February 28, 2004

My American... A short comic by Susannah Breslin (who used to be the Reverse Cowgirl).

I've been wondering whether to post this or not (in that I don't really want to be accused of adding to pornfilter or whatever, and hey, this is, by my reckoning, the first non-work suitable post I've made), but in the end I've decided to, simply because I think its an astonishing piece. Also, while you're here, check out the other comics on the Artbomb website. The comic by Laurenn McCubbin is especially excellent.

posted by dng 20 years ago
  • well.....whatever turns you on, i guess. or gives one the release they need. interesting.
  • Fascinating - though not entirely clear (need to think about it, though perhaps just darker than I'm willing to admit). All of the comics on Artbomb are very good.
  • Left-to-right comic frame layout doesn't work well in a web browser. Grumble.
  • I think left to right works very well in a web-browser. Only on a computer screen can you really have the long single sustained note as this comic evokes. For another effective (and very strange but good) use of the left-right format, see Delta Thrives from electric sheep comics.[Possibly NSFW, some nudity, flying cats and mystic whales]
  • The problem lies in navigating the horizontal layout via computer keyboard. Page-Up, Page-Down, Home, and End don't work as I expect.
  • Why did she quit from Salon? I asked the guys there, who said she just upped and left one day.
  • She moved to New Orleans and stopped covering porn. She was getting burned out on the whole thing. One of my favorite posts by her was when she went off on Jeff Jarvis. It's no longer online, but parts of it are on an entry I wrote.
    Susannah Breslin of "The Reverse Cowgirl Blog" went off on Jeff Jarvis in her blog about his post about seeing the AOL blog demo. Breslin went off on him about appointing himself "one of a privileged council of blogging elders." She also went off for his comment: "It isn't content until it's linked." She sarcasticly asked in her entry, "Gee, if Jarvis doesn't link to (this entry), does that mean I don't exist?" What she is saying is that Jeff Jarvis doesn't think your diary or blog is content (a word I hate) until you get linked to blogs like InStaPundit and Andrewsullivan.com. Breslin writes: "The beauty of blogging is in its anarchic nature, not as one more capitalist-driven vehicle for which arriving means being able to link directly to People." Jarvis boast about AOL's commercial potential to plug such sites as People (owned by Time-Aol). Why would anyone give a shit about that and is the content on People so spectacular that it's worth moving a blog to AOL's service.
    I think she also got sick with bloggers. From my understanding, she wasn't happy with the way Live From the Blogosphere went down.
  • Out of order comments cofuse me greatly. Thanks for the information, Sullivan.
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