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| At long last, I am getting into full creative gear for a while with an ongoing comics magazine project. The publication schedule is irregular, but the contents are (hopefully) worth it. Residents of the Athens, GA area should be able to find it at downtown coffee shops and so on (I'm working on this) and maybe actual comics shops eventually. Or you can just email me and ask me for a copy; it's currently free for all interested parties, although depending on my immediate budget situation you may or may not get the full-color cover. Anyway, for now, there is only one issue, and here it is: | |
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Ummagurau! Volume One, Number
One Russell Q Allen, Treasure Hunter, Act One: "If I Had A Hammer" (8 pages) - A plucky lad and his mysterious wood shop teacher travel to remote mountains in search of a magical hammer. What they find there may surprise you... Recent Reading (3 pages) - Reviews of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Holes, The Illustrated Man, Cat's Cradle, Night and Day, and Bone (Complete Edition). Scarf (3 pages) - Personal and philosophical reflections on a piece of crochetery. Doom Service, Installment The First (1 page) - A hotel robot remembered. How To Be A Hipster, Lesson XXVI (Name-Dropping) (2 pages) - Snarky commentary on the art of reputation inflation. Record Roundup (2 pages) - Reviews of Nilsson, Suzi Quatro, Klark Kent, Paul McCartney, Piano Red, and Moondog. Robot Parade #1 (1 page) - Aloysius is working on his debut album. |
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Bonus Font Feature! Web-Only Exclusive!
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just one of the many things you'll be able to type using
Ummaguwrite, the new and amazing TrueType font now available for
you to download and use. Made from scans of my actual comic
book type lettering, Ummaguwrite is superficially similar to, but
subtly different from, the popular and lousy font Comic Sans MS.
Ummaguwrite really shines at large sizes (see the title graphic at
the top of this page) and in its dazzling array of rarely-used
characters, none of which I can display here because for some reason
my low-budget image editor doesn't like them. But I assure you
that if you're tired of fonts that breezily skip over the diaresized
U (also useful for umlaut) the Es-zett, the Latin AE
and OE, a robot head, a hydrogen atom, and most elegant of all, the
medial (or "long") S.... then this font may be just
the thing you need. Click