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Painting for the people

So, what creative projects have your capitalist leaders been up to recently?

Flash Inking

Bob Flynn shares his tips for inking in Flash. I’m not sure how many people use flash for inking (as it is only one of many programs that enable pressure-sensitive tablet-generated lines), but if you are going to use it, this is the way to do it.

Friday website link

If you like your art ‘outsider’ then you can do far worse than visit www.juxtapoz.com – The online presence for the rather quirky art and culture magazine. It features some great galleries and reader art as well as some genuinely interesting interviews.

You bastards! You killed Batman!

That’s right, I spoiled Final Crisis #6 right there in the post title… Of course if you’ve been paying attention to the DC universe at all you know that Bruce Wayne has been a walking dead man since some time last summer. So what happens now? Will he stay dead? Will someone else take up [...]

How to Build a Totalitarian State

I read an interesting book recently: The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer. It’s all about his research into the psychology of authoritarian leaders and followers. I like the fact that he describes these studies in great detail without ever getting stuffy or boring. There’s something in the book about modern American politics but I didn’t think [...]

R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis

Some of us might consider Crumb a god in his own right, however he’s taken up the task of a literal translation of another deity’s work… The Book of Genesis.

There’s more on this over at BoingBoing.net