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• rushkoff commented on Bible as Glossy
  Yeah - I was well aware of other comics treatments of the Bible. I originally pitched reviving the 1950's series DC Bible Heroes instead of doing Testament. But they said they'd prefer a creator-owned new series with modern elements. Thus, Testament. When I said I felt like I was "breaking some new ground" I meant in terms of my particular treatment - putting gods outside the panels, making it about the telling of the story, and exploiting a lot of what I learned from Scott McCloud's books about the "gutter." Indeed, there've been lots of people using sequential narrative to...
• Takuan commented on Bible as Glossy
  ongoing story http://www.sinfest.net/...
• Sister Y commented on Judge orders woman to return two library books or go to jail
  Another self-styled vigilante: Oregon mom won't return 'Bunny Suicide' book...
• technogeek commented on High-quality reproductions of Tenniel's colored Alice illustrations
  #6: Yeah, but that's good enough for sentimental value and limited-edition status. At least until some time traveller goes back and gets the original signatures. #2: The original art is presumably out of copyright. That doesn't necessarily mean photos of it are out of copyright, or that new engravings derived from it are out of copyright... or that there aren't copyrights on the new page layouts of art combined with text. "Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a first-year law course."...
• Chris Williams commented on Sixteenth-century watercolor reportage from the New World
  I'm just in the process of writing a bunch of desriptions of many of these pictures, having written a Open University teaching unit around them. I'm not sure what the copyright issues from it were: luckily all that is sorted out in another department. They're all printed very nicely in _A new world_ by Kim Sloan (978-0-7141-2650-0), which is the catalogue of the recent BM exhibition. Also of interest is the Dover books reprint of _A briefe and true report of the new found land of viginia_ by Thomas Harriot (0-486-21092-8), which is a facsimile of de Bry's 1590 engravings...