July 6, 2019
I listened: for the rest of that night ... I did nothing but listen.
Sixty years ago, Héctor Germán Oesterheld completed the first serialization of Juan Salvo in El Eternauta (fan-made animation "trailer") with artwork by Francisco Solano López, depicting the fictional events that followed a deadly snowfall that covered Buenos Aires and the surrounding metropolitan area in 1957. Oesterheld's criticism of Argentinian government, in this political sci-fi comic and his other writings (Google auto-translation; Google books preview), lead to the disappearance of him and much of his family (Paste Magazine). Translated into Croatian, Greek, French and Italian, The Eternaut was finally translated into English in 2015 (Comicsbeat, with preview). In Argentina, El Eternauta lives on in public spaces. [more inside]
Pride is a luxury I cannot afford, yet.
Social media has become a space where my own family and friends have turned into censors - Richard Akuson, a Nigerian-trained attorney, activist, creator of Nasty Boy magazine and now-asylum-seeker writes about the scrutiny he receives from his family of his lifestyle from thousands of miles away.
The internet is not a total dumpster fire
How a video game community filled my nephew’s final days with joy A touching story of how a gaming community came together for a young player's final days
How can you travel the world so much and not know what rambutan is?
“The secret museum in every city is a grocery store. It’s where you can grab and squeeze and not-at-all-weirdly smell indigenous produce. The fishmonger runs an aquarium. The butcher is a zookeeper. But groceries also hoard the culture’s guilty pleasures — its Netflix-and-chill snacks are in its potato-chip flavors (my native London favorite was a packet of sea-salt-and-Chardonnay-wine-vinegar crisps, and Marmite ones always hit the spot, too).”The Best Way to Tour a City Is Through Its Grocery Store
Cross sectionals
Amaury Guichon cuts his dessert creations in half. Cross section of a whale rib, This Typewriter, and 100's other amazing Things Cut In Half (Reddit, but just the highlights). Previously. [more inside]
"The minibar restocked. Always and forever."
DC Comics has just launched a new Lois Lane series portraying her as a hard-nosed reporter who gets thrown out of the White House press room for daring to ask awkward questions about refugee camps. It's written by Gotham Central's Greg Rucka, drawn by Mike Perkins, and so far it looks pretty good. Here's a preview.
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