Have been working on drawings inspired by various financial articles - particularly this article by Michael Hudson. Have made a drawing around a quote from this article:

At the same time I’ve been working on building a collage generator, with the idea of generating backgrounds that I can use in my drawings - or maybe as a way of speeding up my drawing process. If I can get a machine to do some of it, then why not? But mostly I’m interested in the ubnexpected results that collage throws up.

Here’s the generator (only works on Firefox): http://davemiller.org/tools/collage_generator/

And here are a few collages I made today:

The next step is to pull all this together - drawings and writings - into a booklet -story.

I’ve just made this short satirical graphic micro-novel, based on events last week involving Mr Mandelson on holiday in Greece and the introduction of internet piracy punishments. It’s pretty fictional as well I have to say.



Open the PDF here

Inspired by the Truth about Markets, and the discussion of how the western economies are on effectively a ‘Sugar High’ after so much bailout money (which explains all the talk of green shoots) and how this ‘high’ is going to wear off very soon, with dramatic consequences for the US (and probably UK as well).

A comic featuring superheroes inspired by the qualities of Allah. The superheroes are 99 characters who develop extraordinary abilities after coming into contact with Noor Stones, ancient gems imbued with power and wisdom.

“With the growing popularity of ebooks, partnerships between writers and videogames studios need to be exploited… Consider how authors such as Iain M Banks, Neal Stephenson and William Gibson have been inspired by game culture. So why the paucity of novelist/game crossovers?”
more here …

Nick Montfort has written about the article also …

Came across this site, which covers interesting interactive work from a mainstream entertainment angle: “The goal of SubmarineChannel is to create new, interactive, cross media formats that use the qualities of the Internet and that can also migrate to other media, like television, mobile devices and film. SubmarineChannel is both a distribution and a production platform for filmmakers and interactive artists who are exploring the potential of the web” …

“SubmarineChannel gathers the most stylish, offbeat, original and arresting artworks for the net into one place. You’ll find linear and interactive works, because the bottom line is using new media to create new experience”…
Continue reading SubmarineChannel

What a good idea! Wonder if there’s a decent way of automating this?

Japanese bookstores are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.

“The comic, which goes on sale early next month, plays into a growing fascination among Japan’s hard-working labour force with socialist literature and joins a collection of increasingly fierce literary critiques of the global capitalist system.

In recent decades, while Japan Inc was still delivering collective prosperity to the nation, public criticism of companies has been muted. Unions were weak and acquiescent. But now, as the country sinks into its second recession in seven year, the sackings begin and the gap widens between rich and poor, a growing number of Japanese believe the problem lies with capitalism itself.
Continue reading Karl Marx goes manga in a Kapital comic strip