#zach weinersmith

[thenib]

Zach Weinersmith.

#zach weinersmith #social media

[astronaut-karenwilson]

HEY, WAIT, can we talk about the best book of 2023? A middle grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf?! Can we talk about this please because I’m in love with every single page of it, I want to be Bea for Halloween, I want to paper my walls with it. I will be waiting right here for the Grendel adaptation next, thank you.

#bea wolf #zach weinersmith #boulet #i am a librarian #my english major is showing

[zenosanalytic]

So I've been reading through A City on Mars(it's engaging, well-written, and Funny. If you have any interest at all in space exploration and settlement, I thoroughly recommend checking it out) and, beyond everything else, I just want to say how Fucking Gross space-travel is. Just absolutely Disgusting. My God: why would anybody do this? Why would ANYBODY want to Put Themselves through this?? Zeus above it's So Vile. Don't worry, I'm not going to share the details here, you can read the book yourselves if you want to know but, Sincerely, Yuck :| Yuck Yuck Yuck :| :| I'll wait until we've mastered the Amenities, thank you very much X| X| X|

#Kelly Weinersmith #Zach Weinersmith #A City on Mars #Space #Space Travel #Space Settlement #SciFi #Terrible Space Facts #Our Staff #zA Opinions #zA Writes

[toooldforthisbutstill]

Boulet lit son nouveau livre, Béa Wolf, une adaptation “enfantine” de Beowulf scénarisée par Zach Weinersmith.

#boulet #zach weinersmith #bea wolf #beowulf #comics

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

Hello! Number 4 and 6 of the book asks, please?

4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

For me, a comfort read is something that helps me feel at home in my own skin and/or remind me of things that are important to me and/or make me laugh. Three of my top choices are probably:

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold (or a Civil Campaign, or Memory; all are in her Vorkosigan Saga and all are DELIGHTFUL) - this series is deep in my brain. Quotes from it have helped me make hard decisions and supported me during times of change. But also, Bujold is a great writer and these books are funny and witty and honest. These three are from the middle of the series, when the protagonist is facing down more domestic issues than he has in his military past, and he’s struggling more than ever.

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard - I was hesitant to list this one because I’ve gone off on this one before and there are so many good books out there, but this one is comforting because it makes me believe that better worlds are possible. In a 900+ page book about love and identity and culture, Goddard also managed to fit a beautiful depiction of what universal basic income can do for a society. It’s really hard to make something happen in real life if we can’t vividly imagine it first, and she’s done a great job making that imagination possible. This book helps me sleep at night.

For a fun third, I’m going to pick Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith. I’m a low-key Beowulf nerd (never formally studied it, wasn’t my language or region of focus) but I have a lot of affection for it and actually own 4+ translations into modern English. And while I love the rhythms of Headley (“made sashimi out of sea-monsters”) and the steadiness of Heaney (“in the night-sea/slaughtered sea-brutes”) and the straightforwardness of Raffel (“hunting monsters/out of the ocean”), Weinersmith is playing a very different piece of music on a whole new kazoo, and it’s FUN.

6. What is your favorite book to recommend?

I am basically an evangelist for Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. I have bought copies just to have it on hand so when I talk to someone who I think should read it, I can just hand it to them. It’s short, it’s about the meaning of life and pursuing purpose and what it means to be a person. It’s also about making tea and being in nature and valuing comfort.

#reader asks #Komarr #a civil campaign #memory #lois mcmaster bujold #the hands of the emperor #victoria goddard #bea wolf #zach weinersmith #a psalm for the wild-built #becky chambers

[osmiumpenguin]

It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)

#books #Becky Chambers #Robert Jackson Bennett #Toni Morrison #Ted Chiang #Martha Wells #Patty Krawec #Simon Jimenez #Joshua Cohen #David Mitchell #Amitav Ghosh #Waubgeshig Rice #Zach Weinersmith #Boulet #Julie McGalliard #Nghi Vo #Emily St. John Mandel #Kim Stanley Robinson #Ryan North #Erica Henderson #Chelsea Vowel #Michael Christie #Khadija Abdalla Bajaber #Adrian Tchaikovsky #Fonda Lee #Naomi Novik #Carlo Rovelli #Tamsyn Muir #Kate Beaton #Jane Yolen

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#bea wolf #zach weinersmith #first second #first second books #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[joen-lenawley]

Was reading Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. There was a chapter about synthetic biology, and I immediately thought of Ross Federman and my brain started reading the chapter in his voice.

#tally hall #tallyhall #ross federman #generate biomedics #synthetic biology #soonish #kelly weinersmith #zach weinersmith #books #reading

[smashpages]

Out this week: Bea Wolf (First Second, $19.99):

Zach Weinersmith and Boulet team for a different take on the Beowulf legend, where “a gang of badly behaved kids who must defend their tree house from a fun-hating adult who can turn children into grown-ups instantly.” What a monster!

See what else is coming to a comic shop near you this week.

#bea wolf #beowulf #graphic novels #boulet #zach weinersmith #first second #new comic book day #new comics day #new comics #ncbd #can't wait for comics #out this week #this week's comics

[dukegreymon]

Law, journalism, academia, economics, finance, book-writing...

#smbc #smbc-comics #saturday morning breakfast cereal #zach weinersmith

[algusunderdunk]

Bought Zach Weinersmith's book Bea Wolf for my little cousin because I thought it looked adorable, sat and read it (best part about buying books for folks), and realized about halfway through the gorgeous prose that it's...

BEOWULF! The ancient epic, adapted in the vein of Codename Kids Next Door, hitting all the major story beats. A terrific book, gorgeous art by Boulet, and lovely prose. If you like classic epics, or things like KND, you'll get a kick out of this.

#bea wolf #beowulf #kids next door #codename knd #codename kids next door #zach weinersmith #graphic novel #smbc

[ecruvian]

New substack newsletter! This one ended up being a lot of big thoughts about something I don't know much about: large and small animation studios. I think I misrepresented how smoothly things went for the Iron Circus Comics team during the making of the Lackadaisy animation, but my point is more about the market for large and small ventures.

Anyway, if you are following this blog my monsters, you can follow the #WeirdTinyMonsters tag or block #Ecruvian substack to clean up your feed!

#Ecruvian substack #substack #indie publishing #ecruvian #tags from the newsletter: #Zach Weinersmith #Disney #iron circus comics #Tracy Butler #Bill Peet #Vivziepop #Bea Wolf #Neil Gaiman #Mouse Studio #Walt Disney #Small studios #Indie animation #Half of this project is just exposure therapy #I hate coming off as ignorant but #like #it's gonna happen #That's how people learn

[batgovernor]

Opinion: 'Rhymes' by Zach Weinersmith

John Milton was perfectly capable of expressing himself in rhyme, as in his Petrarchan sonnet on his blindness, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent. Paradise Lost attracted a lot of criticism for its boring lack of rhyme (as well as a lot of unthinking religious approval for its wretched matter). At the front of the second edition of his Paradise Lost in 1674, John Milton defends his books-long…

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#Chaucer #formal verse #John Milton #Paradise Lost #Poetry #rhyme #Samuel Johnson #Shakespeare #SMBC #Zach Weinersmith

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 95: My pen is among the missing

Episode 95: My pen is among the missing

Well-meaning governess Vicki is in a hotel restaurant in Bangor, Maine. She is waiting for dashing action hero Burke to drive her the 50 miles to her home in the great house of Collinwood. Vicki is sitting at a table with Burke’s lawyer, Mr Blair. Blair takes out a pen to mark up some contracts. Vicki tells him that his pen is identical to one she found on the beach at “a place called Lookout…

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#dark shadows #freud #macguffin #ron sproat #saturday morning breakfast cereal #the bleeder valve #where the pen is #zach weinersmith

[5oclockcoffees]

"The commercial race to space has been picking up speed in the last few years, as people like Elon Musk are rushing to develop the rocket technology to ferry human beings to Mars, to live there.

It's an exciting prospect, and one that has captured the imaginations of writers for decades.

But what would life on Mars look like? And is it even possible?

Dr Kelly Weinersmith has written a book with her husband, Zach, to answer those questions and more - like, how would humans procreate in little to no gravity? And what on earth is a snuggle tube?"

Sex, law, and life on Mars.

#Mars #Kelly Weinersmith #Zach Weinersmith #Elon Musk #ABC Conversations

[typezerostudios]

Came out in 2006. How we feeling about the funniness

#smbc #saturday morning breakfast cereal #zach weinersmith #comics #time