Happy Birthday Brian
nuff’ said. The Spinneyhead Union Management are lobbying for you.
Daily archives: July 22, 2003
Splittah!
Johnny’s site is up, far ahead of the three year schedule the rest of us had set for it. But there is something wrong. Take a look in the right hand column of links. What’s at the top, where Spinneyhead should be? Why, it’s Fark.
Really, the ungrateful wretch! He should acknowledge his heritage, putting Spinneyhead where it rightfully belongs- at the top of the pile. This slight will not be forgotten, the next time he comes to the table with ‘union demands’ he’s not getting a chair. He’ll have to stand there, on one leg if I say, wearing a dunce’s cap.
Spinneyhead doesn’t take this sort of insult lightly, and it has a long memory.
Clef
The Roman a Clef is a grand old tradition of putting real people, dressed up and renamed, in fictional works. It’s usually done for revenge, to lampoon someone who wronged the author, but can verge toward satire. I’ve already declared that friends have nothing to fear from the characterisation in Post & Publish, but public figures are another matter.
via Places For Writers
French Joystick
The French government is to fund video game companies with a grant of 4 million Euros.
Now, if only the British government would fund aspiring homegrown comics writers……
Boldly Gone
Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original TV Enterprise, has died.