Ernie's 3D Pancakes

POST-IT NOTES ONLY

Stimpy invents Katamari Damacy

Will Eisner (1917-2005)

The world is a sadder place without him.

Skello Kitty

Hello Pirate?

Hello Kitty (1974):

Musti (1968):

Nijntje (1955):

[Boing²]

Small Boy and Monkey

Excelsior!

Best ArXiv paper EVAR: Marvel Universe looks almost like a real social network

Finally, we have computed the center of the giant component, the character that minimizes the sum of the distances from it to all other nodes in the component. It turns out to be Captain America, who is, on average, at distance 1.70 to every other character.

Raw data was taken from the scarily complete Marvel Chronology Project.

Biff! Pow! Crash! D'oh!

Mark Liberman at Language Log has been discussing the correct way to spell Homer Simpson's "D'oh!" In response, I sent him a few links. Woo-hoo!

Comits is all growed up!

The latest New York Times Magazine has a very nice article (alas, with too few pictures) about the recent success and maturity of graphic novels, or as Alan Moore calls them, big expensive comic books. The online Magazine points to an excellent slide show, with audio commentary by Art Spiegelman ("Maus"), Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan"), Seth ("Palookaville"), Joe Sacco ("Palestine"), and Chester Brown ("Yummy Fur").