Gweek 058: Wizzywig — Portrait of a Serial Hacker

Mark Frauenfelder 5:30 pm Thu Jul 5, 2012

Click here to play this episode. Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff.

My co-hosts for episode 58 are:

Ed Piskor, the cartoonist for Boing Boing’s weekly Brain Rot comic strip. Has illustrated 2 graphic novels with Harvey Pekar (Macedonia, and The Beats). His first solo graphic novel, Wizzywig was released today, July 5th in comic shops.

and

Clive Thompson, a columnist for Wired magazine, and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine. He's working on a book about “the future of thought in the age of machines.”

Here are a few of the things we talked about in this episode:

Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker, a terrific new graphic novel by Ed Piskor.

Stephen Mitchell’s new translation of The Iliad

NewImage Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Seymor Papert’s Mindstorms

Scratch Scratch programming language for kids

NewImage Cargo-Bot

NewImage Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

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