The Merciless Fantastic

How cool is this. Becky Cloonan, whose illustration for Dave Pirkola I posted earlier, writes about the guy on her blog and drew a sweet picture for this upcoming auction to benefit him. She is also really cute, so that is cool too. I’ve always loved Becky’s work, and have been following her for at least 3 years. It is really nice when people you already like do really nice things for total strangers. And I agree, what kind of asshole would rob a comic book store?

Dave Pirkola is the owner of Apparitions Comics and Books. Friday he was shot. Today he is in the hospital in critical condition with no health insurance. The amazing James Sime of Isotope comics in San Francisco is organizing a benefit auction. I donated already and you should too. You can do that here.

Yet another book to buy. Sounds great. Love that data.

Not new, but an incredible example (if you haven’t seen it) of making data and content make sense, making it emotional, making it engaging.

Another book to buy and read and add to the library. Hell, we may already have it. I will have to find out.

Not talked about at the show, but great still… Download common elements for photoshop so that you don’t have to make them over and over again. Passing the time savings on to everyone.

Time and time again, this comes up. Today it was Zeldman bringing it up about how most of us in the room were finally convinced of the power of css after reviewing THIS site.

Need to read up. Recommended by Aarron Walter. Detect devices, serve up content appropriately.

SEO compatible drop-downs. Yes John, Andy, Aaron and Scott… I know that you probably already have your own methods to deal with this.

I have used this before and many of us have already used it too. You can test any site’s SEO compliance. Really really handy.

Aarron Walter’s actual, for reals, presentation. Really good. Most of it explains itself. There are a few vague or slides that don’t work without him. Some very great links are embedded within’ it.