Boulet's comic strip about his childhood experience of sleeping in the back of his parents car is beautifully enhanced by cycling animations. Good work! (Thanks, Matthew!)
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9:30 am Thu
Oct 10, 2013
Excellent animated comic strip about falling asleep in the car
Pogo in the Age of McCarthy
On May 1, 1953, a rifle-toting bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey ambled into Okefenokee Swamp, the setting for Walt Kelly’s Pogo comic strip, which ran in U.S. newspapers from 1948 until 1975. At the time, Malarkey’s inspiration, Senator Joseph McCarthy, was at the height of his political power, routinely destroying reputations in the name of […]
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Go from installation to system admin with this Linux training bundle
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