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Steve Jobs: the Comic Book
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Jobs' life and career is to be imortalised in a comic book biography. "Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple" appears to describe his life from birth to the current day. Jobs notoriously hates biographies, so it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this one."
Did they submit an electronic version of the comic to the App Store?
Will he be the Hero or Villain?
Will he be the Hero or Villain?
He will be both the Hero & the Villain...The article says it "describe his life from birth to the current day". I miss the days when he was a Hero!
Encryption: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to encrypt it...
How come Jobs looks like Dr. Evil?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Rather sounds like a job for Neil Gaiman =P
Also, it kinda makes me think of the movie "pirates of silicon valley"
"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
Was expecting this to come for Gabe Newell first. Considering how the gamer community pretty much worships him day-in day-out (I admit am one of those who like him, too).
Steve Jobs liked to say "BOOM" a lot in his demos in the past.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
To his (discontinued) blog: http://www.fakesteve.net/
He has notoriously fought 3rd party biographies before... why the change? Is mortality really staring him down that hard?
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This "news" is relevant to my interests. Historians for ages to come will study this biography and relate the deeply profound lessons learned inside to our great-grandchildren.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
After looking at the comic, I have to ask: Did Lex Luthor have a role in founding Apple?
If they do die, the get brought back in some convoluted storyline, like a time-travel bullet.
"...it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this one." Easy answer. If he doesn't agree with every little piece of it, he'll use the weight of Apple (and their lawyers) to sue the crud out of them.
The article says: "...perhaps because of his recent brushes with mortality, Jobs recently authorized Walter Isaacson to write 'iSteve: The Book of Jobs'"
Hm, perhaps Jobs could achieve some more immortality by donating the source code of OS X to the Free Software Foundation?
That would be cooler than a comic book about his life.
I want the iBible so I can worship Him. I also want the Steve Jobs statue so I can pray to Him and ask that He make me all creative and different.
I can't be creative and different with PCs or Linux - it MUST be Apple!
*Like the Ewoks praying to C3PO in Star Wars Return of the Jedi* - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel - Ahhhhhh - Pppppp-pel
My favorite part of what they showed of the comic was when Captain Picard was helping Woz make the circuitry for the first Apple Computer. Star Trek XII will truely be epic, much like Star Trek IV.
Anyone notice that the bald dude (is that supposed to be Jobs?) looks like the Man of Steel's arch-nemesis? www.awkwardengineer.com
Ability to crush his opponents with lawyers?
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imortalised
I'm fairly sure the spelling is "immortalized" (American) or "immortalized" (British). How much does Slashdot pay its editors again?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
it doesn't sound good w/ a lower case "i" in front of it. "iBiography" just isn't marketable. Plus a biography has to be about and actual living being,
They also have a great one about Michelle Obama which I've been tracking on Tumblr.
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Sounds like they are launching a new apple product to bring fine design into your death experience.
No kidding, if I was Jobs, I'd be more worried by eulogies than biographies.
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How can a guy who builds walled gardens and serves on Disney's board of directors achieve God status? Can't people find a less evil person to worship?
And speaking of evil, prepare for "publicity rights" claim against this biography in 3..2..1..
Yes, I know it happened. But did they really have to show it?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm Keir Thomas, the author of this piece. For some reason the PCW editor only used one of the images I sourced (although I believe they're putting more online). More pics can be found here:
http://keirthomas.com/jobscomicpics/Steve Jobs-JCS-pg1.jpg
http://keirthomas.com/jobscomicpics/Steve Jobs-JCS-pg2.jpg
http://keirthomas.com/jobscomicpics/Steve Jobs-JCS-pg3.jpg
http://keirthomas.com/jobscomicpics/Steve Jobs-JCS-pg4.jpg
This article is more than an hour old. Where's the lawsuit?
I don't blame him for mis-liking the idea of such a treatment which isn't under his control.
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He's fought them because they weren't sufficiently worshipful--and because they mentioned uncomfortable little issues like the daughter he denied for years (yes, one of the richest men in the U.S. let his daughter be raised on welfare with no father) or how he fucked over Steve Wozniak (the guy that really started Apple). Jobs doesn't like biographies because they inevitably show him as the shitheel-excuse-for-a-human-being he really is.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It's not a typo.
Avengers?
Fantastic Four (maybe Five?)
Justice League of America?
Or should he be a loner like Spiderman, Flash, or Green Latern?
What about a Captain America type? Who would be his sidekick?
Or a dynamic duo where he teams up with The Woz?
What kinds of superheroines would be most appropriate in this comic?
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Will there be a sequel, and in it will his turtleneck take on a life of its own, controlling him to do evil things until he overcomes it by believing in himself?
He fucked over Woz? Do tell.
IIRC, Woz himself has denied any particular animosity between them. And if you mean monetarily, I hope Jobs "fucks me over" next...
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I mean really... Are they fucking serious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_and_development - Jobs hired Woz to build something for Atari and would get a 5k bonus for designing it on time and under budget. He gave Wozniak $375 for doing the build, and kept the rest for himself.
Quite a common thread in Apple's history sadly, but if Wozniak is happy about this - I guess whatever right?
oh crap.. everybody is an asshole at some time.
The fact that the rest of the world isn't interested in our petty affairs, but only gets interested when a combination of sex, politics, celebrities or a lot of money is involved, does not make us less of an asshole when we pull shit on someone.
Well, Jobs has screwed Woz in the past, but Woz has pretty much forgiven him and let things be since there's nothing he can do, and he was pretty well compensated anyhow.
E.g., when Jobs was working at Atari, he needed to reduce the chip count for a bonus. Jobs gave the task to Woz and paid him $100 for his efforts, not knowing that Jobs took his design, submitted it and got a $500 bonus.
Honestly, Jobs is just a very shrewd businessman. Yes he screws people over. Yes he's an a**hole. No it doesn't excuse what he does, but one has to admit through his hands he's managed to produce some very nice products.
He's also a man of contrasts - given his rather ascetic lifestyle and hippie past, yet he's the leader of a very profitable company.
History is written by the victors. ;)
I just got an image of a scruffy pudgy guy with hippy hair in a plaid shirt grabbing his ankles. Need to bleach out my eyes now, thanks.
Lexxical speculates about what "gems of pure ego" might be in such a comic book... this is hilarious
http://lexxical.universeii.com/2011/06/steve-jobs-alternate-autobiography.html
I think the bit about his daughter really needs a bit more context. This happened when Apple was really starting to take off and all the sudden he found himself a millionaire. Next thing you know people start crawling out of the woodwork looking for $$ and here's his ex-gf claiming she has his baby. A lot of guys would be suspicious about that and DNA based paternity tests weren't even invented yet. So what do you do? Wait a year or so for the kid to pop out then see if it looks like you.
Even today with much more accurate testing you still have young guys whose first reaction is "It isn't mine!". At that age and level of maturity it's common for young guys to freak out and go into immediate denial.
Yes hindsight is 20/20 and all that... it's just not the kind of decision you can judge someone's entire life by.
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The guy clearly had issues naming a computer after her (the Apple Lisa) while at the same time ignoring her. They're reconciled though and she went to live with him for a couple of years afterwards. There seems to be something a little "off" about all these guys who become CEO's and the like, if you ask me there's more than a hint of psychopathology in all of them.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
If you read about Apple there's a common thread to interactions with Jobs. Nearly everyone says that while the guy can be a monumental asshole (often people phrase it nicer), he also pushed them to do the best work they ever did. If he hadn't come along what are the odds the Apple I would have just stayed a project in a closet of Woz's office at HP ?
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
No, Jobs never denied that Lisa was his daughter, and only gave her mother the equivalent of a welfare check (literally) to support her. However, he later relented and paid for Lisa's education. Apparently, they are quite close now.
Of course, he also named a computer after the poor kid.
All Blue Water publishes, with the lone exception of their license for the Logan's Run series, is celebrity profile/biography books. Last week, Howard Stern's comic hit the shelves. We ordered two copies. Those two copies are still on the shelf. Even most "indie" titles we'll order a dozen off, and the average big name title can be as high as 100 copies.
Simply put, we can't sell Blue Water's crap. The only way this publication will become newsworthy is if the issue actually sells. Too bad the most devout Jobs fans fear the potential damage to their hipster image to walk into a comic shop.
but that was when she was a teen, before that she was poor and deprived while Jobs had meteoric rise in wealth and power. Steve had lied and said in court he was sterile and unable to procreate (he has at least three more children). what a tool and miserable excuse for a human being.
There has already been a Steve Jobs: The Comic Book, more or less - Mitsuru Sugaya's "Apple II Story" - http://sugaya.otaden.jp/d2008-07-11.html
you know, the one where steve hangs out with hitler and the guy from planet of the apes.
It has this surreal angle. Groooovy
It's a good idea to make a comic about Steve Jobs. However, I think there should be comics about other people who had their effects in the computer fields like Steve Wozniak, Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Bjarne Stoustrup, Linus Torvalds, Charles Babbage, etc. Not only they're gonna be entertaining, but they're going to be educative to read about from children to even students in the universities.
Apple is a religious cult, Steve Jobs is their messiah-like leader. That's why they can make a comic about him and drooling fanbois will hand over their cash unquestionably.
Be honest, could you see a Steve Ballmer or Linux Torvalds comic working?
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I swear I read "Steve Jobs' life and cancer is to be imortalised in a comic book biography."
"Jobs notoriously hates biographies..."
Depends, does it not, on Lisa 1 or Lisa 2. The machine version was notorious.
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
Frame 1 Caption: Steve wasn't sufficiently challenged by school 'This is boring! I wish I was writing a 16-bit chip emulator for the 6502' Frame 2 'Heh! Sweet-16 is totally sweet! But now I need another challenge' Frame 3 Thinks: 'What if I could create a totally sealed line of products that meant the user had to take my way or the highway? Yeah! And I could charge them £100 for battery replacement!' Frame 4 Caption: 25 years later 'Made it!'
If you read about Apple there's a common thread to interactions with Jobs. Nearly everyone says that while the guy can be a monumental asshole (often people phrase it nicer), he also pushed them to do the best work they ever did. If he hadn't come along what are the odds the Apple I would have just stayed a project in a closet of Woz's office at HP ?
Apple makes consumer electronic goods, they're not looking for a cure for cancer or the secret of time travel.. Building a nicer shiny white gizmo does not excuse being an arsehole.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
oh crap.. everybody is an asshole at some time. The fact that the rest of the world isn't interested in our petty affairs, but only gets interested when a combination of sex, politics, celebrities or a lot of money is involved, does not make us less of an asshole when we pull shit on someone.
Firstly, not everybody is an asshole, and secondly there's a difference between acting badly once or twice in your life, and doing it all the time.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Even today with much more accurate testing you still have young guys whose first reaction is "It isn't mine!". At that age and level of maturity it's common for young guys to freak out and go into immediate denial.
Yes, but the sort of young men who do that are worthless twats.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
would be the film There Will Be Blood.
Little too close to home, I'll warrant.
Let's face it a paper based comic book is probably the best GUI for Apple based products and their users - the battery never dies either.
That cover illustrates plenty how glossed over this one is gonna be... He looks so... alien.
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The world's full of assholes, some lead companies and some troll discussion boards, best to just deal with it.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Apple is a religious cult, Steve Jobs is their messiah-like leader.
I think this is really strange, but I am nosy anyhow. Jobs is no superhero, what do they have to tell in a comic?