to run off together. Click the link to find out what happened. Gillman observes that the papers of the time looked down on novel-reading, which was a sign of low intelligence or flighty romanticism. Yes, once upon a time, all novels were considered the way Harlequins are today, subject to […]

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