Infographics and data visualizations are all the rage on social media sites these days.  We’ve seen infographics about everything from the best times to post to Twitter and Facebook to interesting facts about farts (seriously!) and everyone goes crazy for them.  A well-crafted and effective infographic can easily draw hundreds (if not thousands) of tweets and likes.  But what exactly makes a well-crafted and effective infographic?  A new motion graphic from data visualization and design firm Col [...]

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Forbes Magazine is publishing a comic book about Steve Jobs, with the help of JESS3. The graphic novel focuses on Steve's travels to Japan, and his learning of Buddhism. It is appropriately called "The Zen of Steve Jobs.”


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The lack of graphics novels in the Kindle ebook catalog has been a disappointment for me. Yes, I understand that the Kindle reader device is monochrome and not suitable for color comic panels. However, there are a lot of people who use Kindle apps on tablets with great color displays that would be perfect for graphic novel viewing.Fortunately, it looks like comiXology is testing the waters for graphic novels in their iPad (iPhone) app. comiXology provides iPad apps for most of the major comic bo [...]

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