Semiotic Cohesion Comics & Art

I am listening to the new Decemberists album. It is very complicated. Wikipedia tells me it's about changing shape and people generally getting raped. I will get the hang of it eventually.

First, I will show you a comic that Melody Lee made for me when I was telling everyone I was about to be ill and then didn't. I just found it in my mailbox now. There's all kinds of stuff in that mailbox!

And now let's get down to the giant info. As always, I'm conducting secret talks, negotiations and black ops strikes so that I may get this very website completely remade from the ground up. Then I shall turn into a beautiful butterfly and all will know my trilling call. So I've been making some graphics. Here.

That is a dancing man. He might be some sort of gnome or tokoloshi, I haven't quite figured out the mythos yet. But in any case he's the mascot of the new site, which shall no longer be called 'Semiotic Cohesion.' Nobody knows what Semiotic Cohesion is and not one person has caught the obscure Transformers reference in the title and logo. Not even the fellow who's been writing Transformers for most of his adult life, Simon Furman. I had to explain it to him, years ago, at some sort of big event. He didn't seem to think it was very funny.

Oh, so - the new site will be called 'Little Old Man.' That's him there. You will relate to him and want to eat his cereal.

Also, you will be able to buy stuff from us when the site is finished. Isn't that a nice thought?

Among the stuff you will be able to buy - a Saga Of The European King audiobook, with all the voices and everything. It is going to be so great. Have a taste, you savages:

Saga Of The European King Chapter Two - The Council Of Very War

Closing item: I am going to be at the UK Mini and Webcomix Thing this Saturday. I am fully expected to be excited. I am even going to buy a tablecloth. The first illustrated chapter of Saga Of The European King will be out, as will Sebastian's Mexican Piss Dream, for the ladies.

The Decemberists album is finishing again. I think they're getting married now? Didn't everyone hate each other a minute ago? I shall have to listen again. Or maybe I'll put on some Presidents Of The United States Of America. Pretty much all you need to know about their songs is in the title.

Sincerely,
Tom McNally

Brice Reignier, that thrice-lovely man who toils hard on many Semiotic Cohesion products, up to and not excluding the Shark Of Wisdom comics, just sent me a ker-azy remix of his cover for the upcoming fifth issue of our comics anthology.

Let me show it to you right now!

Other news: The ominous promises of an entirely rehauled website are going to be set aside for the time being, but do not pretend, oh reader, that the thought of a more beautiful and functional website where you can buy all of our fine Semiotic Cohesion productchilds does not burn through my brain every day. It has burned there every day since about 2001. I am a patient man.

Sebastian is currently out in the woods, possibly putting the first words down on the very first The Ancient Shark Of Despair book. It's going to be a rewriting and rejiggering of the first few months of the blog, October 2006 - January 2007, which are looking a bit embarrassing these days. We aim to fix that! Anyway, I'm on editing duties and I shall do my best to maintain continuity and the correct levels of sadness, mirth, spelling. Sebastian has said quite a few times that this book will be so gigantically awesome that it will split him into several new people. I believe him. I think I saw this book in his eyes when I first met him at Newlands train station an indeterminate number of years ago. I think he was eating chips at the time?

Other news: Hey, there's a fifth comics anthology comic coming out, you know? I know the site only says that three exist but the site is a filthy liar most of the time.

Okay, I've got to go write some TASOD before I go to bed. I'll be back soon. Don't worry.

Sincerely,
Tom McNally

NEXT: Some comics.

The site is under fire from a rowdy bunch of Sumerian Demigods. We're so in the process of fixing this!

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- Sebastian

(In light of this post I was going to make a new category 'Revenge!", but I didn't because I know Tom would disapprove. Did I tell you about the one time he outright said he didn't like laughing? Exactly.)