The Boston Globe has cut its Sunday comics down from six pages to four. 🙁
Category: Cartooning
Curmudgeonly Crumb-bum
You can count on good, ol’ Robert Crumb to always find something to complain about. Here he takes exception to having his art seen framed on walls, instead of printed in a book.
There was an exhibition of Crumb art in Boston a couple of years ago. I wrote about it here.
Ghost memory
Last night we did something we very rarely do on a weeknight, by firing up the video projector to watch a movie. Has it already been ten years since the excellent film adaptation of the Ghost World comic book? It was Scarlett Johansson’s breakthrough role, but I don’t understand why it seemed to put the brakes on Thora Birch’s career, because she’s outstanding as Enid.
Ghost World has one of the more memorable movie openers, by featuring this outrageous dance number from a 1965 Bollywood flick called Gumnaam.
Superize me
If only I’d read the warning label for my Superman costume, I’d have known it wouldn’t make me invulnerable or give me the ability to fly, and I could have avoided a few bullet holes and broken bones.
Dilbert is too physical
I’m a week late with this post. Reading Dilbert in last Sunday’s comics, it’s apparent to me that either Scott Adams has been away from high tech work too long, or he decided to avoid mentioning virtual servers.
Today, if a server’s operating system has a problem that’s bad enough you’ve given up on it, you simply blow away the virtual machine it’s running on, and assign its database drive(s) to another virtual server. Recovering the data isn’t necessary unless the problem on the server corrupted or damaged the database, in which case you restore it from a backup copy. Redeploying an old server doesn’t apply, because it was on a virtual machine. But maybe Dilbert’s company is out of date and still runs only physical servers, in which case there’s all the more reason to wonder how it stays in business.
Eisner on the prize
Comics fans will immediately recognize what Google has for its logo today.
If you don’t know who the logo tributes, click the image and you’ll find out. (We’ll ignore the movie that Frank Miller directed a couple of years ago.)