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I'm an old fart ... uh... veteran guest at the con this year, with all the attendant hoohah. You can catch me definitely at certain panels (put my name in the search box on the website). Hope to see you there!

PUDGE IS BACK!

The blurb sez: "With stories ranging from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiography, Sexy Chix is devoted to the under-recognized contingent of female cartoonists in an overwhelmingly male-oriented industry. It's about time these divinely talented creators get to tell the stories they want to, and the result is an exquisite variety of artistic visions and styles."

Pudge, Girl Blimp returns in Hurricane Eye for the Straight Grrl, a 6 page tribute to hurricane aid workers and letting the good times roll in SEXY CHIX, Anthology of Women Cartoonists, edited by the fabulous Diana Schutz.

Format: Soft cover, 104 pages, b&w, 6" x 9"
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-59307-238-4

Available at AMAZON.COM

scott wong – lee marrs – j.j. toothman present

Luminance

LEAPING AROUND TO CREATE DIGITAL ART

To escape from Cal State East Bay's Multimedia Graduate program, we had to not only write a thesis, but build a working thesis project.

My three person team build "Luminance", a live, 10 foot by 7.5 foot interactive art installation in which participants use their own physical body movements to create and influence digital content. Its multimedia thesis presentation, including videos of testing and final performance evenings, can be found at http://www.leemarrs.com/luminance

Courtesy of Bill Nye, here is a visitor dancing with the installation. Her body is generating dots that move an animated eye around, one of several scenes that provide a variety of interactive experiences.

Check out an excerpt of our thesis INTERACTIVE ART METHODOLOGY . It's more fun than it sounds.

AMERICAN HYPERCOMICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

I also wrote/drew an independent study on interactive web comics. This quite large PDF file can be found online at
http://www.leemarrs.com/HYPER2.pdf

Not as wacky as my usual work (more tuned to academia), it does include my findings re the seven characteristics that most web comics creators identify themselves and the tantalizing MARRS HYPERCOMICS RECIPE as well as chronicling the historical comics shift from print to web. And not.
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