funnypageszine:

This comic was made for Cards Against Humanity's 12 Days of Holiday Bullshit by Anthony Clark. 

mom and I at home this morning 

Couple all cultured out, The Art Institute of Chicago, November 2013.

As part of their “12 Days of Holiday Bullshit” celebration, Cards of Humanity asked well-known web comic artists to create original strips and published the collection in a printed zine called “The Funny Pages.” Luckily for those who didn’t get a copy of the physical zine, all of the comics are available to read at the Funny Pages Zine Tumblr.

Here’s a list of the artists involved:

Abby Howard, Allie Brosh, Anthony Clark, Dylan Meconis, Elaine Short, Erika Moen, Jana Kinsman, Jess Fink, John Allison, John Campbell, Jon Rosenberg, Katie Rice, Kris Straub, Maki Naro, Meghan Murphy, Natasha Allegri, Nick Gurewitch, Richard Stevens, Ryan North, Sam Brown, Shawn Smith, and Zach Weinersmith.

images via Funny Pages Zine

The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously affirmed on Thursday the right of same-sex partners to marry in the state, reasoning that the “protections and responsibilities that result from the marital relationship shall apply equally” to them and to opposite-sex couples. With the ruling, which takes effect immediately, New Mexico becomes one of 17 states and the District of Columbia to permit same-sex marriage.

You may not know the name Leiji Matsumoto, but you've seen his work. Including Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers in the U.S.), Space Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999. His work stands out, because of his striking characters and because of his distinctive themes.

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Something unknown, engineers say — and all the more intriguing to many residents for being unknown — has blocked the progress of the biggest-diameter tunnel-boring machine in use on the planet, a high-tech, largely automated wonder called Bertha. At five stories high with a crew of 20, the cigar-shaped behemoth was grinding away underground on a two-mile-long, $3.1 billion highway tunnel under the city’s waterfront on Dec. 6 when it encountered something in its path that managers still simply refer to as “the object.”

Like the Ming Dynasty and Merovingian Dynasty before it, the powerful and once-stalwart Duck Dynasty may be toppled by a bunch of assholes. Specifically men’s assholes, the irrational and impious attraction to which clan patriarch Phil Robertson has no Jesus-piloted truck with and cannot even begin to fathom, much as he cannot understand why black people would have ever wanted to abolish Jim Crow. As the national debate rages on—between those who believe that Robertson’s comments fall under the guise of constitutionally protected free speech and even freedom of religion, and those who are made of brick and plaster, because they are walls who aren’t even getting into this shit again—Robertson remains suspended indefinitely from his hit A&E show. And the future of that show may be in jeopardy, now that the network has been forced to acknowledge publicly what it's always knowingly exploited privately.

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Teaching my girlfriend's kids about Omar.

Thank God it’s Frida

ineedthatseat:

Soviet space propaganda posters, 1958-1963

“I am happy - this is my work joining the work of my republic”

“Soviet man – be proud, you opened the road to stars from Earth!”

“We will open the distant worlds!”

“Glory to the Fatherland of Heroes!”

“We were born to make the fairy tale come true!”

“Socialism is our launching pad”

“Conquer space!”

“Fatherland! You lighted the star of progress and peace. Glory to the science, glory to the labor! Glory to the Soviet regime!”

“Through the worlds and ages.”

“In the name of peace and progress!”

iamdavidbrothers:

This disc was worth both quarters I paid for it

Did you have the smuggler’s blues?

Artist Robert Fink enlisted the help of a couple friends to create Knight Man, an elaborate video game proposal to his now-fiancée Angel.

I couldn’t allow myself to just do a normal proposal, it had to be special. Something we would remember forever to remind us where we started. Simple times playing games together growing up and learning that games can convey all sorts of emotion, I wanted her to see all the spikes I would jump over for her. :P

You can read the whole story of how the proposal went down and play Knight Man at Fink’s website.

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Along with all the standard menial labor, defendants completing community service in downtown Portland have been given a healthy dose of Christian moralization lately.

Attorneys learned earlier this week a Portland Business Alliance employee has been handing out photocopied packets to community court defendants working off minor offenses. The packets pose questions like "What does the Bible say about laziness?" and "Why read?" They also contain a copy of Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses," the seminal protestant document famously nailed to a church door in 1517. And there are all these confounding diagrams regarding international governance styles, among other things.

Here. Just check it out. [PDF]

The packets came to light a couple days ago, when a defendant brought one to a hearing at the Westside Community Court. The court's a venue where low-level offenders can keep misdemeanors off their records by completing community service or undergoing treatment. But attorneys and a judge had never seen the reading material before.

"It’s completely inappropriate for religious material to be passed out during community service," says Adam Gibbs, a deputy district attorney who works in community court. "This just got brought to our attention and we're looking into it."

Turns out the materials were distributed by Wayne Baseden, a former bodybuilder and military member who handles community service as a staffer for the PBA's Clean & Safe district. The Oregonian lionized Baseden in this profile last year, and PBA leadership is quick to point out he's shepherded thousands of people through leaf and trash pick-ups since 2009.

Once the packet came to light, Gibbs reached out to the PBA, who have since told Baseden to cut it out.

"We agree the reading materials in question were inappropriate," spokeswoman Laura Shepard said in an e-mail yesterday. "He has been instructed to cease using these materials immediately and to clear all future readings with his supervisor and the Court."

As the Oregonian profile makes clear, Baseden likes a lot of dialogue with defendants. He'll ask trivia questions, maybe encourage people to turn their lives around. All above-board stuff, but at some point—maybe recently, maybe a while ago—Baseden began handing out the extra reading material.

Lynnae Berg, executive director of the Clean & Safe District, said the PBA didn't inquire how long Baseden had been distributing the materials or how many he'd handed out.

"We didn’t ask him that question," Berg said. "This is the first time we’ve ever received a complaint about this information so we addressed this specific complaint."

Berg said Baseden wouldn't be available for comment.

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passeriform:

jazzvampire:

steroge:

Fencing class at the girl school…

No masks? Are you nuts? (staged, I bet)

Rufus Deuchler's Adobe Creative Cloud Alerts for Designers #4

Timely alerts about new features in Adobe Creative Cloud. View this email in your browser Rufus Deuchler's Adobe Creative Cloud Alerts For Designers Dear friends, after visiting quite a few agencies and talking to some freelancers in various countries, I have noticed that it is quite difficult for you all to keep up with what is regularly coming to your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. With this mailing list, I wish to let you know on an ongoing basis about new features in the Creative Cloud with designers in mind. If I believe that a feature can benefit your workflows, I will send out an email which you will be able to read on your smartphones while you are going to work, or on your desktop computers while you're having one of your many coffees. So here we go, no frills, no images, just text set in Arial, and some useful information. I'll try to keep these emails short, and I am very open to suggestions. Creative Cloud app for desktop 1.3.0.322 Version 1.3.0.322 released on 12/19/2013 includes: New in this version Improved performance of Typekit Font Sync Enable/disable font sync in the Preferences Pane which gives you the ability to separately control font synchronization from file synchronization such that font synchronization will now function regardless of whether file synchronization is turned on or off. A very much requested feature. Install latest feature updates at initial install time for free Creative Cloud members Support for product names requiring two or more lines of text in the Apps panel Links to product tutorials for CC Apps in the Home and Apps panel Eliminate ACC install time conflicts with CEPServiceManager so that ACC updates and installs are more likely to succeed. Fixes to the install workflow when launched from Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1. Fixes to the file synchronization workflow, including fixes for iWorks application crashes and crashes on the Mavericks OS. You can read the release notes here. As a reminder, if you are not prompted to update The Creative Cloud app for desktop, then you will need to restart the application.   Stay tuned for more updates in the very near future. Share if you find alert useful! Adobecadabra! Rufus Senior Worldwide Design Evangelist, Creative Cloud | Adobe Share Tweet Forward to Friend Opinions expressed here and in any corresponding comments are the personal opinions of the original authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe. Copyright © 2013 Rufus Deuchler, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

gailsimone:

glassgears:

It can be really frustrating working on the comics sometimes.

There’s a large, vocal audience declaring how much they want to see more diversity in comics and more LGBTQ characters. I was one of them, even. And it’s why I made The Pride.

However, when an indie project comes out with just that, a lot of this audience don’t actually buy the product they’d been calling out for: because it’s not from Marvel or DC.

Fact is though, if an audience doesn’t prove a desire and market for such a product, they won’t be willing to take a risk on creating one of their own. 

Obviously, I’m small press. I self-publish. I pay to get the comics made out of my own pocket. At the moment, there’s still around £5000 to pay artists for work and get the rest of the series printed when it comes to it. This isn’t even taking into account the cost of postage etc…it’s hard work, and takes up a lot of my time and money.

But it’s a labor of love, so I keep working at it. I wouldn’t change that for the world. But I do wish that I was able to pay the artists faster and could afford printing easier.

The Pride has 841 Likes on Facebook. If all of them bought just one copy of The Pride digital issues (at just £1.50), any issue, that would raise a massive chunk needed towards paying off the remaining artists! It would literally fund itself. I wouldn’t make any money myself, but I don’t care about that. This project is as much about building my profile and name as a writer than it is about getting rich…I will never get rich off The Pride, but I love doing it.

Likes are all well and good, honestly they are great and a massive help in their own right, but it doesn’t help me actually make the comics. And it’s frustrating to see this market, this audience, saying they want a product and then just…not.

Just felt like sharing that is all. In case anyone is considering making comics of their own. Obviously, I don’t want to scare anyone off: you wanna make comics, make comics. But be prepared for hard times and struggles, but if you work hard it could well all be worth it in the end.

And of course, if you do want to buy The Pride, you can do so here.

I really do recommend this book, it’s absolutely a pleasure to read and a clear labor of love.

Seriously, people: walk the walk. Don’t just shout for more representation. Buy the damn comics.

Mewlists has created a supercut video of the 100 greatest action movie punchlines. Previously, we’ve written about Mewlists’ ongoing collection of supercut videos.

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djempirical

what a dick.

No one in the world—not even those who genuinely love Duck Dynasty—could love Duck Dynasty more than Shia LaBeouf right now. Because while everyone else is debating freedom of speech vs. the male anus, LaBeouf continues to quietly and shamelessly exercise his freedom to steal speech. The LaBeouf Plagiarism Train of 2013 shows no sign of stopping; at this point, he's either the world's biggest asshole and doing it on purpose, or the world's stupidest asshole and can't stop himself.

Let's review.

• In February of this year, LaBeouf plagiarized an apology to Alec Baldwin from Esquire's 2009 "How to Be a Man" issue.
• On Monday of this week, LaBeouf also admitted to plagiarizing his 2012 directorial debut HowardCantour.com from Daniel Clowes' comic "Justin M. Damiano."
• The apology he issued for plagiarizing Clowes appeared to have been copied from a Yahoo! Answers user named Lili. (Clowes is now "exploring" legal action against LeBeouf.)
• On Wednesday morning, Buzzfeed reported that segments of comic books written and drawn by LeBeouf rely on passages written by Charles Bukowski and French writer Benoît Duteurtre. Bukowski? Yep, sounds about right.
• By Wednesday afternoon, LaBeouf again took to Twitter to apologize. But instead of letting Yahoo! answer, thanks to reporting from The Film Stage, it became clear that LeBeouf borrowed words from some of greatest men of our time: Kanye West, Robert McNamara, and Tiger Woods.
• When getting called out on this much plagiarism, you might as well double the fuck down and really go for it. And so LaBeouf subsequently issued an apology Thursday morning that, according to the folks at The Wire, looks exactly like the apology Shepherd Fairey issued to the AP in 2009.
• And now, on Thursday afternoon, Dan Nadel at The Comics Journal reports that he's joined the increasingly large group of those who've been LaBeoufed. Nadel points out that the "About" page for his publishing company PictureBox looks an awful lot like the "About" page for LaBeouf's "The Campaign Book."

Here is the statement from PictureBox:

And here is the statement from LeBeouf's site:

So there you have it. The definitively incomplete guide to LaBeouf's nicely curated plagiarism shitshow. But tomorrow is a new day and, well, there are so many great apologies left to steal. We can only hope.

UPDATE: Reader ctygirl has drawn our attention to another LaBeouf apology and its "parallels" to a 2008 Mark Zuckerberg apology.

[Image via AP]

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