Hey Ninjas, it's just under a month before AWA. I went there in '07, was relatively impressed, and met you. I'll be back this year. Planning to go?
In an earlier episode, you talked about print comics in the "post-collector boom" of the mid-90s, when the only shops left were poorly maintained, and never in a good area. I got introduced to "non-superhero, non-newspaper" comics in 1995 -- which I didn't know existed prior to then. One of the small press comics that I liked back then (Bone) finished up. Others became web-only, went on hiatus, or ended abruptly. So yeah, the late 90s were bad times for indie comics.
I guess it doesn't cost as much to create webcomics, but there's no way to deny that plenty of them have died or faded away.
We heard the retraction on NPR later, where various people in Sweden wrote in to point out that it was never true.
However, by the time they corrected themselves the erroneous factoid had been on not only the regular news, but also in the news quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
We recorded the podcast before the correction was issued...
But dissemination of false information is a serious problem in American journalism at the moment.
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anonymous
August 27 2009, 15:38:28 UTC
God, if only there some sort of reliable font of news. One man the nation could turn to. A veritable Kronkite, if you will, or someone one trying to be cut from that same cloth. A Kronkiter, if you will.
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anonymous
August 27 2009, 16:26:12 UTC
Swedish journalism isn't all that different to be honest. But Swedes, like most of Europeans it seems, love to sit on their high horse and look down on the rest of the world. :-)
Bit late here, but as far as Annie goes, it ended and was revived (twice!) -- the current run is completely insane and genre, to boot. The last time I checked in, she had been sent home from ancient Atlantis (!), but was proceeding home the long way, visiting Annies throughout times, styles, and continuities (!!), including an Annie aiding the French Resistance in WWII, who she meets hiding out from the Nazis in a traincar.
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In an earlier episode, you talked about print comics in the "post-collector boom" of the mid-90s, when the only shops left were poorly maintained, and never in a good area. I got introduced to "non-superhero, non-newspaper" comics in 1995 -- which I didn't know existed prior to then. One of the small press comics that I liked back then (Bone) finished up. Others became web-only, went on hiatus, or ended abruptly. So yeah, the late 90s were bad times for indie comics.
I guess it doesn't cost as much to create webcomics, but there's no way to deny that plenty of them have died or faded away.
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We're not going to AWA this year - the wedding was too expensive and we're in a bit of debt at the moment.
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Yeah, that's not true. We have always called them "nyhetsankare".
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However, by the time they corrected themselves the erroneous factoid had been on not only the regular news, but also in the news quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
We recorded the podcast before the correction was issued...
But dissemination of false information is a serious problem in American journalism at the moment.
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Weird stuff.
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