Lovecraft is Missing  » To Be Continued, pt. 1: Storypapers There’s no evidence, of course, but to my mind, the first story was born out of the shot-gun wedding between record-keeping (Mammoths trek through the pass when the leaves turn this color) and lying (You should have seen the one that got away.) Its sibling, the serial, was born the night a member of the audience said, “That was entertaining. Here, have another bowl of stew.” This event, apart from establishing the absurdly low pay scales that writers struggle with to this day, brought on an orgy of procreation, as the value of longer stories begat creativity, style and marketing. Dull historical accounts of lineages and hardships were transformed into long, epic struggles, filled with tension and drama, tarted up with the common human foibles of sex, romance, revenge and so on. Lovecraft is Missing is an amazing serialized comic about… well… H. P. Lovecraft going missing and the people trying to find him. I love the story, and the art a great deal. But what really makes LiM an extraordinary site is the stuff the author, Larry Latham, publishes in between his twice weekly comics. I can already tell that this article called “To be Continued” (which is, of course, itself serialized) on the history of serial stories and the business of serial storytelling is going to be excellent. Go to Lovecraft is Missing for the comic… stay for the articles :)

Lovecraft is Missing  » To Be Continued, pt. 1: Storypapers

There’s no evidence, of course, but to my mind, the first story was born out of the shot-gun wedding between record-keeping (Mammoths trek through the pass when the leaves turn this color) and lying (You should have seen the one that got away.) Its sibling, the serial, was born the night a member of the audience said, “That was entertaining. Here, have another bowl of stew.” This event, apart from establishing the absurdly low pay scales that writers struggle with to this day, brought on an orgy of procreation, as the value of longer stories begat creativity, style and marketing. Dull historical accounts of lineages and hardships were transformed into long, epic struggles, filled with tension and drama, tarted up with the common human foibles of sex, romance, revenge and so on.

Lovecraft is Missing is an amazing serialized comic about… well… H. P. Lovecraft going missing and the people trying to find him.

I love the story, and the art a great deal. But what really makes LiM an extraordinary site is the stuff the author, Larry Latham, publishes in between his twice weekly comics.

I can already tell that this article called “To be Continued” (which is, of course, itself serialized) on the history of serial stories and the business of serial storytelling is going to be excellent.

Go to Lovecraft is Missing for the comic… stay for the articles :)

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Polio: A Virus’ Struggle This is how we should teach all science history. The world would be a much smarter (and funnier) place.

Polio: A Virus’ Struggle

This is how we should teach all science history. The world would be a much smarter (and funnier) place.

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White Sands NM V-2 rocket, 1946/11/21

This movie is part of the collection: Universal Newsreels

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New Moon. Reds Launch First Space Satellite, 1957/10/07

via the Universal Newsreel Collection at the Internet Archive.

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In 1951 Beck submitted this revised edition of a map he had worked on for the Paris Metro in the late 1930s. But his map for the French capital was rejected and a diagrammatic approach to the city’s system wasn’t employed until 1999. Used by kind permission London Transport Museum (via Creative Review - Harry Beck: The Paris Connection)

In 1951 Beck submitted this revised edition of a map he had worked on for the Paris Metro in the late 1930s. But his map for the French capital was rejected and a diagrammatic approach to the city’s system wasn’t employed until 1999. Used by kind permission London Transport Museum (via Creative Review - Harry Beck: The Paris Connection)

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