The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Babbage http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=6996 Babbage at the Beeb and stumbling over another great webcomic… http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/babbage-at-the-beeb-and-stumbling-over-another-great-webcomic/ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/babbage-at-the-beeb-and-stumbling-over-another-great-webcomic/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:18:22 +0000 Richard http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=14050 A nice little bit of techy cartooning over at the BBC tech site. Animator Sydney Padua takes a look at the father of modern computing Charles Babbage:

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(via Boing Boing)

And then, as these things invariably do, I’m off on a little Internet explore to Sydney Padua’s website and his her webcomic The Adventures Of Lovelace and Babbage. What started as a quick “this is nice, have a look” style 5 minute post turns into half an hour of discovering a nice new webcomic to follow.

To give you an idea of what I’m on about, here’s a page from “Ada Lovelace: The Origin!” by Sydney Padua. Very nice stuff indeed:

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(Thanks to those in the comments pointing out that I made the mistake of calling Sydney “he”. Ooops. My fault. Rushing as usual and just forgot to check the FAQ section of her site!)

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