I’ve just uploaded a DIY mini-comic of my story “Printcrime,” which appears in my new short story collection, Overclocked. The mini was designed and illustrated by the talented illustrator Martin Cendreda, a former South Park animator whose new works include Dang! from Top Shelf Comix — a bitter and fantastic comic. The mini is published by Secret Headquarters, the best comic shop in LA.

To assemble the mini, download and print the PDF, then follow the directions included to fold it into a no-staple origami 8-page mini-comic — it’s all under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license — share it, tweak it, remix it, just don’t sell it.

4MB PDF

Dave Younce has created a great machine-generated remix of Printcrime, the lead story in my new collection Overclocked. Every time you reload the page, it reorders the sentences. Says Dave, “Some sentences inevitably repeat, which makes it
sound like poetry or drug-addled memories. Sometimes the story’s
outcome is the same, sometime’s it’s completely different, often its
nonsensical. It’s fun to refresh.”

The kind of thing that cost a fortune over the counter; the kind of thing you could print at home, if you didn’t mind the risk of having your kitchen filled with a sudden crush of big, beefy bodies, hard truncheons whistling through the air, smashing anyone and anything that got in the way. God knew what he went through in prison. “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone.”

“There’s no hat or laptop that’s worth going to jail for.” “Let me tell you the thing that I decided while I spent ten years in lockup.”

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I’ve been named one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2007 — part of a group of “250 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals – all 40 or younger – chosen from around the world.”

I think that this is basically the Davos Junior Woodchucks. I didn’t apply — I’m guessing that someone put me up for it. I don’t really know what this means, except that I’m invited to a weekend event in China in September with the other Woodchucks (who include Jimmy Wales and Nick Denton, so it can’t be all bad!).

Sweet! “Whuffie” (from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom) worked its way into today’s episode of the web-comic “Terror Island!”