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[Link] Um In The Coil's livejournal [Date] 1/30/03 [Comments] 
Here's the latest hot new thing: outletless free spirits are using this livejournal thing as a kind of underground comics channel. Free of the continual server problems of Keenspace, but also free of any obligating schedule or archive space, you can find all kinds of honest and personal art going down here. There's also no way to locate it except by following links, mostly from Something Positive. So here is a jewel in the rough; you can say you read it back before it got it's own web site. Um is doing a variety of things with his livejournal, including journalling, but for some reason he has undertaken the task of illustrating the story "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. The art is a spooky block-print style which befits this fascinating tale of a lost-technology future, and the natural emotion and suspense of the story is intensified masterfully by the serial nature of this medium. There's also something else going on, currently only called "untitled". By the time you check this out who knows where that will be, but I'll endevor to keep you updated. Update 6/5/03 Well, Anthem was given up right in the middle, guess I'll have to read the book. There's been a new comic idea that also sputtered and a few illustrations. I still check it every week because this guy is a genius and may yet come up with something new.
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