Hi I'm new (you know that never stops sounding redundant :-) ) and I'm getting back into comics after a couple of years hiatus.

I produce my own web comic 'The Service' and I'm in the proccess of building up good comic related places to go on the web.

I live with my girlfreind in Britain, I like cats and I'm an avid gamer amongst other things.

There's not enough space on here to tell you my life story so I guess that's all for now :-)

See ya' round the boards.

This was submitted to Comixpedia today. I don't know if this is some kind of automated spam or if the author was actually thinking we would publish an article on pseudo-energy research. Let me know if anyone can spin some kind of comic-related angle on this? :)

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After a 7 year research study, a senior staff aerospace defense engineer, George J. Bugh, concludes economically free energy and even antigravity are possible.

A 7 year study of "free energy" devices, sometimes called "overunity" devices, was done to determine if any of these devices generated power by transferring energy from unknown sources and if so to determine where the energy was coming from. Included in the study is research of related devices with claimed antigravity effects. The study attempted to determine validity of claims, commonalities of device characteristics and to determine how these devices could work. The results conclude that some devices can generate economically free energy. This study also concludes there is a possible link between gravity and electromagnetism that can be exploited to generate antigravity or electrogravity effects.

The majority of the study was to come up with a theory to explain how the devices could work. In his research, Mr. Bugh used mostly classical electrodynamics rather than quantum electrodynamics. In Quantum theory, the wave like characteristics of matter are described using abstract probability waves. However, Bugh proposes that the wave characteristics of matter may also be described as coming from a very real sea of unseen electromagnetic standing waves among all matter. There is a slide show presentation at the website that explains the differences between the Quantum and Classical way of explaining particle interactions.

According to classical electrodynamics, all electrically charged particles, like quarks of protons and neutrons as well as orbital electrons for example, should radiate away energy from precessional and precessional plus orbital motion. If in fact this really happens then all electrically charged particles can be radiating away energy all the time. However, all particles can also absorb just as much energy from all other radiating particles. The absorbed energy applies electromagnetic forces that naturally move all similar type particles into harmonious precessional motions with all other particles. This results in a vast sea of electromagnetic standing waves among all matter. Even free particles would move into precessional motions that are in sync with the established sea of standing waves

There can be a hidden yet strong tendency towards harmony among all matter in the universe due to these unseen standing waves and spin interactions among all matter. This tendency can overcome to a great extent the tendency towards chaos and heat death of the universe. This tendency can also be exploited to perform work.

This is an interaction among all matter that Ernst Mach alluded to as necessary to cause matter's characteristic of inertia. Einstein later called this Mach's Principle. Einstein studied Mach's ideas while developing his theory of General Relativity.

Bugh describes inertial resistance to acceleration as caused by electromagnetic forces. Changes in position of a mass will cause phase differences to develop between the precessional motions of the particles of that mass relative to the sea of standing waves. This in turn causes electromagnetic force that resists a mass from changing its position.

The research papers are published in a book and a CD titled "Spin Wave Technology Initial Release". At the end of the book it suggests that it should be possible to create computer simulations of particle interactions using classical electrodynamics to demonstrate both inertial resistance and gravitational attraction and it should be possible to simulate devices that manipulate these particle interactions to demonstrate antigravity effects.

More information is available about the research results at the website: www.vasantcorporation.com.
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Copyright now lasts longer than most nation-states. As a practical matter there is no longer a public domain for material created in our lifetimes - it remains under the control of the creator.

This article has an interesting take on the use of the Public Domain to create a new work (The League of Extraordinairy Gentlemen) and how the loss of the public domain deprives us of other creative endeavors.

Why should you head to San Diego for Comicon this month (July 17-20th)? Because there will be a huge number of great creators there to meet, including:

R Stevens and the Dumbrella Gang ("i'll be there with a bunch of other cartoonists [Sam Brown, Jeff Rowland, John Allison, R Stevens, Jon Rosenberg and Andrew Bell] we have a double endcap over near the bayside cafe & small press area. (#1148)")

Clint Hollingsworth of Wandering Ones will be at the Keenspot. So will Maritza Campos of CRFH!!!

Scott R. Kurtz and Frank Cho (sharing a booth somewhere near the Image booth)

At the GirlAMatic.com/RumbleGirls.com table will be Spike, Jason Thompson, Shaenon Garrity and Lea.

And lots more info in a helpful Comicon thread here.

By coincidence I just finished reading the Michael Chabon novel Kavalier & Clay, an amazing novel chronicling the lives of two early comic book creators: writer Sam Clay and artist Josef Kavalier. (Quickie Review: The first half of the novel is sensational, the second half almost as good).

Pulse reports that Dark Horse will begin publishing the Adventures of the Escapist with author Michael Chabon writing some of the stories.

In addition, Michael Chabon will pen the script for the movie adaptation of his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" for Paramount Pictures.

Jim Zubcavich's Makeshift Miracle, the equivalent of a 172 page graphic novel, can be purchased via the web for 99 cents using Bitpass, the same system Scott McCloud is using to sell chapters of "The Right Number."

The Mundis Society of Letters, in association with Accursed Toys Inc., is pleased to announce that Unicorn Jelly: Volume I_, the first half of Jennifer Diane Reitz' science fiction graphic novel, is now available in print.

The "Unicorn Jelly" saga first appeared on the web at unicornjelly.com on September the 5th 2000. Beginning as a cute fantasy comic about a small round horned creature and the little witch who cared for it, the story quickly progresses into a complex science fiction epic. The witch Lupiko and
her creature, Uni, found themselves joined by a crew of misfits, working to save their universe from succumbing to the grave errors of past generations.