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In an interview with Dirk Deppey, on a Comics Journal from last year:

Anyway, getting back, another aspect of the whole graphic-novel era: I don’t think there ever is any point in arguing whether something is or isn’t a graphic novel. I think anyone who’s going to talk about it should lay out the rules at the outset. Rule one: We don’t argue about whether something is or isn’t. Also, Rule two: There’s no point in arguing about what was the first one. I get so sick of that. [Deppey chuckles.] As soon as the world conceives the comic strip, the next step is automatically the long-form comic strip. Like for instance, in Punch magazine in 1850, Richard Doyle did a series of one-page things about these characters he’d invented called Brown, Jones and Robinson. Now, he left Punch that year, and five or six years later he put out an 80-page book called The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson. I don’t think there was any great imaginative idea in inventing the long-form comic strip. As soon as the comic strip exists, automatically, “Why don’t we do one that goes on for 100 pages?” It would have invented itself if somebody hadn’t done it. No big deal. No prize, no medal.

Via Table Of Malcontents.

Over at the Comics Reporter:

It’s something I’m definitely interested in and passionate about. Cubism. I wasn’t passionate about it, but I was passionate about understanding why it was important. One of the great things about comics, and not to go go too far from your point, but one of the great things about comics for me is that it’s this wonderful catch-all for learning. It’s like this great excuse to sit around and learn all the time. Learn how to draw better. Learn how to draw perspective. Learn how to model form. Learn about how to pace a story. Do this research about the modernists in 1907, and sink my teeth into that. It all flows back into my comics, so it’s almost like I wonder sometimes since I wasn’t a great student if this isn’t the way I’m a great student. It all has to go back to my process of making comics getting better, becoming a better artist.

Found it a couple of minutes ago on my HD.

Cellphone Forensics:

“As texting is both a relatively new mode of communication and a particularly informal way of using language, there is not a strong expectation that texters will follow linguistic conventions. This freedom therefore allows for significant individual differences in text messaging style, and this can be used to identify the text’s authors.”

Interesting:

The team, from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada, ran the simulation on a BlueGene L supercomputer that had 4096 processors, each one of which used 256MB of memory.

Using this machine the researchers created half a virtual mouse brain that had 8,000 neurons that had up to 6,300 synapses.