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.

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?”

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

Love the graphic design of sports teams? Not so into actual sports? Check out the History League for sporty designs of events relevant to most humans.

Choose your own adventure style Hamlet now the #1 funded publishing project on Kickstarter.

To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure by Ryan North — Kickstarter.

Casey Kolderup created a program to auto-generate maps for ZZT games.