iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ya get two cause I won't choose -

Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Histories of Mgo was important and one of my favorites of '24. Edwin Callihan's follow up novella, Strange Spells, from @filthyloot.bsky.social threatens to be just as special and loved.

Cover to novella Strange Spells by Edwin Callihan off Filthy Loot Press. Splitting bare branches lit by flash that leaves the branches behind splinters of white against the dark.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

At the behest of @bustermoody.bsky.social I picked up The Road, GNized by Manu Larcenet. I'm grateful I did, partly because of this panel. Oof, that's beautiful.

Centered panel is stunningly framed by a dilapidated building split by light - A ragged figure desperately striking a shovel into the ground. Slight below - the light is reversed with the shovel chiseling through the dark. Smart stuff in this comix.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Been reading (& digging) Fever House but I'm gonna take a break to start one of my most anticipated reads of the year.

Cover for Histories of Mgo by Edwin Callihan

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Yeah, I'd like to read it all too. What I could read said it's bad for comprehension when you're in early development but turns positive later. Then, the summation says it's bad? Maybe I'm not getting it cause I'm reading it digitally.

This relationship is significantly moderated by the reader’s educational stage. At early stages (primary and middle school) negative relationships are observed between leisure digital reading and text comprehension, while at later stages (high school and university) the relationship turns positive. We highlight the different contributions that reading modalities and technological contexts have on our reading comprehension, especially across the lifespan. In sum, leisure digital reading does not seem to pay off in terms of reading comprehension, at least, as much as traditional print reading does.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Everyone, I've invented an AI Running Back that will let me play pro football. Pretty jazzed. I'd like to thank Ford, George Miller, & Brendan McCarthy for their - wait, no. Disregard last statement. I made this.

Dusty, amazing, modded to perfection & back '73 Ford Interceptor.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

So excited to be a small part of this TOC! I have short in here with art by the amazing @chrisacomics.bsky.social and letters by Matt Fox who also colored the story by @matthewmitchell.bsky.social and Buster Moody. I mean, this comic is just chock full of amazing talent. Look at it!

Adam Smith, Baldemar Rivas, Bud, Buster Moody, Chris Anderson, Chris Burnham, Crank!, David Terrill, Jonathan La Mantia, Just Colcord, Kristofer Harris, Kyle Strahm, Matthew Fox, Matthew Mitchell, Scabbatha

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Big Pillar today. I've been talking to the artist I'm doing the mentor project for a lot about story tone & theme. The tone of this pillar is something that has stuck with me for decades. It wavers between inviting & violent in a way I'm still in love with.

Cover Art for Portishead's Live in NYC. An orchestra in the foreground with the band and audience small and enveloped in the background.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

We stalk the night, bloodsacks. And...also play hopscotch.

A fierce kitten in yellow battlevest prepares to conquer the riddle of Necromancer Hawp Skotch.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Two more pillars for the new project! The Traveller In Black was a collection of shorts dealing with the consequences of wishes and desire. And 'ol Gormenghast - A wonderful example of how fantasy doesn't need to be one time period.

MMPB versions of John Brunner's The Traveller in Black and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Let's start with a big one. Karl Edward Wagner. I started reading him back in Jr. High, mid 90s. He stuck out due to plain beautiful prose and a stronger leaning into weird/horror. Every story felt slightly more...metal? Less formal and slightly indifferent to whether I dug it or not. I did.

Two MMPB covers. One a skull with the ethereal image of ghost in its eye socket called In A Lonely Place. The other, a mish mash of high school barbarians, dead trees and wicked horses called Night Winds.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Writing buddy has really hunkered down and insists we work on the couch. Luckily the laptop was within reach.

Black kitten sits on their rump with their body leaned onto a leg.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Unclear. Luckily, these two are easy.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

My name's Adam Smith, writer of the Eisner Nominated OGN Long Walk to Valhall. Since then, Down River People, At The End Of Your Tether, Beneath the Dark Crystal, Angel + Spike, and some prose for Castainge Publishing, Close To The Bone Publishing and Bag of Bones Press.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Re-read Johnny Mnemonic for the 1st time in probably 15 years this morning. I forget one character is an ex Navy codebreakeing cyborg dolphin addicted to heroin.

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Adam Smith @asmithwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

Thinking about Hellblazer made me pull out the story I did for DC New Talent Showcase. It was a cool program taught by @ssnyder1835.bsky.social and run partly by @whattheshea.bsky.social I did this Hellblazer short with art by Siya Oum. It's some of my favorite pages I've written.