Scott VanderPloeg
The following are those volumes not available from their distributor, either out of stock or on backorder, and most likely out of print, sorted by publisher. I’m only tracking standard editions on eBay, sold worldwide listings, and don’t track damaged books. If there are no sales for the reported...
Scott VanderPloeg
The days of a single neat and tidy solicitation for all publishers are gone. Individual publishers’ listings will be posted on a monthly basis as I discover them, either from their websites or catalogues. One Artist’s Edition and one AE adjacent book on offer. Beta Ray Bill by Daniel Warren...
Scott VanderPloeg
The New Teen Titans presenting random pages chronologically from issue one to the Archives volume one cover. In fact twenty-three covers are offered, along with a fold out coloured poster, and much more. Plus an introduction by Marv Wolfman and a one-page biography of Pérez. The scans have no...
Scott VanderPloeg
Twice-up Steve Ditko pages from Amazing Fantasy to Amazing Spider-Man #37. Four complete stories: Amazing Fantasy issue 15, Amazing Spider-Man issues 20, 26, and 33. Four pencil pages from Amazing Spider-Man issue 31, with their inked counterparts. Two Jack Kirby pencilled pages with Ditko inks...
Scott VanderPloeg
The days of a single neat and tidy solicitation for all publishers are gone. Individual publishers’ listings will be posted on a monthly basis as I discover them, either from their websites or catalogues. One new Artist’s Edition from Act 4 Publishing. Beta Ray Bill by Daniel Warren Johnson...
Scott VanderPloeg
Taking the Artist’s Edition Index from print to the spoken word. This month I discuss shipping changes, Graphitti Designs Signed Editions, AE Format Out of Print Sales Q1 2026, Dupuis June 2026 Solicitations, IDW May 2026 Catalogue, April 2026 Crowdfunding, and reviews of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy in...
Scott VanderPloeg
The following are those volumes not available from their distributor, either out of stock or on backorder, and most likely out of print, sorted by publisher. I’m only tracking standard editions on eBay, sold worldwide listings, and don’t track damaged books. If there are no sales for the reported...
Scott VanderPloeg
Concluding Hellboy in Hell with issues 6-10, plus seventy pages of various pages, covers, and illustrations from the breadth of Hellboy’s appearances. Rounding this volume out: an introduction by Kevin Nowlan and an afterword by Steve Purcell. When the first volume was released there was some...
Scott VanderPloeg
Image distributes their books, not periodical comics, via two means: Lunar for the direct market, and Simon and Schuster for the book market. Comic shops are referred to as the ”direct market” by comic publishers. Lunar ships Image books 27 days before Simon and Schuster does. That’s why you see a...
Scott VanderPloeg
The days of a single neat and tidy solicitation for all publishers are gone. Individual publishers’ listings will be posted on a monthly basis as I discover them, either from their websites or catalogues. One new Artist’s Edition solicited earlier via Simon and Schuster. DC Silver Age Covers and...
Scott VanderPloeg
The days of a single neat and tidy solicitation for all publishers are gone. Individual publishers’ listings will be posted on a monthly basis as I discover them, either from their websites or catalogues. A crowdfunded Artist’s Edition gets a retail release. Link. Jason Pearson’s Body Bags...
Michael Suguitan
or: This Film Camera Makes Unlimited Digital Photos This post presents several upgrades to the Leica MPi, a Leica M2 with a Raspberry Pi-powered digital back. The most notable upgrade is a larger sensor capable of capturing daylight photos in color. Other upgrades include an internal battery and...
Michael Suguitan
These are photos of the 2024 NYC Marathon, taken on the MPi. I ran the marathon in 2019 and it was the most painful experience of my life, until I dislocated my elbow at the LES skatepark. I kept up with the three-hour pace group until after the Queensboro Bridge, coming up on mile 17, when my...
Michael Suguitan
Taken on the MPi.
Michael Suguitan
CatBot is a notification system for stray cat sightings. Upon detecting a cat with its camera, CatBot sends a text with the recorded image. CatBot also deters birds, for whom cat food is unhealthy, with an actuator that taps the window upon bird sightings. The project’s code is available here....
Michael Suguitan
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What's the state of modern image formats and which one should I choose on the web now ? In this article, let's study modern image formats (AVIF, HEIF, WebP, WebP2 et JPEG XL) as precisly as possible. 🖼️
John Neel
Depth of field is a way to assure a selection of the subjects in an image appears sharp. Depth of field is a cause of aperture function. It has to do with the opening created by the lens iris relative to the subjects in a scene. It has to do with light cones. Light cones are the gathered rays of...
John Neel
A Few Thoughts On Photography, Light and Seeing Originally published Published on: Oct 17, 2013 “It’s easy to respond to a world that is new to us. However, if we pay attention, it is possible to find things in the commonplace that look amazing. Soon, we begin to see the familiar in entirely new...
Jonathan
In a previous article, I wrote about my experiences developing my first Alexa skill. I will update you on the status of my skill submission. Following submission, the Amazon Alexa skills team failed my skill because it was missing a background image for the Amazon Alexa display. This was my own...
AILabby - AILab & Beyond
Update June 12, 2018: The book has been officially published and the complete source code is available here. I’m honored to have Pete Warden, the lead of Google TensorFlow mobile team as one technical reviewer of the book, and Aurélien Géron, the best-seller author of Hands-On Machine Learning...