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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: Ed Piskor on December 16, 2007, 06:21:16 PM
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I'm a professional cartoonist and have become very interested in hacking/phreaking culture. I don't claim to be a hacker but I've been studying and exploring this really cool world.
Anyhow I put this book together
http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html (http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/COVER1.jpg)
I'm exclusively distributing it from my website and comic fans seem to dig it but I injected so many little references and factual things that are sooo over their heads and it frustrates me. I'm not sure if anybody here is into comics but I wanted to bring my book to your attention. I'd appreciate your support even if it just means spreading the word
Here are some sample pages. The page below has Steve Jobs and Wozniak selling blue boxes while they were finished working as Alice in Wonderland characters at the local mall.
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_051.gif)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_052.gif)
and here the main character mods a tone dialer to create a redbox
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_095.gif)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_096.gif)
There are more examples at the site too. I would love your support on this project. There's a lot more story to tell and I dig the idea of having an audience that would understand the information presented.
http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html (http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html)
Thanks so much for your time!
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http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzywig/pg_053.gif
That's my very first time redboxing right down to the veiny eyes!
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This is quite possibly the best thing ever.
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Since you're from Pittsburgh, you should meet up with trevelyn.
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1899/bellut1.jpg)
:)
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I'll buy one as soon as I have a job again.
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I'll buy one as soon as I have a job again.
I agree.
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Nice! I just ordered one as a Christmas gift to myself. It better arrive here before Christmas or it will totally ruin Christmas for me and my entire family. I'll see to that!
If you do a Volume 2, please don't dumb it down so it won't be over peoples' heads. All the little obscure technical references are what makes this look really awesome. And it's better to be awesome than to be profitable.
Have you tried sending in a free copy to 2600 magazine? They used to do occasional book reviews. Not sure if they still do, but it's worth a shot.
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You should try and get an ad in there too of you're a subscriber.
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Ed Piksor? More like Picture --> Pixzor --> Piksor. I smell a rat.
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Hey guys. Thanks so much for the great response to the book. Also, I thank everyone who grabbed a copy. I will rush them out first thing in the morn. It should get to you before Christmas, Rbcp.
I'm certainly not going to dumb the work down for the average bear. I hate it when people do that. You see it in almost any Hollywood film.
Thanks also for the suggestion of sending it to 2600. One of the main characters is based on Emmanuel Goldstein anyhow so I figured I should at least toss him a copy.
Any other places I should make the books existence known?
Once again. I appreciate everyone who grabbed a copy. I still have some copies here for those interesting in scooping one up.
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I'll bet you hit Binrev already but that's likely a good place if you haven't already.
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Thanks for spreading the word a bit. Some really influential and iconic people in the hacker world have been picking the book up recently. It's pretty amazing since this is a completely grassroots effort relying completely on word of mouth. I can't believe some of the people who ordered the book. It's very exciting. Some popular podcast/vidcasts are going to be doing reviews of the book and I just got contacted by some people from a few major media venues to do interviews and/or they're gonna do a review. Unbelievable.
I'm working hard on volume 2 as I write this and I just thought of something that might be cool, and a way that I can show some appreciation and throw some props to the guys who bought/buy the book. I really value your support so much and its making the next volumes possible!
Here are the first few pages to volume 2
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_001pdf.jpg)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_002pdf.jpg)
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/EdPiskor/wizzywig/pg_003pdf.jpg)
Here's the offer: the first 10 people to buy or who bought the book can send me an email with the subject reading "Handle", include your real name(to match with your paypal order), and handle and I will replace the names of the characters in these pages with your own screenname/handle. You can make a request on which character you'd like your name to be attached but the spot may be taken and I'll have to put it in elsewhere at my discretion.
When the 10 slots go for this I will try my best to put the other names elsewhere throughout the book. Your name may appear as a handle for a bbs user, graffiti on a wall, the name on a vanity license plate, etc.
If the orders are staggering I'm going to do the above for as many as possible plus put together a section in the book highlighting and thanking you guys for picking the novel up.
I don't know how meaningful this is to anyone but its my way of thanking the guys who already bought the graphic novel, and maybe it will be incentive enough for you to scoop one up if you didn't grab one yet! I want my audience to be smart, unconventional, tech savvy, people with a hacker mentality and what better way for me to thank you than to drop your name personally in the next one?!
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY NOW! (http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html)
My email address is at the site. Write "Handle" as the subject of the email, include your real name (so that I can match it up with the orders on paypal) and the handle of your choice and I will get busy making these changes and I will compile notes on who to include in my tale.
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Jason@Textfiles wrote an awesome review on the book. Check it out here:
ASCII By Jason Scott (http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000555.html)
I also took the advise of a lot of you guys on the forums here and I have the first half of the book online for you to read. Theres a link for it: HERE (http://www.edpiskor.com/hacker.html)
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You're adding an extra http in your links, they no worky now.