Hello!

I must have comics on the brain today because 3 out of the 5 things today are comic related. I like to make these emails a little more diverse, but sometimes you just gotta go where your heart wants to take you. So, here's 5 things I thought you'd appreciate this weekend:

1) First YouTube Video in over a Year

From the Audio Visual Department's Video Works

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My schedule finally opened up enough this week to put some time into making some youtube videos. My first one in over a year just dropped a few minutes ago. I'm picking up right where I left off talking about making comics. Hope you like it!

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2) Coming of Age story about a Young Hunter Girl...who is a crab

From the Department of Creative Bank Accounting, Comics Division

Massive Crustacean is a four part comic by Will Tempest that takes place on another world where the dominant sentient intelligent life form is a society of crab people.

I thought it was pretty cool. Great world building going on here. Will had a nice little vignette of a story to tell and he got in there and made a thing. Didn't need to be flashy or over thought, just straight forward story telling. I like that. Getting inspired.

And it's a quick read, too.

You can read it here: LINK​

3) Indiana Jones had a comic series???

From the Department of Creative Bank Accounting, Comics Division

How did I not know about this? I feel like I would have at least read one of these issues, but we completely missed each other. I'm guess they aren't that good, otherwise my buddy Kohl would've told me about them.

Still, there's some fun 80's pulpy cover designs going on here. Making me all nostalgic for all the fun times I would've had reading these as a kid if I knew about them.

If you've read any of these let me know if they're any good.

More info on the comic here: LINK​

Full archive of covers here. All 34 issues: LINK​

4) A Monkey For good Measure

From the Department of Interestingness, Office of Small Things

Don't know backstory of this situation here, searched around for answers, turned up nothing, BUT the good people of Reddit identified all the cars, haha:

• Audi R8 or TT
• Audi A6(?)
• VW Jetta
• Merc SL
• Merc C- or E-class sedan
• Newer Mini something-or-other
• Vintage Mini
• Vintage VW Bug
• Landrover Rangerover
• Porsche Cayenne/VW ToeRag
• Fire truck is an old ZIL-131 model​

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Photo by Alexey Pavlishak: LINK​

5) Jackson Pollock had a good dad

From the Inspirational Thought Unit

Came across this letter that Jackson Pollock's father sent him one summer while his dad was away working to earn money to support the family. The letter is kind hearted, with nuggets of wisdom and humility. You can read the whole thing here: LINK​

But the main takeaway is his dad's take on how to be truly successful in life:

I like that. Trying to be fully away to everything about me; the good, the bad, the needs improvement. You gotta know what works for you, what doesn't, and how to amplify the good and suffocate the bad.

That's all for this week. Thank you for reading this newsletter and hope you have a great weekend!

-Jake

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