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Comics!
Studio Foglio (a Seattle outfit) has released issue #12 of Girl Genius. This comic is easy to like. It's got smart, sassy (and cute) engineer genius girls, robots, talking cats, scary and yet alluring pirate captains, barons, blimps, cannons, and troll-like constructed soldiers. It's a madhouse alternate Europe where every mad scientist was a Dr. Frankenstein, and central Europe is dominated by one Klaus von Wulfenbach. What other comic line comes with its own goggles?
A cartoon around some of the aforementioned troll-construct soldiers. The Foglios like to play with Jäger dialog:


Political stuff
From _dkg_, I received in the mail today a paper copy of I am New York City, which is a neat exploration of all the positive things happening in NYC. He writes:

Check out this paper some friends of mine put out. [note: Mr. Modesty here is one of the organizers himself, as is lapartera] We're aiming to distribute 25,000 of them before and during the RNC, to better highlight the issues that we think are important here (i.e., it's not all about cops vs. protestors!)

I've read most of this and I think it's great. Go read the PDF or the HTML

I read some more of The Nation on the bus.

Comments

I Am NYC

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Yes! Isn't this a cool project? I was so happy to do my little bit fixing some of the Spanish spelling and accentuation. We're still hoping to get all of the interviews translated. ChaChachana -- can you help us with that? See there's lots of stuff to be involved in if you do decide to return to the US!