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Our story begins with a photo essay on our ezine SMITH, Iraqi Graffiti: The Photos of Todd Bowers.

Our pals at the NYPost picked it up for the Page Six article “Thigh Anxiety”:

July 29, 2007—WHICH genius thought the war-torn women of Iraq would be in need of the ThighMaster? U.S. Marine reservist Todd Bowers told Smithmag.net, “We were getting humanitarian aid sent and we got in a bunch of ThighMasters – official, made-in-Taiwan, Suzanne Somers ThighMasters.” Page Six learned the exercise gadgets came from the Defense Department, not Somers, in a bulk aid shipment. The Web site also shows GIs goofing with the dubious “aid.”

And then, a few days later on August 2, here comes Senor Colbert! I’m gonna pretend I’m too psyched to mention the lack of credit to either us or Todd! Seriously, TV people! Come on now! Pretend for once you actually understand how journalism works! Ah, forget it.

Despite our grumpiness, or perhaps because of it, I received a happy text message this morning—we got Stephen Colbert’s six-word memoir for our upcoming book.

All is right with the world. (This book is gonna rock, btw.)

It’s long overdue that I write something up on A.D.: After the Deluge, the webcomic we’ve been producing on SMITH since early this year. I’m tremendously proud of how this story is coming together, and it’s great to be a part of something this good.

A.D. is the story of 6 Hurricane Katrina survivors, written and illustrated by Josh Neufeld, a tremendous artist, and produced by Larry and myself for our webzine, SMITH. It combines an original webcomic, presented in monthly installments, with in-chapter hyperlinks, along with audio & video shot by us with the characters from the story.

If I’ve piqued your interest by now, then by all means, go—read the story! Otherwise, I figured I could go into some of the behind-the-scenes action detailing how we’ve put all this together.
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