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For comic book addicts, here's a Linux application that you should get. Its name is Comix, and it’s an easy-to-use and intuitive image viewer that is specially designed to view digital comic books.
"Anyone who has ever learned to program in Lisp will tell you it is very different from any other programming language. It is different in lots of surprising ways- This comic book will let you find out how Lisp's unique design makes it so powerful!..."
Japanese Manga comics are hugely popular in that country and cover just about every topic imaginable from sport, to romance, to business, to games. Now there is a Ubuntu Manga comic - called Ubunchu - which has been translated from the original Japanese into English and focuses on three students getting into Ubuntu in their school computer
Self plug alert!
I've been writing a web comic called serena@ghost, which is about a GNU/Linux geek. The big difference between my comic and other web comics is that I've been releasing the Inkscape SVG source under the GPL 3. It's been running for a little over a year now, and I'd like to see what the people here think of it.
UsbSandwiches, a leading supplier of high-quality USB-powered sandwiches and toast, has announced version 2.0 of their Automated Sandwich Creator Solution (or ASCS for short). The first version, released shortly after this famous comic, made it easy for Linux users to feed themselves without leaving their familiar terminal environment
Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
An interview with Hackett and Bankwell author Jeremiah T Gray. Hackett and Bankwell is a comic that teachers readers about Linux, opensource and free software.
Enter Hackett and Bankwell, a new comic book geared at introducing GNU/Linux — specifically Ubuntu GNU/Linux — to new users. At about 30 pages long, the first issue is an easy read, and doesn’t get too bogged down by technical details, political ruminations, or an over-abundance of geekiness
