The Gothenburg Book Fair
The Gothenburg Book Fair is the main event for the publishing industry and its readership in Sweden. I don’t go every year, but this year I was invited to talk and perform.
Lenin comes every year, to promote a very special hotel in Varberg, which is full of books and Soviet memorabilia (including an exact replica of the interior of a bath house in Petersburg that Lenin liked to frequent).
Piggy emoticons
In the early history of Tinet’s life on the Internet, I was using “western” style, vertical piggy smilies:
>:(:) — >:(:)) — >:(:)( — >:(:)p
But at some point I found a much wider range of expression in “eastern” style, horizontal piggy smilies …
V`(oo)´V — stoic
V^(oo)^V — cheerful
V´(oo)`V — sad
V>(oo)<V — upset
V>(oo)<#V — wroth
V^(oo)^;V — embarrassed
V;(oo);V — crying
VT(oo)TV — bawling
V°(oo)°V — astonished
V*(oo)*V — dazzled
New “Zines” page
Now all my zines are listed on one and the same page. Check it out!
Also, I came to the conclusion that using the Union Jack as a symbol for English language was really imperialist and fascist (not to mention that it looked crappy in such tiny resolution), so I replaced it with the flag of Kiribati (for now). I guess I could also have replaced the Italian flag with the Somali flag, the German flag with the Kazakh flag, and the Swedish flag with the Finnish flag, but I’m a bit lazy … :3
DRIFTWOOD CH. 9 P. 10-14
Read Driftwood chapter 9, page 10-14 …
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57 down, 116 to go. V`(oo)´V
(Now I’m on page 17 … Unbelievably slow …)
Cover for the Driftwood book
I’ve been working on this comic for fifteen years, and it’s really quite disturbing that it will soon be finished.
