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| How many points is your hat | Mar 31, 2021 9:42 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:From what Google search results tell me, the police hats with the pointy brims are just called "8 point hats."
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| If they did this in a film I bet it was cool | Mar 30, 2021 8:51 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Re: yesterday's post about catching myself recycling ideas, it seemed to me also in fleshing out this episode's plot that a certain action centerpiece my brain suddenly refused *not* to insert into the middle of things *might* be something I saw in some martial arts flick from eh maybe ten to twenty years ago (so, relatively modern as far as my awareness of such things goes =p ); or at least, it's similar enough that it triggered that vague connection—without providing more detail. Might not really be all that similar in practice! I'm not going to try looking up whatever it was to check. ]_]
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| It's practice for more practice | Mar 29, 2021 10:13 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sharpening up the plot for this episode today, I realized one mechanical part of it is pretty similar to one I've done before. It isn't the first time I've spotted myself repeating similar elements... Maybe I should just think of it as I've got say 20 plot tricks and I'm continually honing them. ; )
... Might be less than 20.
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| Episode 41 e-book available | Mar 26, 2021 10:23 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The 150-page episode 41 e-book is available for purchase on the episodes & e-books page.
Supporters of A*'s Patreon campaign at the e-book level and higher will have a download link for the e-book emailed to them in early April. : )
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| Black hole magnetic field in polarized light | Mar 25, 2021 9:43 PM PDT | url |
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image © EHT Collaboration
^ Image of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 in polarized light, which reveals the magnetic field lines generated by the black hole. The area seen in the image is 0.0063 light years across, or 37 trillion miles: about 5 times the size of the orbit of Pluto.
It was released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, who provide more information and illustrations here, including:
"'The observations suggest that the magnetic fields at the black hole's edge are strong enough to push back on the hot gas and help it resist gravity's pull. Only the gas that slips through the field can spiral inwards to the event horizon,' explains Jason Dexter, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, and coordinator of the EHT Theory Working Group."
Galaxy M87 (Messier 87) is a somewhat distant 54 million light years away from Earth, but at nearly 1 million light years across, it is one of the largest galaxies within imaging distance of Earth. The EHTC measures M87's central black hole at 6.5 trillion solar masses; our own galaxy's central supermassive black hole, known as radio source Sagittarius A*, is a mere 4 million solar masses and much harder to see from Earth due to the intervening gas and dust, and to the current relative inactivity of Sgr A* itself.
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| Episode 42 start! | Mar 24, 2021 9:55 PM PDT | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:New episode. : )
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| End of episode 41! Ep. 42 starts *Wednesday*! | Mar 22, 2021 10:28 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:That's the end of episode 41! (That one was so long I've been surprised when I've flipped back to the episode start: "oh yeah, that's how this episode started!" ;)
Episode 42 will start on *Wednesday*, because tomorrow I'll be shuffling files around and making the episode 41 e-book and doing other boring tidying-up stuff like that. (And shipping off a couple more original watercolor pages—thanks folks who've been picking up recent pages. : )
Selenis has been solving a lot of problems in and around her new city of residence lately, but can she solve...a murder mystery??
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| 14 billion | Mar 19, 2021 10:55 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:14 billion years
and one moment
that lasts forever
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| A* turns 12! | Mar 18, 2021 9:52 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:It's A*'s 12th birthday today! That's for the comic, not the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy...although, I don't think science has pinpointed the date on which the black hole formed (just that the Milky Way is some 12 or 13 ((billion)) years old, so, some day back then), so there's a 1 in 365 chance that the black hole's birthday is today, too—cosmologically speaking, not the worst odds! : D
Thanks to everyone who's read and or supported A* over the years; with your help, we'll be around for another 12 ((billion))! : D
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| Why aren't there bird's eye views of birds | Mar 17, 2021 9:24 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:It's surprisingly hard to find reference photos of a Pacific wren from above (not to mention flying)—so I winged it. ^-^
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| What's the big bright thingy in the sky | Mar 16, 2021 9:44 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Made it back to daylight hours, whew! : ) And shipped off two separate shipments of original A* page art, been a while since I had to do two in one trip. ^_^ Thanks to everyone who buys my art! : D
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| Taking the Monday after DST off is my revenge | Mar 13, 2021 3:33 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Taking Monday off because DST sucks and I need to get some gosh-darned sleep. v_v
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| FF I-III box art by Yoshitaka Amano | Mar 11, 2021 11:41 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The lovely fantasy video game box art for the Japanese versions of Final Fantasy I, II, and III, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano:
Source: boxequalsart.com
Source: mobygames.com
Source: mobygames.com
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| The horror of low perspective | Mar 10, 2021 9:58 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Low perspective = having to draw nostrils = egad!
Except for birds. Bird nostrils are on top.
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| Loose vs tight, line vs...no line | Mar 09, 2021 11:06 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:How to get that pleasingly loose effect of effortless brush play, and yet the necessary detail to convey story? I've been doing a lot of dark line work of late, and that's good for some effects but can tamp down the breezy things watercolor can do—although in the case of this page, adding the thick dark outline around Selenis at the end seemed to provide helpful contrast.
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| A late blog, old reason | Mar 08, 2021 11:44 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sometimes it takes me forever to draw a simple-looking thing. :P
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| Thanks and sly links so smooth | Mar 05, 2021 9:57 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Big thanks to everyone reading the comic! And thanks too to everyone helping me keep making it—those lovely folks supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign, and the people buying the original watercolor art behind the comic pages, which goes up for sale each day at affordable prices on my eBay.
It all makes a big difference, so thank you all! = D
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| I guess that works | Mar 04, 2021 9:11 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Can't think of anything clever to say today! Oh well, can't win 'em all, declining years, etc. :P
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| Willful Grip | Mar 03, 2021 8:45 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:A willful grip
The sinking ship
She thinks a thought
And then it's gone.
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| The bird | Mar 02, 2021 10:03 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The bird flew past
uncaring.
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| On Beaks | Mar 01, 2021 9:08 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Had a bit of a belated brainwave on beaks late last week: I'd been drawing them most of the time like they hinged where the base of the beak meets the skull—but of course, they hinge much farther back, toward the rear of the skull, since the lower beak is a projection of the jawbone. Silly me. Gotta remember that and hinge them correctly. : )
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