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WELCOME TO REC.ARTS.COMICS (part 5 of 7: ftp and WWW resources)
written by lots of different people
edited by Paul A. Estin 1990-1993
          Tom Galloway  1993-present
[last update: 9/12/94]

Note: I plan to radically change this part, probably by next month
and possibly affecting Part 6 as well. Instead of classifying by
sites then contents, I plan to change it to contents, then sites.
So, for example, you'd see 
SANDMAN:
  Annotations    ftp to foo.bar, directory /pub/comics/sandman
I think this will make this section a lot easier to use. Comments
are welcome.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW THIS MONTH: 2000AD Mailing list archives
                Sandman WWW site
                Dilbert & Dr. Fun on the Web
                Generation X #1 
                Cerebus WWW page
                Shawn Petren's comics WWW page
                Forbidden Planet Review WWW page
UPDATED THIS MONTH: 
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5. FTP and WWW sites containing comics related files.

Many resources are available at different sites on the net via a mechanism
called FTP (for File Transfer Protocol). If your system is fully on the
Internet, use your local help command to get information about how to use
FTP to access the files listed in this post. If your system is not fully on
the Internet, it is still possible to access these files via email. 

Two addresses which provide FTP by email access are ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
and ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu FTP commands should be placed in the body of
your message to these addresses. Note that a human will not read your
messages to these addresses, so don't bother putting anything other than
FTP commands for the message body.

To get a list of available commands and some information about this
service, send the following message (the decwrl address is used for demo
purposes) 

    mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
    Subject: <return>
        help <return>
        quit <return>
        <exit mail program and send mail>

FTP Commands you should know about for getting files are as follows.
Arguments you should specify are described in <>s.

        connect <site name, such as teetot.acusd.edu>
        chdir   <directory files you want are in; only one per session>
        dir     <return a listing of the current directory's files>
        get     <name of file you want sent to you>

In general, you should use connect once, followed by a chdir, and if
retrieving files, as many gets as you have file requests. Note that some
sites limit the number of gets in a single message, usually to 10 or so.

After a while you should get a mail response similar to this:

    From: "ftpmail service on ftp-gw-1.pa.dec.com" <nobody@pa.dec.com>
    To: tyg@hq.ileaf.com
    Subject: your ftpmail request has been received

    We processed the following input from your mail message:

         <what commands you sent>

    We have entered the following request into our job queue
    as job number 746315939.01678:

The message will conclude with how many jobs are ahead of yours, and that
you should expect to get the results (i.e. your files) in a day or so.

You cannot delete an FTPmail request once sent, so be careful. Nor can you
request that only part of a file be sent. Large files will be divided up
into equal sized chunks of a set number of characters (except for the last
chunk, of course).

Gopher is another utility for getting files from remote sites. If your
system has gopher, use your local help facility to find out how to use it.
If not, just use FTPmail.

Please do not email the r.a.c. FAQ maintainer with questions about how to
FTP or gopher. I don't know how your system is set up. The appropriate
person to ask these questions of is your local system administrator. The
above information is meant to help out people who do not have FTP access
but would still like to get the information at various archive sites.

The following is an edited by tyg write up by Marty Ward on the World Wide
Web (WWW). Recently, a number of r.a.c.ers have been setting up WWW
accessible means of information, thus a brief intro into what this is all
about is in order.

The WWW project started by CERN seeks to build a world wide distributed
hypermedia system. With hypermedia, it's possible to "click on" an object to
traverse a link to where more information about that object is located.

To access the Web, you need a browser program.  The browser can read
hypertext documents and can access documents from other sources by
traversing links and accessing files by ftp, (Usenet) news, gopher, and
other methods. By selecting an object with a link, you can view text and,
depending on your browser, possibly related sound and images as well.

In order to start traversing the web, you need the name of a place, or page,
in the WWW to go to using your browser. Locations in the WWW are called
Uniform Resource Locators or URLs, which are a standard for specifying an
object on the Internet, such as a file. They look like the following:
  gopher://gopher.internet.com/msdos/text/manual1
  ftp://ftp.sun.com:1100/pub/games/trek
  http://info.cern.ch:80/start.html

The first part, before the colon, specifies the access method, e.g. a
gopher, ftp, or hypertext document (http).  The second part is specific to
the access method, and in general, two slashes after the colon indicate a
machine name, e.g. gopher.internet.com.

There are two main browsers; Mosaic and lynx. Mosaic is the more powerful
of the two, and is how you can view images and hear sounds on your screen.
However, this requires a fairly major Internet connection. If on a dialup
connection or account, lynx is a browser which works with the text 
components of the web.

In general, you should ask your local sysadmin about what WWW browser(s)
your site has, and where to get more information about how to use them.
However, the basics of using Mosaic are simple enough to include here.
Mosaic will open as a window called "Document View".  It will have four pull
down menus to use: File, Options, Navigate, and Annotate.  Under "File",
select "Open URL" and type in the URL of the file you want to view.  See
below for some comics-related documents and their URLs.  Under "Navigate"
you can select "Add Current to Hotlist" to add the current file (document)
to your hotlist.  Then you can select "Hotlist" and select from a listing of
all the documents that you have viewed and added, saving you from having to
type in that URL each time you want to access it.

For lynx, just type the command lynx, followed by the URL you want to
connect to.

If you need more help, a great newsgroup to post questions to is 
comp.infosystems.www

----------------------------------------------------------------------
A date in brackets, like [2/92], indicates the most recent month that an
address and file(s) were confirmed/updated as still being valid.  If a [?]
is shown, I have not had a recent confirmation... if anyone can either
confirm or deny a [?]. please email me.  Also, if anyone tries emailing one
of these addresses and gets no response, please email me and I'll try to
check it out.

I attempt to check the current status of one third of these each month.
Thus, validation dates should be at most three months ago, once we complete
the first three month cycle (which started with this post)

[4/94]

Posts that all newcomers to Usenet should read before posting are:

Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
Rules for posting to Usenet
A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet
Hints on writing style for Usenet
What is Usenet?

These should be available in the newsgroup news.announce.newusers, but if
not they can be obtained via FTP from rtfm.mit.edu

They are located there as the following files, all in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers

Emily_Postnews_Answers_Your_Questions_on_Netiquette
A_Primer_on_How_to_Work_With_the_Usenet_Community
Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_Usenet
Rules_for_posting_to_Usenet
Hints_on_writing_style_for_Usenet
What_is_Usenet?

[9/94]
Marvel has put GIFs of all story pages of Generation X #1 on the net for
FTP. They're available at alpha.vyne.com in directory pub/marvel
Warning: this site has an almost unbelievably slow transfer rate, and
it will literally take several hours to get all 40 or so files transfered.

[4/94] 

There is a major r.a.c. archive site at Ostfold Regional College in Norway.
Either gopher to gopher.dhhalden.no or FTP to ftp.dhhalden.no (158.36.33.3).
It is also available on WWW via the URL of:
http://student.dhhalden.no/studenter/jonal/Comics/rac.home.html
The administrator is Jon Lovstad <jonal@dhhalden.no>. Please email him only
if you encounter problems with the archive; he does this as volunteer
labor. Do not ask him about general FTP matters. It is requested that the
archive not be accessed during work hours of 0800-1800 Norway time. To be
parochial for a moment, this is 0200-1400 United States and Canada Eastern
Time. To be more general, this is Greenwich + 1 time.

If you have material you'd like to be in the archive, please place it in
the /incoming directory on the root level. Then mail Jon a list of what
you've uploaded, along with a pointer as to where it belongs in the
hierarcy. 

Files you should download first are 00_Full_Index, a full index of the
archive, 00_Overview, an ls -lR of the archive, and 00_Readme, usage
guidelines for the archive.

What follows is an abbreviated version of archive contents as of 10 
April 1994.

/Annotations contains annotations of Ambush Bug, Asterix, Books of Magic,
Doom Patrol, and Watchmen.

/Batman has an episode guide and upcoming episodes of Batman:The Animated
Series. 

/Beanworld has various information about Tales of the Beanworld, including
an interview with Larry Marder, where to find Beanworld stuff, and back
issues of Gunkldunk, the Internet Beanworld newsletter.

/Cerebus has a checklist of Cerebus appearances, annotations of Cerebus
1-13, and a timeline.

/Comics-L has back issues of the Comics-L digest.

/Disney has information of getting more Disney related files and an index
of Mickey Mouse cartoons on Laserdisc.

/FAQ has Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about Doom, Grading
Comics, Grendel, Legion of Super-Heroes, X-Fans, Protecting Comics,
rec.arts.comics.marketplace, these Welcome to r.a.c. posts, Rogue, Sandman,
Superman, and X-Men characters, creators, and history. It also includes the
r.a.c.marketplace FAQ.

/Fanfiction has many subdirectories and contains net.fan-fiction such as
the Net.Trenchcoat.Brigade and the Legion of Net.Heroes, and contains
the FAQ for the LNH.

/Film_and_TV has episode guides for Lois & Clark and The Flash.

/Guidelines has guidelines for submitting work to Caliber, DC, Dark Horse,
Eclipse, Fantagraphics, Image, Malibu, Marvel, and Valiant.

/Misc has comments about comics collector software, Antarctic Press news
and information, an interview with Bone's Jeff Smith, Malibu's Bravura line,
CBG subscription info, the Legend creator owned line, Love and Rockets, The
MAXX mailing list, Maison Ikkoku Guidebook, Matt Howarth catalog, Peter 
David's snail mail address, why Shaman's Tears was cancelled, and Suicide
Squid t-shirts.

/Previews has information about upcoming comics.

/Reference has 1993 Comics news stories, an Alan Moore checklist, a
Bloodlines checklist, a list of comics libraries, a comics fanclubs list, an
index of comics reference lists, a comics film and tve series guide, an
index of comics related theses, how copyright works, a cover enhancement
glossary, Fantastic Four story guide, index of crossovers, index of Hard
Looks, index of horror and sci-fi comics, addresses of comics companies,
Jack Kirby checklist, Peter David checklist, Star Trek comics checklist, an
index of references to Superman in song lyrics, and an X-Men reprint guide.

/Releases has Jim Cowling's weekly list of new releases for the last few
months.

/Reviews has reviews of Comic Book Rebels, The Complete Crumb Comics, Hero
Illustrated, Saint Sinner, and the review columns Sidekick Reviews, Image
Review, Valiant Review, and McReviews

/Sandman has the Sandman FAQ.

/Software has various comics related software.

/Statistics has ordering stats for top UK comics, top US comics for several
months, publishers' market share, and the print run on some Marvel titles.
For some reason, it also has Jim Cowling's Top Ten Things Newbies Say.

/Strips has bibliographies of Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts collections.

/Toys has a list of ToyBiz Marvel figures and a peek at the 1994 line of
same. 

/Trading_Cards has nothing yet, but is open to files of checklists, print
runs, price guides, etc.

/Watchment has the Watchmen annotations.

/X-Men has the r.a.c.xbooks FAQ, Rogue FAQ a list of Marvel characters who
have appeared on the animated X-Men, the X-Men creators list, synopses of
X-Men 120-280, an X-Men timeline, a reprint guide, and a 4 part list of
dangling X-Men plotlines.

[4/94]
A second major r.a.c. archive is at cerebus.acusd.edu This can be reached
either by gophering to that location, or by FTPing. The root directory if
FTPing is /pub/Beelzebub/Comics

If gophering, the sequence of menu numbers/items is:
 -->  6.  Everything else that matters...
 -->  4.  Light ( and otherwise ) reading material
 -->  1.  Comic Books

If FTPing, you want to get 00list, a complete listing of available files,
and 00newlist, new files recently added to the archive.

The following files are there. They are listed in directory format, with
each directory being a Gopher menu item. 
This should provide sufficient clues for FTPers to find them via ls 
commands.

About_Comics has a top level file about sequential art from Bordeaux and
  Prague available via World Wide Web

About_Comics/Business has files on Antarctic Press information, Crash
  Course Studios, Dez Skinn suing Eclipse, Impulse Studios, and Comics
  Company Addresses.

About_Comics/Business/Top_BW_Comics has lists of the top black and white 
  comics ordered by one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Top_Color_Comics has lists of the top color comics
  ordered by one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Top_Publishers has lists of the top publishers by
  market share based on orders from one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Comic_Art_Studies has files relating to the Comic Art
  Studies newsletter published by the Michigan State University Libraries

About_Comics/Comics Theses has a list of comic related ms/phd thesis

About_Comics/Comics Works Reference List has a list of comics reference
  books.

About_Comics/Comics_News has comic related stories from various newspapers
  and magazines.

About_Comics/Essays has essays about comics and music, and comics in Europe.

About_Comics/Essays/Comics_Code_Authority has discussion about and history
  of the CCA.

About_Comics/Essays/Uber-Christ has files relating comics to religous
  symbolism.

About_Comics/Libraries with Comics has a list of comic carrying libraries.

About_Comics/Lod Goukens History of Comics is a history of comic strips.

About_Comics/Sturman Collection at LOC is, I suppose, something about comics
  at the Library of Congress.

Annotations_and_Information has annotations and/or checklists on Asterix,
  Avengers, Cherry, Doom Patrol, Fantastic Four, Horror and Sci-Fi, Image
  Comics, Jack Kirby (including tributes after his death), a Jeff Smith
  interview, the Legion of Super-Heroes FAQ, Neil Gaiman bibliography,
  Sandman FAQ, various reviews and interviews relating to Sandman, Skip
  Williamson interview, Stan Lee on Larry King Show, Stanley and his
  Monster, the Superman FAQ and major stories synopses, Understanding
  Comics, the Watchmen annotations, and the X-Men 

Comic_Book_Legal_Defense_Fund has information about same

Comics_as_a_Career has information about breaking into comics and Berni
  Wrightson on writing as well as Gary Reed's self-publishing guide and
  Michael Davis on professionalism. The Guidelines subdirectory has
  submission guidelines from Blue Comet, Caliber, DC, Dark Horse, Eclipse,
  Fantagraphics, Image, Malibu, Marvel, and Voyager. The John_Ostrander
  subdirectory contains essays by John on comics writing. The Misc.Writing
  subdirectory has general information about writing from the misc.writing
  newsgroup, The Peter_David subdirecty has But I Digress columns which
  Peter gave permission to post and how he writes scripts for Marvel,
  The Rob_Davis subdirectory has much information by Rob Davis about working
  in comics, particularly as an artist. Finally, there is a file of San
  Diego Con Tips For Writers. 

Conventions has reviews of the 1993 Philadelphia Comicfest and the 1993 San
  Diego Comics Con by many r.a.c.ers, as well as the UK Comics Creators'
  Guild Small Press Night and UKCAC 1993.

Humor has the annotated Ambush Bug, a Hulk Death Survey, parody lyrics for
  Muties for Nothing, and a self-censorship comics code.

Interviews has Usenet interviews with Bernie Mireault, Chris Claremont, Dave
  Sim, Denny O'Neil, Eddie Campbell, Evan Dorkin, James Owen, K. C. Carlson,
  Peter David, Steve Gerber, Tony Lobito, and Vince Sullivan.

Net_Resources has information about comics related BBSs, High Weirdness by
  FTP, and the Norwegian r.a.c. FTP site.

New_Comics has reviews and information about Dirtbag, Knotted, Nina's
  Adventures, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner, Roland Gethers, and Terror Tots.

Operation_Crazed_Ferret has files for computer animations of the Animated
  Cerebus portfolio.

Welcome_to_Rec.Arts.Comics has the Welcome to r.a.c. postings as well as
  the Batman:TAS FAQ, Image FAQ,, r.a.c.marketplace FAQ, and the
  r.a.c.xbooks FAQ

[10/93]
Disney comics
	The archive of the disney-comics mailing list (see below) contains
	indexes of many old and new Disney comics, a Don Rosa index, as well
	as some other information on Disney comics.
        ftp: from ftp.lysator.liu.se, directory pub/comics/disney.
        There is an FTP by email server on this machine; send mail to:
        ftpserv@lysator.liu.se with the word HELP as the body of your
        message for information on how to use it.
	(this information provided by
	Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback@student.docs.uu.se)

[5/93]
X-Men files (archived files available via anonymous FTP)
	darwin.cc.nd.edu
	/pub/comics/X-Men-files is the directory

[10/93]
Connie Hirsch's New Mutants novel, _Kid Dynamo_.
	ftp: from ocf.berkeley.edu, directory /pub/Comics/Kid_Dynamo
	email: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)

[10/93]
Sandman annotations  by Greg Morrow (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
Books of Magic annotations  by David Goldfarb (goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu)
Watchmen annotations  by Doug Atkinson (douga@yang.earlham.edu)
Suicide Squid discussions (all Suicide Squid posts from Day One; LONG)
	David Wald (wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu) has made these available
by both ftp and email.  For Sandman, the filenames are "Index", for
the index of files, and "sandman.01" and up for the annotations.
BY FTP: ftp to theory.lcs.mit.edu or 18.52.0.92, and look in the directory
		pub/wald/sandman
	[for the other files, the directories are:]
		pub/wald/books-of-magic
		pub/wald/watchmen
		pub/wald  [suicide-squid file]
BY WWW: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~wald/comics.html
        (note: no markup on the files, but some may prefer the Web interface)
BY EMAIL: send mail containing the line "send wald sandman/filename" to
          archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu.  Thus, to fetch the index
          of currently available annotations, send email with the line
          "send wald sandman/Index".  If you can't get this to work,
          try sending email to the archive server containing only the
          word "help".
	[for the other files, "send wald suicide-squid"]

[10/93]
Superman FAQ
  davidc@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Thomas Chappell)
  Available via anonymous FTP at
    garfield.catt.ncsu.edu    152.1.43.23    /pub/misc/superman.txt
    ftp.dhhalden.no           158.36.33.3    /pub/Comics/FAQ/Superman.FAQ

[4/94]
Comic Strip Collections: Titles and Publishing Information
  Available via World Wide Web at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/comics/collections/faq.html
  Available via FTP at:
    rtfm.mit.edu    /pub/usenet/news.answers/comics/collections
    ftp.uu.net      /usenet/news.answers/comics/collections.Z

[10/93]
Animated Cerebus portfolio animations (aka Operation: Crazed Ferret) 
        Color version anonymous ftp at:
        asylum.sf.ca.us
        /pub/cerebus/crazed-ferret
        Grayscale version anonymous ftp at:
        sunsite.unc.edu
        /pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/animations

        Both sites have the same filenames of:
        bar.qt.cpt.hqx = "A Well Equipped Bar"   for Macs
        bar.avi                                  for "IBM"s
        bat.qt.cpt.hqx = "Add One Mummified Bat"
        bat.avi
        sword.qt.cpt.hqx = "His First Sword"
        sword.avi
        README and ferret.readme = essential info about all kinds of stuff

[9/93]
Usenet interview with Dave Sim (creator of _Cerebus_)
Cerebus Companion (from soda.berkeley.edu)
        available via anonymous ftp; connect to "asylum.sf.ca.us"
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/1
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/2
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/3
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/4
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/5
	/pub/cerebus/sim-interview/6
	/pub/cerebus/companion

[6/94]
Comic Ground: source of uploaded art, scripts, etc. by wannabe comics
creators on the net.

Artists can place files on the Comic Ground ftp/gopher site. Writers can put
sample scripts in the 'Writers' directory. Letterers can put samples of
their lettering in the 'Letterers' directory, etc.. You can put anything
from requests for collaboraters, to work fragments, to full works of art. 
(I am not responsible for copyright infringements! I suggest using sample
fragments.)

To *view* the stuff on the Comic Ground, you should use gopher or a
World Wide Web client (such as NCSA Mosaic). The gopher site is
cerebus.acusd.edu, and it's in the 'Comics' folder, and then the 'Comic
Ground' folder. If you're familiar with this stuff, you can use the
following gopher info:

Type=1
Name=Comic Ground
Path=1ftp:pub:Comics:Comic Ground:
Host=cerebus.acusd.edu
Port=70

Using a World Wide Web client, use the URL
     gopher://cerebus.acusd.edu:70/11ftp:pub:Comics:Comic Ground:

To *put* stuff on the Comic Ground, you'll need to use FTP. FTP to
cerebus.acusd.edu.

cd Comics
cd "Comic Ground"        <--- if you can't handle spaces, use 'cd Comic*'
cd artist                <--- replace 'artist' with the name of the
                              folder that corresponds to the type of art
                              you're putting here: 'Writer', 'Penciler', etc.
put filename             <--- replace 'filename' with the name of the
                              file you want to put here.


If you can't FTP, you can e-mail me the file. Make sure you give me
enough information to know why you're sending me the file, and where you
want me to put it! E-mail to me at jerry@teetot.acusd.edu.

If you have suggestions for the Comic Ground, send them!

Jerry Stratton 
jerry@teetot.acusd.edu

[?]
Watchmen discussion (archives in an FTP site, *not* an e-mail address). These
        are the archived net.comics discussions of Watchmen from 1985-6 as
        the book came out. LONG
	ftp.white.toronto.edu
	/pub/comics/watchmen is the correct path

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Marty Ward, 860099w@dragon.acadiau.ca has a general comics WWW page. The link
to it is:
http://dragon.acadiau.ca:1667/~860099w/comics/comics.html

[5/94]
Johann Beda also has a general comics WWW page. The link to it is:
http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jb2561/comic.html

[9/94]
Kurt Adam's comics WWW page is at:
http://www.vt.edu:10021/cns/mage/comic.html

[9/94]
Shawn Petren's comics WWW page is at:
http://gopher.cs.uofs.edu/users/user1/student/jmp14/Ward/ward.html

[9/94]
There is a Cerebus WWW home page at:
http://iridium.astro.ubc.ca/~holland/cerebus.html

[9/94]
There is a reviews and other comics WWW page at:
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/mmm/ReviewsFromTheForbiddenPlanet.html

[5/94]

Krazy Kat resources available via WWW can be found:

For those of you looking for the "Krazy Kat Indeterminate Gender" article, 
you can get it at...
 http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/pop-cult.194.html/start.html

This is an article written by Elisabeth Crocker for the journal Postmodern
Culture v.4, n.2.  This article is part of a Krazy Kat Hypermedia Project
(I assume this article is the home page of the project as there is no
indicator to a specific home page.)  At the bottom, click on the "About"
icon to find out about the KK project, which says it is in development.
Two other icons at the bottom go to two KK strips and there is some
analysis of each 9-paneled strip.

Krazy Kat WWW pages are also available via Marty's page listed above, 
and via going through Marty's page to Ken Small's Comic Page

[5/94]

Vernon Harmon has created an Legion of Super-Heroes page, linked to an
Omnicon (on-line LSH apa) Archives, Omnicom-info page, LSH FAQ, and a
Who's Who page. Vernon can be reached at 
Vernon_Harmon@PROBACTO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU

The LSH page's URL is:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/user/vernon/www/lsh.html

[5/94]

There is a Mutant web server at:
URL="http://quercas.santarosa.edu/x"

[9/94]

There is a Sandman WWW site at:
http://www.uq.oz.au/mecheng/home/sandman.html


[9/94]
Dilbert and Dr. Fun (the latter a net only strip) can be found at:
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/news/comix/index.html

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Operation: Crazed Ferret is a lot of scans, animations, and morphs from
Cerebus the Aardvark. While normally such would be illegal and not listed
here, this project has the blessing of Cerebus' creator and publisher Dave
Sim. This is long, as there're a lot of different formats and locations of
the material.

Ferret Goes Morphin' is an animation based on Cerebus Walking on the Moon in
Cerebus 108, and Astoria's Trial in Cerebus 99.  There is also a morph of
Gerhard to Dave, as well as associated sound files. Technical stuff on
Ferret Goes Morphin':, at last count, there were 119 frames, but it's
actually 23 sec. @ 5 f.p.s.  (frames/second).  You don't want to know why
the math doesn't work out.  :) It's like 2.7 MB uncompressed, and fits on a
disk compressed (but only just).  It's available at:
  asylum.sf.ca.us
   /pub/cerebus/incoming
     373372 dave-ger.morph.hqx
    1892676 ferret-goes-morphin.sea.hqx
       6761 morphin.readme

The Macintosh and other versions of the Crazed Ferret animations are
officially available for ftp at the following sites:
  asylum.sf.ca.us
   /pub/cerebus/crazed-ferret (original QT and AVIs)
   /pub/cerebus/incoming (morphs, gifs, MPEGs, Free)
Eventually, all files will be in crazed-ferret.
  sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/animations/sim
  aql.gatech.edu:/pub/OTIS/animations/sim

The relevant QT files are:
  "A Well-Equipped Bar" Cerebus animation
        1745002 bar2.qt.sea.hqx
  "Add One Mummified Bat" Cerebus animation
        1943167 bat2.qt.sea.hqx
  A morph of Gerhard and Dave Sim, creators of Cerebus
         373372 dave-ger.morph.hqx
  "His First Sword" Cerebus animation"
        1910410 sword2.qt.sea.hqx
  "Ferret Goes Morphin'," the Cerebus Morph animation
        1892676 ferret-goes-morphin.sea.hqx
  Docs, fancy MS Word doc, and vanilla ascii, couple of Pict files
         167212 ferret.docs.cpt.hqx
  What to do with the bloody things once you've got them :)  Ascii.
           4531 ferret.readme
  Doc describing the Cerebus morph animations.
           6761 morphin.readme

At some sites, the '2' in the file names has been dropped.

Thanks to John Romkey, the Crazed Ferret files are available for DOS
machines (Windows), via ftp from the following location:
  asylum.sf.ca.us:
   /pub/cerebus/crazed-ferret
     4489082 bar.avi
     4669922 bat.avi
       21369 cerebus.ps  (PostScript version of the docs)
        4531 ferret.readme
     4553846 sword.avi
      475770 vfwrun.zip  (Video For Windows software)
   /pub/cerebus/incoming
      571834 qtw.exe     (a DOS program to view QT files)

The animation files are sword.avi, bat.avi and bar.avi. They should be
transferred in image/binary mode. John also put up cerebus.ps, a postscript
version of the Mac Word document, and got ahold of vfwrun.zip, a ZIP archive
with Microsoft's runtime Video For Windows viewer.  

We're now available via gopher and the World Wide Web (yeah!).
For Gopher, this from Ed Stasny, Most Holy OTISmeister:
   You can GOPHER to sunsite.unc.edu and trickle down into the OTIS
   archives by taking the menu-lar route of:
        World of Sunsite
        Browse All Sunsite
        Multimedia
        Pictures
        OTIS

The WELL gopher (gopher.well.sf.ca.us) has a link to the aql.gatech.edu
gopher archives of OTIS, but doesn't always work for some reason.

Other OTIS gophers ('x' means I've confirmed them):
        calypso.oit.unc.edu             x
        gopher.technet.sg
        gopher.cic.net
        gopher.ee.pdx.edu               x
        gopher.usask.ca (Canada)        x
        ftp.technion.ac.il (Israel ?)
        wachau.ai.univie.ac.at (Austria)x

These will all show up on a JUGHEAD search for 'otis'.  When you've fetched
the site, go into 'animations', and then 'sim', and fetch the files.

And here's Simon Boyle -- who's not affiliated with OTIS, but is taking it
upon himself to set up web access for comix stuff -- on tangling the Earth
Pig into the World Wide Web:

   The Animated cerebus will be available immediately from
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/cerebus/crazed-ferret/cerebus.html
   which will also provide a mirror for some of the other files at
   file://asylum.sf.ca.us/pub/cerebus/
   This is in progress.  The QT files have been renamed to please
   Mosaic (e.g. sword.qt becomes sword.mov, .mov is a common
   extension many QT applications use and recognize).

OTIS, of course, is also on WWW, http://sunsite.unc.edu/otis/otis.html
the link to Crazed Ferret is:
   http://sunsite.unc.edu/otis/ftp/animations/sim
   
There is also a Crazed Ferret WWW page at:
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/cerebus/crazad-ferret/cerebus.html

There are now MPEGs available of Animated Cerebus and Ferret Goes A
Morphin':

   asylum.sf.ca.us
    /pub/cerebus/incoming
      485778 Ferret-Morph.75.MPG
      232354 bar.color.70.MPG
      251969 bat.color.70.MPG
      245143 sword.color.70.MPG

The MPEGs are of smaller frame size and come with no sound, and the Animated
Cerebus movies are missing the headers and trailer portions.

For the MPEGs, the standard viewer mpeg_play works just fine.  The average
frame speed with mpeg_play on a Sparc 10 is 4 f.p.s., or approximately the
original QuickTime speed.  There is no fixed frame rate for an MPEG stream
so the speed will vary from machine to machine.

                           -=FREE Ferret=-

The disk sets are still available from me, but you're on the internet,
you're supposed to get it free!  But, if for whatever reason, you still want
this, see the "mail-pak" info below, and e-mail me.  I'll send you an
address and have a chance to talk you out of it. >B^) >B^)

The earlier DOS version of Free Ferret is currently available from Asylum:
  asylum.sf.ca.us, login anonymous
        /pub/cerebus/incoming/
            23776 freecerb.a01
          1456462 freecerb.arj

These are "arj" archives of GIFs, and a DOS program to view them.  But, they
can be viewed on any platform that can do a "slide show."

But a newer, improved version will soon be available.  The main difference
is higher quality scans and re-done text to make use of Dave's great
lettering:

>From Michael Lamps <mlamps@smtplink.rockford.edu>:

   The new scans for Free Cerebus are almost done and they look great!
   640 x 480 never looked so good ;-) As of now, Free Cerebus, Version
   1.2, will be mostly in 640 x 480 grey scale.  So, Free Cerebus will be
   done soon. The new version will use Dave's lettering from the original
   Free Cerebus (with some modifications).  It looks like the new version
   will take up 3-4 megs, but it will be worth it!

I will provide a "Macintized" version of this at some point.  I had
thought perhaps to do it HyperCard, but the best might be a WWW page,
since it's available to all platforms.  We'll see.

                          -=GIFs at Asylum=-

A number of Cerebus pics from various sources are available from asylum:

   asylum.sf.ca.us:/pub/cerebus/incoming
         162257 ascend.gif
          61807 cer1st.gif
         319123 cercrt1.gif
         145983 cercrt2.gif
         236013 cerdream.gif
          79548 cerebu01.gif
         122443 cerebu02.gif
         162230 cerfly.gif
         129653 cerjaka1.gif
         134376 cerkil1.gif
         132722 cerkil3.gif
         121263 cerprmo1.gif
          72157 cersleep.gif
         232453 crberka.gif
         191040 liljaka.gif
         111040 sandrch.gif

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San Diego Comic-Con is the largest con in the US, coming up August 4-7.
There's a WWW home page with information from the latest mail update, as
well as late breaking news, at the URL of:

 http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/jtait/sdcc.html

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Archives of the 2000AD mailing list (British comic starring Judge Dredd
and where much of DC's Brit Pack got their start) are available at
ftp.thepoint.com in directory /pub/text/2000ad

[end of part 5]

"There are no net.gods, just some people with bigger mouths than others."
  -- Dan'l DanehyOakes, net.roach
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