My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books Summer Reading Special.

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Panel one: a couple talk. One says "This year, we are going to find the ideal books to read on holiday!" The other agrees.  Panels 2,3,4 We see the couple Researching Possibilities, Studying Suggestions and Collating Options for their holiday reads.  Panel 5 "You can't rush these things." says one. "Indeed." says the other  Panel 6,7,8 The continue their work by Rating Selections, Comparing Preferences and Refining Results.   Panel 9 The couple read their chosen books as they trundle their suitcases along. One says "The perfect Holiday reads! Now, where are we going?"  The other replies "... I thought you'd booked something."ALT

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books Summer Reading Special.

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jlvanderzwan
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Another tragic victim of the reductionist approach: you cannot determine the ideal book to read on holiday without considering the context of where you're going to read it
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sin

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Look, if those exegesis guys get to find whatever they want in the text, so do the rest of us.


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jlvanderzwan
2 days ago
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Ok but seriously: years ago a Muslim friend of mine (cishet male, in case that matters to some of you) actually used the exact same argument as panel five when explaining to me why he thinks that the Muslims (and Christians) who claim that the Quran (Bible) is against homosexuality did not bother to read it.
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Netherlands
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Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for Sat, 21 Jun 2025

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Nancy by Olivia Jaimes on Sat, 21 Jun 2025

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jlvanderzwan
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Get Zeno'd, G.U.P.P.I.
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Interoperability

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We're getting a lot of complaints from commuters who were routed onto a coaster, but the theme park patrons who spent hours stuck on an intercity line are also not happy.
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jlvanderzwan
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Honestly, if you didn't pay attention to the "you must be at least this tall" sign when you boarded the subway then that's on you
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sredfern
3 days ago
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This is the kind of trouble I want to see in the world
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We're getting a lot of complaints from commuters who were routed onto a coaster, but the theme park patrons who spent hours stuck on an intercity line are also not happy.

Store as HTML, Edit as LML

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From the ashes of WYSIWYG rises a lightweight markup language "interface" to the HTML pages in the wiki, and I think this is going to work...
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jlvanderzwan
3 days ago
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Neat idea, I wonder how far he'll manage to push it
freeAgent
2 days ago
This seems very close to markdown.
jlvanderzwan
2 days ago
I suppose that the point of the exercise is designing with the goal of a reversible transformation, on the assumption that it will result in something that is guaranteed to be consistent.
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Annecy 2025 mon Amour - 3/5

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Annecy 2025 mon Amour - 3/5

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jlvanderzwan
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The wordless "meeting the stars at Annecy" comics in this series are great. Also even though I've forgotten most of my high-school French I get some interesting movie titles to search for out of it.
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