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| It's a look | Aug 30, 2019 8:29 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:If you enjoy A*, you might be interested in helping me make the comic by joining my Patreon campaign. : ) Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for their support through Patreon:
Thank you very much! : D Reader support makes A* possible!
Oh yeah and I'll be studiously not-laboring for the confusingly named Labor Day holiday here in the States on Monday. Back to the drawing board on Tuesday!
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| Pepsi wants a Pepsi | Aug 29, 2019 6:45 PM PDT | url |
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From a full-page Pepsi-Cola Corporation ad in Master Comics #71, August 1946.
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| Gown Grump | Aug 28, 2019 7:28 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : D :
Thanks everyone for your help, you make A* possible! : )
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| Boy that's rough | Aug 27, 2019 7:27 PM PDT | url |
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From "Revenge of the Beasts" starring Captain Marvel Jr. in Master Comics #68, May 1946. Art possibly by Gene MacDonald.
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| Another space first, for the US! : P | Aug 26, 2019 8:34 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Nasa said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space says the BBC: a US astronaut's estranged spouse claims she accessed his bank account from the International Space Station—which she acknowledges, but denies wrongdoing.
The BBC says that "a legal framework sets out that national law applies to any people and possessions in space. So if a Canadian national were to commit a crime in space, they would be subject to Canadian law, and a Russian citizen to Russian law."
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From Sky Masters of the Space Force written by Dick & Dave Wood, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Wally Wood (unrelated). 1959. (Wikipedia)
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| It could be a shiny eyepatch | Aug 23, 2019 10:54 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Ink sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
Thank you very much for your support! It's readers who make A* possible! ="D
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| You can always just go with the obvious name | Aug 22, 2019 9:40 PM PDT | url |
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From "Bulletman Looks for Brains" starring Bulletman and Bulletgirl in Master Comics #65, January 1946. Art by Charles Tomsey.
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| Sketching can be scary | Aug 21, 2019 8:55 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a frightening ink sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : )) :
Thank you very, very much for your support, dear readers! You help make this comic possible. : )
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| Save that paper | Aug 20, 2019 9:53 PM PDT | url |
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Public service announcement starring Radar, the International Policeman, from Master Comics #65, January 1946.
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| And She's Got Cookies | Aug 19, 2019 9:00 PM PDT | url |
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Curtiss Candy Company ad for Baby Ruth candy, from Master Comics #61, May 1945.
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| Let's get more sci-fi faux-hawks | Aug 16, 2019 9:43 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:A* is brought to you by wonderfully generous readers supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign! Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for their support:
Thanks everyone for helping make this comic possible! : D
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| Who could be skeptical of the penguin people | Aug 15, 2019 8:35 PM PDT | url |
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From "The Crystal City of the Peculiar Penguins" starring Captain Marvel Jr., in Master Comics #44, November 1943. Art by Mac Raboy.
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| Objects in sketch may be closer than they-- | Aug 14, 2019 9:07 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
Thank you very much! Your support helps make A* possible! : D
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| Be the strong cheese | Aug 13, 2019 10:14 PM PDT | url |
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Also from "The Wrestling Cheese" starring Balbo, the Boy Magician—by Bert Whitman, in Master Comics #43, October 1943.
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| That's a strong cheese | Aug 12, 2019 8:30 PM PDT | url |
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From "The Wrestling Cheese" starring Balbo, the Boy Magician—by Bert Whitman, in Master Comics #43, October 1943.
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| Space hoodie | Aug 09, 2019 8:31 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : D :
Thanks everyone for your support! It makes a huge difference!!
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| A dozen rustlers | Aug 08, 2019 8:18 PM PDT | url |
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From a Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal story in Master Comics #32, November 1942. Art by Ralph Carlson.
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| Space news roundup! Cool cloud around A*, etc | Aug 07, 2019 8:56 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Space news rrrroundup!
- Spektr-RG: powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos (BBC): This Russian/German space telescope "will map X-rays across the entire sky in unprecedented detail"; "Spektr-RG is expecting to detect perhaps three million super-massive black holes during its service life."
- A Cool Accretion Disk around the Galactic Centre Black Hole (arXiv): A scientific research paper describes a relatively cool, disc-shaped cloud of hydrogen gas, about 1.5 trillion miles in diameter (~ a quarter of a light year), rotating at about 2,000 km/s around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the radio source designated "Sagittarius A*." Hydrogen gas at less than 10 million degrees K does not produce X-rays, which had enabled much of this mostly ~10,000 K cloud to escape prior detection; the scientists spotted it with the ALMA radio telescope array. The paper includes a pretty nifty diagram showing the known structures around Sgr A*, including a radial cloud of stars weighing a total of about 1 million solar masses of stars within 1 parsec (3.26 light years) of the black hole—imagine 1 million stars the size of the Sun, all within 3/4th of the distance from Earth to Earth's next closest star, Alpha Centauri! It also mentions that the black hole seems to control the movements of stars within one light year of it. They estimate the black hole would swallow the current cloud within about 120 years, if it was not being replenished ("we think that replenishing is more likely a continuous process as the Galactic Center is a complex region with no shortage of gas supply either hot or cold"). They describe the density of the cloud, estimated (I think) at 100,000 to 1,000,000 atoms of hydrogen per cubic meter, as "tenuous," having "minimal" effect on the velocity of major bodies—actual dense gas clouds, or stars—passing through it ("roughly equivalent [in the case of dense cloud object G2, and if the hydrogen gas is a thin, even layer] to an aluminium ball 1 cm in diameter passing through a 1mm layer of water"). Overall, this paper is far and away the most detailed description of the galactic core I've ever come across! Sent in by @n1vus, from a tweet by @JossBlandHawtho, showing that diagram of the galactic core.
- The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Real World Test (Wired): US Marines used a powerful signal jammer—it emits blasts of radio waves—to fry the circuits of an Iranian drone that approached a US warship in the Persian Gulf; this constitutes "the first-ever 'kill' by a US directed-energy weapon." From a tweet by @PaulHChadwick.
- LightSail-2 Mission Shows Solar Sailing’s Potential for Spaceflight (NYT): A nonprofit's Earth-orbiting craft, with a gossamer sail "roughly the area of a boxing ring," demonstrated it could use the pressure of sunlight across the whole surface of the sail ("the equivalent of the weight of a paper clip pushing down on your hand") to adjust its orbit slightly: raising one side of its orbit by a mile over the course of four days.
- Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat (BBC): Turns out that as you move to the outer parts of the galaxy, the "disc" of stars becomes warped and twisted, with the arrangement of stars curving significantly above or below the flat-ish "galactic plane" arrangement followed by stars closer to the core. Kind of a big deal. : o
- Tardigrades: 'Water bears' stuck on the moon after crash (BBC): An Israeli spacecraft that crashed on the Moon in April—its mission was to land there, but it suffered an engine failure—carried a supply of dehydrated, amber-encased "water bears": little microscopic organisms that can survive extreme conditions. So in theory, if they get cracked out of their artificial amber casing, and get a little heat and moisture—dehydration put them in stasis—they'll spring to life. Nice knowing you, Moon.
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| One day left in A* archive art auction! | Aug 06, 2019 7:49 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:There's just one day left in the special sale auction for the A* art archive 16" x 6.75" watercolor piece behind page 34:36:
Also on eBay, you'll always find the original watercolors made for the latest week's worth of new A* pages—they're all under my eBay listing. : )
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| Episode 37 e-book now available! | Aug 05, 2019 9:25 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Over the weekend I put together the e-book version of the just-completed A* episode 37, and mailed out complimentary download links for it to my Patreon backers at the e-book level and up. : ) Those not in that elite crew can pick it up via the episodes and e-books page for a minor consideration! '-'
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| Add more paint--an A* art auction! | Aug 02, 2019 8:49 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:There's a special A* art sale running over the weekend, it's the 16" x 6.75" original watercolor art for A* episode 34, page 36! It is up for auction on eBay through Wednesday, starting at just $16.99!
Loads of pigment laid on there to get that deep reddish purple.
Hey and while you're on eBay, you can also catch my other A* original art sales—the original watercolor illustrations behind the latest week's worth of brand new pages are always there on sale—in my eBay listings. : ) Thanks for checking out my stuff! : D
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| Half-frowny-face | Aug 01, 2019 11:35 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:A* is brought to you by readers supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for their support:
Thanks everyone for your support! : D
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