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Spirit Breath

May 18, 2011 Agent X 2 Comments

PacMan could do so much more, if he just laid off the spirits.

I mean, he has a serious problem. And if he does not get help soon, I am afraid he does not have a ghost of a chance!
You can’t outrun your problems either. You need to face them head on and eat ’em up – but ONLY after you eat a cherry, of course.

This is not the first PacMan comic I have done. This one got a little bit of attention a while ago.
And I can promise you that there is at least one more coming in the near future, which should make fans of the yellow guy pretty happy.

Of course, if you don’t like PacMan, you can just read all my other comics.

Panel by Panel

May 10, 2011 Agent X 2 Comments

Australian comic creators – artists, writers & publishers – you need to read this.

I recently saw this amazing little announcement hidden away in a blog post over on the newly revamped ComicOz website:

Speaking of which… While working on gathering biographical interviews for the Air Hawk book I spend a wonderful morning speaking to the late John Ryan’s wife Jan about her memories of John Dixon as well a her late husband’s work. One end result – besides an article, based on our chat – is that Jan has given in-principal approval forComicoz to reprint and update “Panel By Panel“. Although little progress has been made on this project to date, my enthusiasm for seeing this seminal Australian tome back in print is unbounded! If you know any Australian comic book or strip artist/writer/publisher (anyone!) involved in the industry… get them to get in touch with me as soon as possible!

(read the full post here on ComicOz)

For those that are unaware of it, the book “PANEL BY PANEL – An Illustrated History of Australian Comics” by John Ryan, is considered by many to be one of the best & most complete resources outlining the history of Australian comics so far. (Well, at least up until around 1979, when it was published.)

This book is now out of print and is very costly to purchase, so hearing that it is possibly going to be updated & re-released is something that every person involved in comics in Australia, should support.

Nat Karmichael, who runs the ComicOz site, has asked for “any Australian comic book or strip artist/writer/publisher (anyone!) involved in the industry… to get in touch with me as soon as possible!”

So, what are you waiting for?
Don’t miss out on this opportunity for your work to be included in the history of Australian Comics. Get in touch with Nat today!

Marking Territory

May 5, 2011 Agent X 3 Comments

So many location apps. So little time…

There is little doubt that location based applications with social media aspects are the big ‘thing’ at the moment.
People just love to show where they are and to tell other people about it.

Do not get me wrong – I love a little bit of Foursquare, Places or Gowalla action.
Let’s face it though – it really is the digital equivalent of marking your territory, and leaving a scent behind to tell others you have been there.

But so what?
Humans (just like animals) have always been territorial. Defining the places we live in and own, helps us define who we are – to both ourselves and others.
And now that I can get a badge to prove I go to my local coffee shop more than you, perhaps I can stop peeing on the door?

nah…

Facebook Haters Club

May 2, 2011 Agent X 3 Comments

It is no secret that there are many people out there that absolutely hate facebook.

In fact, FB has become the default website to blame for most of the wrongs on the internet. In someway or another, haters can track a relationship between facebook and pretty much any bad thing they happen to face.
Yep, facebook has taken over the title of “cause of the downfall of humankind”, which television used to hold.

So many people openly hate facebook, yet many of those same people use it all the time.
It is a weird, self-abusive kind of relationship that I personally do not understand.

It is true that information can be shared via facebook,which you may not want to have shared. Yet, the people complaining about this are the same people that put the info there in the first place.
If you don’t want the info online, then just simply DON”T PUT IT ONLINE.

Unfortunately, common sense seems to be turned off when a lot of people log-on to the internet, and this means that after they do something stupid online, they need someone to blame. So they turn to FB.

Many of the reasons that people hate facebook are silly little things that can, and should be, overlooked if you want to use facebook.
Getting angry & starting a group because you don’t like the font facebook is written in is ridiculous.
(Although, any groups asking for Friend suggestions to be stopped are totally OK with me. *LIKE*)
There are not just groups, but entire sites devoted to hating on FB, such as sickfacebook.com. These sites have top-notch articles on them, like “How Facebook makes you Dumb and Stupid“, “6 Advantages of Not Using Facebook” and “Facebook is Stupid”

I find it ironic that the articles on this site have a “Share to Facebook” link. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the site?

At least the Quit Facebook Day site had a clear objective to achieve. Granted, it failed miserably, but it let you know WHY it was asking you to leave facebook. Sites like SickFacebook are unclear in their aims and appear just to be against FB for the sake of it.

Overall, I am not personally anti-facebook, but there are things about it which annoy me.
However, I also realise that I need to understand that using FB is a choice I make, not a requirement to living.
And if I really find that I hate it, I can leave.
Or else, I can just go onto twitter and slag it off,like any other self respecting social-media user would do.

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