Comments on: Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy

By: JonH

JonH — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:30:52 +0000

Love it. DON’T change font or picture size – the grumblers are reading this on their high power work machine while most of us, I’m sure, wait until we get home and use our old notebook. Also waiting for the T-shirt, and pyjamas?

By: Anners of Sweden

Anners of Sweden — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:17:52 +0000

I always suspected there was much work, trial and error behind a comic, successful or not. Your blog dissects and illuminates this wonderfully.

I consider your current work just a scetch, albeit a very complete scetch, and I wish the completed comic to be in print soon.

Warmly,
Anders Molander

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:01:12 +0000

So how would a cyborg Napoleon not be educational?

By: jon singer

jon singer — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:23:56 +0000

Hi.

This is, indeed, brilliant. Kudos!

Typo for you: in the panel with Wellington, hat in hand, between the two of them, I see “differene”. [Hope you don't mind the proofing; I can't help seeing things like that, and it seems pointless to waste the information.]

Best –
jon

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:19:41 +0000

So… Babbage was the Regency Lars and the Real Girl.

By: sydney

sydney — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:30:26 +0000

Thank you very, very much!! I’m always chuffed to get a great comment. Its all for kicks and most uneconomical but I enjoy drawing them as much I hope as people enjoy reading them. More comics are on the way!

By: John Bound

John Bound — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:44:49 +0000

As a middle-aged economist and businessman, what am I doing writing a comment on this site? Well, my son introduced me to graphic novels and strips ( and also ‘Steampunk’ )and I think Lovelace and Babbage is brilliant – mature, witty and historically literate. Used as a vehicle for modern satire, these characters could be huge – entertaining but also acting as an entry point for all those wonderful larger-than-life personalities that led the industrial revolution. I’m not an artist so can’t comment on the style, but it is simple and easy to follow. However, for me, it is always the writing that is the key, and it is excellent. Create more, lots more.

By: Dan Stanley

Dan Stanley — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:19:11 +0000

I saw the link to your site in a post to Word of the Day and I was pleasantly surprized. I love it! The funniest line was the one about shooting some bankers to keep confidence up. The scrolling rather than clicking is perfect. Thanks. Keep it up. -Dan

By: Incognita Nom de Plume

Incognita Nom de Plume — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:18:36 +0000

Madam, this is exceptional. Beautiful art style — love the expressiveness and spontaneity of your line work, and, as others have already commented, your ability to pack a huge conceptu7al punch into a single gesture…

And it’s clever and funny.

Ada Lovelace (and, to a lesser extent, Babbage), have long been fascinations for me — but I never thought that I’d see them together in one of my favorite artforms. I’ll be forcing all my students to read this.

Thanks so much — and please keep them coming.

By: derek

derek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:01:24 +0000

If Wellington instead of Peel had invented the police, would they be called Noseys instead of Bobbies?