Ephemera 2009 (9) - Artistic Process

-- Cully Hamner, the artist who created the new Blue Beetle look (hey, those Brave and the Bold checks coming in, Cully? Yeah, me neither) is now blogging. Go look!

-- Bill Cunningham, who's been relentlessly preaching "Get of your ass and make your own media", just issued the first chapter of his old school radio play, "The Murder Legion Strikes at Midnight" online. Lots of stuff at his site, including articles about --

-- John August's adventures in self-publishing his short story, "The Variant." John's being ridiculously thorough -- track back through his blog to see he's pared sales, comparison of payout to the published short-story market, discusses the Kindle/Amazon house percentage, and what it all means. (The Kindle rake is shameful, by the way, but not unexpected. Within spitting distance of the iTunes rake) His blog in general is one of my favorite screenwriter's blogs. Ahhh, feature writing. I remember when I had that kind of spare time ...

-- On Twitter, @cwgabriel (Penny Arcade) and @pvponline (PvP) often do live, streaming shows of them drawing their webcomics. Follow, watch for the alerts, and jump in.

-- Mark Waid is off doing conventions, which is why he's been absent here, but a reminder that he's now got his own blog-space at Boom!, not just writing about writing but doing interveiws. (They should put a front page link up, it's a little tricky to find).

-- Tobias Buckell had his readers design his business cards. Hmm, I have a few things arund here that need sprucing up ...

-- "Losing your show is more like a surprise divorce where you get served papers in the morning and your (ex)wife is fucking Human Target by three in the afternoon using the same time slot your child was conceived in and also where she did that one thing that one time on your birthday." Hey, guess, what -- Josh Friedman's blogging again.

-- Holy crap, The entire run of Jackie Chan Adventures is available on Amazon's "video on demand"! But still no DVD boxed set? Weird. Super weird.