Monthly Archives: May 2009

“Robots” reviewed at Newsarama

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Newsarama’s “Best Shots” have declared Accent UK’s “Robots” Anthology a success, despite their jaded views on the world of anthology comics. It’s great to see the Accent UK anthologies getting the recognition they deserve, not least because Robots features “And Man Begat” by myself and Stu.Art and the upcoming “Victoriana” is set to feature “The Clockwork Occultist” by Terry Cooper and I.

To quote Newarama’s wise words …

“Robots is a better anthology than Image’s Popgun.”

Read all about for yourself at http://www.newsarama.com/comics/040920-Best-Shots.html

Tech Tip: Online Image Map Tool

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Today’s tech tip is a quick an easy way to make image maps, something I’ve always found quite fiddly and time consuming. There are tools that you can download to do this and, of course, a lot of HTML IDEs do this, but if you’re a little bit of a purist and you like to cut your HTML in a text editor … image maps are a pain!

So, for a quick and easy way to create an image map wherever you are … check out Image Map It Today.

The folk at Image Map like you leave a very small (2x2px) image link in your code, just so they can track how many people have used their software, and for what. Seems like a reasonable trade, but it is easily removed from the code if you aren’t happy with it.

March of the Uber-Geeks

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GeekDad has very kindly selected the top 100 friends that you wish you had on Twitter and provided links so that you can dutifully cyber-stalk them.

And I have obeyed.

I am now following the “100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter” like a good boy, but on my part more as a curious social experiment to compare who tweets more often and more interestingly – the friends I have found or these professional geeks at arms.

So, check them out. I’m following them right now. You should be to.

Go. Follow!

Orang Utan Comics and Monkeys with Machineguns Round Table (Comic Book Outsiders Episode 46)

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The last, I think, of our podcast appearances from the Bristol Con 2009 is featured in Comic Book Outsiders Episode 46.

Chaired by Scott, from Comic Book Outsiders, the Orang Utan panel metamorphosed in a round table discussion on indie comics that also features Stu and I, and the guys from Geek Syndicate.

It’s somewhere in the region of 45 minutes of unplanned, unscripted, but hopefully insightful and amusing banter between the two studios as we share war stories from the world of small press comics.

Particularly worth listening out for are the moment where I blantantly repeat myself and then shamlessly deny it, and the moment that Pete Rogers confesses that the biggest hurdle Orang Utan Comics face is Monkeys with Machineguns ;-) .

For the benefit of the tape, I think he just means that we’re both tall.

Many thanks to Scott for chairing the panel and special thanks to Peter Rogers and Ian Sharman for sharing their panel with us … absolute gentlemen as always.

MWM Live! reviewed by Geek Syndicate (Episode 119)

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Barry and Dave, the Geek Syndicate, very kindly made mention of Monkeys with Machinegun’s MWM Live! mini-event at the Bristol Small Press Expo in Geek Syndicate – Episode 119.

I must admit, I was a bit concerned about words in these guy’s mouths when I wrote “Scott vs. Geek Syndicate” for Scott from Comic Book Outsiders, but it seems to have gone down well. Writing dialogue for fictional people is much easier, as they rarely come back to you and want to talk about it …