Posted in Art, BD, Comics, humor, Society
Tagged art, Comics, creationism, humor, Mental cage, prejudice, stories, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Webcomic
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I just signed the contract for my 17th novel which gave me the idea. My first contact as a budding writer, years ago, was a not such a good one, and I was saved only because the publisher went bankrupt. This contract is my third with this publisher and their conditions are fair.
There’s a lot more than the traps told by the snakes. CAVEAT: I’m not a lawyer. In case of problems, the best is to consult an IP specialist.
The Writer’s Union of Canada offers sound advice too. More precisions on the US Copyright Office. The website Writers Beware presents a good overview of rights vs copyrights. For those of you pondering about indie publishing, I do recommand the very well-organized series of articles The Business Rusch by the poly-genres author Kris Rusch.
My husband often wears a Marillion T shirt in the comics, a group that he likes.
The page is my hidden homage to Andre Franquin, the creator of the pesky “laughing” Gull featuring in the Gaston Lagaffe series. And in this comic. As for my own signature, it figures in the middle of the page for a change…
And, about the copy…
Tagged art, budding writers, Cartoon, Comics, Franquin, humor, Writing advice, Writing Contract
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
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Meddling with physics is still big fun for a SF writer!
Thanks to my hyperboles suppliers Pascal Colpron (eternity), Robin Dumont (hair) and André Lavoie (minus a thousand). The ET visitor comes from a Le Bob original creation.
Matter falling in a black hole get heated up, so much that it emits a stream of X rays. In the panel with the car in space, a Cygnus X1 like binary system is illustrated, a star with a companion black hole.
The mean universe temperature is about 3 Kelvin. The fossil microwave picture is a courtesy of NASA.
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking was an inspiration for the universe 4-dimensional models. The Hawking radiation is the name given to a black body radiation when a black hole evaporates.
As for the Big Crunch, well, there’s still some time before, if it happens!
Posted in Art, Comics, humor, Science-fiction, sciences
Tagged artist, Comics, humor, Hyperboles, Physics, Stephen Hawking, Universe, Webcomics
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The relation between our recent cold weather spells and global warming involves complex phenomena, the Gulf Stream current among them. For the more eager :
To better understand our irrealists expectations regarding science, conditioned by our “I-want-it-now!” culture: The Problem with Science: from Action Movies to the Real World!
For a innovative use of our fossil resources to mitigate the climate change, see une solution au casse-tête arctique.
To read about the projected effects of a Shutdown of thermohaline circulation, and here is a map of the thermohaline circulation.
For a more higher level paper, about the Gulf Stream, see this abstract of a paper published in 2015 by Jaime B. Palter, from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of McGill University: The Role of the Gulf Stream in European Climate (Annual Review of Marine Science Vol. 7: 113-137)
The real demonstration will be given by the planet, as soon as the last ice and land glaciers will have melted.
Posted in Comics, Event, Science-fiction, sciences, Society
Tagged Arctic ice, climate, Climate change, Comics, Environment, global warming, Gulf Stream, humor, sciences, Shutdown of thermohaline circulation
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 !
We lost a good friend this last week-end. The light rain waking me up the same night was Joel’s goodbye or at least, a poetic coincidence.
Joel Champetier did a lot for many of us, and has kept his simplicity and warmth. His SF stories created new trails for us to walk at our rythm.
Posted in Event, Science-fiction, Writing
Tagged Comics, Joël Champetier, Science-fiction, Solaris magazine
The joy of gardening, when spring comes so late!
This comic was “drawn in the dark“.
Imagined, scenarised, pencilled and inked on my Intuos wacom tablet between 8 am and 14h30 today. English translation thirty minutes later.
You’re competent, cool and brave, but if you’re a female Avenger, you get erased by Disney.
I saw Age of Ultron, the last Avenger movie, and applauded at the cool action scenes avec amusement, with Black Widow (played by Scarlet Johansson). It was a treat to see her jump from the Quinjet and retrieve the shield «forgotten » by Captain America, with cool effects.
Then, I learned about the lack of merchandising (the big revenue for movie) Hasbro not only erased Black Widow from her own scene, it put Captain America in it. (My favorite Comic Shop does exist and sells action figures and cards, plus holds various artist’s meetings, but the scene is fictional. )
The erasure of Black Widow from her own scene in a toy merch had made the news. You may say it’s just toys, but… think of the message it sends, to girls. The action figures and toys are decided upon by commercials following a target group optimization practice.
A tweet (in fact, three that I put together) resumes the problem (hashtag=#wheresNatasha )
“What really burns me re: erasing female superheroes, whether Gamora or Widow or Scarlet Witch, etc:
1) it tells girls they’re not worthy and
2) it tells boys that girls are to be ignored & erased. Because seriously, like there aren’t little boys out there who love Black Widow?”
One Marvel exec actually said: “That’s not why Disney bought us. They already have the girls’ market on lockdown.” With Brave and Frozen princesses, there’s no incentive to make more Marvel merch for women. I’m happy that the Diney princesses have come a long way from the simpering-whimpering-sort, but give girls a choice, too!
To quote Amadi (@amaditalks): This is @Marvel and @Hasbro telling every woman and little girl — 52% of Marvel’s audience — that they aren’t significant or good enough.”
Cheers to hardy princesses and fun superheroines – and heroes!
Posted in Art, Comics, Science-fiction, Society
Tagged Avenger movie, Avengers, Black Widow, Comics, Disney, Marvel, Scarlet Johansson, sexism, target group optimisation
Echoes of a Sunday artist 