In an unlikely turn of events, the only people not surprised by today’s resignation of Pope Benedict are the users of a German comic-a-day calendar. Yesterday’s calendar entry depicted His Holiness with a thought balloon reading “Holy haybag! I’m resigning tomorrow!” The calendar, created by illustrator and alleged clairvoyant Katharina Greve  was printed last summer.

 

For more, an article in German mangled via Google Translate.

An animated tale with no actual animation.

Malaria – Edson Oda.

Doonesbury makes case for print, enrages Web comics 

The strip has kicked off a meme among producers of Web comics, who are inserting art from their own work in the blank space.

The Centrifuge Brain Project – YouTube.

In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat

Take children’s television, for example. Some of the most beloved cartoon characters in Japan are based on food items.

One favorite is Anpanman, or “Bread Man” — a superhero whose head is made out of a sweet roll filled with red bean paste… Anpanman spends most of his time running around, saving starving children by letting them take bites out of his oh-so-delicious head.

 

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talks about new series and new ways to consume them at GQ.

“What if you could radically alter the way stories get told?” asks Ted Sarandos. “What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?”

A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews – NYTimes.com.

An annotated script from Moonrise Kingdom. Sketches, notes, etc.

Last chance to read Bushman Lives for free. This is the version Daniel Pinkwater serialized before publication. As he notes, it is the “the unedited, uncorrected text as handed in to the publisher.”

An informative collection of current business-speak worst practices.

“Double click” – to examine in greater detail – “Let’s have a meeting to double click on that.”

“going forward”, as in “we will be instituting some amazing changes going forward.” It seems to be creeping in everywhere and it’s completely superfluous in every instance.
I mean, of course you’re going forward. That’s how time works.