To learn more about the 2015 Leap Second:
The International Earth Rotation Service and Reference Systems and the Paris observatory! Yes, it does have a nice SF-ish ring to its name!
The Leap Second home page.
More about Universal and coordinated universal time. International second
And for the “bug”, the network time protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems.
And to look up the time anywhere, (one of the atomic time websites!) and to look up in Eastern Time.
Happy July!
Posted in Art, Comics, Event, sciences
Tagged 2015 leap second, art, Comics, international atomic time, International Earth Rotation Service, June 30th, sciences, universal time
In mathematics, an hyperbole is a curve obtained by cutting a plan trhough a double cone. In day-to-day life, an hyperbole is a wildly exaggerated statement.
And yes, this majestic wave stems from an ancient (around 1830) japanese woodblock print !
But you’ll get so much exposure! Why should we pay you for the favor?
Should you work for free? This chart by Jessica Hische might help you!
Posted in Art, Comics, humor, Society
Tagged art, artist, exploitation, Exposure, wealth creator, work-for-free
At any event, signing tables are at a premium… It’s the only time we can meet face to face and, may be, win over new readers. Ugly fights might erupt, especially with schedule errors getting more common! Fortunately, the friendly stand manager is present!
PS: and, yes, I changed the title in English for this series.
The Busy Fans – Texts and art by Michèle Laframboise – There are many ways of telling others that you’re busy…
Here’s an overview of the works in progress and deadlines, for the edification of my fantastic fans.
Running towards new adventures and deadlines!
New SF short-stories completed in March (written on the laptop inherited from my dad, a SF lover):
– 2 in French
– 2 English
News in submission:
– 4 submissions to contests and magazines in the last two weeks. Includes three completed mentioned above, and an English translation of a new previously published.
New texts in progress:
– 3 English (end of March). I really enjoyed a 6-week workshop hosted online by Dean Wesley Smith. His writing philosophy was bang on my weaknesses. Down with procrastination!
Foreign language publications
– 1 in the Russian Supernovia review published in January.
Stories:
– 1 French, subject to competition in late February.
Novels
19th in the planning stage (50 000 words)
18th in writing, scheduled to end in early April (60 000 words)
17th accepted with corrections (27 000 words)
16th is currently in print
Comics
My graphic novel Wind Mistress: page 38,39,40, and 41 scanned 42-43 in production.
Caricatures
– this one illustrating this column, the first done since the departure of my father. Note that the nature of the land on which the artist threads changes fast. Hence the slope in the title, as in a learning slope.
-One caricature done at the beginning of 2015, in support of Charlie Hebdo.
The promised project that drags its feet:
The trees – which has not gone too far! since the 24-24 when I began it! It will be 22 pages… Tsssk, tsssk, tsssk!
Posted in Art, Science-fiction
Tagged art, novels, short-stories, work-in-progress, Writing
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This comic is very close to my heart because it concerns my favorite literary flavor ice cream, SF.
To write science-fiction, you have to be not only passionate, but you must also know how to explain the genre to your beloved audience! Most readers associate these words with all other things like (badly written) big movie blockbusters.
There has been intellectual snobbery of genre literature by the “white” litterature, an attitude which fortunately is beginning to fade.
At the end of this article, I put a sketch drawn in 2012 to capture the sense of wonder that came over me during my early discovery of science fiction. I would read late in my father’s library.
If you speak French, I recommend that you visit the blog of Jeanne-A. Debats, a writer who does not shy away from daring ideas! She propvided a few lines from the Paris Book fair which has just ended. When I was on site in 2008, I heard some, among those: “Oh, I do not read fiction because it is unreal! »
The “talking squids” allusion is a recent catchphrase in Canadian SF literature, born of a joke by Margaret Atwood, who wrote good SF anticipation and post-apocalyptic, but did not want at one time be associated with the genre. She finally came around and admit the writing, as she explores many genres.
A website had been put up by Vonda McIntyre, featuring a short-story by Stephen Baxter, Sheena 5, about, of course, squids in space.
Posted in Comics, humor, Science-fiction, Society
Tagged art, Book fairs, Comics, Jeanne-A Debats, Science-fiction, Webcomics
This Saturday, October 18th, The Mississauga Central library is holding a Science fiction Spectacular Bookfest!
SF authors Rob Sawyer, Marie Bilodeau, RC Wilson, Tanya Huff will be doing presentations at the Auditorium. Robert J. Sawyer recently received a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
I will be onsite with fellow local authors, exposing (and selling) our works at the Atrium. All my 15 novels and 10 graphic novels will be there, in French and English. Signed books are all in the 5$-10$ range.
I’m proud of being a SF author. Below are a few of my recent titles from the Sunday Artist Studio imprint.
The Mississauga Library has most of my novels. Get a glimpse of my SF universe. The full series (La quête de Chaaas) will be available at a discount.
Two books from the Jules-Verne saga, another YA science fiction series.
Here are two “standalone” SF novels…
WHERE: Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burhnamthorpe Rd W, Mississauga, Ontario
WHEN: October 18th, 10-17h
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Tagged art, Author visits, Chaaas universe, MIssissauga Library, Robert J. Sawyer, YA science-fiction
Echoes of a Sunday artist 