Fables by Bill Willingham

For a great distraction check out the 'Fables' series of graphic Novels.
Bill has brought together an excellent thought provoking series.
"What would happen if the Fables of our past stories were real and lived hidden among us?"

What would Prince Charming be like? How about Red Riding Hood or the big bad wolf?
How about Jack in the Beanstalk if he became a con artist?

Step by step Bill weaves an intriguing tale around how Fables would behave themselves, how the animal looking fables would manage in a human world, how would they hide their presence, could the fables get beyond their original animosities?

With beautiful illustrations and a complex storyline, Bill pulls off an absorbing fable for our day. Check it out.

Supergraphic or summarize

Supergraphic or summarize

Is the ideal of a presentation to tightly guide the viewer to a small set of conclusions. Or is the ideal to give the viewer a very detailed set of clearly diagramed data and them draw their own conclusions.

When learning the 'best method of powerpoint' the objective is the first. However Tufte http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ puts forth in his presentation and books that it is important to display as much data and as clearly as possible and allow the audience to decide. Tufte's argument is very persuasive - that almost any important dataset would need to be multivarient and thus displayed very complexly.

So the reality is rather challenging. In a business situation presentations are supposed to be short, tight and to the point. However, there is so much complexity that to present clearly in a powerpoint one small page, simple graphic is impossible.

I'm starting to explore supergraphics and using paper instead of powerpoint to clearly show the breath of data, rather the just try to get the point across. I'm exploring the idea and we'll see the results.