Comic-book worlds (and their heroes) are great for passing the time or taking your mind to new places when you’re stuck inside — and this week’s episode offers insights on the Batwoman TV show as well as making your own comics (even if drawing isn’t your strong point). El Kaiser and J.D. also discuss news from the video-game world and other headlines from around the technosphere. Spin up PTJ 335 right here!
Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Episode
- Batwoman (The CW)
- Nintendo smashes Switch sales view; says Animal Crossing is device’s fastest-selling game (Reuters)
- Fortnite is now one of the biggest games ever with 350 million players (The Verge)
- Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft reveals Xbox Series X boot screen, confirms July event for Halo Infinite and more (The Verge)
- Opinion | We Are a New Board at Facebook. Here’s What We’ll Decide. (The New York Times)
- Apple awards $10 million from Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics (Apple)
- Apple WWDC 2020 announced for June 22, but will be digital only (CNBC)
- UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location, may be illegal (The Register)
- Airbnb is laying off a quarter of its staff (Vox)
- Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline (The New York Times)
- Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, twttr (TechCrunch)
- Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (The Verge)
Do-It-Yourself Comics
- Create Your Own Digital Comics Whether You Can Draw or Not (The New York Times)
- Classroom-Friendly Websites and Apps for Making Comics (Common Sense Media)
- ComicBook! (iOS)
- Comic Strip Pro (Android)
- MediBang Paint
- Comic Draw for iPad
- Procreate for iPad
- Comics Pages templates (Printable Paper)
- Can You Draw This? Of Course You Can. (The New York Times)
