Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1172 (SoD #1575) - Spider-Man Villain Way back Machine - Throwback Thursday for 1906.13

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/me-and-the-boys
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1172 (SoD #1575) - Spider-Man Villain Way back Machine - Throwback Thursday for 1906.13

Just a fun pic of Spider-Man villains from one of the older TV show versions of four of the Sinister Six...? Is this from the 1960s Spider-Man? Could be.

yup.
https://13thdimension.com/13-great-things-about-the-1967-spider-man-cartoon/

Okay, with that mystery solved, here's the weekly none such with a little vetting.

Nnedi Okorafor has a new book coming out??

But first, retro SF art.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BynLZ3fhjVB/?igshid=1e7sy75tmbyfn








https://www.instagram.com/p/BynN7RMl5_Q/?igshid=1mjj2hrad03td








Illustrations from my forthcoming memoir BROKEN SPACES & OUTER PLACES (June 18). These were drawn by @shyamagolden who also did the animated illustrations for my short story, “Mother of Invention”. This book isn’t about my whole life thus far; it focuses on the traumatic incident that changed everything when I was 19 and led me to become a writer instead of an entomologist. I was an athlete paralyzed from the waist down by surgery to correct my scoliosis. I was in the one percent of people who mysteriously respond to the straightening in this way. I don’t think I’d have discovered my love for writing if I didn’t go through this horror. I absolutely had to write...and eventually write about this. I’ve actually been writing this since the year after it happened, gradually. The original manuscript is called LEGS and is 300-something pages long. I needed to capture and preserve the details while the experience was still fresh. This book is much much shorter for brevity (kinda glad, heh). Editing this was a terror because it was like reliving it over and over, but I did it and I’m glad. I also voiced the audio edition. 🦋🦗🦉🐙🌍🎾🌪✨🖊🇳🇬🇺🇸 #nnediokorafor #memoir #africanfuturism #africanjujuism #writersofinstagram #nonfiction #tedbooks
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SOME LINKABLES

It should come as no surprise if you're a comic fan who talks to retailers that for all its visibility, Free Comic Day is not Christmas for shops in May. Arguably, it's more trouble than it's worth despite press attention that may suggest otherwise.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-retailers-view-the-problem-with-free-comic-book-day/

To that end, here are some things I think store should be asking themselves in general about what they offer as a Free Comic Book Day experience:
  • What do you want your event to do? Reach out to outside readers? Show appreciation for the folks who have been keeping you in business? Both?
  • What is your event saying to someone who doesn’t frequent your store?
  • If you want to run a sale, will it be additive to the FCBD experience? Will it be additive to your shop going forward (like say, taking the opportunity to clear out dead stock)? What are the costs of doing this on FCBD, in terms of general profit, till confusion and/or general ease for customer engagement?
  • If you want to add bells and whistles, what are the costs involved? Not just monetarily, but in time and effort as well (which really are spendable commodities that should be considered in equal measure to money spent)?
  • What are you expecting as a return for the event, both in terms of the day, and in terms of tomorrow?
  • And most importantly? Are you happy with your event as it is? If not, go through these questions until you find something that might work for you.


https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-is-happening-at-vertigo/

The industry is shifting inexorably towards comics for younger readers, and DC has seen that handwriting on that particular wall.
I’ll save my Vertigo in memorium for when whatever is happening is official, but for now: Vertigo changed the face of comics, and no matter what happens from here on out it will remain one of the greatest creative blossomings the medium ever saw, led by visionary editors including founder Karen Berger, Tom Peyer, Stuart Moore, Shelly Bond, Axel Alonso, Will Dennis, Mark Doyle and many more. (I don’t mean to slight anyone – there’s actually a book about all this, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, although it came out in 2008.) And the books in its library continue to fuel that all important media, from Swamp Thing to the upcoming movie The Kitchen, starring Elizabeth Moss, Tiffiny Hadish, Melissa McCarthy and Domhnall Gleason, based on the Vertigo mini by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/resources/information-on-how-to-get-into-comics-and-survive-once-youre-there/

So this link above is a great resource, a collection of many links, about working in comics, getting into comics, surviving the pitfalls. I am going to do a separate post with the content in the above link. But here it is for now in the weekly nonesuch.



https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/06/11/the-big-idea-richard-kadrey-4/

Most of my books have been set in L.A. or San Francisco. But for The Grand Dark, I wanted to create a world that was completely mine, the way writers such as M. John Harrison created Viriconium and China Mieville created New Crobuzon. In that spirit, I invented Lower Proszawa. I’d been fascinated by the Weimar period in Germany between the First and Second World Wars, so that became the basis for the city.
Lower Proszawa is the somewhat rundown sister city to High Proszawa in the north. But the High City isn’t really there anymore. It was virtually destroyed during the Great War. As the story opens, it’s an uninhabitable ruin of shattered buildings, unexploded ordnance, and plague bombs. Those with the means had escaped the High City at the first hints of war. Now the two populations co-exist in a kind of liminal state made frantic by the knowledge that the Great War hadn’t settled anything and that another war is just over the horizon. And what do you do when you know the world is ending? You party.
There are drugs, sex, and entertainment of every sort in Lower Proszawa. The book revolves around the Theater of the Grand Darkness, a kind of Gran Guignol palace that stages the most gruesome murders imaginable twice a night. The actors are life-size electric puppets brought to life by actors backstage wrapped in metal galvanic suits. My puppet theater was inspired by the work of the brilliant animators, the Brothers Quay, whose The Street of Crocodiles made me wonder what it would be like to put people into their dark and fantastic worlds.
The book’s protagonist, Largo, spends a lot of time at the theater because his lover, Remy, is one of The Grand Dark’s rising stars. With her, Largo’s life seems great. He has a beautiful girlfriend. His job as a bike courier doesn’t pay much, but it’s easy. And, then there’s all the drugs and sex. Plus robots, which Largo hates because they’re taking jobs from humans, and genetically engineered Chimera pets, which Largo longs to create himself.
more at ........... https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/06/11/the-big-idea-richard-kadrey-4/


https://reason.com/2019/06/13/were-from-the-government-and-were-here-to-ghost-read-your-emails/

"It's relatively easy for a service provider to silently add a law enforcement participant to a group chat or call," mused Ian Levy, technical director of Britain's Government Communications Headquarters' (GCHQ) National Cyber Security Centre, and Crispin Robinson, GCHQ's technical director for cryptanalysis, in an article published last November. "This sort of solution seems to be no more intrusive than the virtual crocodile clips that our democratically elected representatives and judiciary authorise today in traditional voice intercept solutions and certainly doesn't give any government power they shouldn't have."

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/13/new-looney-tunes-cartoons.html


Evidently that wasn't all, folks.
Looney Tunes Cartoons is a series of new short form cartoons starring the iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. With a crew of some of the premier artists working in animation today, each “season” will produce 1,000 minutes of all-new Looney Tunes animation that will be distributed across multiple platforms — including digital, mobile and broadcast.
Looney Tunes Cartoons echoes the high production value and process of the original Looney Tunes theatrical shorts, with a cartoonist-driven approach to storytelling. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other marquee Looney Tunes characters will be featured in their classic pairings in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories. Each cartoon will vary from one to six minutes in length and, from the premise on through to the jokes, will be “written” and drawn by the cartoonists, allowing their own personality and style to come through in each cartoon.
Looney Tunes Cartoons is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and features veteran Looney Tunes voice cast members, including Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman and Bob Bergen. Sam Register (Teen Titans Go!) and Peter Browngardt (Uncle Grandpa) serve as executive producers.



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One of my students compared an educational video I made and my style with this video and its style.

I am touched and honored.




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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1440 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1906.13 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.
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