I should probably get around to moving this site over to Orange Fort and updating the theme this month.

Copied from Tom Spurgeon's Comics Reporter site -- this is a pretty good list of comics people and groups in DC but who's missing?

People

• Michael Auger
• Rob Balder
• Ben Claasen
• Steve Conley
• Matt Dembicki
• Barb Fischer
• John Gallagher
• Chris Impink
• Jonathan Luna
• Joshua Luna
• Shawn Martinbrough
• Carla Speed McNeil
• Jamie Noguchi
• Pat Oliphant
• Mike Rhode
• RM Rhodes
• Larry Rodman
• Marc Singer
• John K. Snyder III
• John E. Williams
• Xaviar Xerexes
• Clay Yount
• Hampton Yount

Institutions

• Bash Magazine
• Big Planet Comics
• International Comic Arts Festival
• DC Conspiracy
• Katsucon
• Small Press Expo
• Swann Foundation at the LOC
• Washington Post Writers Group
• Washington Webtoonists

Just re-read Josh Neufeld's A.D. New Orleans After The Deluge again.  It's such a powerful book -- if you have friends who doubt the power of comics, this is one of the first you should recommend to them.

I swear I think my camera has gone senile -- I can't seem to figure out the right settings for photos inside. Oh well - three photos came out not completely bad.

This is a surprisingly interesting article pulled from F. Scott Fitzgerald's tax returns (link from Kottke).  Even though he was often wealthy in terms of his times, his income was erratic and his spending, despite seeming efforts to control it, exceeded his reach.

I guess it shows another example of how hard it can be to live the creative life even when you're a success.

A little late but catching up on an interesting book - REMIX by Larry Lessig covers his thoughts on the emergence of hybrid business models - meshing sharing and commercial economic activity in ways that respect and reinforce those separate spheres of human activity (sharing - think helping out a neighbor; commercial - think buying food).

It made me think back to the experience with Comixpedia/TALK this decade.  I can't say I know what every original participant's motivations were.  There was no clear or even explicit "business" plan.  I know I wanted to write and find an audience for that writing.  I also thought there was a niche to be filled as it didn't seem that anyone was giving webcomics attention (that's all different now - all comics-focused media seems to treat webcomics as comics).

When you want to make a custom page for a particular type of content (like a comic) on a drupal theme you have to make an extra tpl page (page-comic.tpl.php) AND!!! modify the template.php file.

Wish I'd remembered that earlier tonight...

Something like this is the next snippet of The Prime Derivative storyline...

I have this idea for a story about zombie gorillas.  Just a drawing from when I was thinking about how that one would go.