I got to watch “Real Genius” projected on a sheet in my friend Kerry’s back yard, at her graduation party on Saturday. There was a barbecue. It was nice. Neither Eleanor or I had watched it before, but it seemed like it could’ve been set in the same world as Secret Science Alliance… way more dick jokes, though.
You might have seen antique picture maps before, but this one is rather choice.
I checked out that Ted Danson “Gulliver’s Travels” movie from the library, let’s see how it turns out!
Eleanor and I are going to be teaching the comic book class for UGA’s Summer Academy (this’ll be our second year!), if you know any 11-17 year olds in the Athens area who would be interested. We’re real nervous teachers, but we try hard.
I keep meaning to post up new panels on a strict M/W/F schedule, but I’ve been trying this thing recently. Eleanor unplugs the modem from our computer and hides it away, so that I have no temptation to blow most of the day refreshing BoingBoing. It’s been working pretty well, productivity-wise, but I keep forgetting I have to post up panels the night before. I’m in the brainstorming stages of my next big project, “Margo Maloo.” It’s going to be pretty different.
I finished Gulliver’s Travels, it got very harsh at the end. Gulliver’s last voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, intelligent horses that live in an ideally rational society. The humans are Yahoos – filthy, deformed, stinking savages (Swift spends a while describing the long hairs that grow around their anuses, and at one point they poop on Gulliver’s head) that the horses use as labor. Gulliver spends several years serving a noble Houyhnhnm, coming to admire them. When Gulliver gets back to England (on a boat with a sail made of Yahoo skin!), he’s been so twisted by his experience that he finds all humanity loathsome (he finds it disgusting to touch his children or share a drinking glass with his wife,) and spends his days hanging out in a stable. Jonathan Swift did end up going insane later in life.
For some reason, they never get past Lilliput in the cartoon versions I’ve seen.
