The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Thanks, Drew!)
Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books. (CC-licensed photo on Flickr by 911conspiracy) Forty-five years ... More.
John Allan Muhammad, best known for killing 10 people in the 2002 DC-area sniper shootings, will be executed at 9PM today in Virginia. ... More.
A woman who appears to have been inebriated fell onto the tracks in a Boston subway as a train was rushing towards her. People on the platform frantically waved at the train, which stopped in the nick of time.... More.
Yves Béhar (who is in an epic struggle with Marc Newson to claim the title of "sexiest industrial designer alive") designed this vibrator. It looks like a Miyazaki cartoon creature. The Form 2 takes a two-pronged approach to the vibrator, giving its user what they're calling "Sensation in Stereo.... More.
Jan & Kjeld are Swedish brothers who made a number of banjo records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their rendition of "Tiger Rag" in 1959 was popular in Germany. (Via PCL Lunkdump)... More.
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I love this comic and have been following it since early on. I only wish there were more of them and more frequent updates.
I knew little about Babbage or Lovelace until someone pointed me to the first comic of this series and I've been obsessed with both characters ever since.
When you had the Lovelace Biopic thing earlier I immediately thought of the comic and raced to point out your link there. I'm now glad to return here only to find a link of the comic.
Everyone should read this comic! "And it shall be powered with STEAM!!"
Awesome, truly awesome.
who would have thought Babbage would be such popular topic in comics?
Here is another Babbage comic
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=5
(albeit a single page one)
Shooting some bankers doesn't actually seem like such a bad idea.
Shooting all the bankers: maybe even better.
My thoughts exactly SG. Don't forget the real estate people, lawyers,and politicians. That wall will look like a swiss cheese. Forward to the revolution!!
This. Is. Fucking. Awesome. Plus, I'm with Babbage on street music - well, bagpipes, anyway. I believe his personal bugbear was the barrel-organ. Me, I'm in favour of airstrikes on all bagpipers. That and enormous, clanking, mechanical computers, natch.
A "differene" engine, huh? I've never heard of one of those.
It nags at me, as a staunch defender of comics, that a couple of the best ones I've read have misspellings in them (MLK, Torso). And this one, which I haven't yet read: two in one panel!
Sydney Padua - the writer and artist - is an amazing lady.
#7: forgive a spelling mistake or two - she does this in her spare time! I'm sure she'll fix it.