It seems like I end up buying half of the things that Warren Ellis blogs about--that is if said things can be bought. Today I saw his mention of these Field Notes notebooks. These look far superior to the things I carry around to jot down my latest bit of brilliance. And they come in lined, blank, and graph paper versions. Man!

Oh, and if that weren't enough, he also uses the word, 'sideboard' which wins him extra points.

Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site is my project for the weekend. We'll see how much I get done. It's a long tutorial and I've got some other stuff on the menu.

The goal of this guide is to take you step by step through the full process of using Drupal’s CCK and Views modules (as well as a number of other supporting modules) to create customized content types (e.g. news posts, articles, etc), as well as “listing” pages and blocks to display teasers of your content, and then theming everything to look exactly as you intend.

This slide show courtesy of popcandy.

Timothy Callahan Via CBR...

... I spent some time speaking with the shockingly good Jason Aaron. Our topic of discussion? Movies, of course. ...

I recommended my new favorite, "Zero Hour!" which I'd already tried to sell to Matt Fraction on Wednesday evening. It's a genius piece of filmmaking from 1957...

... he said, "yeah. You look like a Vertigo writer anyway," which is pretty true. If Azzarello, Wood, Aaron, and Morrison had a baby, it would look just like me. And it would be the coolest, most badass baby in the land, wouldn't it? It would probably rule the post-apocalyptic landscape with only it's glorious baldness and surly attitude.

CBR has a copy of the Batman: The Brave and The Bold" Trailer.

A good day one slide show from SDCC 08 courtesy of OldManMusings

Double Vision - WSJ.com

For the past 12 years, Fábio Moon and his twin brother Gabriel Bá have spent thousands of dollars to travel from their hometown of São Paulo, Brazil, to attend the San Diego Comic Con, the most well-attended comic book event in the U.S.

Comic Book Resources > CBR News: CCI: Ed Brubaker's "Angel of Death"

Ed Brubaker was already nervous about playing the starring role in his own panel. As the only one on the dais, there was no one else to "make fun of" he said.

Newsarama.com reports from the Vertigo Panel:

A new series called Day Tripper by Fabio Moon and Gabrielle Ba was announced. The two are probably best know for their work on Umbrella Academy. "They never quite tell me who draws what and who writes what," Berger said as she introduced the two Brazilian creators.

Moon said the series is about "a guy who wants to be a writer and how the things you do in your life every day, there's stuff that can determine what you're going to do the rest of your life." The series is set in Brazil, so the "background is going to be very different," he added.

"It's got a real nice magical realist aspect to it," Berger said. The series will be out next spring.