But when I pitched my vision for the section to Vox, it wasn’t about explaining the nuts and bolts of the industry to readers all of the time. That’s useful, and that’s helpful, but my sense is that readers, more than ever, want a guide or map to the culture at large, which can often seem bewildering or overwhelming. I take as our mission to “explain the culture” the idea that what people will want, more than anything, is a collection of voices they can trust, who will steer them correctly, then provide context for the culture they’re consuming. That, in other words, sounds a lot like traditional criticism to me. And criticism can take many, many forms. Some of those will be long-form essays. Some will be quick hits or collections of GIFs. That cultural coverage right now is so malleable is exciting to me, and I want to exploit that as much as possible.
There’s a kind of unspoken promise that comes along with any delayed reading service: At some point, you’ll have time to read this really great thing. But as anyone who has stared into the void of an Instapaper or Pocket queue knows, that’s often a pipe dream.
What if you could rescue your favorite saved reads by putting them into print, with one click? That’s the idea behind PaperLater, a new service that lets users create a personalized newspaper from their favorite must-reads from around the web.
We Created Moose Kid Comics For Three Main Reasons:
To entertain comic readers and win new audiences.
To show how fantastic a children’s comic can be when artists create it themselves.
To open up the discussion about how we can make children’s comics great again.Here in the U.K, mainstream children’s comics have been dying out, especially ones featuring original content. The Phoenix and The Beano are the only commercially available weekly titles still producing entirely original characters, but they are competing against big-name licensed titles based on TV shows or merchandising.
We want to help change things. We want to be creating the next generation of loveable characters for the world to embrace, all created by artists who retain their copyrights and put all their heart into their creations.
We want to remind both children and adults alike how fantastical and imaginative comics can be, and to help bring children’s comics back into the public consciousness.
Thirty-six page first issue available for download right here. Go, support this.
Labour’s press team has accidentally offered everyone their own owl in what could be their most popular announcement yet.
The party’s official account was hacked, tweeting “Everybody should have his own owl”. The tweet was quickly removed, and was replaced with a response that was slightly … laboured:
AN OWL IN EVERY HOME.