John Gruber of Daring Fireball [https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy], regarding Facebook complaining about the new privacy features Apple has built into iOS: > Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths
A handful of stops on the light-rail away from where I’m writing this is a county that’s preparing to evacuate due to Oregon wildfires. Clackamas county, in green, a couple miles south of me in Portland, is prepairing to evacuate.I’m tired of new reasons to be
I’ve been reading and loving Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town [https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Cyberville%3A+Clicks%2C+Culture+and+the+Creation+of+an+Online+Town+] by Stacy Horn [https://stacyhorn.com], a 1998 book about her
Out of curiosity, I figured out when I decided cartoonist was the job for me. It was shortly after reading Spider-Man #18 [https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/10776/spider-man_1990_18], which Marvel published in January of 1992. Time from then till now: 28 years.
Last December I left the job I’d been at for a decade, to give one final go at my lifelong dream of being a full time cartoonist. I set a date to review my progress, to decide if I should keep going or retreat: July 1st. Low and behold,
Last night I took a page from Spider-Man Blue [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Blue] by Tim Sale and stripped the color out of it. This, by itself, is a fun hobby [https://twitter.com/MatthewBogart/status/1262820475404783623/photo/1]. Inspired by how beautifully Sale lights his scene I
Incredible Doom
I just wrote a post on my Patreon about the logistics of printing Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] season 1, how we planed to improve our process with Season 2, and how things have changed for us in recent weeks. If you’re interested in the behind the scenes nitty
I just received these Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] postcards I’d had printed to thank my wonderful patrons [http://patreon.com/matthewbogart] for their support. Thing is, I’ve got about 100 extra, so I thought we could try something fun. Starting today, the first 100 people who send
I did some fan art from readers suggestions. There’s Hector and Ari from Bloom [https://www.powells.com/book/bloom-9781250196910?partnerid=33241], The Tick [http://www.necpress.com/Tick.aspx], Ralph from The Mouse and the Motorcycle [https://www.harpercollins.com/9780380709243/the-mouse-and-the-motorcycle/], Amy Racecar from Stray Bullets [https:
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> It would be easy to just make this blog about [Trumps reaction to Covid-19] but this feels to me like a good time to be an alternative. If you want what’s on the news channels, it’s there on the news channels. Here, I’m more inclined to
I’ve been using the same profile picture everywhere online since 2008. But I broke my glasses a couple months ago and wear a mask when I’m outside now, so …
