promethea DVD
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I’m used to read comics on my computer (all I have to do is to turn my notebook to the side, and view the pages as a slideshow) and since I installed iDVD, i was dying to try it out.
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so, I decided to make a comics DVD, which means, a slideshow DVD with an entire comic collection. I wanted to make sure the navigation was the same or better than the paper version, so I decided for a comic I didn’t read it yet and I would surely love. alan moore’s promethea seemed like a good bet.
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below are some screenshots of my progress. sadly, I realized I had no more blank DVDs to spare, so I have to wait till I’ll buy a new batch.
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click on each image to view it bigger, with technical notes (another nice feature of flickr). then, roll the mouse over each square to read them.
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DVD cover menu: this one is default from iDVD. since you can’t use more than 12 chapters and I had 31 issues, I organized each 3 issues on one.
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chapter detail: iDVD shows the exact same folders and organization from iPhoto (pictures) and iTunes (music). it’s no good at refreshing, tho, so the best move is to organize all folders & pictures on iPhoto, and then start on iDVD.
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project map: iDVD has a limit of 99 images on each slideshow, so a manga has to be chopped down, for example. it worked fine with american comics, tho.
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disclaimer: I made it for my own consumption, and although I downloaded the entire collection from bittorrent (bad boy) I also own the editions. i guess I don’t have to bother about it, since ABC comics is a small company, and instead of think “ohmygod, those little rascals found another way to rip us off” they’ll probably think “hey, another source of revenue for our collections, and look: it’s cheaper to produce than our trade paperbacks!” (sadly, it only works good on dvd notebooks - you have to rotate the monitor to read it)
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update:sadly, ABC comics is a branch of wildstorm comics, which is an offshot of DC comics, owned by warner. shoud I wait the media conglomerate unleash its minion of ferocious lawyers upon my (literaly) poor soul, or is the plutocratic police state of amerika not done yet?

nice webcomics
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one, funny, from john byrne.
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the other, confessional, about a graphic artist enduring an eye surgery.

nasty things on the web
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wulffmorgenthaler, along with os malvados (in portuguese) are some of the nastier comics on the web!
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dream comics
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at slowwave, ppl submit their dreams, and the cartoonist retells it on comics. and yeah, it has this eerie feeling stuff.
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below are some I really liked (to navigate, just play with the pulldown menu)
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Lions on HarleysSo cleanDating a pink flamingo Concentration campTeen HitlerStrange examMultiple selvesFunk robot PrinceStop-motionCampbells & zombiesPitfallSacred coconutBoring cherubim

tracking down my favorite artists - grant morison & alan moore - i realized some of the good things about brazil is that you only see the best of the best of each artist.
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grant morrison was finishing the filth when i came. nice serie, very dark with ultradimensional realities not “espiritual” in any way, but crushing, stronger and impossible to get rid of its influence. like a farm boy experiencing the bright lights, cruel people from the big city. the invisibles fiction suit is explained better here.
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x-men, OTOH, was pretty lame. magneto dies. magneto returns. magneto addicted and “posessed” by the drug. duh!
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alan moore’s tom strong, invertica city and the like have a good background. a place with science-heroes, a present-day technological noir with a lot of dimensions to play with. too bad the history doesn’t seems to start. and then i gave up.
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the best shot is promethea. a dinasty of women posessed by the mythical force of imagination. not only the material world is well built (architecture, corporations, heroes, bands and even a comic book - weeping gorilla) but the immateria throws all myths tied together masterfully. that’s magick!
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other good comics are x-static, a x-men off-shot group, a superhero boyband group doing anything for attention, and y the last man about a disease that kills intantly all men on earth, except one, and all revolutions because of that.

(heck, it’s not even for sale)
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pra quem tem e-mule:

• the invisibles vol 1
• the invisibles vol 2
• the invisibles vol 3

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sim, é mezzo pirataria… mas é também uma maneira de popularizar um quadrinho que se não botarmos a boca no trombone, ia ficar no esquecimento (com um porrilhão de hollywood writers sucking it dry).

superfunpak
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