Copy-shop culture

David Rees has an extremely funny and also very apt essay up at Powell's about the trials and tribulations of producing his comic My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable. I could see I was reading the confessions of someone whose love for the photocopy machine surpasses even mine (I well remember the heady feeling of lavish personal xeroxing c. 1993 at various temp jobs in the Boston area). Particularly go and read it if you have ever considered self-publishing your novel or comic. (Link via the Critical Mass blog.)