Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
It’s still not available for purchase, but see there? In the Amazon preview? There I am at chapter four! In: Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians: Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl, Lisa Fraser: 9780810890527: Amazon.com: Books.
Awesome news (I can’t wait to meet the aliens):
I am really excited and really nervous. I’ve got an editorial style cartoon published in an honest to goodness professional journal. I feel like I am using my powers for evil, cause, you know, I am the associate editor of that journal. Anyway, yay! And, there it is.
I’m not sure how much non subscribers will be able to see…
From the Editor: E-books Building the New Subscription Library
LeEtta M. Schmidt
Journal of Interlibrary Loan,Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve
Vol. 23, Iss. 1, 2013
Public service message from the Scarfolk Council.
“There is a war on information in our country. On the media, on academics, on libraries, on archives, on the census – the list keeps going. We need to understand the ‘why’ of things, and cutting away our ability to make informed decisions will invariably derail our country.”
-Westheimer at the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education.
I can’t say anything better than this quote, except maybe, that Canada is not the only country in this situation.
There is no comic posting on the drawing board today. In the meantime, I heartily suggest checking out the Ghosts of Tiny Animals. It is infrequently updated, but so beautiful.
I had this idea, and then I kinda started working on it, and then I put all my messy sketches together and spent a lot of time coloring it, and now I have this. Alice’s tea party, with Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice. She’s schizophrenic, you know.
Did you know that Libraries have collections of truly interesting and rare materials? That these libraries often digitize and create online collections accessible to anyone? That because of library websites/catalogs and their interaction with search engines most of this material is impossible to simply stumble upon? Allow me to help you trip, with a selection of awesome digitized archives.
Not everyone can be a library however, the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. has some fabulous antiquities and curious illustrations to peruse. Some of them may even be affordable to some people. And we can never forget the, ever more fabulous, Internet Archive.
Ever since I saw and put my name in for Beautiful Forever at the Light Grey Art Lab, I have been working on a set of tattoos. Now, I didn’t get chosen to participate in Beautiful Forever, but I couldn’t stop. Minus one (and + some details), these are all tattoos that occur on my comic characters. Do you know which one doesn’t belong?
I hate to get all serious and controversial, but I see a growing global trend of preposterous legalities. There has recently been a man in Australia jailed for buying/watching animated sex involving characters like children. It shouldn’t be surprising given Australia’s zero tolerance position (that and more found in this wikipedia article: legal status of cartoon pornography depicting minors). But a whole cacophony of details make this story icky all over.
Before we launch into the meat of them let’s consider how damning the man’s legal/behavior history is with previous convictions for assaulting teenagers. Now that we’ve considered that let’s stop thinking about it. It is not the point here.Continue reading Heavens help me, I’m reading the news