Streamer blight explained with glaring clarity. 'Netflix’s concern was scale, rather than the cinema it was scaling. Movies...were merely a means to an end: acquiring subscribers who paid for access to Netflix’s entire library of content every month.'

Color guide from Preacher #16, Vertigo in 1996. Drawn by Steve Dillon, and colored by me with Doctor Martin's dyes and gouache. Back then, we colored color guides on photocopies, and had to write the YRBK color percentages (CMYK, or YMCK.) for the separators.

#comics #colors #preacher

today's achievement: one more announcer at a panel flummoxed at having to say 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑑 out loud.
(this book is now ten years old but i keep it in my bio at least partly for this joy)

Aaand the Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is off to print.

Really cut it close here -- our 1st launch event is Dec 21 at Champaca Bookstore in Bangalore! 😅

We're hoping to do events in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, London, & maybe Hyderabad & NYC too... watch this channel!

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some conversations this morning have me wondering: book folks, what do you wish there were more of in how books are covered? and by that I mean: lists? reviews? columns? themed essays? straight-up recommendations? something else I've never thought of?

once more semester-end grading is upon me, and once more being social online is only a distant third worst thing i can do

(second worst is grading; the absolute worst thing is having to deal with students using AI)

Still my favourite essay of mine on the subject of worldbuilding, “The Lone and Level Sands,” in which I argue that “suspension of disbelief” and “secondary world” were not in fact helpful ways to think about what reading is actually like. Highly recommend the links here too, esp. Helen Marshall's

The Uncivilized Cat. 1930. www.flemingcollection.com/collection/s...

The first in a series of Pratchett essays from Tansy Rayner Roberts - now live and free to read!

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