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Author: trevoedwards
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March 14th, 2013 5:36am
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March 14th, 2013 5:35am
Tesla vs. Edison Debate Ignites at SxSW
by Matthew Van Dusen
Paleofuture blogger Matt Novak’s South by Southwest March 11 talk on the Edison versus Tesla debate and myth of the lone inventor went electric when web comic artist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, whose Tesla comic spurred the debate, showed up to defend his work.
“The goal with my comic wasn’t to write nonfiction, it was more to paint a portrait of Tesla’s character and why I admire that and why I admire geeks in general,”* Inman said when he emerged from the audience to ask a question at the end of the session.
Novak had taken issue with Inman’s viral comic “Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived” comic, saying that it fed the “Great Man Theory of History” and the myth of the lone inventor.
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March 14th, 2013 5:34am
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March 14th, 2013 5:28am
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March 14th, 2013 5:25am
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March 14th, 2013 5:24am
If it were up to me, Emma would wear cigarette pants and a tuxedo jacket and a real actual corset (to keep that overtly sexy element without needing a weird lace-up belly shirt).
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March 14th, 2013 5:20am
Damian and his dog Titus by Batman & Robin artist Patrick Gleason
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March 14th, 2013 5:17am
People call it “original art,” but for me it’s just part of the process for the final art. The same way sketches and the scripts are preliminary works building up to something, I feel like the final form is the comic itself with the colors, balloons, ads between pages and that snot on the back cover edge.
The printed edition is the people’s art. With comics, a lot of people can get art for a cheap price instead of just one person getting the “original art” for a higher price. Not to talk about the added value and all that. Look, I spent five years getting a college degree in Fine Art, and one of the things I learned there is that I do not want to be a part of the art market.
— David Aja, on why he doesn’t sell his original pages and comics and their relation to art (via tirehaus)
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March 14th, 2013 5:14am
