Posts Tagged ‘Comics’

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Mistaken

by Seraphine Khorana on September 14th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Mistaken

I’m trying a new image format for today’s comic– a format that employs lossless data compression called png (portable network graphics) instead of my usual jpeg graphic. I think almost everyone can view the png format, unless you are using an obscure or very old browser. Let me know how you like it. Do you have any trouble seeing my comic? Does it take too long to load? Can you tell the difference?

PNG is considered a better choice than JPEG for storing images that contain text, line art, or other images with sharp transitions. Where an image contains both sharp transitions and photographic parts, a choice must be made between the large but sharp PNG and a small JPEG with artifacts around sharp transitions.
Quotation from Wikipedia.

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#800

by Seraphine Khorana on May 22nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
#800

In Chinese numerology, the number 8 represents the totality of the universe. For that reason, the Beijing Summer Olympics began on 8/08/08 at 8.08.08 pm. The number 8– laid sideways– also represents infinity. In Tarot cards, the number 8 stands for strength and justice. For the Pythagoreans, the number 8 is the symbol of the love. Any zeros after a number are considered multipliers.

New this year is an ugly truck contest.
Quotation from the 2003 Garfield Summer Celebration (Garfield Days) in Garfield, Minnesota (pop. 304)

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On Being Blonde

by Seraphine Khorana on May 2nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
On Being Blonde

April 28th marked the third anniversary of EncoreSeraphine.com. 793 comics. Much love. Thank you. ~Sera

You treated me like a goddess
When we were around everyone else
Now how come you couldn’t notice me
When I was standing by myself
Lyric from Meiko, Sleep

If every angel’s terrible
Then why do you welcome them
You said you’d provide the birdbath
If I’d provide the skin
Lyric from CocoRosie, Terrible Angels “It’s perfectly flawed imho”

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Abandon Ship!

by Seraphine Khorana on April 1st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Abandon Ship!

Here’s my plan: I want to be practical. I want to work in the writing/photography/graphics field, but my background is in banking/economics/finance. I need to be completely honest with myself, but I’m torn. Do I make the risky choice or the safe choice? Tell me– What should I do?

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Quotation from Janis Joplin

I have been struggling for many years in pursuit of a career in opera and am finding that it’s the people who have money behind them who are getting places, whether or not they have the best voices… So, yes, I’d marry for money at this point. After all, having the career would make me happy.
Quotation from “pvlstar” on iVillage.com

While $1 million or $2 million may sound like a lot to people making $30,000, it’s hardly enough to transform someone’s life or make them “rich” by contemporary billionaire standards.
Quotation from Robert Frank, Marrying for Love of Money

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This is Stupid

by Seraphine Khorana on January 13th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
This is Stupid

Cleopatra slept with the most powerful men (and women?) of her time, her lovers reputedly numbering in the thousands. Actor Warren Beatty reportedly had sex with 12,775 women. Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain boasted of sleeping with 20,000 women.
Herewith, I am modestly putting comic #750 to bed.

[Warren Beatty was] dating Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina who, inconveniently, was already married and didn’t speak a word of English. Beatty told his pal Dick Sylbert that it was the most wonderful relationship: “She never understood a thing I said, I never understood a thing she said.”
Quotation from Patrick Goldstein, Peter Biskind on Warren Beatty: Was his theme song ‘You’re So Vain’ or ‘Just a Gigolo’? (LA Times)

Of the 18 married women who came to America on the Mayflower, only 5 survived the first winter. This created a ratio of 10 men to each women. Adultery was so prevalent among the Puritans at Plymouth that it is impossible to say who the Fathers of our Country really were.
Quotation from Sabrina Aset, The Theology of Sex

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Crap is Art, Part 2: Craving Sugar Cookies

by Seraphine Khorana on December 23rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art, Part 2: Craving Sugar Cookies

Actually, I did receive a generous donation (Thanks Sara!). Now all I need is an agent, a patron or a corporate sponsor. Or a sugar daddy cookie.

I stood almost motionless on a box in harvard square, painted white, relinquishing my fate and income to the goodwill and honor of the passers-by. I spent years gradually building up a tolerance to the inbuilt shame that society puts on laying your hat/tipjar on the ground and asking the public to support your art…
Quotation from Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls

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Crap is Art

by Seraphine Khorana on December 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art

“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.

You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley

Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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The Sign Says You Do Waxing

by Seraphine Khorana on May 27th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Sign Says You Do Waxing

“Never ever never disagree with me,” he said, unaware of his double negative. I called it to his attention. “I aint got to take nothing from nobody, especially you,” he replied.

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It’s plucking your eyebrows. That’s how I originally got pierced ears.
Quotation from Geri Jewell

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Quotation from Margaret Mead

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